Following her post-doc, from January 1999 to April 2000, Kemfert led a research group at the Institute for Rational Application of Energies at the University of Stuttgart. As a guest professor, she taught at the University of St. Petersburg (2003–2004), University of Moscow (2000–2001) and University of Siena (1998, 2002–2003). From 2000 to 2004, Kemfert had a position as an assistant professor and was the leader of a research group at the University of Oldenburg.[1]
While Claudia Kempfert had run for office in 2012 with the CDU and in 2013 with the SPD,[14] in 2023 the Neue Zürcher Zeitung pointed out Kempferts repeated support for the Green party in Germany. In the article, colleagues accused her of delivering the party with ammunition for the political debate. During the campaign for the 2021 German federal election, Kempfert praised the Greens program to fight climate change. In April 2023 she published a study for the Greens, justifying the german Nuclear power phase-out. In it, Kempfert concluded, that Nuclear power has always been among the most expensive forms of energy, unable to compete with prices for fossil or renewable forms of energy production. The study used investment projects in nuclear power, which had exceeded their budget, like the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, to support its findings, while projects, which stayed in budget, were widely ignored.[15]
Awards
Kemfert got an award from DAAD and was honoured in 2006 as top German Scientist from the German research foundation, Helmholtz and Leibniz Association ("Elf der Wissenschaft").[16] In 2011 she was awarded with the Urania Medaille[17] as well as B.A.U.M. Environmental Award[18] for Best Science and got the German-Solar-Award and the Adam-Smith-Award[19] for Market-Based Environmental Policy in 2016.
Selected publications
Kemfert, C. (2013): The battle about electricity: Myths, power and monopolies,[20] Hamburg: Murmann
Kemfert, C., Kunz, F., Rosellón, J. (2016): A Welfare Analysis of Electricity Transmission Planning in Germany. In: Energy Policy. 94 (2016), p.446–452
The European Electricity and climate policy – complement or substitute?. In: Environment and Planning / C 25 (2007), 1, S. 115–130, 2007
Haftendorn, C., Holz, F., Kemfert, C. (2012): What about Coal? Interactions between Climate Policies and the Global Steam Coal Market until 2030. In: Energy Policy 48 (2012), pp.274–283
Traber, T., Kemfert, C. (2011): Gone with the Wind? Electricity Market Prices and Incentives to Invest in Thermal Power Plants under Increasing Wind Energy Supply. In: Energy Economics (2011), 2, pp.249–256
mit P. T. Truong und T. Brucker: Economic Impact Assessment of Climate Change: A Multi-Gas Investigation. In: The Energy Journal, Multi-Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Climate Policy, Special Issue 3, S. 441–460, 2006
Induced Technological Change in a Multi-Regional, Multi-Sectoral, Integrated Assessment Model (WIAGEM): Impact Assessment of Climate Policy Strategies. In: Special Issue of Ecological Economics, Vol. 54/2-3 S. 293–305, 2005
International Climate Coalitions and trade – Assessment of cooperation incentives by issue linkage. In: Energy Policy, Vol. 32, Iss. 4, S. 455–465, 2004
Global Economic Implications of alternative Climate Policy Strategies. In: Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 5, Iss. 5, S. 367–384, 2002
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