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Niels Wauer
Project Manager Economy of the Energy Transition
Niels Wauer works as Project Manager on Economy of the Energy Transition at Agora Energiewende, focusing on overarching economic issues of the energy transition.
Before joining Agora Energiewende, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Universität Leipzig and the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) on the design of green economic stimulus and investment programs. During his studies, he also assisted in the preparation of the Energiepreisbericht Baden-Württemberg at the Leipziger Institut für Energie GmbH.
Niels Wauer studied a B.Sc. in Economics in Berlin and M.Sc. in Economics in Leipzig with a focus on environment and sustainability. As part of his master's thesis, he analyzed the influence of bid-preparation costs on onshore wind auctions.