About us
Neon Neue Energieökonomik is a Berlin-based boutique consulting firm for energy economics, founded and directed by Lion Hirth. As a boutique, we specialize in sophisticated quantitative assessments and economic analyses of electricity markets since 2014. Our range of services includes consulting projects, studies and training seminars that support decision-makers in tackling today’s pressing issues and future challenges of the energy transition. Our clients include governments, regulatory authorities, grid operators, energy suppliers and electricity traders from Germany and other European countries.
Team
At Neon, our team of electricity market experts brings 70 years of combined experience in market design, regulation, and data analysis. Prof. Dr. Lion Hirth is the Founder and Director of Neon. Dr. Silvana Tiedemann serves as Managing Director, overseeing operations and client relations. Dr. Ingmar Schlecht and Dr. Anselm Eicke, both Partners at Neon, lead many of our core projects. Dr. Johanna Bronisch and Jonathan Mühlenpfordt are our experienced Senior Consultants, supported by our Consultants Dr. Clemens Lohr, Vlada Maksimova, Dr. Alexander Neef and Anton Hoffmann.
Clients
We are proud of our diverse portfolio of clients, comprising public sector institutions such as the German Economics Ministry and the European Commission, as well as a broad range of energy companies, including utilities, traders, project developers, and industrial electricity consumers. We also advise clients in the financial sector, international organizations such as the IEA and think tanks such as Agora Energiewende.
Projects
As a boutique, our work is centered on electricity market design. For the German government, we have worked on the revenue cap and other emergency interventions, market-based redispatch and locational price signals, the coal phase-out and system services procurement. In other projects, we have worked on forward markets, intraday market, retail tariffs, balancing reserves and imbalance pricing, bidding zone split, and the EU electricity market reform. Some of our projects are delivered within days, other stretch over years.
Seminars
Our tailored in-house trainings support teams across the energy sector. The seminar Power Systems & Markets is an introduction to energy economics, policy, and markets. The training Electricity System Modeling offers on introduction to the numerical modeling of power markets and systems. Power Trading is a crash course into wholesale electricity markets and trading.
Academia
Our work relies on rigorous methods and is informed by academic research. For quantitative analyses we use state-of the art data science and econometrics. Collectively, we have published well over 50 academic articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. We also maintain the power market model EMMA, and have a background in load flow model. For many years, Neon has run Strommarkttreffen, a network of 5000+ energy professionals from academia, industry, and policy.
