Dr Femke Nijsse

Dr Femke Nijsse is a complexity scientist and Deputy Director of Exeter Climate Policy, who models the transition towards clean energy in different sectors.

She is a key developer of the E3ME-FTT energy-economy-environment model, in particular the FTT submodels on heat, transport and power.

Major energy technologies in E3ME-FTT are represented with evolutionary economics, so that the diffusion of a new technology follows an S-curve. Her work addresses innovation, the integration of high shares of variable renewables in electricity grids and how sector coupling can help accelerate the transition to a net-zero energy system. This work informs what policies are effective at what stage of the transition in which country.