Peer-reviewed publications

• Schmidt, J., Mitter, H., Baumann, M., Boza-Kiss, B., Huppmann, D., Wehrle, S., Zwieb, L., Klingler, M. (2025). Need for Speed: Co-Creating Scenarios for Climate Neutral Energy Systems in Austria in 2040 Energy Policy, 198, 114493.
• Turkovska, O., Gruber, K., Klingler, M., Klöckl, C., Ramirez Camargo, L., Regner, P., Wehrle, S. & Schmidt, J. (2024). Methodological and reporting inconsistencies in land-use requirements misguide future renewable energy planning One Earth, 7(10), 1741-1759.
• Wehrle, S., Regner, P., Morawetz, U. B., & Schmidt, J. (2024). Inferring local social cost from renewable zoning decisions. Evidence from Lower Austria’s wind power zoning. Energy Economics, 107865.
• Schmidt, J., Wehrle, S., Turkovska, O., & Regner, P. (2024). The EU additionality rule does not guarantee additionality. Joule, 8(3), 553-556.
• Regner, P., Gruber, K., Wehrle, S., & Schmidt, J. (2023). Explaining the decline of US wind output power density. Environmental Research Communications, 5(7), 075016.
• Klöckl, C., Wehrle, S., & Schmidt, J. (2023). Low cost, uncertain value: Why cheap PV may still not become UK’s main power source. Patterns, 4(5).
• Klöckl, C., Gruber, K., Regner, P., Wehrle, S., & Schmidt, J. (2022). The perils of automated fitting of datasets: the case of a wind turbine cost model. Examples and Counterexamples, 2, 100059.
• McKenna, R., Pfenninger, S., Heinrichs, H., Schmidt, J., Staffell, I., Bauer, C., Gruber, K., Hahmann, A.N., Jansen, M., Klingler, M., Landwehr, N., Larsen, X.G., Lilliestam, J., Pickering, B., Robinius, M., Tröndle, T., Turkovska, O., Wehrle, S. & Wohland, J. (2022). High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs. Renewable Energy, 182, 659-684.
• Gruber, K., Regner, P., Wehrle, S., Zeyringer, M., & Schmidt, J. (2022). Towards global validation of wind power simulations: A multi-country assessment of wind power simulation from MERRA-2 and ERA-5 reanalyses bias-corrected with the global wind atlas. Energy, 238, 121520.
• Wehrle, S., Gruber, K., & Schmidt, J. (2021). The cost of undisturbed landscapes. Energy Policy, 159, 112617.
• Mikovits, C., Wetterlund, E., Wehrle, S., Baumgartner, J., & Schmidt, J. (2021). Stronger together: Multi-annual variability of hydrogen production supported by wind power in Sweden. Applied Energy, 282, 116082.
• McKenna, R., Ryberg, D. S., Staffell, I., Hahmann, A. N., Schmidt, J., Heinrichs, H., Höltinger, S., Lilliestam, J., Pfenninger, S., Robinius, M., Stolten, D., Tröndle, T. Wehrle, S. & Weinand, J. M. (2020). On the socio-technical potential for onshore wind in Europe: a response to Enevoldsen et al.(2019). Energy Policy, 132, 1092-1100. Energy Policy, 145, 111693.
• Schmidt, J., Gruber, K., Klingler, M., Klöckl, C., Ramirez Camargo, L., Regner, P., Turkovska, O., Wehrle, S. & Wetterlund, E. (2019). A new perspective on global renewable energy systems: why trade in energy carriers matters. Energy & Environmental Science, 12(7), 2022-2029.
• Kirchner, M., Schmidt, J., & Wehrle, S. (2019). Exploiting synergy of carbon pricing and other policy instruments for deep decarbonization. Joule, 3(4), 891-893.