TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tröndle, Tim
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
A1  - Marelli, Stefano
A1  - Pfenninger, Stefan
T1  - Trade-offs between geographic scale, cost, and infrastructure requirements for fully renewable electricity in Europe
JF  - Joule
N2  - The European potential for renewable electricity is sufficient to enable fully renewable supply on different scales, from self-sufficient, subnational regions to an interconnected continent. We not only show that a continental-scale system is the cheapest, but also that systems on the national scale and below are possible at cost penalties of 20% or less. Transmission is key to low cost, but it is not necessary to vastly expand the transmission system. When electricity is transmitted only to balance fluctuations, the transmission grid size is comparable to today's, albeit with expanded cross-border capacities. The largest differences across scales concern land use and thus social acceptance: in the continental system, generation capacity is concentrated on the European periphery, where the best resources are. Regional systems, in contrast, have more dispersed generation. The key trade-off is therefore not between geographic scale and cost, but between scale and the spatial distribution of required generation and transmission infrastructure.
KW  - energy decarbonization
KW  - self-sufficiency
KW  - cooperation
KW  - trade
KW  - transmission
KW  - regional equity
KW  - land use
KW  - acceptance
KW  - flexibility
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.07.018
SN  - 2542-4351
VL  - 4
IS  - 9
SP  - 1929
EP  - 1948
PB  - Cell Press
CY  - Cambridge , Mass.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Muschalla, Beate
A1  - Fay, Doris
A1  - Seemann, Anne
T1  - Asking for work adjustments or initiating behavioural changes - what study on the reactions towards colleagues with a personality disorder
JF  - Fundamenta informaticae
N2  - People with mental disorders, especially personality disorders, often face low acceptance at work. This is particularly problematic when returning to work after sick leave, because it impedes reintegration into the former workplace. This study explores colleagues’ reactions towards a problematic worker dependent on the returning person’s reintegration strategy: The returning person undertaking changes in their behaviour is compared with the person requesting adjustments of the workplace. In an experimental study, 188 employed persons read one of four vignettes that described a return-to-work-situation of a problematic co-worker. Across all vignettes, the co-worker was depicted as having previously caused problems in the work team. In the first vignette, the co-worker did not change anything (control condition) when she returned to work; in the second, she asked for workplace adjustments; in the third vignette she initiated efforts to change her own behaviour; and the fourth vignette combined both workplace adjustments and behavioural change. Study participants were asked for their reactions towards the problematic co-worker. Vignettes that included a behavioural change evoked more positive reactions towards the co-worker than vignettes without any behavioural change. Asking for workplace adjustments alone did not yield more positive reactions compared to not initiating any change. When preparing employees with interactional problems for their return to work, it is not effective to only instruct them on their statutory entitlement for workplace adjustments. Instead, it is advisable to encourage them to proactively strive for behaviour changes.
KW  - Workplace
KW  - personality disorders
KW  - mental health
KW  - sick leave
KW  - acceptance
KW  - social distance
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2015.1109671
SN  - 1354-8506
SN  - 1465-3966
VL  - 21
SP  - 856
EP  - 862
PB  - IOS Press
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -