ESC News
ESC welcomes Professor Moritz Drupp as new member
Professor Moritz Drupp joins the Energy Science Center (ESC) as a new member of the competence center. He is Associate Professor for Sustainability Economics in the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC).
MEST students attend NetzImpuls 2026
Five students from the Master’s programme in Energy Science and Technology (MEST) attended NetzImpuls 2026 in Aarau. In this news article, they write about their experience.
Public Narratives and the Clean Energy Transition
Clean energy transitions depend on more than technology and costs. Public debate, media coverage, and political signaling shape how new energy technologies are perceived and adopted. The Energy Blog looks at three crucial recent examples to illustrate how public narratives have influenced clean energy deployment from household technologies to large-scale infrastructure and consumer decisions.
Towards integrating social science in energy system models
The workshop “CROSS-CoSi Scenarios”, co‑organised by the University of
Basel and ETH Zurich, brought together experts from social sciences and
energy‑systems analysis to explore how the human dimension can be better integrated into energy system modelling.
ESC welcomes Dr. Siobhan Powell as member
Dr. Siobhan Powell joins the Energy Science Center (ESC) as a new member of the competence center. She is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC).