ESC News
From Dirty to Clean: Can Mergers and Acquisitions Redirect Innovation?
The energy transition depends crucially on firms’ incentives and abilities to develop new, cleaner technologies. Our research shows that mergers and acquisitions can help carbon-intensive, “dirty” firms break with established innovation trajectories by acquiring and building on clean technologies, offering new insights into how corporate strategy can support the transition to a greener economy.
Professor André Bardow is the new Chair of the Managing Board of the Energy Science Center
The Energy Science Center (ESC) is delighted to announce that Professor André Bardow is taking over the Chair of the Managing Board (September 1, 2026) from Professor Gabriela Hug.
New study examines the resilience of the Swiss energy system
Researchers at ETH Zurich and ZHAW have developed a new optimisation model to plan electricity systems that better reflect real world conditions by including normal years and crisis scenarios.
Energy Science Spotlight #4: Swiss Hydropower Storage Loss lower than expected
Reservoir sedimentation gradually reduces the amount of water that dams can store. But many reservoirs lack reliable long-term sedimentation data. This Energy Science Spotlight highlights new research showing how that previous Swiss hydropower assessments likely overestimated reservoir storage losses due to sedimentation.
Energy Science Spotlight #3: Grid Stability with more Renewables – It's possible
Power grids are shifting from large rotating generators to numerous solar, batteries, and other distributed energy resources (DERs). How can DERs work as one unified system to support grid stability? This Energy Science spotlight highlights new research showing how distributed energy resources, like rooftop solar panels for example, can work as one unified system to support grid stability.