Publications by Jonas Schnidrig

Internal pricing in integrated energy system design

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Cédric Terrier, Julia Granacher

Environmentally sustainable and economically viable process and energy systems are imperative to a successful energy transition. Often, design configurations are derived from a global perspective, in which the individual needs and interests of actors withi ...

2025

Power to the People: On the Role of Districts in Decentralized Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Cédric Terrier

Highlights Integration of decentralized models with a centralized national energy system framework. Strategic reduction in photovoltaic (PV) installation requirements and system cost through decentralized approaches. Optimization of self-consumption to min ...

MDPI2024

Identification of typical district configurations: A two-step global sensitivity analysis framework

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Cédric Terrier

The recent geopolitical conflicts in Europe have underscored the vulnerability of the current energy system to the volatility of energy carrier prices. In the prospect of defining robust energy systems ensuring sustainable energy supply in the future, the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Between green hills and green bills: Unveiling the green shades of sustainability and burden shifting through multi-objective optimization in Swiss energy system planning

Manuele Domenico Margni, François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig

The Paris Agreement is the first-ever universally accepted and legally binding agreement on global climate change. It is a bridge between today's and climate-neutrality policies and strategies before the end of the century. Critical to this endeavor is ene ...

2024

Power Shift: Quantifying the Role of Actors in the Multi-Actor Swiss Energy System Decentralization

Manuele Domenico Margni, François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Cédric Terrier, Julia Granacher

The global transition to decentralized energy systems signifies a fundamental transformation toward sustainable energy paradigms. This study specifically focuses on the Swiss energy system, analyzing how dynamic pricing influences the strategic decisions o ...

Frontiers Media SA2024

Towards Sustainable Energy Futures - Infrastructure and Prosumer Integration, Decentralization and Sustainability in Renewables-based Energy System Modeling

Jonas Schnidrig

The global energy sector stands at a critical juncture, with the imperative shift towards renewable energy sources posing challenges and opportunities for existing infrastructure and societal norms. This thesis explores the multifaceted dynamics of transit ...

EPFL2024

On the role of energy infrastructure in the energy transition. Case study of an energy independent and CO2 neutral energy system for Switzerland

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Manuele Domenico Margni, François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig

The transition towards renewable energy is leading to an important strain on the energy grids. The question of designing and deploying renewable energy technologies in symbiosis with existing grids and infrastructure is arising. While current energy system ...

2023

Closing the balance - on the role of integrating biorefineries in the future energy system (vol 7, pg 4839, 2023)

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Julia Granacher

Correction for 'Closing the balance - on the role of integrating biorefineries in the future energy system' by Julia Granacher et al., Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2023, 7, 4839-4854, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SE00473B. ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Identification of typical district configurations: A two-step global sensitivity analysis framework

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Cédric Terrier

The recent geopolitical conflicts in Europe highlighted the sensibility of the current energy system to the volatility of energy carrier prices. In the prospect of defining robust energy system configurations to ensure energy supply stability, it is necess ...

2023

Integration of Life Cycle Impact Assessment in Energy System Modelling

Manuele Domenico Margni, François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Justine Brun

The Paris agreement is the first-ever universally accepted and legally binding agreement on global climate change. It is a bridge between today’s and climate-neutrality policies and strategies before the end of the century. However, government and private ...

2023

Closing the balance - on the role of integrating biorefineries in the future energy system

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Julia Granacher

Fuels from bio-based resources hold the potential to supply fossil fuel alternatives at reasonable economic and environmental expenses that can assist emission reduction in the transportation sector. However, apart from a general need to reduce fossil-base ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Regionalisation in high share renewable energy system modelling

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

Governments are setting ambitious targets to tackle the issue of global warming by switching to renewable energy sources and reducing CO2 -emissions. For example, as announced in November 2020, Canada aims to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050. Large c ...

IEEE2022

Where is the money ? A decomposition of monetary flows behind fossil fuels

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Raphaël Briguet, Xiang Li

Transition from fossils to renewables is leading to radical societal changes. Shifting the capital from fossils to renewables is commonly accompanied with political concerns, such as energy autonomy, domestic employment etc. Despite a decreasing trend in r ...

DTU Construct2022

Assessment of the role of infrastructure in high share renewable energy systems

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

The transition of the global energy sector from fossil-based towards a zero-carbon system is a necessity to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The ratification of both, the Paris agreement in 2015 and the European Green Deal in 2019, illustrates the p ...

DTU Construct2022

Appendix: Regionalisation in high share renewable energy system modelling

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

This document corresponds to the appendix of the paper Regionalisation in high share renewable energy system modelling by Schnidrig et al. in redaction, and is based on the Master thesis of Amara Slaymaker 2021, giving additional information about the meth ...

2021

Application of artificial intelligence on uncertainty analysis for long-term energy system planning

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

2021

An analysis of the impacts of green mobility strategies and technologies on different European energy system

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig

A successful decarbonization of the European Union, coupled with a high integration of renewable energy and ambitious targets for energy efficiency, can only be reached with a significant contribution from transport. This sector currently represents a quar ...

2021

A modelling framework for assessing the impact of green mobility technologies on energy systems

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

A successful decarbonisation of the European Union, coupled with a high integration of renewable energy and ambitious targets for energy efficiency, can only be reached with a significant contribution from the transporta- tion sector. It currently represen ...

2021

Appendix - A modelling framework for assessing the impact of green mobility technologies on energy systems

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

A successful decarbonisation of the European Union, coupled with a high integration of renewable energy and ambitious targets for energy efficiency, can only be reached with a significant contribution from the transportation sector. It currently represents ...

2021

Application of data reconciliation methods for performance monitoring of power-to-gas plants

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Alessio Santecchia

Power-to-gas plants have recently gained more attraction as these storage systems can be deployed in the European energy grid to ease the integration of renewable energy sources. Most studies in this field address several aspects, from their technical perf ...

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