Werner Antweiler
Professor Antweiler received his doctorate in economics from the University of Toronto in 1996 and has since been at the Sauder School of Business, where he specializes in international trade, energy, electricity, and the environment. His most recent research focuses on electricity markets, the integration of renewable energy into electricity grids, cross-border electricity trade, and the transition to electric mobility. Courses that he teaches cover environmental economics and policy, climate and business solutions, and the integrated global economy. He is also co-editor of the journal Resource and Energy Economics and a faculty member at UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre. He is sought out frequently by the news media to comment on many issues concerning trade, energy, environment, and public policy.
Selected Publications
- Werner Antweiler (forthcoming 2026). "Carbon Pricing, Capital Bias, and Electric Vehicle Adoption". Canadian Journal of Economics.
- Werner Antweiler and Felix Müsgens (May 2025), "The New Merit Order: The Viability of Energy-Only Electricity Markets with Only Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources and Grid-Scale Storage" Energy Economics 145, No. 108439.
- Werner Antweiler and David Schlund (September 2024), "The Emerging International Trade in Hydrogen: Environmental Policies, Innovation, and Trade Dynamics". Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 127, No. 103035.
- Werner Antweiler (September 2021), "Microeconomic Models of Electricity Storage: Price Forecasting, Arbitrage Limits, Curtailment Insurance, and Transmission Line Utilization" Energy Economics, 101, No.105390.
- Werner Antweiler and Felix Müsgens (July 2021), "On the Long-Term Merit Order Effect of Renewable Energies". Energy Economics 99, No.105275.