Laboratory of Global Energy Problems

• Study of the world energy development regularities: energy consumption evolution, fuel mix variation, resource basis, influence on atmosphere and climate
• Investigations of Russian energy development perspectives: analysis and forecast of changes in energy demand, production and consumption, greenhouse gases and pollutants emission estimation, expected climate change influence on power industry
• Study of the environmental aspects of various branches of economy, particularly, energy conservation technologies evolution in production and consumption of different energy resources
• Study of anthropogenic influence on the atmosphere: reconstruction of time series for major greenhouse gases and pollutants emissions in various sectors of world and Russian economy, development of the scenarios of the possible man-made influence on chemical and radiation balance of atmosphere, the ways of reduction of this negative influence
• Climate variation modeling and forecasting at global and regional scales, in particular, estimation of the anthropogenic contribution to climate variations
• Studies of the feedbacks in the system «man-climate»: estimation of possible climate variations consequences for various human activity areas (in electricity production, in heat-supply systems, nuclear power  objects, construction industry, transportation); development of the new approaches for mitigation of the future climate change effects on economy of Russia
• Studies of past climates and their connection with the human civilization evolution: paleoclimatological research (past climate reconstruction based on palynological, dendrochronological and other approaches), historical climatology (past climate reconstruction on the basis of historical written evidence)

• A study of the global environmental challenges related to the large scale use of unconventional energy resources (State task No. 13.116.214, 2014-2016)
• A study of hydropower development in Russia in the changing external conditions (RSF project No. 14-19-00765, 2014-2016)
• A study of the social-cultural, environmental and technological constraints on the prospects of energy resources exports from Russia (RFBR project No. 15-37-11129, 2015-2017)
• A study of the influence of the natural factors on the energy systems efficiency (RFBR project No. 15-08-01225, 2015-2017)
• A study of the main features and trends of urban power systems development under different socio-economic, environmental and climatic conditions (RSF project No. 16-19-10568, 2016-2020)
• Dynamics of the renewable energy potential in Russia under current nature and climate change (RFBR project No. 17-08-00134, 2017-2019)
• A study of the basic problems of the Russian energy sector under rapid global climate change and its manifestations on the territory of Russia (State task No. 13.1137.2017, 2017-2019)
• Impacts of the long-term climate changes on the operation modes of the thermal power units and systems in Russia (RFBR project No. 18-08-00026, 2018-2020)
• Development of the scientific basis for hydropower resilience in Russia under the climate change, energy transformation and alteration of water use (RSF project No. 18-19-00662, 2018-2020)
• Adaptation potential of Russian energy system towards the modern technological challenges under the climate change (RSF project No. 18-79-10255, 2018-2021)

Klimenko V., Solomina O. Climatic variations in the East European Plain during the last millennium: state of the art. In: The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview (edited by R. Przybylak, J. Majorowicz, R. Brázdil, and M. Kejna). Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2010. P. 71–101.

Klimenko V. A composite reconstruction of the Russian Arctic climate back to A.D. 1435. In: The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview (edited by R. Przybylak, J. Majorowicz, R. Brázdil, and M. Kejna). Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2010. P. 295–326.

V. V. Klimenko. Why Is Global Warming Slowing Down? Doklady Earth Sciences. 2011. Vol. 440. Part 2. P. 1419–1422.

Beznosova D. S., Grigoruk D. G., Lyalin D. A. and Turkin A. V. Prospects for using hybrid power installations on the basis of solid-oxide fuel cells integrated with intracycle coal gasification. Thermal Engineering. Vol. 58. No. 9. P. 774–778.

V. V. Klimenko. Influence of Climatic and Geographical Conditions on the Level of Electricity Consumption. Doklady Earth Sciences. 2012. Vol. 443. Part 1. P. 392–395.

V. V. Klimenko, A. V. Klimenko, A. G. Tereshin, D. S. Beznosova, and T. N. Andreychenko. Changing Pattern and Amount of the Residential and Commercial Energy Consumption in Response to Economic and Climatic Factors // Thermal Engineering. 2012. Vol. 59, No. 11, P. 807–815.

M. M. Arzhanov, A. V. Eliseev, V. V. Klimenko, I. I. Mokhov, A. G. Tereshin. Estimating Climate Changes in the Northern Hemisphere in the 21st Century under Alternative Scenarios of Anthropogenic Forcing. Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics. 2012. Vol. 48. No. 6. P. 573–584.

V. V. Klimenko, O. V. Mikushina. An Unusual Dynamics of the Global Temperature in The Early Twenty-First Century — Natural Factors Versus Anthropogenic // Atlas of Temporal Variations in Natural, Anthropogenic and Social Processes. 2012. Vol. 5. P. 52–56.

Klimenko V., Matskovsky V., Dahlmann D. Multi-archive temperature reconstruction of the Russian Arctic for the past two millennia // Geography, Environment, Sustainability. 2014. Vol. 7, No 1. P. 16–29.

The Historical Time Frame (Past 1000 Years) / Tadeusz Niedźwiedź, Rüdiger Glaser, Daniel Hansson, Samuli Helama, Vladimir Klimenko, Ewa Łupikasza, Łukasz Małarzewski, Øyvind Nordli, Rajmund Przybylak, Dirk Riemann, and Olga Solomina // In: Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin, Regional Climate Studies. Eds: The BACC II Author Team. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16006-1_3. Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, 2015. P. 51-68.

Klimenko V.V. Thousand-year history of northeastern Europe exploration in the context of climatic change: Medieval to Early Modern Times // The Holocene. 2016. Vol. 26 (3) 365–379. DOI: 10.1177/0959683615609745

J Luterbacher, J P Werner, J E Smerdon, L Fernández-Donado, F J González-Rouco, D Barriopedro, F C Ljungqvist, U Büntgen, E Zorita, S Wagner, J Esper, D McCarroll, A Toreti, D Frank, J H Jungclaus, M Barriendos, C Bertolin, O Bothe, R Brázdil, D Camuffo, P Dobrovolný, M Gagen, E García-Bustamante, Q Ge, J J Gómez-Navarro, J Guiot, Z Hao, G C Hegerl, K Holmgren, V V Klimenko, J Martín-Chivelet, C Pfister, N Roberts, A Schindler, A Schurer, O Solomina, L von Gunten, E Wahl, H Wanner, O Wetter, E Xoplaki, N Yuan, D Zanchettin, H Zhang and C Zerefos. European summer temperatures since Roman times // Environ. Res. Lett. 2016. Vol. 11. No. 2. P. 1–12. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024001

Fedotova (Kasilova) E V, Klimenko V V, Klimenko A V , Tereshin A G . Impact of the climate change on the performance of the steam and gas turbines in Russia // IOP Conf. Series: Journal of Physics: Conf. Series 891 (2017) 012261. DOI :10.1088/1742-6596/891/1/012261

Klimenko V. V., Mikushina O. V., Tereshin A. G. A combined model for analysis and projection of the regional air temperature dynamics // Proc. SPIE 10466, 23rd International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics; DOI: 10.1117/12.2287753

Kasilova E. V.; Ginzburg A. S.; Demchenko P. F. Urban climate and energy demand interaction in Northern Eurasian Cities // Proc. SPIE 10466, 23rd International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics, 104666Q; DOI: 10.1117/12.2288183

Klimenko V. V., Fedotova E. V., Tereshin A. G. Vulnerability of the Russian power industry to the climate change // Energy, 2018. Volume 142. Pages 1010-1022. DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.10.069

Klimenko V. V., Tereshin A. G. Anthropogenic elements of heat and water balance of large cities (case study of Moscow) //             IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 2018. 211(1), doi:10.1088/1755-1315/211/1/012021

Кlimenko V. V., Fedotova E. V. Development of multi-model ensemble climate estimates using open-source environment // IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 2018. Vol. 211. id. E2111084 doi:10.1088/1755-1315/211/1/012084

Tsybina E., Moreno-Cruz J., Tereshin A. Liberalisation lowers primary energy efficiency: Evidence from twin power systems // Energy, Volume 173, 15 April 2019, Pages 423-435

Кlimenko V., Krasheninnikov S., Fedotova E. Efficiency of Space Heating Systems under the Climate Change // E3S Web Conf., 103 (2019) 02002 DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/201910302002

Klimenko V., Mikushina O., Tereshin A. Increase of Energy Potential of Russian Forest resources due to Climate Change and CO2 Fertilization // E3S Web Conf., 103 (2019) 02005 DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/201910302005

• P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow
• A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow
• Institute of Geography, RAS, Moscow
• Geology Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University,
• Geography Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University,
• Historical Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Energy Strategy Institute, Moscow
• Energy Research Institute, RAS, Moscow
• All-Russia Research Institute “VTI”
• Westphalian University, Muenster, Germany
• Rhein University, Bonn, Germany
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany