Research professor
PhD (Economics)
Contact information
firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Tel. +358 295 251 297
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Climate solutions
Sustainability
Paavo Havaksen tie 3
FI-90570 Oulu
Finland
ORCID ID
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Research interests and duties
I work as a joint research professor of energy economics at the Syke and the University of Oulu Business School. My main responsibilities include leading research projects related to the sustainable energy economy, developing the research field, supervising dissertations, and teaching-related tasks.
As an economist, I am particularly interested in the challenges of climate change mitigation from the perspective of society. It would be important to find solutions that are sustainable on both an environmental and an economy perspective. I believe that solutions to mitigating climate change can also support economic growth and employment. However, this requires an understanding of the interdependencies between entities and different sectors of society. When the interdependencies are deeply understood, it is also possible to direct political guidance to the right targets.
In my research I have recently focused in energy transition related problems and opportunities. The key drivers of the ongoing restructuring of the energy market, the increasing use of renewable resources and the intelligence of electricity grids ,will enable a new approach for the whole society to increase sustainability and welfare.
Ongoing projects
Recent publications
Kiehle, J., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Hilli, M., Pongracz, E. (2022). Carbon Footprint at Institutions of Higher Education: The case of the University of Oulu, Journal of Environmental Management, Accepted.
Li, H-Z, Dou, Y., Basile, V, Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M. (2022). "A parametric method to estimate environmental energy efficiency with non-radial adjustment: An application to China",Annals of Operations Research, Accepted. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-05053-z
Tuomela, S., Hänninen, T., Ruokamo, E., Iivari, N., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Svento, R. (2022). Energy community preferences of solar prosumers and electricity consumers in the digital energy ecosystem, in Trading in Local Energy Markets and Energy Communities: Concepts, Structures and Technologies, Springer, Accepted.
Immonen, A., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M. (2022). Capturing Consumers’ Awareness and the Intention to Support Carbon Neutrality through Energy Efficient Consumption, Energies, 15(11), 4022
Huuki, H., Karhinen, S., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Svento, R. (2020). Flexible demand and supply as enablers of variable energy integration, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 258, 120574
Huuki, H., Karhinen, S., Böök, H., Lindfors, A., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Svento R. (2020) Utilizing the flexibility of distributed thermal storage in solar power forecast error cost minimization, Journal of Energy Storage, Vol. 28, 101202.
Ruokamo, E., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Meriläinen, T., Svento, R. (2019) Towards Flexible Energy Demand – Preferences for Dynamic Contracts, Services and Emissions Reductions. Energy Economics, Vol. 84, 104522.
Li, H-Z, Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Yan, M-Z (2019). Which Provincial Administrative Regions in China Should Reduce their Coal Consumption? An Environmentl Energy Input Requirement Function Based Analyses, Energy Policy, Vol 127, 51-63.
Huuki, H., Hilden, M., Kivisaari, V., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M. (2018). The importance of transnational impacts of climate change in a power market, Energy Policy, 105, 418-425.
Li, H-Z., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Xiao, X-Z., Lau, S-Y., (2017) Have Regulatory Reforms Improved the Efficiency Levels of the Japanese Electricity Distribution Sector? A Cost Metafrontier-based Analysis, Energy Policy, 108, 606-61
Pouttu, A., Haapola, J., Ahokangas, P., Xu, Y., Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Porras, E., Matamoros, J., Kalalas, C., Alonso-Zarate, J., Gallego, F.D., Martín, J.M., Deconinck, G., Almasalma, H., Clayes, S., Wu, J., Cheng, M., Li, F., Zhang, Z., Rivas, D., Casado, S. (2017) P2P Model for Distributed Energy Trading, Grid Control and ICT for Local Smart Grids, EuCNC2017 – APS
Kopsakangas-Savolainen, M., Mattinen, M., Manninen K. and Nissinen, A. (2017) Hourly-based greenhouse gas emissions of electricity - cases demonstrating possibilities for households and companies to decrease their emissions, Journal of Cleaner Production, 153: 384-396.