Christian Breyer

Professor
Electrical Engineering
LUT School of Energy Systems
Lappeenranta
+358 50 443 1929
Research areas
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Economics and Econometrics

Biography

Christian Breyer is Professor for Solar Economy at LUT University, Finland. His major expertise is the integrated research of technological and economic characteristics of renewable energy systems specialising in energy system modeling for 100% renewable energy, on a local but also global scale. His team published the most studies on 100% renewable energy systems for countries or major regions globally. Energy system transition studies are carried out in full hourly and high geo-spatial resolution.

Publications cover integrated sector analyses with power, heat, transport, desalination, industry and negative CO2 emission options. Power-to-X investigations is a core research field for his team. He published more than 400 scientific papers, thereof more than 200 in scientific journals. As of March 2024 he has 216 Scopus listed publications, received more than 13000 citations (Scopus) with an h-index of 64 (Scopus) and more than 21500 citations (Google Scholar) and an h-index of 77 (Google Scholar).

He worked previously for Reiner Lemoine Institut, Berlin, and Q-Cells (now: Hanwha Q Cells). He is member of ETIP PV, IEA-PVPS, national IPCC working group in Finland, scientific committee of the EU PVSEC and IRES, scientific advisory board of CO2 Value Europe, academic council of Global Alliance Powerfuels, chairman for renewable energy at the Energy Watch Group, reviewer for the IPCC and a co-founder of the Desertec Foundation. His academic background is general business, physics and energy systems engineering and a PhD in electrical engineering. He communicates in Bluesky and Twitter @ChristianOnRE.

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