Alexander Kies

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Alexander Kies is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Engineering and Power Technology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Kies has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 9 papers in Energy Engineering and Power Technology and 7 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Alexander Kies's work include Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (21 papers), Electric Power System Optimization (15 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (9 papers). Alexander Kies is often cited by papers focused on Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (21 papers), Electric Power System Optimization (15 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (9 papers). Alexander Kies collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Poland and Sweden. Alexander Kies's co-authors include Jakub Jurasz, Mohammed Guezgouz, Fausto A. Canales, Alexandre Beluco, Stefan Schramm, Martin Greiner, Tom Brown, David Schlachtberger, Lueder von Bremen and Tao Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy and Energy Conversion and Management.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Kies

33 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A review on the complementarity of renewable energy sources: Concept, metrics, application and future research directions

2019 550 citations Jakub Jurasz, Fausto A. Canales et al. profile →
Synergies of sector coupling and transmission reinforcement in a cost-optimised, highly renewable European energy system

2018 498 citations Tom Brown, David Schlachtberger et al. Energy profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alexander Kies	1.4k	665	376	300	277	33	1.9k
Daniele Groppi	987 0.7×	559 0.8×	345 0.9×	185 0.6×	200 0.7×	61	1.8k
Kosmas A. Kavadias	1.0k 0.7×	779 1.2×	554 1.5×	390 1.3×	426 1.5×	58	1.9k
Fausto A. Canales	781 0.6×	490 0.7×	211 0.6×	243 0.8×	330 1.2×	50	1.5k
Alexandre Beluco	779 0.6×	511 0.8×	236 0.6×	257 0.9×	320 1.2×	64	1.4k
D. Zafirakis	1.2k 0.9×	753 1.1×	416 1.1×	597 2.0×	491 1.8×	65	2.4k
Mohammad Mohammadi	888 0.6×	467 0.7×	303 0.8×	262 0.9×	215 0.8×	31	1.6k
Juha Kiviluoma	2.1k 1.5×	609 0.9×	546 1.5×	370 1.2×	197 0.7×	98	2.8k
Gorm Bruun Andresen	2.0k 1.4×	734 1.1×	702 1.9×	244 0.8×	220 0.8×	65	2.7k
Mohammed Guezgouz	633 0.5×	377 0.6×	227 0.6×	209 0.7×	226 0.8×	15	1.1k
Dimitris Al. Katsaprakakis	548 0.4×	405 0.6×	266 0.7×	346 1.2×	176 0.6×	48	1.3k

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Jurasz, Jakub, et al.. (2025). Energy potential and economic viability of small-scale wind turbines. Energy. 322. 135608–135608. 2 indexed citations

Kies, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Optimal Power Flow in a highly renewable power system based on attention neural networks. Applied Energy. 359. 122779–122779. 10 indexed citations

Jurasz, Jakub, Mohammed Guezgouz, Pietro Elia Campana, & Alexander Kies. (2022). On the impact of load profile data on the optimization results of off-grid energy systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 159. 112199–112199. 19 indexed citations

Jurasz, Jakub, et al.. (2021). Building integrated pumped-storage potential on a city scale: An analysis based on geographic information systems. Energy. 242. 122966–122966. 26 indexed citations

Canales, Fausto A., et al.. (2020). Spatial representation of temporal complementarity between three variable energy sources using correlation coefficients and compromise programming. MethodsX. 7. 100871–100871. 15 indexed citations

Jurasz, Jakub, et al.. (2020). Synergetic operation of photovoltaic and hydro power stations on a day-ahead energy market. Energy. 212. 118686–118686. 46 indexed citations

Nolting, Lars, et al.. (2019). Locating experts and carving out the state of the art: A systematic review on Industry 4.0 and energy system analysis. International Journal of Energy Research. 43(9). 3981–4002. 11 indexed citations

Guezgouz, Mohammed, et al.. (2019). Optimal hybrid pumped hydro-battery storage scheme for off-grid renewable energy systems. Energy Conversion and Management. 199. 112046–112046. 143 indexed citations

Ciapała, Bartłomiej, Jakub Jurasz, & Alexander Kies. (2019). The Potential of Wind Power-Supported Geothermal District Heating Systems—Model Results for a Location in Warsaw (Poland). Energies. 12(19). 3706–3706. 8 indexed citations

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Kies, Alexander. (2018). Joint optimisation of arbitrage profits and battery life degradation for grid storage application of battery electric vehicles. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 977. 12005–12005. 4 indexed citations

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Viet, Dinh Thanh, et al.. (2018). A Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting Tool for Vietnamese Wind Farms and Electricity Market. 130–135. 8 indexed citations

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Kies, Alexander, et al.. (2018). The impact of climate change on a cost-optimal highly renewable European electricity network. Applied Energy. 230. 1645–1659. 73 indexed citations

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Jurasz, Jakub, Paweł B. Dąbek, Bartosz Kaźmierczak, Alexander Kies, & Marcin Wdowikowski. (2018). Large scale complementary solar and wind energy sources coupled with pumped-storage hydroelectricity for Lower Silesia (Poland). Energy. 161. 183–192. 86 indexed citations

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Kies, Alexander, et al.. (2017). The smoothing effect for renewable resources in an Afro-Eurasian power grid. Advances in science and research. 14. 253–260. 6 indexed citations

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Kies, Alexander, et al.. (2017). The impact of different PV module configurations on storage and additional balancing needs for a fully renewable European power system. Renewable Energy. 113. 176–189. 32 indexed citations

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Kies, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Large-Scale Integration of Renewable Power Sources into the Vietnamese Power System. Energy Procedia. 125. 207–213. 26 indexed citations

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Brown, Tom, David Schlachtberger, Alexander Kies, & Martin Greiner. (2016). Sector Coupling in a Highly Renewable European Energy System. 1 indexed citations

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Kies, Alexander, et al.. (2016). The optimal share of wave power in a highly renewable power system on the Iberian Peninsula. Energy Reports. 2. 221–228. 18 indexed citations

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Kies, Alexander, et al.. (2016). The Effect of Hydro Power on the Optimal Distribution of Wind and Solar Generation Facilities in a Simplified Highly Renewable European Power System. Energy Procedia. 97. 149–155. 7 indexed citations

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Kies, Alexander, et al.. (2015). Investigation of balancing effects in long term renewable energy feed-in with respect to the transmission grid. Advances in science and research. 12(1). 91–95. 14 indexed citations

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