E-world P_Review 23-01

ISSUE 1 // MAY 2023 

THE MAGAZINE FOR EUROPE'S ENERGY TRADE FAIR 

THINKING THE NEW 

ENERGY SYSTEM 

Strategies for a Clean Future

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ONE SECTOR. ONE NETWORK. 

Dear reader, 

Summer, sun - E-world?! Yes, this year Europe's leading trade fair for the energy 

industry will once again take place on an unusual date. We are very much looking 

forward to welcoming you to Messe Essen from May 23 to 25, 2023. 

A turbulent year lies behind us, in which energy industry topics were more 

present in society than they have been for a long time. Due to geopolitical 

developments, energy prices, gas storage levels, grid stability, nuclear and coal 

phase-out were hotly debated not only within the industry. 

Exchange and network 

with the energy sector 

365 days a year. 

In this magazine we have compiled some assessments of the current situation, 

forecasts of future developments in the energy markets and promising projects 

for an energy-secure future in Europe for you. In addition, you will find helpful 

information for your visit to the fair - such as an overview of the community 

booths and the forum program. 

We wish you an interesting read and look forward to seeing you soon in Essen! 

Liebe Leserin, 

lieber Leser, 

Stefanie Hamm, CEO 

E-world energy & water GmbH 

Sommer, Sonne – E-world?! Ja, auch in diesem Jahr findet Europas Leitmesse der 

Energiewirtschaft noch einmal zu einem ungewohnten Datum statt. Wir freuen 

uns sehr darauf, Sie von 23. bis 25. Mai 2023 in der Messe Essen zu begrüßen. 

Ein turbulentes Jahr liegt hinter uns, in welchem energiewirtschaftliche 

Themen gesamtgesellschaftlich so präsent waren wie schon lange nicht mehr. 

Aufgrund der geopolitischen Entwicklungen wurden Energiepreise, Gasspeicher-Füllstände, 

Netzstabilität, Atom- und Kohleausstieg nicht nur branchenintern 

heftig diskutiert. 

In diesem Magazin haben wir einige Einschätzungen der aktuellen Lage, Prognosen 

zukünftiger Entwicklungen der Energiemärkte und vielversprechende 

Projekte für eine energiesichere Zukunft in Europa für Sie zusammengestellt. 

Zudem finden Sie hilfreiche Informationen für Ihren Messebesuch – etwa eine 

Übersicht der Gemeinschaftsstände und des Forenprogramms. 

Wir wünschen Ihnen eine interessante Lektüre und freuen uns, Sie bald in Essen 

zu sehen! 

Sabina Großkreuz, CEO 


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Content 

E-world 

Gas 

Storage 

HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS FORUM 

3 Editorial 

8 E-world Kick-off | February 2023 

38 E-world wide Review 

40 E-world Highlights 

79 Impressum 

24 The gas market developments over the 

past year and a glance to the future 

Eurogas 

28 The future of the European gas market: 

How much state intervention? 

Dr. Heiko Lohmann 

30 From a wee dram to a Green Hydrogen 

Economy, Scotland powers ahead 

Scottish Development International 

46 Energy storage systems & protection 

from unexpected power failures 

Commeo 

49 When are battery storage systems safe? 

TESVOLT AG 

49 Bidirectional charging – trick or treat? 

The Mobility House 

66 Tuesday – 23.05.2023 

67 Wednesday – 24.05.2023 

68 Thursday – 25.05.2023 

FUTURE FORUM 




Electricity 

12 Potential pathways towards a climateneutral 

Europe 

Energy Brainpool 

15 How smart energy solutions can drive 

the green transition and empower 

consumers 

ESMIG 

17 Getting the grid ready by 2030 

Eurelectric 

20 Why long-distance connectors are an 

integral part of the energy transition 

Xlinks 

32 Wasserstoff-Datenbank als zentraler 

Beschleuniger 

DVGW | VerifHy 

34 „Die KWK wird ein zentraler Baustein 

der dekarbonisierten Strom- und Wärmeversorgung 

– wenn man sie lässt.“ 

Zukunft Gas 

42 Net-zero transition unlocks opportunities 

in Australia’s growing energy 

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56 Führungstreffen Energie 

58 Glasfaserforum 2023 

E-world Expert Forums 

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„ 

I think the reality is that there will still be 

plenty of gas being used from our reliable 

like-minded sources well into the 2030s 

and 40s. There will be less. [...] We also 

have the possibility to bring biomethane, 

hydrogen. There are different options – 

and we will need them all.“ 

E-world Kick-off | February 2023 

Three days, three main topics, and one slogan. Under the motto "Energy Perspectives for 

2023 and Beyond", top-class experts discussed the future of energy supply from February 

14 – 16. How will the transformation to a green power system succeed? What does the 

current crisis mean for the future of the gas market? What opportunities do data-driven 

applications offer and what should energy security concepts look like? 

Dr. James Watson, Secretary General, Eurogas 

„ 

Data security is like electricity. 

No one actually needs data 

security. They are looking for 

the outcome, not for the security. 

The same with electricity.“ 

A varied program of fireside chats, keynotes and 

discussion formats offered not only exciting insights, 

but also numerous opportunities for professional 

exchange. With more than 600 participants, 17 speakers 

and 3 sponsors, the kick-off event to the regular 

E-world date in February was a complete success. 

Day 1 

On the first day, the focus was on the topic of future 

energy supply. Dr. Roman Dudenhausen began by 

talking with Tobias Federico about the new energy 

market design after the fateful year 2022. Tobias Federico, 

Tim Meyerjürgens, Christine Müller and Sonja 

Müller-Dib then discussed the question "How can the 

conversion to a green power system succeed?". 

Day 2 

The second day explored the question "Ways to a climate-neutral 

gas economy: What do the current crises 

mean for the energy transition future?". Dr. Heiko Lohmann 

spoke in a fireside chat with James Watson about 

current developments in the European gas market. The 

subsequent panel discussion with Dr. Thomas Gößmann, 

Dr. Egbert Laege and Dr. Sopna Sury exchanged 

views on the significance of the current crisis for the 

future of the gas market and the gas phase-out. 

Day 3 

Day three of the kick-off was dedicated to the topic of 

data security in the energy industry. It started with 

a keynote by Elad Shaviv on the resilience of critical 

infrastructure. The subsequent panel discussion with 

Andreas Lange, Jan Fischer and Torsten Schekat addressed 

the topic of data security in cloud applications and 

sought approaches to solutions on how to implement 

them in the energy industry. In another panel entitled 

"Future now: Opportunities of data-driven applications 

for a good energy future", Michael Roeder, Knut Hechtfischer 

and Clemens Pompey discussed the question of 

how "secure development" can succeed. 

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ELECTRICITY 

In addition to the energy transition, the energy price and 

supply crisis is also influencing the various markets and 

Europe is facing a wide range of challenges. In the following 

section, you will learn to what extent transmission links are 

an essential component and why distribution networks are 

the backbone of the energy transition. 

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Potential pathways towards a 

climate-neutral Europe 

The EU Green Deal sets out for the first time a clear goal at the European level to achieve 

Europe-wide climate neutrality by 2050. While the goal is clear, the path remains uncertain. 

Energy Brainpool has developed scenarios on how the dramatic transformation of 

the energy system can be fulfilled. 

To outline the development paths for climate-neutral 

energy scenarios, dimensions are defined which 

benchmark a suitable way of achieving the goal. The 

energy policy triangle of environmental sustainability, 

security of supply and economic efficiency provides a 

fundamental impetus. Due to the recent developments, 

the aspect of security of supply is being sharpened 

to the independence of energy sources from imports. 

Economic efficiency is reflected in the price level on the 

wholesale power market. Environmental sustainability 

is directly included as a dimension. Climate neutrality 

will be achieved by using renewable fuels, such as green 

hydrogen, biofuels and emission-neutral synthetic 

hydrocarbons. Another dimension is the level of electrification. 

The focus here is on the coupling of the power 

sector with other energy-intensive sectors such as 

transport, industry and buildings. Applications of today 

will gradually be powered by electricity in the future. 

Last but not least, the share of renewables also plays a 

key role in designing climate-neutral scenarios. 

On the basis of these six dimensions, three EU Green 

Deal-compliant energy scenarios have been designed 

and evaluated. 

„ 

In the strongly H 2 

-focused 

decarbonisation scenario, 

the Europe-wide H 2 

demand 

in 2050 amounts to more 

than 2,200 TWhGCV. With an 

electrolyser fleet of approx. 

500 GW, intra-European H 2 

generation can cover 55 % of 

domestic demand.“ 

Huangluolun Zhou, Electricity market 

expert at Energy Brainpool 

GOHYDROGEN: A HYDROGEN-ENERGY WORLD 

The "GoHydrogen" describes a scenario in which 

fossil natural gas is replaced by hydrogen. Hydrogen's 

potential is fully exploited in the main energy 

sectors, making it one of the main energy sources. 

Fuel cell trucks, climate-neutral steel from the direct 

reduction process, feedstock use in the chemical 

industry and hydrogen-based heating systems are 

applications in which hydrogen technologies will 

play a key role. This results in a hydrogen demand of 

more than 2,200 TWhGCV in 2050, 55 % of which can 

be met by domestic production. Electrification rates 

are also assumed for passenger cars, industrial process 

heat and heat supply in modern or refurbished 

buildings, so that the total electricity demand will be 

by 2050 around 5,700 TWh. This is almost a doubling 

of today's electricity consumption. The electricity 

demand will be met by a strong expansion of renewable 

generation such as onshore and offshore wind 

and solar, but also by expanding hydrogen-enabled 

gas turbines. In terms of hydrogen imports, MENA, 

Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and the Americas offer 

great export potential. 

ALL ELECTRIC: STRONG ELECTRIFICATION 

WITH GREEN ELECTRICITY 

In the scenario “All Electric”, hydrogen as an energy 

carrier plays only a minor role. The use of hydrogen 

is limited to feedstock use in the production of steel, 

high-value chemicals and ammonia in the industrial 

sector. Energy consumption in the industrial sector 

is largely electrified with the use of large-scale heat 

pumps. In road transport, electric vehicles with battery 

storage will dominate both passenger and freight 

transport. The demand for space and water heating 

in the buildings sector will mainly be met by various 

types of electric heat applications (primarily air- and 

water-source heat pumps). Due to the higher efficiency, 

electricity demand is expected to be comparable 

to the “GoHydrogen” scenario. Hydrogen demand is 

reduced to the 30-50% level of “GoHydrogen”, leading 

to a significant reduction in hydrogen imports. Similar 

to the "GoHydrogen" scenario, renewable power 

plants are mainly used to meet the strongly increased 

electricity demand. Hydrogen-fuelled gas turbines 

will provide the necessary flexibility in the electricity 

supply system due to their high power gradients. 

GO NUCLEAR: RENAISSANCE OF 

THE NUCLEAR POWER 

The “Go Nuclear” scenario assumes a similar energy 

demand structure to the “All Electric” scenario. The 

Environmental 

Sustainability 

Independence of 

Energy Imports 

Renewable Power 

5 

4 

3 

2 

1 

0 

Price Level Wholesale 

Power Market 

Green Fuels 

Electrification 

GoHydrogen All Electric GoNuclear


focus of the transition to a carbon neutral energy 

system is on electrification rather than on green fuels. 

To meet the high demand for electricity, less renewable 

generation is integrated than in the “All Electric” 

scenario. Conventional power plants are expected to 

account for a significant share of the electricity mix. 

The conventional generation fleet consists mainly 

of nuclear power plants, but also of fossil fuel power 

plants whose electricity production can be made emission-neutral 

through Carbon Capture Utilisation and 

Storage (CCUS) technology. The underlying assumption 

for this scenario is therefore that nuclear power 

will experience a renaissance, and that CCUS technology 

will achieve market penetration. 

SUMMARY: STRIKING THE GOLDEN MEAN 

Which of the three scenarios is the right or most 

likely way forward? To answer this question, the 

three scenarios were evaluated. In terms of energy 

source independence, the "Go Nuclear" scenario 

stands out, as the energy system is not heavily dependent 

on green fuels, and the emission-neutral 

conventional power plant units provide the necessary 

base load and flexibility. However, the mandatory 

disposal of radioactive waste is a clear disadvantage. 

"All Electric” is less dependent on green fuels than 

Tobias Federico 

Managing Director of Energy Brainpool 

Huangluolun Zhou 

Electricity market expert at Energy Brainpool 

“GoHydrogen”, but requires more back-up for the 

large share of intermittent renewable generation, 

which needs to be provided by intercontinental 

transmission capacity outside Europe. In terms of 

electricity price levels on the wholesale market, the 

“All Electric” scenario has the highest price level, as 

the large number of electric heat pumps for the provision 

of useful heat in the building sector is subject 

to seasonal fluctuations in consumption and can lead 

to very high prices in winter. 

All three scenarios tend to be strongly in favour 

of a particular technology for achieving climate 

neutrality, and each shows clear advantages and 

disadvantages. A golden mean of these decarbonisation 

scenarios is appropriate to meet the likely 

development path of energy supply. Furthermore, in 

order to implement the EU Green Deal in a targeted 

and timely manner, there will be country-specific 

differences that will require energy policy coordination 

within the EU. 

KONTAKT / CONTACT 

www.energybrainpool.com 

kontakt@energybrainpool.com 

How smart energy solutions can 

drive the green transition and 

empower consumers 

Faced with an unprecedented energy price and supply crisis, Europe must rise to the 

occasion. This means securing affordable energy for consumers and delivering smart 

energy savings. There has never been a greater urgency to accelerate and complete the 

large-scale roll-out of smart meters across Europe and in Germany, a key enabler for the 

twin green and digital energy transition. 

The EU is reforming the electricity market design in 

2023, aimed at making consumer bills less dependent 

on volatile fossil fuel prices, better protecting 

consumers longer-term and enhancing demand-side 

flexibility. In addition, deploying smart energy 

solutions, and better using energy data is a no-regret 

solution, which can have an immediate positive 

impact on savings and consumer bills. 

The role of smart energy solutions for energy security 

and affordability needs to be fully recognised. Accelerating 

the roll-out of smart meters; implementing 

existing legislation (notably on real time data access and 

demand-side flexibility) and creating standards for data 

exchange and a new European energy data space for better 

data access and sharing are all part of the solution. 

Smart metering provides benefits for the whole energy 

system and is fundamental for the development 

of smart grids. Most importantly, smart metering 

provides savings through empowering consumers, and 

strongly contributes to a more efficient use of energy. 

Smart meters also generate huge amounts of granular 

data, which enables value creation and supports the 

digital transformation of utilities’ operations to create 

new business models and solutions for innovative 

market players. 

The deployment of smart meters has been mandated 

by EU legislation since 2009 but progress has been 

slow in many Member States. It was expected that 

80% of consumers would benefit from having an electricity 

smart meter installed in 2020 but this target has 

been missed by a long shot. 

The roll-out of smart meters has been completed at 

over 90% in 10 countries in Europe, including Finland, 

Italy, or Spain, and is advancing in many others, but 

currently only an average of 54% of household consumers 

are equipped with intelligent/smart meters in 

Europe. Germany – Europe’s most populous country and 

largest economy – has been lagging for over a decade 

in the roll-out of smart meters to the detriment of enabling 

a smarter system and empowering consumers.


different use cases to allow demand-side flexibility is 

key for achieving all the benefits the technology can 

bring. It is crucial to make metering data interoperable 

and ensure access to it in a non-discriminatory and 

secure manner for all authorised energy market participants 

including TSOs and DSOs, suppliers, energy 

services providers, and other market players. 

Therefore, to summarise, ESMIG recommends focusing 

on three actions in coordination. European and national 

policymakers, regulators and energy industry and 

market players all have a role to play: 

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1. Accelerating and completing the roll-out of smart 

meters across Europe: while some Member States 

have completed their roll-out, others are lagging to 

the detriment of consumers and energy efficiency. 

Tomás Llobet 

Managing Director of ESMIG 

Germany’s new binding roadmap, with clear targets 

for smart electricity meters in households and businesses, 

including a more agile approach regarding the 

installation of smart meters, is therefore crucial for 

completing the smart meter rollouts in Europe and 

bringing all the advantages of smart energy solutions 

to German energy consumers. This will not only help 

consumer to better manage their energy consumption 

with dynamic tariffs, which are to be introduced, but 

accelerate the clean energy transition through better 

integration of renewables into the grid, smart bidirectional 

vehicle charging, the development of smart 

homes, controlling appliances flexibly while relying 

on smart metering and metering data. 

Moreover, the acceptance for smart meters in Germany 

seems high: as the results of a recent Bitkom poll 1 

showed, 88% of German energy consumers would 

like to know ‘at a glance’ how much energy they are 

currently consuming and where they can still make savings; 

and 78% of German energy consumers explicitly 

want to have a smart meter installed. 

But deploying smart meters is just the first step. Unleashing 

the power of energy data and enabling all the 

2. Removing barriers on energy data access and 

sharing, making real-time data available to 

consumers: as data is a core asset for the energy 

transition, it needs to be interoperable and made 

available in real-time as mandated by the Electricity 

Directive. This is far from reality in most countries 

in Europe today, four years after the adoption 

of the Clean Energy Package. 

3. Implementing and enabling demand-side flexibility, 

eliminating regulatory barriers: demand-side 

flexibility, a powerful solution to increase savings, 

is part of the EU’s electricity market design. Legislation 

was adopted in 2019, but the provisions 

have not yet been adequately implemented in most 

Member States, except for Finland and France, and 

to a limited extent, Italy, Slovenia, and Spain. 

Finally, as Europe is becoming more self-reliant, and 

the limits of dependency are evident, it is crucial to 

support a strong European energy industry, serving 

and securing critical infrastructures and managing 

large amounts of sensitive data. 


www.esmig.eu 

tomas.llobet@esmig.eu 

Meet ESMIG's 

experts at E-world: 

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Forum 

Getting the grid ready by 2030 

Distribution grids are the backbone of the electricity system. Often invisible and 

sometimes ignored politically, they are however absolutely critical. Critical to deliver 

electricity to your home, critical also to accompany the energy transition: without 

them, there is no integration of renewables, no connection for solar panels or electric 

vehicles. Without them and their enhancement, the energy transition is in stall, simply. 

Now however is the time to recognise DSO and their grids and address the reality: 

distribution grids need massive investment to grow and to be modernised and to 

ensure drastically reduced connection times. 

With 30 to 35 billion dollars of annual revenue 

per year 1 and about 500 000 quality jobs, distribution 

system operators, or DSOs, are of capital 

importance in the European electricity landscape. 

They are the companies responsible for keeping 

the lights on, by distributing and managing 

energy from the generation sources to the final 

consumers. In other words, distribution grids are 

the backbone of the power network and thus of 

the energy transition. They ensure a reliable and 

continuous flow of electricity, all whilst integrating 

the vast majority of renewable energy sources. This 

makes DSOs not only vital in the energy demand 

process of industries and households alike, but 

also key drivers on the road to net-zero. Therefore, 

making the needs of DSOs heard and actively incorporating 

them in the policy-making process at all 

levels is paramount. 

This is one of Eurelectric’s core missions. We are the 

European trade association representing the entire 

electricity industry, from electricity generation and 

1 

Bitkom poll: www.bitkom.org/Presse/Presseinformation/Energiekrise-Haushalte-wollen-besseren-Ueberblick-ueber-Verbrauch 

1 

Connecting The Dots, 2021: www.eurelectric.org/connecting-the-dots/


1200 

Additional RES capacities due to RePowerEU (GW) 

Relative weight (%) 

Key investment drivers: modernisation, renewables and electrification 

1000 

800 

600 

400 

200 

0 

2021 2030 

Wind 

Solar 

Wind (RePowerEU) 

Solar (RePowerEU) 

Fig. 1 Additional RES capacities due to RePowerEU (GW), Source: 

Eurelectric Power Barometer, 2022 

markets to distribution networks and customers, with 

a strong focus on DSOs. We federate and speak for 

more than 3 500 European utilities in 31 countries, 

and our mission is to lead Europe’s energy transition 

via clean electrification. We commit to providing 

effective representation for the power industry and 

communicating the benefits of clean electrification to 

the public, as well as ensuring that electricity-based 

solutions are supported with sufficient funding across 

Europe. Our structure of expertise includes committees 

covering all major sectors of the power industry 

and working groups on specific topics affiliated to 

each committee. 

Challenges related to the distribution grid and DSOs 

are covered by the Distribution and Market Facilitation 

Committee, whose focus now is on the conditions 

that will enable the integration of new assets 

and renewables into the grid, as required by the “Fit 

for 55 Package”, setting a 55% emission reduction 

target by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. As energy 

production and consumption are responsible for 75% 

of emissions in the EU, an accelerated transition to a 

greener energy system must be achieved. According 

to the amended Renewable Energy Directive, 40% of 

energy should be produced from renewable sources 

by 2030, and at least 70% of all renewable capacity 

will be connected at distribution level. At the same 

time, policy makers are raising the bar to decarbonise 

the transport and heating sectors and we foresee an 

2 

The Coming Storm: Building electricity resilience to extreme weather, 2022: 

cdn.eurelectric.org/media/6254/the-coming-storm-h-5CA0B9BE.pdf 

additional 26 million EV charging infrastructures and 

33 million heat pumps to be rolled out and effectively 

connected in the distribution grid. Power distribution 

grids are playing a critical role to integrate them 

in a timely manner and must benefit from sufficient 

funding and an appropriate investment regulatory 

framework to achieve the aforementioned targets. 

According to Eurelectric’s Connecting The Dots study, 

the investments needed in DSOs between 2020 and 

2030 reach about 400 billion dollars, i.e. 50 to 70% 

higher than today (c.f., Fig. 2). 

How to make the grid fit for 2030’s 

decarbonisation objectives 

These ambitious yet much-needed targets pose certain 

challenges for the distribution grid. 

First of all, grid investments must be increased to be 

able to cover all main areas where support is needed. 

In a simplistic approach, “for each euro invested in 

renewables, we must invest one euro in our infrastructure 

to integrate them into the system”. To match 

the massive electrification planned for the next 5 to 10 

years, Eurelectric foresees an investment challenge of 

about 180 billion euros by 2030 for the electrification 

of buildings, e-mobility, and renewable generation, to 

which 100 billion euros must be added for modernisation. 

It is an ambitious but much needed investment. If 

we do not modernize the grid now, almost half of the 

low voltage lines in Europe will be over 40 years old 

by 2030, which is near the end of the technical lifetime 

for some of these assets. This would threaten the 

security of supply and massively delay the integration 

of renewables. In the context of increasing extreme 

weather events, building a resilient grid 2 is paramount. 

But modernization is not just about replacing lines and 

cables. It is also about digitalizing and automating 

the grid. In Connecting the Dots, we estimate that 

Europe will need between 30 and 35 billion euros to 

add smart capabilities to the grid, which is essential to 

unlock flexibility potentials from the assets connected 

to the grid (EVs, storage, demand response). 

The second major challenge is time. Connection to 

the grid can be associated with significant delays at 

times. As an example, in some EU countries, char- 

2020 – 2030 investments in 

DSO grids (nomonal € bn) 

~19% ~8% ~23% ~25% ~7% ~8% ~8% ~2% 

70-80 

Electrification 

of buildings 

& industry 

25-35 

E-mobility 

85-95 

Renewable 

generation 

90-105 

Modernisation 

25-30 

Digitalisation 

& automation 

30-35 

Smart 

meters 

30-35 

Resilience 

~5 

Storage 

and others 

Fig. 2 Key investment drivers: modernisation, renewables and electrification, Source: Connecting the Dots, 2021 

ging point operators for electric vehicles can wait up 

to 36 months to get a connection. The main reason 

is the lack of capacity on the grid. Many European 

countries are facing an increasing number of structural 

congestions. In the Netherlands, the situation 

is extreme with almost half of the country facing 

structural congestions without the possibility to 

connect new assets. These delays are exacerbated by 

a lack of structured cooperation between DSOs, public 

authorities and other relevant parties, a lack of standardisation 

and digitalisation in processes notably for 

the connection procedure, and administrative bottlenecks 

in permitting. As a solution, in addition to the 

creation of digital platforms and cooperative instances, 

improved network planning and management, 

focused on long-term forecasts, could help reduce 

delays associated with grid connection. 

Given that challenges faced by DSOs regarding the 

grid entail tangible consequences on the security and 

reliability of the power supply for customers across 

Europe, and since identified issues are most often 

cross-industrial as well as cross-border, discussions on 

the future of the distribution grid must involve a wide 

and transnational panel of all relevant agents of the 

power sector. Subsequently, Eurelectric often works 

in close collaboration with representatives of other 

industries, such as the e-mobility or the solar industry 

(e.g. in an ongoing joint project with SolarPower Europe), 

to share main concerns, praise best practices, 

and brainstorm solutions regarding fast-tracking and 

investment incentives. All this input is then translated 

into concrete sets of recommendations towards 

European policy makers. 

To put it in a nutshell, the current power distribution 

grid must undergo substantial modifications – and 

fast. Transformations such as modernisation and 

digitalisation will have to be supported by increased 

investments, and since the latter rely heavily on enabling 

regulatory frameworks, current regulation must 

be scrutinized and reviewed to incentivize investment 

in the grid and stimulate the development of grid 

flexibility. These are also the topics to be discussed on 

a joint panel by Eurelectric and relevant stakeholders 

of the Transition on the occasion of E-world 2023. 

Yes, the grid will be fit by 2030 - if the investment 

happens now. 


www.eurelectric.org 

lrullaud@eurelectric.org 

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Total 

2020 – 2030 

Meet eurelectric's 

experts 

at E-world: 

May 23, 12.30 pm, 

Change Forum


Why long-distance connectors 

are an integral part 

of the energy transition 

A pioneering project to supply millions of British homes with renewable energy generated 

3,800km away in Morocco will be pivotal to the UK achieving net zero by 2050. But 

the benefits of such international collaborations go wider, accelerating a global clean 

energy transition that has affordability, security and green jobs at its heart. 

As the triple energy crisis of climate, security 

and cost continues, governments and businesses 

are focussed on how to reduce reliance 

on foreign and carbon-intensive gas imports and 

achieve the clean energy transition in an affordable 

way for consumers. 

Long distance connectors transporting green electricity 

– like the world’s longest subsea link proposed 

between Morocco and the UK – are increasingly seen 

as part of an integrated solution, as the costs of 

wind and solar generation continue to fall, and the 

risks of geopolitical energy shocks continue to rise. 

“Within the next 15 years we will start having long 

distance cables criss-crossing the oceans in the same 

way that we have data cables today,” says Simon 

Morrish, CEO of Xlinks, the company behind the 

Morocco-UK Power Project. 

“Capturing renewable energy where it is cheap and abundant 

and moving it to where demand is greatest is 

going to be a key solution to our global energy crisis, 

helping us decarbonise and diversify quickly, cheaply 

and securely,” he explains. 

And the economics now stack up, according to 

Morrish, “Our primary goal is to help the world move 

away from fossil fuels, while also enhancing UK and 

global energy security. The economics of the project 

also look compelling – we are able to do this cheaply, 

and that’s good news for consumers and for an affordable 

energy transition.” 

Reliable power matched to demand 

Moving energy between different systems, geographies 

and time zones helps to solve the biggest problem of 

renewable energy generation – intermittency. Wind 

and solar markets are booming, and costs have come 

down – by over 90% in the last decade in the case of PV, 

making it cheaper in many parts of the world than fossil 

fuels. However, output can be hugely variable. There 

is often lower wind generation at times of high energy 

demand resulting in price spikes, even with nuclear balancing 

the system, and supply does not always match 

demand in terms of location and availability. 

This is where long-distance connectors come into 

the mix. The Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project, for 

example, will provide an average of over 20 hours of 

reliable, renewable energy per day, with generation 

very closely matching demand. 

Located in the Guelmim Oued Noun region in Morocco, 

the project comprises 10.5GW of solar and wind generation, 

alongside a 20GWh/5GW battery storage facility. 

Project Director Richard Hardy says the project is 

progressing well, making use of the abundant natural 

resource. "The solar panels, tracking east to west, will 

generate three times the power they would in the UK 

and five times more between January to March, making 

the supply perfect for meeting the winter heating 

needs as the UK ramps up the installation of electric 

heat pumps, and keeping bills low.” 

Daily convection currents rise reliably every evening 

and drop in the morning when the sun starts to come 

up. “So, by combining this with solar and battery 

storage for further reliability and flexibility, what we 

are about to provide through the cables is firm and 

flexible power to 7 million homes, which is incredibly 

valuable to the UK,” says Hardy. 

Minimising risks in long distance connectors 

While Xlinks will be the world’s longest subsea electricity 

connection, it is by no means the first. High 

Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is a tried and tested 

technology that allows the efficient and safe transfer 

of electricity over long distances and is already used 

in subsea interconnectors around the world, like the 

720km UK-Norway North Sea Link. For the Morocco- 

UK project, twin 1.8GW cable systems will follow a 

shallow water route from the converter station in 

Morocco across the Gibraltar Strait and along the coastlines 

of Spain, Portugal and France, before crossing 

international waters to land in North Devon and plug 

into the Great Britain grid. 

Richard Hardy says the route is optimised for minimum 

length at a maximum depth and for the geology and 

environment. “Cables will be buried under the seabed 

at a water depth of 100-250m, sometimes reaching 

700m to mitigate the risk of disturbance and potential 

damage from fishing vessels and other sea users.” 

The project also has lower geopolitical risk compared 

to gas import and export. “Morroco is an ideal partner 

to host the generation portion of the Xlinks project 

and has one of the longest trading histories with the 

UK. Its existing regulatory and political structure 

is well suited to large-scale renewable generation 

projects and for many years Morocco has held strategic 

ambitions to become an energy exporter and an 

international hub for price-competitive and carbon 

free energy.” Morocco aims to generate over half of 

its power from renewables by the end of the decade 

and has already installed over $6 billion of projects. 

“Surveys are under way and the project is moving 

forward at pace,” says Hardy. 

A new global supply chain enabling the clean energy 

transition 

The domestic benefits for countries developing the 

infrastructure for long distance connectors can be 

significant. Xlinks says the privately financed project 

will help the UK meet its climate targets to decarbonise 

the electricity grid by 2035 and achieve net zero 

by 2050. In doing so, it will deliver a green jobs and 

supply chain windfall in each partner country. 

In Morocco, 10,000 jobs will be created – 2,000 of 

which will be permanent – through production of locally 

manufactured components, as well as construction 

and operation of the generation plant. In the 

UK, alongside the converter station construction, the 

project will launch a high-growth HVDC cable industry 

and supply chain creating 1,350 new and high-value 

UK manufacturing jobs. 

“A new long distance power connector market is being 

catalysed and it’s essential for the energy transition,” 

says Simon Morrish. “The challenges we are facing 

have to be addressed with new partnerships on an 

international level, and at scale. We must roll them 

out without delay if we are to maximise the economic, 

social and climate benefits.” 


www.xlinks.co 

info@xlinks.co

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The energy market in Europe has been in a state of upheaval for 

some time. Gas network operators, in particular, are currently 

facing a number of challenges. Above all, upgrading existing gas 

networks to hydrogen plays an important role. In this part, you can 

read how a hydrogen database can act as a central accelerator and 

what cogeneration can contribute to achieving a climate-neutral 

energy supply. 


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When EC President Ursula von der Leyen met US 

President Biden in March 2022 they committed to 

delivering 50bcm of gas per annum through to 2030 

from the US to the European Union (EU). It was not 

sure that such a figure of imports could be achieved. 

However, due to strong efforts by the industry 

and the national administrations the EU recieved 

a record 52bcm of US LNG in 2022. This marked a 

fundamental shift in the gas market. 

The gas market developments 

over the past year and a glance 

to the future 

Today in Europe we are living in extremely challenging times when it comes to matters 

relating to our energy, this is a direct consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 

March 2022 and the build up to the war. 

Around this time energy prices increased dramatically 

and have rocked consumers, gas supplies 

have been limited and European industry has been 

forced to reduce output as a consequence. This is an 

unprecedented situation resulting in interventions in 

the gas market that would have been unthinkable just 

two years ago. The European gas market had been described 

as one of the best functioing energy markets 

as recently as 2021 by the European Union Agency 

for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). Yet 

the war in Ukraine upended all of this and turned the 

European energy system on its head. 

The initial response of the European Commission (EC) 

was to assert a future free of Russian energy imports, 

including a phase out of Russian gas by the end of the 

decade. This is an objective that we in Eurogas can support, 

as Russia proved itself to be an unreliable partner 

leaving many companies in the lurch by failing to supply 

gas contracted to them. The EC brought forward a plan 

called RePowerEU in May 2022 outlining the actions 

that should define the short term for the European gas 

market to compensate for the loss of over 100bcm of 

Russian gas supply. A big part of this has been to turn to 

LNG – primarily from the United States (US). 

The EU – No Longer the LNG 

Market of Last Resort 

The turn to LNG led to further unprecedented developments 

in the gas market. 

The EU has long been considered the LNG market of 

last resort. No more! It is clear that as piped gas from 

Russia dwindles there will be a fundamental remaking 

of the EU gas market, shifting to an LNG driven 

market. There will of course still be plenty of piped 

gas from our neighbours and allies in Norway. There 

will also be piped gas from Azerbaijan and Algeria, but 

LNG will pick up considerably requiring the current 

gas infrastructure to be remade from an East to West 

flow to a West to East flow. 

Countries such as Germany have to contend with a 

new reality. In March 2022 Germany could import precisely 

zero LNG, not one terminal stands on German 

soil. However, the government quickly put through 

the LNG Accelerator Act and by December 2023 the 

German Government expects an LNG import capability 

of around 44,5bcm. This is a remarkable achievement, 

improving security of supply and reducing the risk of 

the loss of industrial output two crucial elements of 

overall economic security. 

The question of how many of the potentially 7 

Floating Storage and Regassification Units (FSRUs) 

that will be turned into actual LNG terminals is open 

for discussion. It will be in part a political decision, 

but also an economic one. An LNG regassifcation 

terminal can cost around 1,5billion Euro – not dissimilar 

to the cost of an FSRU. It is thus likely that at 

least some terminals will be built leveraging private 

finance as well as public. In any case the die is being 

cast, the German example is a microcosm of the EU 

one – we are turning to LNG to keep the gas market 

fluid and affordable. 

Across Europe FSRUs have been chartered and the 

increasing question has been how to keep capacities 

at these points and the interconnectors across Europe 

open to deliver a new directional flow of gas. Avoiding 

bottlenecks is crucial to keep the gas moving 

and to ensure that no country is cut off. For example, 

Author Dr. James Watson 

Secretary General at Eurogas 

Slovakia a land locked country had never needed to 

take posession of LNG cargoes until 2022, and ordered 

its first two ever in the face of the war in Ukraine. 

Accessing terminals in Poland and infrastructure to 

cross the border was a new feat. This small example 

deomnstrates the fact that the LNG revolution is 

impacting all parts of the EU. 

LNG at any price? 

Following the RePowerEU intervention the EC also 

moved forward with a plan to ensure that the gas stores 

of Europe would be full by December 2022. Setting 

mandatory filling levels and dates the gas market new 

that it had to follow these demands or risk sanction. 

This was a major instigator of the huge rise in prices 

seen in August 2022 – often considered a semi-off 

season gas purchasing month – where levels on the 

north west European TTF hub hit a record 350EUR/MWh. 

Many storage operators were searching for gas to hit 

the required levels in September 2022, while Russia 

also announced the closure of North Stream 1. This of 

course led to contagion with electricity prices rising 

above 600EUR/MWh. 

Policymakers across Europe vowed to their electorates 

that they would act, resulting in two of the more 

interesting and entirely novel legislative requirements 

for the gas market – the so called market correction

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mechanism (MCM) and the launch of joint purchasing 

through the AggregateEU platform. Neither of these 

measure would have been considered possible under 

peacetime circumstances and indeed getting the MCM 

through the legislative processes required so many 

somersaults that even an acrobat would have been impressed, 

but nevertheless they are on the gas market 

regulatory books today. 

carbon gases. In RePowerEU a target of 35bcm of biomethane 

by 2030 is set, alongside a target for 20MT of 

renewable hydrogen. These are being pushed into the 

legislation by the European Parliament and indeed in 

Eurogas we support them. 

However, many new benefits and subsidies will be 

given to these new gases in order to bring them on, 

these are necessarily distortive measures in the gas 

market to ensure that the sector also delivers on the 

promise of gaseous molecules that contribute to net 

zero. This means that the gas market will now also 

experience the same impacts that the electricity sector 

has experienced as solar and wind became more 

prevalent in the last decade. This could mean that 

the gas market as we know it will never be the same 

as it was prior to the war in Ukraine. We will see how 

the integration of these new technologies goes, but 

experience tells us that when new technologies rise 

disruption is never far behind. In this regard we must 

welcome the disruption and sieze the opportunity 

to mould a new gas market in the next 10 years with 

hydrogen, biomethane and natural gas all working 

together to fulfill crucial economic, social and environmental 

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The joint purchasing mechanism aims to reduce the 

cost of LNG, by aggregating demand so that a larger 

volume can bring a lower price – or at least the 

theory goes. Suppliers by and large tend to prefer 

long term contracts to make price discounts, so it 

will be an interesting time in 2023 to see how the 

joint purchasing delivers on the promise of lower gas 

prices. The MCM has been designed expertly, almost 

to the point that it may never actually be used as the 

number of caveats suggest that the designers knew 

that capping wholesale market prices in a global 

context could have catastrophic impacts on securing 

gas when you need it most. This tool may never see 

the light of day. 

Overall the response has been one driven by the circumstances 

of war – emergency measures, that are indeed 

suitable for emergencies – but not for peacetime 

market management. It will be a year of great scrutiny 

for the gas sector as we see if prices can be kept stable 

and lower than those experienced in 2022. 

The Future of the Market 

Finally it is worth noting that the emergency measures 

will have an impact on the functioning of the gas 

market as long as the war effects last. RePowerEU 

and the Gas and Hydrogen package, currently being 

finalised in Brussels, will also lead to new impacts on 

the gas market – the integration of renewable and low 


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The future of the European 

gas market: How much state 

intervention? 

2022 was an extreme year for the European gas industry. The successive reduction of 

Gazprom volumes to northwest and central Europe after Russia started its Ukraine 

invasion caused enormous stress with skyrocketing prices and unprecedented volatility 

in the European gas markets. 

At the beginning of September Gazprom stopped 

– allegedly (as before when the volumes were reduced) 

for technical reasons – supplies via Nord Stream 1 

completely. The assaults on the Nord Stream pipelines 

in September were more a symbolic final blow to the 

European-Russian gas relation. What was added to the 

calamities of the European gas market was Gazprom 

Export’s behaviour in using storage facilities in western 

Europe where the company had booked capacity. Most 

prominent was the German storage facility Rehden that 

was 100 per cent used by Gazprom. At the beginning of 

the winter season 2021/22 the storage was more or less 

empty. As a consequence, necessary volumes to cope 

with the winter demand were in short supply. 

The market and politics reacted to the extraordinary 

situation. The very high prices caused large industrial 

users to reduce or stop gas offtake and reduce production. 

The resulting shortage of ammonia for example 

caused headlines in the news. The very high prices 

attracted all available LNG around the world, utilisation 

rates of European LNG-terminals were higher than 

ever. Due to constraint transmission capacity between 

European countries this resulted in locational spreads 

between “LNG rich countries” like Belgium, France, the 

UK or Spain and LNG poor countries like Germany or 

Austria never seen before. In Germany the government 

took the initiative to charter five LNGs with the help of 

Uniper, RWE Supply & Trading and Engie for a whopping 

8.4 billion Euro for the whole charter period of a 

maximum of 15 years. EU member states and the EU 

Commission intervened in the storage market. Austria 

introduced a strategic storage reserve. Germany mandated 

the market area manager THE to fill in particular 

– but not only –the Rehden storage left idle by Gazprom 

and supported these activities with a loan of 15 billion 

Euro granted by the state bank KfW. The EU prescribed 

for all member states a trajectory of filling levels over 

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the storage year to grant a filling level of 90 per cent at 

the start of the next winter. But there had been more 

state interventions. In Germany the government had 

to nationalise Uniper and Gazprom Germania with its 

affiliates Wingas (sales), astora (operator of the storage 

facilities Rehden, Jemgum and a part of Haidach) 

and Gascade (TSO). The reasons had been a bit different 

and - in particular - the Gazprom Germania story is 

complicated. But finally, the strong exposure to Russian 

gas and the severe financial consequences of the stop 

of these supplies made the initiative necessary to avoid 

going bust of players that are systemically relevant for 

the market. At the end of the year, the EU Commission 

was finally able to gain support from all member states 

for two remarkable regulations: Regulation 2022/2578 

allows the introduction of a so-called market correction 

mechanism if the wholesale price exceeds 180 Euro/ 

MWh. And regulation 2022/2576 prescribes amongst 

others the establishment of a joint procurement platform 

for gas and the development of LNG price benchmarks 

by the European regulator agency ACER. The 

publication of the LNG prices already started; the joint 

procurement platform is developed by the capacity 

platform operator Prisma as a service provider and will 

go live in April this year. 

Where will the market goes from here and will state 

intervention last? The first question is what will be the 

future role of gas in Europe? A bit counterintuitively 

prices came down substantially after the Nord Stream 

explosions but even the levels of long-term prices like 

Cal 26 are still strongly above pre-crisis levels. Whether 

a level of 20,00 Euro/MWh, the pre-crisis benchmark 

will be ever be met again is questionable. Price 

sensitive industries may simply switch to locations 

with lower fuel cost. The announcement of the German 

chemical major BASF to stop ammonia production in 

Germany is a good example. And governments will try 

to push gas as a fossil fuel out of the market. This is 

particular true for the heating market. In Germany the 

German federal ministries of Economic Affairs and Climate 

Protection and of Housing. Urban Development 

and Building released the draft of a law that shall 

prescribe in the hearting sector a share of 65 per cent 

renewable energies for new heating systems. Heat 

pumps and district heating based on renewable energies 

shall replace gas boilers – currently the dominant 

heating systems in Germany as quick as possible. The 

future of gas determines to what extent Russian gas 

shall be replaced by new long-term contracts. Such 

contracts are possible mainly with LNG providers in 

the USA and Qatar. But with the uncertain future for 

natural gas it’s difficult for private companies to ink 

contract with duration of 15 years and more. This is an 

area where governments may be helpful. In Germany 

the nationalised companies Uniper and Securing 

Energy for Europe (SEFE, the new name of Gazprom 

Heiko Lohmann 

Journalist 

Germania) may have a bigger appetite for this kind 

of long-term contracts than other companies. The 

European joint procurement platform will not really 

help to ink these contracts, because it will focus on 

procurement for the next twelve months. An interesting 

question that is looming over the market is the 

future of Russian gas. Many market participants argue 

that if there are (and hopefully this will take place) 

peace talks between Russia and Ukraine the question 

of energy relations between Europe and Russia will 

come on the agenda. To allow resuming gas supplies 

to Europe will be one topic. Than it will be a task for 

the EU Commission and the governments to decide 

how many volumes are acceptable and how that shall 

be organised in a reliable manner. This will of curse 

have an impact on the gas prices. 

With a mixture of market adjustments and state 

intervention the gas market adapted quite well to the 

events of 2022 although one should never forget the 

related cost. Politics should not underestimate the 

efficiency of market dynamics. The most challenging 

task will be to find the proper future balance between 

security of supply and decarbonisation efforts in the 

gas market. 


Dr. Heiko Lohmann 

Journalist 

info@heikolohmann.de

30 | Gas 

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Gas | 31 

From a wee dram to a 

Green Hydrogen Economy, 

Scotland powers ahead. 

Anyone fortunate enough to have visited Scotland and experienced its stunning 

landscape will know that the climate has shaped the land and developed a society 

that lives in harmony with nature, utilising the strong winds and heavy rains to its 

unique economic advantage. 

First there was whisky, with the fertile soils and 

plentiful rain enabling robust cereal growth, and 

pure river water that helped make our national drink. 

Scottish engineering expertise then created the distilleries 

and with innovation and determination, took 

the resulting product from the northern tip of Europe 

to all corners of the globe in what remains an incredibly 

important export industry for the country. 

As time moves on, those same characteristics are helping 

shape Scotland’s new great export opportunity 

– Green Hydrogen. 

With a pioneering offshore wind industry and one 

of the world’s largest offshore leasing rounds, 

ScotWind, which will deliver up to 27GW worth of 

new offshore wind power, those strong winds that 

blow in from the North Sea are not just shaping the 

landforms but are also generating renewable energy. 

Scotland’s 12,000 kilometres of coastline and almost 

800 islands make it perfectly positioned to take 

advantage of the natural energy contained in the big 

blusters that blow its way. 

Other than natural resources, what factors influence 

Scotland’s potential to be one of the greenest energy 

economies in the world? What will we do with all this 

energy? And where does Hydrogen fit into the story? 

Scotland was the first nation to announce a climate 

emergency. The Scottish Government has also set some 

of the highest climate change targets in the world and 

introduced supportive net zero policies, including: 

• Net zero by 2045 

• 75% reduction of GHG emissions by 2030 

• Low carbon heating from 2024 

• Decarbonisation of cars by 2032; trains by 2035; 

flights by 2040 

• Green and fair recovery, with opportunity for a 

more equal society and economy 

• Hydrogen-specific aims are: 

• 5GW of Green Hydrogen production by 2030 and 

25GW by 2045 

• Up to 94 TWh green hydrogen for export 

• £100 million of funding to develop the hydrogen 

economy with industry and international partners 

• Continue accelerating demand and move small 

pilots to large commercial projects 

Scotland’s industrial heritage is clear for all to see. In 

the early 1970s when oil was discovered in the North 

Sea, some industry experts said it would never be exploited 

with such deep waters and tough weather conditions. 

However, with true Scottish grit, innovation and engineering 

excellence, the North Sea oil and gas industry 

evolved and successfully developed a Scottish workforce 

with now more than 40 years’ experience. As Scotland 

now carefully undertakes a just transition away 

from fossil fuels and towards a zero-carbon economy, 

those skills and experiences are being fully utilised to 

deliver a successful renewable energy industry. 

Scotland is already home to the world’s first floating 

offshore wind farm (Hywind), one of Europe’s first Hydrogen 

valleys in Orkney and the world’s first fleet of 

fuel cell double decker buses in Aberdeen. The country 

is a net exporter of electricity, with the renewable 

generation in 2021 enough to power all households 

in Scotland for three years. With ScotWind coming 

on stream towards 2030, much of this new renewable 

energy will likely be exported in the form of Green Hydrogen. 

Flotta in Orkney is an example of a largescale 

Green Hydrogen project that will use the new offshore 

wind resources and deploy German technology and 

Scottish skill in a joint development that enhances 

Scottish-German energy linkages. 

Another international example is the Scot2Ger project, 

which demonstrates the viability of generating 

Green Hydrogen through ScottishPower’s onshore 

wind resources and exporting to Germany to help 

power German industries. While this study looks initially 

at transport via shipping, a new project linking 

the Scottish Net Zero Technology Centre with Germany 

is taking further steps and establishing the basis for a 

hydrogen pipeline between the two countries. 

This indicates that Scotland is a country that relishes 

the creation of international partnerships that increase 

innovation and strengthen global trade links, particularly 

in sectors where Scotland’s greatest export strengths 

currently lie, such as Energy and Low Carbon Transition. 

Adrian Gillespie, Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise, 

Scotland’s national economic development 

agency, said: “Scotland is a leader of the energy 

and low carbon transition, with a growing hydrogen 

supply chain, innovative firms and an international 

outlook. 

“We welcome international businesses who value 

a fair, sustainable and low-carbon future and I 

would encourage companies to get in touch with 

Scottish Enterprise to hear more about what we 

have to offer.” 

Of course, the question will be whether Green Hydrogen 

can enhance the Scotch Whisky industry. 

It’s too early to say what impact hydrogen might have 

on the taste of whisky – we’ll have to wait another 12 

years while the whisky matures in its barrels before we 

Steve Taylor, Trade Specialist Energy and Low Carbon 

Transition - Berlin, Scottish Development International 

know that. However, the reduction in CO 2 

emissions 

across the industry is already impressive. 

Since adopting an environmental strategy in 2009, industry-wide 

emissions in Scotland have fallen by 53%. 

New distilleries such as Arbikie are currently installing 

hydrogen boilers in their plans to be the world’s first 

carbon positive distillery, while the Nc’Nean distillery is 

already the Europe’s first certified net zero distillery. 

Older distilleries such as Bruichladdich and Highland 

Park are in the process of converting their heating 

processes to Hydrogen. Glenrothes on Speyside was 

already the world’s first to use its draff –biodegradable 

waste – to generate heat through biogas, which 

has now extended to heat 17 Speyside distilleries and 

9,000 nearby homes. 

So, a people shaped by a harsh climate, who understand 

those weather systems and how they influence 

the land, that work with nature to produce the world’s 

finest national drink are now working with the same 

nature to decarbonise our energy systems, reduce 

global climate concerns and export Green Hydrogen 

to the industrial powerhouses of Central Europe that 

need international help in their aims to decarbonise. 

Let’s raise a glass and say Slàinte Mhath to the Scottish 

Green Hydrogen industry! 


www.sdi.co.uk 

steve.taylor@scotent.co.uk

32 | Gas 

© verifHy 

Gas | 33 

Wasserstoff-Datenbank als 

zentraler Beschleuniger 

Viele Gasnetzbetreiber beschäftigen sich derzeit intensiv mit den Herausforderungen 

der Umstellung ihrer Infrastruktur von Erdgas auf Wasserstoff. Der Deutsche Verein des 

Gas- und Wasserfachs (DVGW) unterstützt diese dabei auf vielfältige Weise. Seit Anfang 

des Jahres auch mit der Datenbank „VerifHy“. 

Dabei handelt es sich um eine Art Kompendium, mit 

dem jeder Netzbetreiber die Wasserstofftauglichkeit 

seiner Gasnetze bewerten und die Planung der Transformation 

durchführen kann. „Wir haben die Wasserstoffdatenbank 

erstellt, damit nicht jeder einzelne 

Netzbetreiber das Wasserstoff-Know-how mühselig 

und lückenhaft zusammensuchen muss, sondern per 

Knopfdruck dieses Wissen abrufen und sogar auf sein 

spezifisches Netz anwenden kann“, sagt Prof. Dr. Gerald 

Linke. Laut dem Vorstandsvorsitzenden des DVGW ist 

der Anspruch kein geringerer, als die technologisch 

führende, umfangsreichste und zuverlässigste Netzumstelldatenbank 

anzubieten – und zwar europaweit und 

in der Landessprache unserer Kunden. Denn Linke stellt 

hier klar: „Die Transformation der Erdgasnetz zu einer 

Wasserstoffinfrastruktur ist kein nationaler Alleingang.“ 

In Richtung des deutschsprachigen Teils Europas ist 

man hier schon vorangekommen. Die Vertreterinnen 

und Vertreter der österreichischen und der schweizerischen 

Organisationen ÖVGW und SVGW waren von Anfang 

an in die Entwicklung von VerifHy eingebunden. 

Ebenso eng ist die Kooperation mit hiesigen Netzbetreibern, 

etwa über die Zusammenarbeit mit Unternehmen 

der Initiative H2vorOrt, die einen großen Teil 

der deutschen Gasnetze abdecken. 

Beim DVGW verbindet man mit VerifHy die Überzeugung, 

dass die Transformation der Netze hin zu grünen 

Gasen funktioniert. Es handele sich dabei auch um „das 

entscheidende Werkzeug beim Bestreben, im Gasnetzgebietstransformationsplan 

(GTP) formulierten Ziele 

inhaltlich, qualitativ und zeitlich umzusetzen“, so Linke. 

Laufende Erweiterung des Datenbestands 

Die Datenbank enthält einen umfangreichen Bestand an 

Informationen, der sowohl Erkenntnisse aus Forschung 

und Wissenschaft als auch Angaben von Herstellern 

umfasst. Bis zum Jahresende 2022 wurde die Programmierung 

abgeschlossen und die sogenannte Basis-Befüllung 

eingepflegt. Dabei handelt es sich um Aussagen 

zu 250 Materialien, 75 Komponenten-Steckbriefen und 

105 Produkten aus den Kompendien der DBI Gas- und 

Umwelttechnik GmbH. Die DBI GUT mit Sitz in Leipzig 

ist ein Forschungsinstitut des DVGW. Es arbeitet und 

forscht mit über 80 Mitarbeitern zu aktuellen Themen 

auf dem breitgefächerten Gebiet der Gasversorgung. 

Nach Angaben des DVGW wird der Datenbestand 

laufend erweitert. Hersteller von Bauteilen im Gasnetz 

haben die Möglichkeit, ihre Produkte und deren 

Parameter zur Wasserstoffverträglichkeit einzupflegen. 

Außerdem werden neuste Forschungsergebnisse 

sukzessive in die Datenbank eingepflegt. Zusätzlich 

haben Netzbetreiber die Möglichkeit, Änderungsvorschläge 

einzureichen. 

Ein wichtiger Punkt ist hierbei die Prüfung der Daten 

über das sogenannte Quality Gate. Dort werden insbesondere 

die unterstützenden Dokumente der Hersteller 

zum Nachweis der H 2 

-Tauglichkeit auf Plausibilität und 

Vollständigkeit geprüft. Wenn die Angaben daraufhin 

in der Datenbank geändert werden müssen, erfolgt die 

Freigabe in der sogenannten Clearing-Stelle. Diese ist 

mit einer ganzen Reihe von ausgewiesenen Fachexperten 

besetzt. Das Freigabeorgan kommt immer dann ins 

Spiel, wenn strittige Änderungen von Daten innerhalb 

der Datenbank geklärt werden müssen. Der Bedarf ist 

unstrittig, da den Daten eine sehr hohe Bedeutung 

zukommt. Schließlich werden diese Bewertungen dazu 

verwendet, um Netze zukünftig für den Betrieb mit 

Wasserstoff zu qualifizieren, oder sie dienen als Wissensgrundlage 

für einen Sachverständigen, der dann wiederum 

diese Freigabe erteilt. Deshalb stellt der DVGW auch 

klar: „Es geht nichts in die Datenbank ohne Verifizierung, 

ein Plausibilitätscheck findet immer statt.“ 

Zwei Optionen zur Nutzung der Datenbank 

Prinzipiell stehen den Anwendern zwei Optionen zur 

Nutzung der Datenbank zur Verfügung. Die eine ist die 

Verwendung als Nachschlagewerk in Stichworten. Hier 

kann man bestimmte Materialeigenschaften oder Informationen 

zu Produkten und Komponenten manuell 

suchen. Die Informationen lassen sich dann auch als 

PDF-Datei downloaden. 

Die zweite Option ist die Stapelverarbeitung über eine 

autorisierende CSV-Datei. Bei dieser Variante bedarf 

es einer eindeutigen Verbindung zwischen den Assets, 

die der Netzbetreiber bewerten möchte, und der 

Datenbank. Die Datei dient als Übersetzungswerkzeug 

zwischen den beim Netzbetreiber vorliegenden Daten 

und der Datenbank. 

„ 

VerifHy ist das entscheidende 

Werkzeug beim Bestreben, 

die im Gasnetzgebietstransformationsplan 

formulierten 

Ziele inhaltlich, qualitativ 

und zeitlich umzusetzen.“ 

Prof. Dr. Gerald Linke 

Vorstandsvorsitzender des DVGW 

Wichtig ist hier wiederum die Datenqualität. Denn 

je genauer die Daten des Netzbetreibers sind, desto 

genauer sind dann auch die Aussagen der Datenbank 

im Hinblick auf die Wasserstoffverträglichkeit. 

Schaufenster für Komponentenhersteller 

VerifHy hat zudem das Potenzial, für die Anbieter entsprechender 

Komponenten und Anlagen einen Mehrwert 

zu generieren. So geht man beim DVGW davon 

aus, dass die Datenbank als ein Art Schaufenster ihrer 

Fähigkeiten fungieren wird. Eine Auswirkung könnte 

etwa sein, dass Hersteller ihre Produkte in Prüflaboren 

testen lassen, um so qualifizierte Aussagen gegenüber 

Gasnetzbetreibern treffen zu können. Für Letztere 

The German Technical and Scientific 

Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) supports 

gas network operators in converting their 

infrastructure from natural gas to hydrogen with 

the "VerifHy" database, among other things. 

This allows network operators to easily retrieve 

hydrogen knowledge and even apply it to their 

specific networks. In total, the tool contains 

statements on 250 materials, 75 component 

profiles and 105 products from the compendium 

of DBI Gas- und Umwelttechnik GmbH, and the 

latest research results are also included. Network 

operators can also submit suggested changes 

accordingly, which are then approved by a 

clearinghouse. Overall, there are two options for 

use: users can use the tool as a reference tool or 

batch process it via an authoritative CCSV file. 

wiederum bietet die Plattform die Möglichkeit, nicht 

nur den aktuellen Bestand zu beurteilen, sondern 

auch, bei Neuanschaffungen die Bauteile mit Blick auf 

ihre Wasserstofffähigkeit zu scannen. 

Nicht zu unterschätzen, dürfte zudem der Kommunikationseffekt 

sein. Eine engere Kooperation sorgt 

bekanntlich für ein besseres Verständnis zwischen den 

Beteiligten – hier Netzbetreibern, Komponentenherstellern, 

Wissenschaft oder Politik. In diese Richtung 

geht auch die Einschätzung von DVGW-Chef Linke. Für 

den Markthochlauf von Wasserstoff sei das Zusammenspiel 

vieler wirtschaftlich handelnder Akteure vonnöten. 

Dabei nennt er vor allem drei Handlungsschwerpunkte. 

Neben der dringend benötigten Verfügbarkeit 

größerer Wasserstoffmengen müsse die Energie zu den 

Kunden über die Netze gebracht werden. Der dritte 

Punkt richtet sich an die Geräteindustrie: Diese müsse 

die Produktion der bereits heute viel gefragten H 2 

-ready-Endgeräte 

hochfahren. 

Als DVGW wirke man auf alle drei Aspekte ein, im 

Fokus stünden jedoch die Netze. Und hier ist sich der 

DVGW-Chef sicher: „Mit der VerifHy-Datenbank haben 

wir den zentralen Beschleuniger für die H 2 

-Netzumstellung 

aufgebaut.“ 


www.verifhy.de 

+49 228 91 88-776 

Treffen Sie den DVGW 

auf der E-world: 

23. Mai, 10 Uhr, 

Hydrogen Solutions 

Forum

34 | Gas 

© Lotte Ostermann/Zukunft Gas 

Gas | 35 

„Die KWK wird ein zentraler 

Baustein der dekarbonisierten 

Strom- und Wärmeversorgung – 

wenn man sie lässt.“ 

Der Ausstieg aus fossilen Brennstoffen ist das zentrale Thema der Dekade. Neben dem 

Aufbau weiterer Kapazitäten der Wind- und Solarstromproduktion geht es auch um die 

Umrüstung bestehender Kraftwerke auf erneuerbare Brennstoffe. Über die Potenziale 

von Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungsanlagen zur Dekarbonisierung sprachen wir mit Dr. Timm 

Kehler, Vorstand von Zukunft Gas. 

Stefanie Hamm: 

Zusammen mit zahlreichen Partnern hat Zukunft Gas 

eine Studie zur Dekarbonisierung der KWK in Auftrag 

gegeben. Was ist die Haupterkenntnis? 

Dr. Timm Kehler: 

Wir haben uns in der Studie die Frage gestellt, 

welchen Beitrag die Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung zur 

Erreichung einer klimaneutralen Energieversorgung 

leisten kann – und wie dies zu realisieren 

ist. Die zentrale Erkenntnis ist eindeutig: Die KWK 

leistet bereits viel, kann jedoch noch weitaus mehr 

– wenn man sie lässt. Aufgrund ihrer vielfältigen 

Anwendungsmöglichkeiten bietet sie enormes 

Potenzial für die Dekarbonisierung der Strom- und 

der Wärmeversorgung. Die Anlagen sind nicht an 

bestimmte Brennstoffe gebunden, sondern können 

zu 100 Prozent erneuerbar betrieben werden - etwa 

mit Wasserstoff. Und die KWK ist zu einer flexiblen 

Fahrweise fähig. Diese Netzdienlichkeit wird für die 

System- und Versorgungssicherheit immer wichtiger. 

Dazu muss sie jedoch an die Anforderungen einer 

klimaneutralen Energieversorgung angepasst werden 

und benötigt eine zuverlässige Regulierung. 


Welche systemischen oder regulatorischen Schritte 

müssen gegangen werden, um die Transformation 

umzusetzen? 


Auch in Zukunft wird eine verlässliche KWK benötigt 

werden. Dazu muss sie jedoch flexibilisiert werden: 

Das heißt, Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung von KWK 

müssen durch Wärmespeicher zeitlich entkoppelt 

werden. So kann der lokale Wärmebedarf gedeckt und 

gleichzeitig die variable Stromerzeugung aus Wind 

und Photovoltaik ergänzt werden. Zudem muss der 

Brennstoffmix sukzessive auf klimaneutrale Energieträger 

umgestellt werden. Das bedeutet neben dem 

Ausstieg aus der Kohleverfeuerung bis 2030 auch den 

zunehmenden Ersatz von Erdgas durch Biomethan und 

Wasserstoff. Dafür bedarf es neben der Sicherstellung 

von Wasserstoff-Readiness eines stabilen Rechtsrahmens 

als Grundlage, welcher marktgerechte Anreize 

für Investitionen in KWK schafft. Genehmigungsverfahren 

müssen zudem beschleunigt und Bürokratie 

weiter reduziert werden. Um eine netzdienliche 

Fahrweise der KWK, d.h. das Decken der Residuallast, 

zu ermöglichen, muss künftig die Leistungsvorhaltung 

"CHP will become a central building block of 

decarbonized electricity and heat supply - if 

you let it." 

In a study by trade association Zukunft Gas, 

combined heat and power plants are found 

to be not only a central pilar of the existing, 

but also of the future energy system. Thus, 

CHP can contribute heavily to decarbonizing 

the supply of buildings, offering steadily produced 

green electricity and power. However 

currently running on coal and natural gas, 

CHP plants can easily be switched to green 

fuels like biomethane or hydrogen. Managing 

director Dr. Kehler sees it as realistic 

that hydrogen will be available in sufficient 

quantities in the future. This would foster the 

integration of renewables – if electricity and 

heat generation from CHP are decoupled in 

time by heat storage systems. 

The study notes that to unleash this potential, 

H 2 

-readiness of the plants must be 

ensured technically, and political guidelines 

have to be set by the Federal government: 

He demands a stable legal framework to 

create market-driven investment incentives. 

To enable grid-serving operation of CHP, i.e. 

covering the reserve load, this capacity must 

be remunerated. Also, tender volumes for 

innovative CHP should be increased. 

vergütet werden. Zudem sollten die Ausschreibungsmengen 

für die innovative Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung 

(iKWK) erhöht werden. 


Welche Rolle spielt KWK im aktuellen Energiesystem 

und welche kann sie in einem dekarbonisierten System 

einnehmen? 


KWK-Anlagen stehen heute etwa für 22 Prozent der 

Netto-Stromerzeugung (110 TWh/a) und erzeugen 

17 Prozent der benötigten Wärme (225 TWh/a) in 

Deutschland. Doch die KWK ist nicht nur bestehende, 

sondern auch zukünftige Säule der Energieversorgung 

und insbesondere wichtig beim Ausbau der dargebotsabhängigen 

Erzeugungstechnologien (PV und 

Wind) und der künftig verstärkten Wärmeversorgung 

durch Wärmenetze. Ihre Anwendungsmöglichkeiten 

sind überaus vielfältig. Von der Objektversorgung,

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Anforderungen an die zukünftige 

Strom- und Wärmeversorgung 

Reduktion der 

Treibhausgasemissionen 

durch... 

...Reduktion des 

Energieverbrauchs 

...Ausstieg aus Kohle, 

Erdöl und Erdgas 

dazu zählen auch teil- und unsanierte Ein- und 

Mehrfamilienhäuser, Krankenhäuser, Quartiere, 

Schwimmbäder oder Hotels, über die öffentliche Versorgung 

durch Einspeisung in Fernwärmenetze, bis 

hin zur Industrie, wo die KWK die Eigenversorgung 

mit Strom und Wärme ermöglicht. Sie sorgt für Versorgungssicherheit 

im Zuge der Energiewende, indem 

sie an Orten und zu Zeiten Strom und Wärme zur 

Verfügung stellt, wo volatile Erneuerbare Energien 

nicht liefern können. 

Die Summe der möglichen Beiträge der KWK für die 

künftige Strom- und Wärmeversorgung wird in Abbildung 

1 (S.34) deutlich: 

Mögliche Beiträge der KWK für die zukünftige... 

...Wärmeversorgung 

...Stromversorgung 

Reduktion des Primärenergieverbrauchs durch gekoppelte Stromund 

Wärmeerzeugung 

Bedingung: Gleichzeitiger Strom- und Wärmebedarf oder zeitliche 

Entkopplung durch Wärmespeicherung 

Gebäude: Ersatz von Ölheizungen 

durch Gas-KWK in Objekt- und 

Quartiersversorgung und Fernwärme 

Industrie: Ersatz von Kohle und Öl 

durch Gas-KWK 

Ersatz von Kohle-KWK durch Gas- 

KWK an besehenden Standorten 

Neubau von Gas-KWK ermöglicht 

Ausstieg aus Kohle- und Kernenergie 

Bedingung: Wirtschaftliche 

Rahmenbedingungen 

für neue Gas-KWK 

Anteile an KWK-Netto-Stromerzeugung (in %) 

100 

90 

80 

70 

60 

50 

40 

30 

20 

10 

0 

2022 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 

Kohle & Öl Erdgas Biomasse 

Wasserstoff (blau) Wasserstoff (türkis) Wasserstoff (grün) 

Abb. 2 Potenzielle Entwicklung des Energieträger-Mix der KWK-Stromerzeugung, Quelle: Frontier Economics 

Versorgungssicherheit 

Wirtschaftlichkeit 

...Einsatz klimaneutraler 

Energieträger 

Sicher verfügbare, 

steuerbare Erzeugungsleistung 

& Speicherung 

Sicherstellung 

leistungsfähiger Netze 

Kosteneffizienz 

Gesellschaftliche 

Akzeptanz 

Neben Erdgas als Brückenbrennstoff kann KWK zunehmend und bis 2045 zu 

100 % mit klimaneutralen Brennstoffen wie Biomethan & Wasserstoff 

betrieben werden 

Bedingung: Sicherstellung der Verfügbarkeit wirtschaftlicher klimaneutraler 

Brennstoffe sowie der Wasserstoff-Readyness von Gas-KWK 

KWK-Steuerbarkeit ermöglicht Integration flukturierender erneuerbarer 

Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung 

KWK zur Sicherstellung der 

Wärmeversorgung bei wenig Wind 

und Sonnendargebot (Residualwärmelast) 

KWK zur Sicherstellung der Stromverfügbarkeit 

bei wenig Wind und 

Sonnendargebot durch Gas- und 

Wärmespeicher (Residualstromlast) 

KWK grds. flexibel fahrbar, allerdings heute begrenzte Anreize für Flexibilität 

KWK ermöglicht Nutzung des Gasnetzes, wodurch Stromübertragungsund 

(bei dezentraler KWK) Stromverteilnetz entlastet wird und Redundanz 

durch parallele Infrastruktur geschaffen wird. 

Bei zentraler KWK mit Fernwärme zudem Entlastung des Stromverteilnetzes 

durch Nutzung von Wärmenetzen, insbesondere in Ballungsräumen. 

Bedingung: Perspektivische Erhöhung der Wasserstoffkompatibilität der Gasnetze 

Kosteneinsparung durch geringeren Brennstoffeinsatz bei gekoppelter 

Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung; wird umso entscheidender je höher Brennstoffkosten 

Bedingung: Gleichzeitiger Strom- und Wärmebedarf oder zeitliche Entkopplung 

durch Wärmespeicherung; eingesparter Brennstoffeinsatz muss 

höhere Kapitalkosten (für KWK und Wärmespeicher) gegenüber 

getrennter Erzeugung kompensieren 

Einsatz von KWK als Wärmeversorgungslösung 

in vielen 

Anwendungen möglich (z.B. Altbau, 

Hochtemperatur-Prozesswärme). 

Reduktion des Stromnetzausbaus 

im Übertragungs- und Verteilnetz 

Reduzierter Stromnetzausbaubedarf durch KWK und Kostenersparnisse können 

Akzeptanz der Energiewende unterstützen 

Abb. 1 Mögliche Beiträge der KWK für die zukünftige Strom- und Wärmeversorgung, Quelle: Frontier Economics 


Wird künftig ausreichend Wasserstoff und Biomethan 

verfügbar sein, um die KWK zu defossilisieren? 


Es gibt eine Vielzahl von potenziellen Quellen, die 

technisch in naher Zukunft auf große Produktionsmengen 

ausgeweitet werden können. Dadurch ist es 

realistisch, dass in der Zukunft klimafreundliche Gase 

in ausreichendem Maße verfügbar sein werden, um 

die KWK klimaneutral zu stellen. Das Ziel des Bundesministeriums 

für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz für die 

heimische Erzeugung von Wasserstoff liegt bei etwa 

28 TWh/a bis 2030. Das Importpotenzial von Wasserstoff 

wird dazu ab 2030 deutlich anziehen. Die langfristigen 

Produktionspotenziale (um das Jahr 2045) 

in Europa könnten laut Frontier Economics sogar über 

3.000 TWh/a betragen. Der gasförmige Energieträger, 

welcher 2045 einen Anteil von rund 55 Prozent am 

Energieträgermix der KWK-Stromerzeugung einnehmen 

wird, ist somit künftig ausreichend vorhanden. 


Die Studie stellen Sie mit Ihren Partnern auch auf 

der E-world am 23.5. ab 11:00 Uhr im Rahmen eines 

Panels auf dem Hydrogen Solutions Forum vor. Warum 

ist die Messe dafür eine gute Plattform? 


Als Leitmesse der deutschen Energiewirtschaft hat 

die E-world für uns seit jeher große Bedeutung. Wir 

sind seit vielen Jahren mit dabei und freuen uns auch 

dieses Mal wieder, vor Ort mit vielen fachkundigen 

Besuchern in den Austausch zu treten. Insbesondere 

Wasserstoff wird bei der Energieversorgung der 

Zukunft eine große Rolle spielen, unter anderem als 

Treiber für die zuverlässige Defossilisierung unserer 

Industrie und auch bei der Wärmebereitstellung. 

Dafür ist die wasserstofffähige Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung 

einer der wichtigsten Ansatzpunkte. 


www.gas.info 

office@gas.info 

Details zum 

E-world Vortragsprogramm 

von 

Zukunft Gas 

finden Sie auf 

Seite 66

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• Transport applications including bus design and 

combustion engine conversion 

• Storage facilities such as salt caverns 

• Prototypes for hydrogen ready boilers 

What are four good reasons for trading 

with the UK? 

• Dedicated R&D Funding: The UK’s dedicated 

R&D funding for hydrogen is focused on heavier 

applications, such as maritime, aviation and road 

freight, or in regional hubs where transport can 

help support its use in industrial energy. 

• Investment to Reduce Emissions: The UK has 

recently announced investments which include 

hydrogen vehicles and vessels, such as the £206 

million UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions 

(UKSHORE) and £200 million for our Zero Emission 

Road Freight Demonstration (ZERFD). 

• HMG Innovation Funding Program: The UK has 

created the Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator, a £26 

million innovation funding program to support 

the demonstration of end-to-end industrial fuel 

switching to hydrogen in the UK. 

• World-Leading Expertise: The UK has world-leading 

expertise to draw upon – with two of the world’s major 

process licensors for these projects based in the 

UK – and a mature supply chain to utilise from wider 

industries such as oil & gas and chemicals. 

What can other countries learn from the UK? 

The UK's world leading status in offshore wind and 

hydrogen energy can be attributed to early and ambitious 

decisions in favor of clear policy plans, as well as 

clear price signals that lead to successful investment 

funding and the promotion of innovation. 

Review of the program 

As a part of the webinar series "Insights on National Energy Markets", three experts 

from the UK Department for Business & Trade and Scottish Development International 

spoke about the energy market of the United Kingdom, giving insights about its clean 

energy legacy. The event focused on the UK's achievements so far, as well as the way to 

net zero using offshore wind and hydrogen technologies. 

What are the UK's achievements so far? 

• drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions 

• reduction of electricity generation carbon intensity 

• way towards renewable energies with clear policy plans 

• currently the largest offshore wind market in Europe 

What is the way to Net Zero in the UK? 

Offshore wind: 

• Floating offshore wind – the next fast-growing 

project with great potential to generate ecofriendly 

power 

Hydrogen: 

• Is a good low-carbon replacement for fossil fuels 

and provides better energy security 

Clean energy investment opportunities: 

• Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) 

• The Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF) 

• The Hydrogen Business Model (HBM) 

What does the UK have to offer in terms of 

hydrogen trade? 

• Water electrolysis materials, engineering, stacks 

and systems (power to gas and refueling) 

• Methane reforming catalysts and process engineering 

• Consultancy including project development and 

safety 

• Fuel cells including high power density PEM and 

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) 

Insights on National Energy 

Markets around the World 

The series of events is dedicated to sharing insights into the energy markets of different 

countries and showcasing companies coming to E-world. Each session is dedicated to 

a different country. All events are structured in the same way to allow you to compare 

different energy markets and policies. 

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KINGDOM 

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Did you miss one? Scan the QR code 

and check out the past events! 

Look forward to more events in the 

E-world Community!

40 | E-world Highlights 

E-world Highlights | 41 

E-WORLD HIGHLIGHTS 2023 

In May 2023, E-world energy & water will once again present the most important topics 

of the future and give you an overview of current developments in various cities 

& countries. Get an overview of the exhibition halls here and discover some of the 

exciting joint stands that will be present at the fair this year. 

BAYERN INNOVATIV 

SWEDISH ENERGY PAVILION 

The Swedish Energy Agency is featuring innovative Swedish 

cleantech companies at the Swedish Energy Pavilion. 

Together with the co-exhibitors, the agency aims not 

only to inspire but also to create a platform for collaboration 

and future solutions to meet the mutual challenges 

and ambitions. 

YOUNG, INNOVATIVE COMPANIES 

National startups that are younger than 10 years, 

have an annual turnover of less than 10 million 

euros or fewer than 50 employees can present their 

products and solutions here. The stand spaces are 

partly funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics 

and Climate Protection of the Federal Republic of 

Germany. 

NRW 

Bayern Innovativ accompanies Bavarian exhibitors from 

business and science at 14 leading trade fairs throughout 

Germany. The list of exhibitors at each trade fair reads 

like a "best-of" of the Bavarian corporate and research 

landscape. The effect is that collaborations between the 

exhibitors arise at the community booth. 

4 

FUTURE FORUM 

CHANGE FORUM 

The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, 

Climate Action and Energy of the State of 

North Rhine-Westphalia is represented with 

a joint stand of 550 m². There 25 companies, 

startups and competence networks from North 

Rhine-Westphalia show innovative solutions 

for hydrogen technologies, energy efficiency 

and electromobility. 

3 

2 

GALERIA 

5 

CAREER FORUM 

NEW ENERGY SYSTEMS FORUM 

ENTRANCE WEST 

ENTRANCE SOUTH 

1 

STARTUP | SCIENCE & RESEARCH 

TRADING FLOOR 

The 200-square-meter trading floor is very popular with 

visitors to the trade fair. 13 exhibitors from 7 different 

countries present innovative solutions in the fields of energy 

trading and risk management. The area of renewable 

energies is also becoming increasingly important. 

HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS AREA & FORUM 

Startup 

The startup community booth is the presentation area for national 

and international startups that are younger than 10 years, have 

an annual turnover of less than 10 million euros or fewer than 50 

employees. Innovative products and solutions for a climate-neutral 

future are presented here. 

Science & Research 

Research is a key driver of innovation, which is why the Science & 

Research section has its own community booth. Here, recognized 

institutes, universities and chairs present their ideas and projects.

42 | Advertorial 

Net-zero transition unlocks 

opportunities in Australia’s 

growing energy markets 

The move towards net zero has transformed Australia’s power generation mix, creating 

new possibilities. To support this transition, ASX is expanding its range of derivatives 

to help companies cut their carbon footprint and increase their presence in Australia’s 

changing energy markets. 

Australia’s energy sector is going through a dramatic 

shift as the country strives to become a net-zero economy 

by 2050. With renewables now accounting for 

more than 30% of Australia’s electricity generation, 

organisations are making greater use of derivatives 

to manage energy risks, realise opportunities and 

accelerate decarbonisation efforts. 

To support this increasing demand, Australian Securities 

Exchange (ASX) is seeking to expand its electricity 

and gas ecosystem to include more gas futures and 

new carbon derivatives. This ecosystem provides companies 

with the building blocks for decarbonisation 

while offering liquidity, price transparency and risk 

management tools. 

ASX runs one of the world’s most liquid electricity 

futures markets, facilitating over A$127 billion 

traded in face value during 2022. This market has 

grown since 2015 and now trades over 700% of the 

underlying power consumption in Australia’s National 

Electricity Market. 

These new products will add to Australia’s growing 

pool of solutions that promote carbon reduction while 

providing economic incentives to do so. 

According to John Connor, CEO of Carbon Market Institute 

(CMI), market-based mechanisms have a crucial 

part to play in scaling up climate action and ensuring 

an economically efficient shift to net-zero. 

CMI aims to accelerate the shift to net-zero by building 

capacity, promoting best practice and supporting policy 

aligned with UNFCCC Paris Agreement climate goals. In 

2022, ASX became a corporate member to support the 

Australian community in driving this transition. 

“A transition that’s economically viable helps ensure 

that Australian businesses remain competitive,” says 

Connor. “That’s why we support efforts by ASX to 

develop products that assist companies in meeting 

their emissions targets while encouraging investment 

in decarbonisation projects.” 

Now ASX seeks to expand its presence in the gas derivatives 

market with the upcoming listing of the Wallumbilla 

Gas futures contract (subject to regulatory 

approval). This addition will complement the existing 

Victorian Declared Wholesale Gas futures contract and 

provide more risk management tools for companies. 

Reducing emissions with carbon derivatives 

In early 2024, ASX will seek to list new futures contracts 

over Australian Carbon Credit Units, Large-scale 

Generation Certificates and New Zealand Emission 

Units (subject to regulatory approval). These contracts 

will facilitate the trading of carbon credits in 

Australia and New Zealand, improving market liquidity 

and increasing price discovery. 


www2.asx.com.au/energy-derivatives 

commodities@asx.com.au

44 | Storage Storage | 45 

STORAGE 

Renewable energies such as photovoltaics, wind energy and 

hydrogen are very volatile and do not provide a constant 

power supply. In order to guarantee the supply at any time, 

the storage of surplus energy from renewable energy sources 

in energy storage systems is necessary. Learn more about 

different concepts of energy storage. 

© Petmal/istockphoto.com

46 | Storage 

© Commeo 

Storage | 47 

Energy storage systems & 

protection from unexpected 

power failures 

We have never been quite as aware of our dependence on a reliable power supply to 

preserve our prosperity. The fear of power failures and unreliable or unaffordable 

power supplies is continually rising and preoccupies private individuals as well as 

the economy. 

The repair or cleaning process requires a lot of time 

and costs, not to mention the economic failure of 

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a profit anymore. 

It is not only products and machines that are affected, 

however, the loss of data should not be underestimated, 

either. Process flows, important production data 

and even customer data may be lost in case of power 

failures and must be restored at great effort. Once 

again, economic efficiency is at stake. 

Security of supply & cost savings by power 

failure prevention 

Here's the good news: together we can prevent such 

risks and failures and make your application sound 

and economical. It is possible – with modular energy 

storage solutions designed to your needs. 

Commeo energy storage solutions automatically take 

over as soon as voltage loss is registered. Supplied 

with energy from the powerful battery storage system, 

your machines will continue running over a predetermined 

period of time without power loss, or they have 

sufficient time to run down in a controlled manner and 

without any damage. Commeo battery storage systems 

are suitable for offline or online UPS. 

This type of storage solution may easily be combined 

with self-generated power (e.g., by PV) and used for 

peak shaving. This way you solve two to three application 

cases and secure your economic efficiency with 

just one investment. 

Using your battery system to the maximum, it’s payback 

period is significantly reduced. What is more, 

being able to use self-generated power whenever you 

need it makes you more independent from buying 

power, which in turn makes you more independent 

from your energy supplier. 

Bridging short and long power cuts 

Companies depending on automated production 

suffer between 15 and 20 power failures a year. We 

are not necessarily talking about complete power 

failures lasting several hours, it is short outages 

lasting minutes that are so challenging. Quite often 

they pass unnoticed, but where sensitive processes 

or machines are concerned, they may have devastating 

consequences. 

And that is exactly what our portfolio is targeted at. 

Due to their high capacity, our energy storage solu- 

© Commeo 

Unexpected power failures or voltage dips inevitably 

lead to major damage to production, data 

centres or critical infrastructures. Many other 

application areas may be affected as well. What can 

we do to secure a self-determined, independent, 

and reliable power supply and act economically at 

the same time? 

Production safety at stake 

We are all aware of the dangers and the risk of economic 

losses in case of power failures. 

Still, they keep happening unexpectedly. Fluctuations 

in the power grid are by no means rare and may 

be caused by volatile power generation, short cuts 

or damaged power cables, for example in result of 

construction works. 

The effect on your applications may be disastrous. 

When (production) machines, IT systems and robots 

stop without warning, this not only leads to production 

or process standstill, but may also cause severe 

material damage. In metal production for example, 

a planned shut-down of the machinery is essential 

to avoid damage to the machine and the workpieces 

through strong load fluctuations. 

Or take the producers of packaging film, who operate 

with very sensitive machinery as well. In case of a 

non-secured power failure the plant will come to an 

immediate standstill. The heating elements will stop, 

the plastic film will tear, and sticky plastic will cover 

the entire machine. In order to restart the plant, the 

whole machine has to be carefully dismantled and 

thoroughly cleaned with chemical agents.


tion concept. Our systems are in development in 

cooperation with TÜV Rheinland standards regarding 

battery safety. 

Because of the measures mentioned above, Commeo 

systems may be installed exactly where energy is needed 

– no need for separate battery rooms or complicated 

safety precautions. 

© Commeo 

Great savings potential 

Moreover, battery storage systems may help to reduce 

the cost of power supply by storing excess energy 

from renewable energy sources such as solar or wind 

turbine plants and deploy it when needed. This may 

contribute to making private households and companies 

more independent from fossil fuels and more 

expensive power sources. 

tions can easily compensate short power failures as 

well as strong fluctuations in order to safeguard your 

production and protect your machines. This is the very 

strength of the Edge UPS system, which is modularly 

adaptable to virtually any individual need on part of 

the battery as well as the power electronics. 

Our Commeo Edge UPS systems designed for 48 Volt 

provide the best possible decentralised protection 

from power failures. Thanks to the high-energy lithium-ion 

battery technology used by Commeo, the Edge 

UPS delivers particularly high performance for machine 

applications in relation to the required surface. 

In order to centrally secure the entire or part of the 

operating range it is also possible to use energy 

storage solutions in form of UPS systems based on the 

pouch cell, whose performance and capacity should 

be precisely matched to the respective enterprise, 

however, so as to provide maximum protection for the 

desired bridging time. This is where complete energy 

cabinets or even containers are used. Their capacity 

starts at 54 kWh and – depending on respective requirements 

– goes up into the MWh range. Likewise, the 

modularity of performance starts at a few kilowatts 

and goes up into the megawatt range. These solutions 

consist of Commeo battery storage systems like the 

integrated UPS, not UPS inverters. 

Starting from a capacity of 3.3 kWh already, the UPS 

system provides a voltage of 400 Volt A/C and enables 

a 1- or 3-phase uninterrupted power supply at a constant 

power of 12 kW. 

High security level 

All Commeo battery storage systems meet a unique 

safety level that allows for a simplified fire protec- 

All in all, battery storage systems are a reliable and 

cost-efficient solution in the protection from power 

failures and the conversion to renewable energy 

sources. As both battery storage systems and renewable 

energy sources are increasingly accepted, they 

will make a solid contribution to a reliable, secure and 

sustainable power supply in future. 

Who we are: Commeo GmbH - 

energy storage solutions. 

Commeo GmbH located in Wallenhorst near Osnabrück 

in Lower Saxony is a fast-growing enterprise that produces 

its own powerful, innovative, and individually 

designed energy storage and management solutions, 

thus setting new standards in one of the most important 

future-oriented technologies. The latest lithiumion 

technology in a well-proven, efficiently air-conditioned 

housing, combined with the highest safety 

standards and modular design, results in perfectly 

tuned and yet adaptable systems devised by German 

researchers and developers for a broad spectrum of 

applications in all areas of industry, from production 

to energy supply. 

More under: www.commeo.com 


www.commeo.com 

info@commeo.com 

When are battery 

storage systems safe? 

Following several incidents over the past year involving fires in lithium-ion storage 

systems, battery storage safety has become a hot topic – and will be increasingly 

important as demand for stationary energy storage continues to grow. How are manufacturers 

attempting to mitigate the risk of fire? 

The majority of experts agree that lithium-ion storage 

systems are essentially safe if they use state-of-theart 

technology and meet EU standards. At the same 

time, however, there are countless videos on the 

internet of burning E-Bikes and mobile phones – all 

equipped with lithium-ion batteries. So should we just 

assume that stationary storage systems represent a 

fire risk? Four incidents last year involving products 

from a German battery storage manufacturer appear 

to confirm this. The manufacturer pointed to damage 

to the battery cells, which is difficult to detect. 

The safety concept is key 

The safety of a battery storage system depends not 

only on the quality of the battery cells, but also on 

the overall concept. This should be tailored to the 

components used and the intended purpose. 

Battery manufacturer Tesvolt is setting a good example 

in this respect. It takes the issue of safety very 

seriously and applies a multi-stage safety concept: 

the selection of safe, high-quality components; rigorous 

production controls and secure installation; and 

monitoring of cells and modules during operation of 

the storage system. Tesvolt also works with the prestigious 

independent testing institute, TÜV Rheinland. 

“Tesvolt not only submits its finished storage systems 

to us for testing, it also involves us during the product 

development phase, to make its energy storage systems 

as safe as possible,” reports Roman Brück, Head 

of the Components, Power Electronics and Certification 

Department at TÜV Rheinland. “Unfortunately, 

product safety testing is not yet a matter of course 

within the storage system industry.” 

© Tesvolt


© Tesvolt 

© Tesvolt 

Fully automated End-of-line inspection – battery modules are fully charged and discharged and checked for anomalies 

Necessary requirements for the certification of battery storage systems 

© Tesvolt 

Component quality 

Tesvolt purchases extremely safe prismatic battery 

cells from Samsung SDI, which have been subject 

to long-term testing and proven to be effective in 

a wide range of global applications. The company 

buys its inverters from SMA Solar Technology and 

also sources all other components exclusively from 

accredited partners. 

Production testing 

The company carries out partially automated complete 

cyclic conditioning at its Wittenberg, Germany 

production site. Every battery module is fully charged 

and discharged and tested for any irregularities with 

Safety features of the battery cells used by Tesvolt 

regard to temperature, voltage and internal resistance. 

Finally, fully automated end-of-line inspections 

ensure maximum safety, with every battery cell tested. 

If there is the slightest deviation from the standard 

or any other anomaly, the affected battery module is 

automatically removed. 

Secure installation 

“The company responsible for installing and operating 

the system is also responsible for ensuring that 

the installation, service and operation are planned 

and executed in line with the manufacturer’s 

specifications and in accordance with the applicable 

standards,” says Dr Victor Schäfer, Battery Expert at 

Tesvolt, who is responsible for battery storage certification 

in the Research & Development department. 

He is also an expert in DIN and VDE (DKE) for stationary 

energy storage system standardisation at the 

German Commission for Electrotechnical, Electronic 

& Information Technologies. “There are many aspects 

for which the manufacturer can provide training to 

help installers gain accreditation. At our Tesvolt 

Academy, we invest heavily in our installation partners. 

We provide assistance – if required – from the 

planning stage onwards. And our specialist partners 

can contact us at any time during all other project 

phases. Having thorough technical documentation is 

also very much a safety factor.” 

Safety during operational mode 

All Tesvolt storage systems are subject to six safety 

mechanisms. For example, a safety fuse will interrupt 

the electrical current if the unit experiences a short 

circuit or overcurrent. In the event of excess pressure, 

a safety valve on the cell opens to compensate. 

Sturdy aluminium housing protects every cell from 

mechanical damage. In addition, an active external 

switch is accessible from the outside, disconnecting 

the storage system from the power supply in dangerous 

situations. 

Battery management 

“The heart of our safety concept is our battery management 

system which constantly monitors every 

battery cell. If a cell exceeds its safe operational 

range, this activates the ‘safe state’, which interrupts 

the power supply,” says Simon Schandert, CTO and 

co-founder of Tesvolt. 

The battery management system not only monitors 

the voltage, temperature and state of charge of the 

battery cells, but also constantly checks whether the 

measured values are plausible. This also improves safety 

and protects against overcharging, deep discharge 

and short circuiting. 

Testing by external experts 

Tesvolt’s battery storage systems are tested in 

accordance with IEC standards 62619, 62620, 61000, 

61010, 61508 and UN38.3. In addition, Tesvolt is ISO 

9001:2015 certified for the successful implementation 

of quality management throughout the company. TÜV 

Rheinland has also classified Tesvolt battery storage 

systems as safe. The storage systems have therefore 

passed the prestigious institute’s rigorous safety 

tests, making Tesvolt one of the few manufacturers 

on the market that can verify the safety of its energy 

storage systems for commerce and industry with certification 

from the independent testing institute. The 

certificate confirms both the electrical and functional 

safety of its products. 

About Tesvolt 

Tesvolt AG is one of the innovation and market 

leaders for commercial and industrial energy storage 

system solutions in Germany and Europe. Tesvolt 

products enable companies to end their energy 

dependency and play a part in the energy transition. 

The agile company produces intelligent lithium 

storage systems with power ratings from 10 kilowatt 

hours through to multiple megawatt hours. Tesvolt 

manufactures its commercial storage system solutions 

in series production at its own carbon-neutral 

gigafactory in Wittenberg, Germany, and delivers 

them worldwide. The company has already received 

several awards, including the German Entrepreneur 

Award in the “Rising Stars” category, “Innovator of 

the Year” from TOP 100 and the smarter E Award in 

the “Outstanding Projects” category. 


www.tesvolt.com 

info@tesvolt.com

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© The Mobility House 

Storage | 53 

Bidirectional charging – 

trick or treat? 

Bidirectional charging is the next "big thing" on the road to the energy transition. A 

lot has happened in the past year: legislators are creating the framework conditions, 

the automotive industry is fine-tuning the technology and a field trial on the EUREF- 

Campus in Berlin proves that it is possible to provide valuable services to the energy 

system and earn money with mobile batteries without stressing them. 

If the German government has its way, 15 million 

fully electric vehicles will be on the roads by 2030, 

their batteries acting like gigantic decentralised 

electricity storage units in an intelligent power grid, 

ready to step in within seconds in the event of supply 

bottlenecks from renewables. This underlines the importance 

of this concept: 15 million BEVs correspond 

to a capacity of around 800 gigawatt hours (GWh). In 

comparison: all German pumped-storage power plants 

only have a capacity of 40 GWh. 

"Electric cars represent a huge potential that will 

take the energy transition towards a renewable power 

system to new levels. If we use these possibilities, the 

volatilities and bottlenecks in the electricity supply 

will be a thing of the past," explains Marcus Fendt, 

Managing Director of The Mobility House. 

Marcus Fendt, Geschäftsführer von The Mobility House 

For the owners of EVs, the integration of their car 

also offers advantages. "Fill up on sun and wind" 

when this kind of electricity is abundant, therefore 

cheap, and deliver the energy as soon as demand and 

prices are high, which means energy derives from 

CO 2 

-heavy sources. Earning money while sleeping 

sounds like the dream of every e-mobility enthusiast. 

Especially since the automotive industry is 

also following this trend by putting V2G-capable 

vehicles on the market or announcing such models: 

Nissan, Honda and Hyundai are pushing bidirectional 

charging. The VW MEB platform is announced to be at 

least "bidi-ready". 

One cog must fit perfectly into the other 

If this plan is to become reality, several obstacles 

still must be overcome. "The interaction between the 

individual components, from the car battery to the 

wallbox to trading on the electricity exchanges, is 

complex. For the smart grid concept to work, all the 

cogs must mesh perfectly, like clockwork, with the 

software being something like the oil that makes the 

whole system run smoothly," Marcus Fendt clarifies 

the challenges. 

The Mobility House and AUDI AG demonstrated in a 

field trial on the EUREF-Campus in Berlin last year how 

car owners can earn money while at the same time 

charge more electricity from renewables. In order to 

replicate conditions as realistically as possible and 

thus prove the everyday suitability of the concept, 

the 18 stationary battery units at the Campus, which 

originate from the Audi e-tron all-electric e-SUV, were 

treated like a fleet of mobile vehicles: 

• EVs park on average 23 hours/day and cover only 

36 km/day, although the batteries allow an average 

range of 400 km. This means that drivers do not 

have to limit themselves because of the marketing 

of the batteries. Conversely, the energy storage 

units are only marketed or controlled while the 

vehicle is parked. 

• To simulate the operation of a BEV in detail, those 

responsible used a simulated driving profile of a 

German EV based on average values determined by 

AUDI with an electricity consumption corresponding 

to a mileage of 18,250 km/year. Charging and 

discharging was carried out with eleven kW. 

• During the project, each vehicle battery was made 

available to the energy market with a maximum 

of 38 full cycles/year. Since the 18,250 km driven 

correspond to approximately 46 full cycles, this 

results in a total of 84 cycles. A value well within 

the vehicle manufacturer's warranty. The intelligent 

algorithms of The Mobility House’s technology 

prevent excessive ageing of the batteries. 

• The manufacturer's specifications regarding the 

state of charge (SoC) were meticulously followed. 

After plugging in the "vehicle", the battery was 

charged to at least 30 percent, and at the latest 

when driving off, the SoC was at least 60 and a 

maximum of 95 percent. 

The result underlines the opportunities that arise 

from marketing the mobile storage units on the electricity 

exchanges. Extrapolated to one year, the Audi 

e-tron-battery ideally achieved a revenue potential of 

1,556 € at the energy markets. However, taxes, levies 

and operating costs still have to be deducted from 

this sum so that at the end 650€ per EV/year for the 

customer are in principle realistic. In Germany, the 

double burden of taxes and levies is the main reason 

why revenues are dwindling. 

Precise Legislation is needed 

In addition to a functioning technology, the legal 

framework conditions must also be in place to make 

participation in the smart grid palatable to BEV users. 

The prospect of earning enough money from the 

provision of the batteries to at least get the traction 

current back should make a difference. However, these 

revenues do not currently reach the customer, as they 

are "eaten up" by the costs and levies. 

In addition to the expensive purchase and operation 

of "smart" electricity meters, the bidirectional 

wallbox and the energy market applications of the 

aggregator, the taxes and levies and the electricity 

tax have a negative impact in Germany. This must 

© The Mobility House 

The test setup on the EUREF-Campus in Berlin with 18 mobile storage 

units from the Audi e-tron. 

change, otherwise this important instrument of the 

energy transition will fizzle out. For this reason, 

traction current should be treated like electricity that 

is currently consumed, so that the state does not lose 

any revenue. 

What needs to be done: 

• Establish a cost- and process-efficient registration 

and delimitation of bidirectional charging electricity. 

• Enable market-based procurement of flexibility for 

the electricity grid and marketing in the electricity 

market. 

• Establish variable energy and grid tariffs: Market-based 

grid tariff mechanisms must be used to 

ensure that only necessary grid expansion takes 

place and that the grid is not burdened by energy 

market optimization. 

• Stringent grid connection conditions for charging 

infrastructure as well as uniform definitions of 

terms in all relevant laws and regulations. 

There is still a lot to do if an intelligent power grid 

supported by decentralized mobile storage systems is 

to become reality. But there is no question that there 

is no alternative to the concept of bidirectional charging 

if the energy transition is to succeed. 


www.mobilityhouse.com 

info@mobilityhouse.com

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stattfindet, und des Glasfaserforums, das am zweiten 

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Badenova AG 

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Program as of April 13, 2023. The organiser reserves the right to make changes until the day of the event.

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E-WORLD PROGRAM OVERVIEW 2023 

Four open forums offer you a wide variety of topics. 

Experts will share their knowledge and experience on 

different parts of the energy sector with the audience. 

All panel discussions and presentations are free 

to access for all E-world visitors – all you need is an 

E-world ticket! 

With the HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS FORUM, we are 

dedicating a place to present projects and discuss 

political and regulatory decisions regarding the 

energy carrier of the future. It is embedded in the 

exhibition area of the same name in hall 2 and 

will feature associations like DVGW, Zukunft Gas, 

Federal Association for Renewable Energies, and 

many more. 

Possible outlines for the energy sector to meet its 

climate goals are the main subject at the FUTURE 

FORUM in hall 4. Discover perspectives on the green 

transition for the manufacturing industry, flexibility 

markets, electricity grids, emissions trading, and 

many more. 

The ongoing change in the energy sector is 

the central topic at the CHANGE FORUM in hall 

5. Look forward to international reports form 

Sweden and Iceland as well as the assessment 

of European law initiatives. 

The Change Forum will also host the CAREER 

FORUM on the third fair day, May 25. In addition 

to a stage program, participants can 

easily meet and connect with companies to find 

potential employers. 

The NEW ENERGY SYSTEMS FORUM in hall 

1 focusses on how to integrate and expand 

renewable energies. Discuss with experts from 

EEX, World Energy Council Germany, ESMIG, 

and many more. 

The following pages give you an overview of 

the program. 

GET YOUR 

FAIR TICKET! 

09:30 Uhr 10:00 Uhr 10:30 Uhr 11:00 Uhr 11:30 Uhr 12:00 Uhr 12:30 Uhr 13:00 Uhr 13:30 Uhr 14:00 Uhr 14:30 Uhr 15:00 Uhr 15:30 Uhr 16:00 Uhr 16:30 Uhr 17:00 Uhr 17:30 Uhr 18:00 Uhr 

HYDROGEN 

SOLUTIONS 

10:00 – 11:00 Uhr 

Transformationspfade mit Wasserstoff 

für eine klimaneutrale Industrie 

11:00 – 12:30 Uhr 

Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung: 

Treiber für Klimaneutralität 

12:30 – 14:00 Uhr 

H 2 

-Markthochlauf zwischen 

Förderung und Wettbewerb 

14:00 – 15:00 Uhr 

What‘s the Price Tag? Hydrogen Production 

and Market Optimization 

15:00 – 16:00 Uhr 

Hydrogen and Carbon Capture as Key Elements 

to Decarbonize the Energy System 

16:00 – 17:00 Uhr 

Green Steel – How to get there? 

HYDROGEN 

SOLUTIONS 

TUESDAY | DIENSTAG, 23.05.2023 

FUTURE FORUM 

CHANGE FORUM 

NEW ENERGY 

SYSTEMS FORUM 

10:00 – 13:30 Uhr 

Future Energy Eco Systems – 

Dezentral & digital in die Zukunft 

10:00 – 12:00 Uhr 

Startups & Corporates Shaping the Energy Transition Together: 

Changing the Energy System in a Collaborative Effort 

10:00 – 12:00 Uhr 

EEX Group‘s secure, successful and sustainable 

solutions for worldwide commodity markets 

12:30 – 13:30 Uhr 

The Energy System of the 

Future and the DSO’s Role in it 

12:00 – 12:30 Uhr 

Get Started Energy Network – 

Die Netzwerkplattform für Energy- 

Startups 

13:30 – 15:00 Uhr 

Finanzierung 

von Energiewendeprojekten 

13:30 – 15:00 Uhr 

Politische Effizienzvorgaben 

überall! 

Wunsch und 

Wirklichkeit für EVU 

und Energiedienstleistung 

13:00 – 15:00 Uhr 

Carbon Capture - ein einfacher 

Weg zur Klimaneutralität? 

15:00 – 16:00 Uhr 

Herausforderungen für Wirtschaft und Industrie 

durch die aktuellen geopolitischen Entwicklungen 

15:00 – 17:00 Uhr 

Emergency! Wie man der Energie- und 

Klimakrise mit dem richtigen Narrativ begegnet 

16:00 – 17:00 Uhr 

Happy Flexibility: How Decentralized 

Storages Supports Grid Stability 

15:00 – 16:00 Uhr 

KI macht nicht erfasste Zählpunkte schnell ausfindig 

und schließt so Lücken der Wertschöpfung 

13:00 – 15:00 Uhr 

Integration der Elektromobilität in die Stromnetze 

FUTURE FORUM 

CHANGE FORUM 

NEW ENERGY 

SYSTEMS FORUM 

TUESDAY | DIENSTAG, 23.05.2023 

09:30 Uhr 10:00 Uhr 10:30 Uhr 11:00 Uhr 11:30 Uhr 12:00 Uhr 12:30 Uhr 13:00 Uhr 13:30 Uhr 14:00 Uhr 14:30 Uhr 15:00 Uhr 15:30 Uhr 16:00 Uhr 16:30 Uhr 17:00 Uhr 17:30 Uhr 18:00 Uhr


09:30 Uhr 10:00 Uhr 10:30 Uhr 11:00 Uhr 11:30 Uhr 12:00 Uhr 12:30 Uhr 13:00 Uhr 13:30 Uhr 14:00 Uhr 14:30 Uhr 15:00 Uhr 15:30 Uhr 16:00 Uhr 16:30 Uhr 17:00 Uhr 17:30 Uhr 18:00 Uhr 

WEDNESDAY | MITTWOCH, 24.05.2023 

THURSDAY | DONNERSTAG, 25.05.2023 

HYDROGEN 

SOLUTIONS 

FUTURE FORUM 

CHANGE FORUM 

NEW ENERGY 

SYSTEMS FORUM 

HYDROGEN 

SOLUTIONS 

FUTURE FORUM 

CHANGE FORUM 

09:30 – 11:30 Uhr 

Karriereforum 

10:00 – 12:30 Uhr 

1000 Tage Wasserstoffstrategie – 

wo stehen wir heute? 

10:00 – 11:30 Uhr 

Herkunftsnachweise als Wertkomponente nutzen! 

10:00 – 11:30 Uhr 

Explore the Path to a Greener, Smarter 

and More Productive Future 

10:00 – 12:00 Uhr 

Globale Sicht auf die Energiewende 

10:00 – 11:30 Uhr 

Speicher für und mit Wasserstoff 

12:30 – 15:00 Uhr 

Zukunftsperspektiven für die Strommärkte: 

Welches Marktdesign soll die Finanzierung von Erneuerbare- 

Energien-Projekten sicherstellen? 

11:30 – 12:30 Uhr 

Vortragstriathlon zu „Fit for 55“ – Das neue Konditionsprogramm 

für den Emissionshandel 

11:30 – 12:30 Uhr 

Green solutions from Iceland, ranging from geothermal 

energy to innovative energy solutions 

12:30 – 13:00 Uhr 

Datensicherheit in der Energiewende 

13:00 – 17:00 Uhr 

I/O Energy Tech Forum 

12:00 – 13:30 Uhr 

Smart Meter Rollout: Best Practices and Current 

Developments on the European Market 

11:30 – 13:00 Uhr 

Wie kommt‘s an? Infrastrukturen für Wasserstoff 

10:00 – 11:30 Uhr 

Datenökonomie und Interoperabilität für die Digitalisierung der Stromnetze 

11:30 – 13:30 Uhr 

Green Thinking: How to Achieve Net Zero? 

11:30 – 12:30 Uhr 

enPower - Der Energiewende 

Podcast mit Frauke Thies 

12:30 – 13:30 Uhr 

From A to B: Transporting Hydrogen from 

Production Sites to Points of Usage 

12:30 – 13:30 Uhr 

New Ways of Working 

13:30 – 15:00 Uhr 

H 2 

-Markthochlauf zwischen 

Förderung und Wettbewerb 

13:30 – 14:30 Uhr 

Dekarbonisierung und Zukunftsfähigkeit 

der (Fern)Wärmeversorgung 

13:00 – 15:00 Uhr 

Aus Erdgas mach Wasserstoff? 

Ansätze zur Dekarbonisierung 

des Wärmesektors 

13:30 – 15:00 Uhr 

Bi-directional Charging – 

Can EVs Pave the Way to a More 

Flexible Energy System? 

13:30 – 15:00 Uhr 

Energiespeicher: 

Technologien der Flexibilitätsstütze 

des Stromsystems 

15:00 – 16:30 Uhr 

Uniting Businesses Around Splitting Water – 

Strengthening UK-German Hydrogen collaboration 

15:00 – 17:00 Uhr 

Klimaneutralität bei Stadtwerken und EVU 

14:30 – 15:30 Uhr 

Integration EE ins Stromsystem, Wind & H2... 

16:30 – 17:00 Uhr 

An Overview of the Wind and Hydrogen 

Projects of Fukushima Prefecture 

15:30 – 17:00 Uhr 

How to LoRaWAN: Energieeffizienz durch smarte Sensorik 

HYDROGEN 

SOLUTIONS 

CHANGE FORUM FUTURE FORUM CHANGE FORUM 

FUTURE FORUM 

NEW ENERGY 

SYSTEMS FORUM 

HYDROGEN 

SOLUTIONS 

WEDNESDAY | MITTWOCH, 24.05.2023 

THURSDAY | DONNERSTAG, 25.05.2023 

NEW ENERGY 

SYSTEMS FORUM 

13:30 – 14:30 Uhr 

10:00 – 12:00 Uhr Join Forces: How Power to X 

Building the future of climate-neutrality 

Helps Integrating Renewables 

12:00 – 13:00 Uhr 

Business Cases for Battery Storage: How Big is the Market? 

14:30 – 15:00 Uhr 

Sustainability through Clever Data Analysis: Meeting ESG Criteria 

NEW ENERGY 

SYSTEMS FORUM 

09:30 Uhr 10:00 Uhr 10:30 Uhr 11:00 Uhr 11:30 Uhr 12:00 Uhr 12:30 Uhr 13:00 Uhr 13:30 Uhr 14:00 Uhr 14:30 Uhr 15:00 Uhr 15:30 Uhr 16:00 Uhr 16:30 Uhr 17:00 Uhr 17:30 Uhr 18:00 Uhr


HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS FORUM | TUESDAY 

23.05.2023 10:00 – 17:00 Halle 2 

HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS FORUM | WEDNESDAY 

24.05.2023 10:00 – 17:00 Halle 2 

TRANSFORMATIONSPFADE MIT WASSERSTOFF 

FÜR EINE KLIMANEUTRALE INDUSTRIE 

10:00 – 11:00 

PARTNER 

KRAFT-WÄRME-KOPPLUNG: 

TREIBER FÜR KLIMANEUTRALITÄT 

11:00 – 12:30 

11:00 John Werner, Leiter Unternehmensentwicklung & Strategie, 

Zukunft Gas e.V. 

Joachim Voigt, Prokurist und Vertriebsleiter, 

SOKRATHERM GmbH 

Matthias Ertmer, Abteilungsleiter Erzeugung Steuerung, 

Mainova AG 

Michael Wagner, Director Product & Solutions Management 

– Stationary, Rolls-Royce Solutions 

Florian Feller, Leiter Klimastrategie & Politische Arbeit, 

energie schwaben gmbh & Vorsitzender der Initiative 

H2vorOrt 

PARTNER 

WIE HOCH IST DER PREIS? WASSERSTOFF- 

PRODUKTION UND MARKTOPTIMIERUNG 

14:00 – 15:00 

14:00 Kostenunsicherheit bei kohlenstofffreiem 

Wasserstoff 

Lukas Feldhaus, Consultant, THEMA Consulting 

Deutschland GmbH 

14:30 Grüner Wasserstoff lokal produziert 

Dr.-Ing. Philipp Siemes, Senior Business Developer 

Hydrogen, Statkraft Markets GmbH 

HYDROGEN AND CARBON CAPTURE AS KEY 

ELEMENTS TO DECARBONIZE THE ENERGY SYSTEM 

15:00 – 16:00 

15:00 Hydrogen – the missing piece for a decarbonized EU 

energy system 

Dr. Sebastian Braun, Head of Power & Hydrogen Quant 

Analytics, I C I S Independent Commodity Intelligence 

Services 

15:30 Elements of a Carbon Management Strategy - How to 

Think CO 2 

, H 2 

and Renewables Together 

GREEN STEEL – HOW TO GET THERE? 

16:00 – 17:00 

1.000 TAGE WASSERSTOFF-STRATEGIE – 

PERSPEKTIVEN DER IMPORTSEITE 

10:00 – 12:30 

10:00 Thomas Fuhrmann, Global Business Field Coordinator, 

TÜV Rheinland 

Dr. Marie Jaroni, Head of Decarbonization and Sustainability, 

thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG (tbc) 

Sirko Breidatsch, Natural Gas Markets, EEX 

N.N., Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz 

(tba) 

Moderation: Dr. Håvard Nymoen, Geschäftsführer, 

con|energy consult 

FROM A TO B: TRANSPORTING HYDROGEN FROM 

PRODUCTION SITES TO POINTS OF USAGE 

12:30 – 13:30 

12:30 Green electricity supply and H 2 

plants design optimisation 

to achieve competitive LCOH 

Ralph Dassonville, Head of Hydrogen Development, 

Alpiq AG 

13:00 H2ercules – der Wasserstoffschnellweg 

für Deutschland 

Selina Breilmann, Head of Business Development, Open 

Grid Europe GmbH 

Dr. Sebastian Vogel, Director Hydrogen Global Strategy 

& Business Growth, RWE Generation SE 

UNITING BUSINESSES AROUND SPLITTING 

WATER – STRENGTHENING UK-GERMAN HYDRO- 

GEN COLLABORATION 

15:00 – 16:30 

15:00 Europe’s economies are transforming at unprecedented 

pace to shake off their reliance on fossil fuels. A new, 

net zero trade and investment landscape is emerging 

from this unparalleled shift and at the heart of this 

change is one of the simplest possible molecules, 

consisting of just two protons and two electrons held 

together by electrostatic forces - hydrogen. The UK and 

Germany have much to gain from greater collaboration 

on hydrogen. The UK has the largest offshore wind 

market in Europe and the biggest project pipeline, and 

Germany is set to account for more than half of the 

combined hydrogen import demand in Europe. Join our 

discussion on the future of UK-DE hydrogen collaboration 

and how businesses and investors can get involved! 

PARTNER 

AN OVERVIEW OF THE WIND AND HYDROGEN 

PROJECTS OF FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE 

ALLES E… ODER WAS? – DER MIX MACHT DIE 

MOBILITÄT DER ZUKUNFT 

16:30 – 17:00 

16:30 Andrew Birch, Coordinator, EnergyAgency. Fukushima 

H 2 

-MARKTHOCHLAUF ZWISCHEN FÖRDERUNG 

UND WETTBEWERB 

12:30 – 14:00 

12:30 Dr. Martin Altrock, Rechtsanwalt und Partner, BBH 

Dr. Christian Dessau, Rechtsanwalt und Partner 

Counsel, BBH 

Dr. Hanno Butsch, Partner Counsel, BBH Consulting 

13:30 – 15:00 

13:30 Die Elektromobilität wird den Personenkraftverkehr 

mittelfristig dominieren. Doch wie kann jene Infrastruktur 

organisiert werden, die auch in Krisenzeiten jederzeit zur 

Verfügung stehen muss? Ist diese auch elektrifizierbar? 

Bei dieser Paneldiskussion wollen wir mit Expert*innen 

aus dem Innen- und Sicherheitsbereich erörtern, welche 

Mobilitätslösungen insbesondere für kritische Fahrzeuge 

wie Rettungskräfte, Krankenwagen, Feuerwehr, Polizei, 

Landwirtschaft usw. genutzt werden können. 

PARTNER 

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HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS FORUM | THURSDAY 


FUTURE FORUM | TUESDAY 


WIE HOCH IST DER PREIS? WASSERSTOFF- 

PRODUKTION UND MARKTOPTIMIERUNG 

10:00 – 11:30 

Wasserstoff hat großes Potenzial, die Energiewirtschaft 

in den nächsten Jahren entscheidend zu prägen. Egal 

ob Einordnung politischer Geschehnisse oder konkrete 

Projektberichte im Bereich Mobilität, Trading oder nationaler 

Wasserstoffmärkte. 

10:00 Wasserstoffspeicherung untertage – zwei Energiewendeprojekte 

N.N., Uniper Energy Storage GmbH 

10:30 SaltHy: Errichtung eines H 2 

-Speichers im Norden 

Deutschlands 

Catherine Gras, CEO, Storengy UK & Germany 

11:00 Demonstration saisonaler Energiespeicherung mittels 

flüssigen, organischen Wasserstoffträgern (LOHC) 

Dr. Stefan Kasselmann, Fachbereichsleiter "Intelligent 

Campus" / Projektmanager "Living Lab Energy 

Campus", Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 

WIE KOMMT'S AN? INFRASTRUKTUREN FÜR 

WASSERSTOFF 

11:30 – 13:00 

11:30 Ergebnisse der Bottom-Up-Studie für den NWR – 

Die Rolle von H 2 

in Verteilnetzen 

Matthias Lenz, Geschäftsfeldleiter Netzplanung und 

Netzbetrieb, Fraunhofer IEE 

12:00 Hyperlink: 1.000 km Wasserstofftransportnetz in 

Norddeutschland 

Anke Alvermann-Schuler, Managerin für Stakeholder 

Management, Gasunie Energy Development GmbH 

AUS ERDGAS MACH WASSERSTOFF? ANSÄTZE ZUR 

DEKARBONISIERUNG DES WÄRMESEKTORS 

13:00 – 15:00 

13:00 Warum Wasserstoff für den Mittelstand verfügbar 

sein muss 

N.N., E.ON Hydrogen 

13:30 H2vorOrt - Wasserstoff über die Gasverteilnetze für 

alle nutzbar machen 

Philipp Ginsberg, Referent Energiepolitik, Netz- und 

Wärmestrategie, DVGW e.V. 

14:00 Wasserstoff-Energiesysteme für Wohn- und Gewerbeimmobilien 

Julian P. Klug, Geschäftsführer, HYCON GmbH 

14:30 Klimaneutrale Gebäude durch H 2 

-Speicher 

Lena Weinert, Referentin für Nachhaltigkeit, Klima, 

Mobilität und Digitalisierung, VdW Rheinland Westfalen 

FUTURE ENERGY ECO SYSTEMS - DEZENTRAL & 

DIGITAL IN DIE ZUKUNFT 

10:00 – 13:30 

10:00 Diskussion zum Thema "Future Energy Ecosystems” 

Alexander Nollau, Abteilungsleiter Energy, DKE 

Jörg Schmidtke, Director Business Development, 

Vivavis GmbH 

11:00 LamA-connect: Integration von Smart Meter Gateways 

in Ladestationsnetzwerken 

Marc Schmid, Research Associate, Fraunhofer IAO 

11:30 How will we integrate hydrogen into our energy 

systems? 

Andrea Appel, Projektmanagerin Hydrogen Development 

New Technologies and Services, VDE 

12:00 Interoperability Network for the Energy Transition – 

Project IntNET 

Prof. Antonello Monti (Alberto Dognini), Institute for 

Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen 

and Fraunhofer Center for Digital Energy 

12:30 Die Zukunft der Netze 

Frank Borchardt, Digitalisierung und Metering, Forum 

Netztechnik/Netzbetrieb, VDE (FNN) 

13:00 Ist die Zukunft des Redispatch dezentral? – 

Projekt DEER 

Prof. Dr. Jens Strüker, stellv. wissenschaftlicher Leiter 

Kernkompetenzzentrum Finanz- & Informationsmanagement 

und Institutsteil Wirtschaftsinformatik des 

Fraunhofer FIT 

PARTNER 

HERAUSFORDERUNGEN FÜR WIRTSCHAFT 

UND INDUSTRIE DURCH DIE AKTUELLEN 

GEOPOLITISCHEN ENTWICKLUNGEN 

15:00 – 16:00 

15:00 Kerstin Andreae, Vorsitzende der Hauptgeschäftsführung, 

BDEW e.V. 

Kerstin Maria Rippel, Hauptgeschäftsführung, WV Stahl 

Achim Zerres, Abteilungsleiter Energie, Bundesnetzagentur 

Moderation: Roman Dudenhausen, CEO, conenergy ag 

HAPPY FLEXIBILITY: HOW DECENTRALIZED 

STORAGES SUPPORTS GRID STABILITY 

16:00 – 17:00 

16:00 A market commentary on GB battery storage expansion: 

learning points for the rest of Europe 

Chris Regan, Managing Director - Energy, Brady 

Technologies 

16:30 Storage in Germany and beyond - what can we learn 

from more established markets? 

Giovanni Sorda, Senior Manager, Baringa 

Sumit Joshi, Senior Manager - Flexible Generation 

Baringa 

12:30 AquaVentus - Projektvorstellung Offshore-Elektrolyse 

und aktueller Umsetzungsstand 

Robert Seehawer, Geschäftsführer, AquaVentus 

FINANZIERUNG VON ENERGIEWENDE PROJEKTEN 

13:30 – 15:00 

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13:30 Eine Hürde, die Projekte der Energiewende nehmen 

müssen, ist eine sichere Finanzierung. Einige Modelle 

dafür stellt dieser Block vor: Neben Power Purchase 

Agreements (PPAs), erwarten Sie Berichte eines 

Projektierers und einer Großbank. 

JETZT 

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FUTURE FORUM | WEDNESDAY 

24.05.2023 10:00 – 17:00 Halle 4 24. – 25.05.2023 10:00 – 17:00 Halle 4 

FUTURE FORUM | WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY 

HERKUNFTSNACHWEISE ALS 

WERTKOMPONENTE NUTZEN! 

10:00 – 11:30 

10:00 Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien ist längst zu einer 

eigenen Commodity geworden. Neben Preisvorteilen 

sind erneuerbare Energien mittlerweile ein zentraler 

Baustein von Klimaschutzstrategien in Unternehmen 

und der Industrie geworden. Herkunftsnachweise sind 

bereits heute eine Wertkomponente, die zukünftig 

weiter für den weiteren Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien 

genutzt werden könnte. 

PARTNER 

VORTRAGSTRIATHLON ZU „FIT FOR 55“ – 

DAS NEUE KONDITIONSPROGRAMM FÜR DEN 

EMISSIONSHANDEL 

11:30 – 12:30 


Dr. Jürgen Landgrebe, Fachbereichsleiter „Klimaschutz, 

Energie, Deutsche Emissionshandelsstelle (DEHSt)“ im 

Umweltbundesamt 

11:35 Vortrag der DEHSt 

Jan Weiß, Fachgebietsleitung „Ökonomische Grundsatzfragen 

des Emissionshandels, Auktionierung, 

Auswertungen“ 

11:45 Vortrag von ICIS 

Florian Rothenberg, Senior Analyst, EU Power & 

Carbon Markets 

11:55 Vortrag von FutureCamp 

Dr. Roland Geres, Geschäftsführer, FutureCamp 

Holding GmbH 

12:05 Podiumsdisskusion 

Abschließende Diskussion mit dem Publikum und 

Beantwortung von Fragen. 

WELCHES MARKTDESIGN SOLL DIE FINANZIE- 

RUNG VON ERNEUERBARE-ENERGIEN-PROJEKTEN 

SICHERSTELLEN? 

12:30 – 15:00 


Sven Rösner, Geschäftsführer, Deutsch-französisches 

Büro für die Energiewende (DFBEW) 

12:40 Das europäische Strommarktdesign im Kontext aktueller 

Krisen: Einordnung der Vorschläge der Europäischen 

Kommission 

Dr. Anton Burger, Vizepräsident, Compass Lexecon 

12:55 EU-Kommissionsvorschläge zur Strommarktreform: 

Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Energiewende 

in Deutschland 

N.N. 

13:10 EU-Kommissionsvorschläge zur Strommarktreform: 

Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Energiewende 

in Frankreich 

Benoît Esnault, Leiter der Abteilung Grenzkuppelstellen 

und europäische Netze, Französische Energieregulierungsbehörde 

(CRE) 

13:25 Rückfragen 

13:40 Nicht gehobene Potenziale zur Beschleunigung der 

Dekarbonisierung des Stromsystems auf Marktebene 

Jens Perner, Associate Director, Frontier Economics 

13:55 Energiepolitisches Zieldreieck und Marktdesign – 

Konzepte und Effekte 

Sebastian Schleich, Referent Sonderaufgaben/Nichtstandardisierte 

Märkte, TransnetBW 

Hugo Marciot, Dialogbeauftragter Kapazitätsmarkt, RTE 

Pietro Rabassi, Executive Vice President – Western and 

Central Europe, Nord Pool 

Christian Schneider, Vice President – Climate Infrastructure 

Group, Blackrock 

PARTNER 

KLIMANEUTRALITÄT BEI STADTWERKEN UND EVU 

15:00 – 17:00 

15:00 Kommunale Versorger als Treiber der Energie- und 

Wärmewende 

Lorenz Wellmann, Produktentwicklung, Die Netzwerkpartner 

n.e.V. 

15:30 Nachhaltigkeit – Was für EVU in den nächsten Jahren 

zu tun ist 

Sebastian Seier, Leiter Kompetenzteam Nachhaltigkeit 

& Klimaschutz, BET Büro für Energiewirtschaft und 

technische Planung GmbH 

16:00 Energy Living Labs 

Pierre Filohn, Manager für Organisationsentwicklung 

und Kommunikation, BABLE GmbH 

16:30 Zielbild und Transformation hin zur klimaneutralen 

Kommune. Pflicht und Chance für Energieversorger. 

Carsten Diermann, Prokurist, Teamleiter Energie & 

Wärme, LBD-Beratungsgesellschaft mbH 


DATENÖKONOMIE UND INTEROPERABILITÄT FÜR 

DIE DIGITALISIERUNG DER STROMNETZE 

10:00 – 11:30 

Zur Bewältigung des für die Energiewende notwendigen 

Netzausbaus rückt die Digitalisierung der Stromnetze in 

den Vordergrund. Digitalisierung schafft den dringend 

notwendigen Überblick über Energieverbrauch 

und -erzeugung genau wie den Netzzustand in allen 

Netzebenen und damit die Voraussetzung für gezielte 

Ausbaumaßnahmen. Damit die von der Digitalisierung 

geschaffenen Potentiale genutzt werden können, 

müssen die einzelnen digitalisierten Systeme kompatibel 

miteinander sein, um möglichst nahtlos miteinander 

zu interagieren. 

PARTNER 

GREEN THINKING: HOW TO ACHIEVE NET ZERO? 

11:30 – 13:30 

11:30 More than a year of energy crisis – 

What opportunities must be seized now? 

Dr. Bastien Girod, Head of Climate Solutions, South 

Pole Deutschland GmbH 

12:00 Netto-Null - Zwischen Realismus und Märchen 

Rüdiger König, Executive Advisor, Energy Transition 

Solutions, JACOBS 

12:30 Decommissioning and repurposing existing assets: a 

critical success factor in the energy transition 

Präsentiert von Jacobs 

13:00 Continuous methane monitoring, instant leak 

prevention, and emissions reduction toward net 

zero emissions 

Marc Nodorft, CEO, DEUS POLLUTRACK Smart City 

GmbH i.G. C/o Füllner & Partner GmbH 

BI-DIRECTIONAL CHARGING: CAN EVS PAVE THE 

WAY TO A MORE FLEXIBLE ENERGY SYSTEM? 

13:30 – 15:00 

13:30 Bidirectional electric vehicles enabling the energy 

transition 

Mathias Müller, Leiter Verteilnetze und Elektromobilität 

14:00 The Unplugged Potential of Vehicle-to-Everything: 

How EVs Are Accelerating Decarbonisation 

Fabian Teichmueller, Head of Global Partnerships, 

Kaluza 

14:30 Electric vehicles balancing the European grid 

frequency 

Jani Leirimaa, CEO, Hiven Energy 

PARTNER 

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CHANGE FORUM | TUESDAY 


CHANGE FORUM | WEDNESDAY 


STARTUPS & CORPORATES: CHANGING THE ENERGY 

SYSTEM IN A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT 

10:00 – 12:00 

10:00 Welcoming and introduction 

Felix Krause, General Partner, Vireo Ventures 

10:20 Startup Pitches 

• Airteam Aerial Intelligence GmbH, Thomas Bücheler, CEO 

• Caeli Wind GmbH, Heiko Bartels, CEO 

• Circunomics GmbH, Marius Vogt, Senior Business 

Development Manager & Product Owner 

• ECO2GROW UG, Niklas Radermacher, Co-Founder & COO 

• Entrix, Steffen Schülzchen, Founder & CEO 

• Green Fusion GmbH, Nina Germanus, Geschäftsführerin 

& Mitgründerin 

• Novocarbo GmbH, Florin Milla, Head of Business 

Development 

• Point Twelve, Flore de Durfort, CEO 

• suena GmbH, Dr. Lennard Wilkening, Co-Founder & 

CEO and Tom Witter, Co-Founder & CTO 

• PipePredict GmbH, Christopher Dörner, Co-Founder 

GET STARTED ENERGY NETWORK – DIE NETZ- 

WERKPLATTFORM FÜR ENERGY-STARTUPS 

12:00 – 12:30 

PARTNER 

THE ENERGY SYSTEM OF THE FUTURE 

AND THE DSO’S ROLE IN IT 

12:30 – 13:30 

12:30 Introduction & moderation 

Dr. Oliver FRANZ, VP European Association, E.ON und 

Vorsitzender des Distribution & Market Facilitation 

Committee, Eurelectric 

13:50 PANEL 

Thomas Nowak, Secretary General, European Heat 

Pump Association 

Naomi Chevillard, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Solar 

Power Europe 

Arne Richters, Head of Public Affairs & Communications, 

Allego 

Henning Häder, Public Policy Manager, Sustainable 

Transport EU, Amazon 

14:10 Concluding remarks 

Dr. Oliver FRANZ, VP European Association, E.ON und 

Vorsitzender des Distribution & Market Facilitation 

Committee, Eurelectric 

PARTNER 

POLITISCHE EFFIZIENZVORGABEN ÜBERALL! 

WUNSCH UND WIRKLICHKEIT FÜR EVU UND 

ENERGIEDIENSTLEISTUNG 

13:30 – 15:00 

„Energieeffizienz als Geschäftsmodell“ – mit diesem 

Mantra haben insbesondere Energiedienstleister in der 

Vergangenheit in der Politik für Unterstützung geworben; 

gehört wurden sie nur wenig! Dabei machen verschiedene 

Rahmenbedingungen das Einsparen von Energie und 

Energieeffizienz mehr denn je zum „Gebot der Stunde“. 

Was diese politischen Effizienzvorgaben für EVU und EDL- 

Anbieter bedeuten, erfahren Sie in vier Impulsvorträgen 

und einer anschließenden Podiumsdiskussion. 

EMERGENCY! WIE MAN DER ENERGIE- UND KLIMA- 

KRISE MIT DEM RICHTIGEN NARRATIV BEGEGNET 

15:00 – 17:00 

15:00 Vielschichtiges Erzählen für die Energiewende: 

Individuelle Narrative statt One-fits-all-Lösungen 

Melanie Peschel, Geschäftsführerin, Tracemaker 

15:30 Positive Narrative in der Klimakrise – Stadtwerke 

packen an 

Patrick Niehaves, Projektmanager Ökoenergie-Produkte 

& Klimaschutz, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für sparsame 

Energie- und Wasserverwendung (ASEW) 

16:00 Bürgerdialog Stromnetz – Bürgerbeteiligung beim 

Stromnetzausbau 

N.N., Bürgerdialog Stromnetz 

16:30 How the EU’s Guarantees of Origin have the potential 

to build up consumers’ trust in green energy! 

Henning Weltzien, Associate Partner, x-markets consulting 

SWEDISH SUSTAINABILITY FORUM: EXPLORE 

THE PATH TO A GREENER, SMARTER AND MORE 

PRODUCTIVE FUTURE 

10:00 – 11:30 

Join us at the Swedish Sustainability Forum to learn 

more about Sweden's transition to a green economy 

and how Industry 4.0 is driving progress towards a more 

intelligent, efficient, and productive future. The Swedish 

Energy Agency is at the forefront of this movement, with 

the aim of establishing a sustainable energy system. 

PARTNER 

GREEN SOLUTIONS FROM ICELAND, RANGING 

FROM GEOTHERMAL ENERGY TO INNOVATIVE 

ENERGY SOLUTIONS 

11:30 – 12:30 

Iceland uses renewable energy for 100% of its electricity 

production and 100% of house heating. In this session, 

several Icelandic energy companies will report on best 

practices in the use of renewable energies. 

PARTNER 

DATENSICHERHEIT IN DER ENERGIEWENDE 

12:30 – 13:00 

Mit der Digitalisierung unseres Energiesystems 

gewinnen auch die Themen Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 

an Bedeutung. Wie lässt sich das Smart Grid der 

Zukunft vor Angriffen schützen? Welche Rollen kommen 

dabei Energiewirtschaft, Digitalwirtschaft und Politik 

zu? Und welche Technologien können uns dabei helfen? 

PARTNER 

I/O ENERGY TECH FORUM 

13:00 – 19:00 

To all CTOs, CDOs and CIOs as well as developers from 

startups and enterprises. The E-world.prototype.club 

offers you an exclusive conference format designed 

especially for you: The I/O Energy Tech Forum! 

This format allows you to network and exchange ideas 

– all with the goal of improving work in the tech and 

energy industry and staying informed about new trends 

and challenges. Meet exciting minds, exchange business 

ideas or even discuss potential collaborations or partnerships 

– all supported by a platform for networking & 

innovation sharing! 

13:00 Keynote I plus Q&A 

13:30 Panel I | Smart Grid & AI – Is efficient energy management 

possible without it? 

14:30 Panel II | Technical challenges in integrating electric 

cars into the energy system 

15:30 Panel III | Critical Infrastructures (KRITIS) vs. Open 

Data – a technical balancing act or optimization 

potential? 

16:30 EWPC Panel | Are startups the better management 

consultants?” Presentation and award ceremony 

Presented by E-world.prototype.club 

17:30 Energy Tech Night 

Casual networking with DJ, drinks and appetizers 

PARTNER 

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CHANGE FORUM | THURSDAY 


CAREER FORUM | THURSDAY 

25.05.2023 09:30 – 14:30 Change Forum | Halle 5 

AM DONNERSTAG, DEN 25.05.2023, FINDET HIER VON 09:30 

- 11:30 UHR DAS KARRIEREFORUM STATT. (SIEHE SEITE 75) 

WIE SCHAFFEN WIR DEN WEG ZUR KLIMANEUT- 

RALITÄT IN EUROPA? 

11:30 – 12:30 

11:30 enPower - Der Energiewende Podcast 

Liveaufzeichnung mit Frauke Thies, Geschäftsführerin, 

Agora Energiewende 

Die Energiewende ist essentiell für eine umweltverträgliche 

und wirtschaftlich erfolgreiche Zukunft Europas. 

Doch welche Veränderungen müssen erfolgen, damit wir 

die Energiewende in Europa noch schneller umsetzten 

können? Wie können wir den Ausbau erneuerbare Energien 

europaweit vorantreiben und wie steht es aktuell 

um die Dekarbonisierung der Industrie? Diese und 

weitere Fragen werden Dr. Markus Fritz und Dr. Julius 

Wesche in einer Liveaufnahme des enPower Podcast der 

Direktorin von Agora Energiewende Frauke Thies stellen 

und über diese Themen diskutieren. 

NEW WAYS OF WORKING 

12:30 – 13:30 

12:30 Agile Stadtwerke – Drei Beispiele wie agiles Arbeiten 

bei Prozessen, Projekten und in der Produktentwicklung 

von EVUs wertstiftend eingesetzt werden kann 

Georgis Tesfamariam, Geschäftsführer, Contio GmbH 

ENERGIESPEICHER: TECHNOLOGIEN DER FLEXIBI- 

LITÄTSSTÜTZE DES STROMSYSTEMS 

12:30 – 13:30 

12:30 Stationäre Energiespeicher – Ein Überblick über Technologien, 

Anwendungen und potenzielle Märkte 

László Eifert, Team Lead Energy Storage Systems, 

umlaut energy GmbH / Accenture GmbH 

13:00 Der Netzanschluss als Hürde für großtechnische Batteriespeicher 

– Erfahrungswerte und Lösungsansätze 

Benedikt Deuchert, Head of Business Development and 

Regulatory Affairs, Kyon Energy Finance GmbH 

Stärkung der Stromnetzstabilität durch Einsatz von 

Energiespeichern und Sektorkopplung (P2X) 

Malte Berghaus, Vice President Grids, TÜV Nord 

Das Karriereforum der E-world bringt Sie mit spannenden Unternehmen 

und den richtigen Ansprechpartner*innen zusammen. 

Lernen Sie neue potenzielle Arbeitgeber kennen und tauschen Sie 

sich mit den Recruitingverantwortlichen über Karrieremöglichkeiten 

in der Energiewirtschaft aus. In diesem Jahr haben erstmals 

Jobsuchende aller Karrierelevel so die Chance, wertvolle Einblicke 

in das Arbeitsumfeld und die Kultur der teilnehmenden Unternehmen 

zu erhalten und ins Gespräch zu kommen. 

Darüber hinaus können Sie bereits vor Messestart ganz einfach 

Kontakte knüpfen. Nehmen Sie an unserem Matchmaking teil und 

lassen Sie sich von interessierten Arbeitgebern ansprechen. Haben 

Sie so ein passendes Match gefunden, können Sie sich am dritten 

Messetag auf der E-world persönlich kennenlernen. 

Das Karriereforum bietet Ihnen eine Plattform, um unkompliziert 

neue Unternehmen zu entdecken, offene Fragen loszuwerden und 

im direkten Gespräch zu überzeugen. Abgerundet wird es von einem 

informativen Live-Programm. Auf dem Change Forum in Halle 5 

stellen sich ausgewählte Unternehmen vor und Young Professionals 

teilen ihre Erfahrungen in der Energiebranche mit Ihnen. 

IHRE VORTEILE: 

• Direkter Kontakt zu Recruiter*innen & Personalverantwortlichen 

• Ungezwungenes, persönliches Kennenlernen 

• Einblicke in die Unternehmenskultur 

• Wertvolle Erfahrungsberichte aus der Praxis 

09:30 – 14:30 

09:30 Begrüßung durch den Moderator 

Christian Haag, Geschäftsführung, H+H Architekten 

und Ingenieure GmbH 

09:35 Young Professional Vortrag 

Joelle Juergensen, Corporate Account Manager - 

Climate Solutions, STX Group 

10:00 Vorstellung Premium Partner + Podiumsdiskussion 

Michelle Sauer, Personalmanagement, Trianel GmbH 

Andreas Weichenberger, Product Owner, Volue 

Matthias Lange, Geschäftsführer, energy & meteo 

systems gmbh 

Nina Duske, Prokuristin, Leiterin Personal, LBD-Beratungsgesellschaft 

mbH 

Jens Schumacher, Managing Partner - Climate Solutions, 

STX Group 

Antje Papenberg, Head of HR, GETEC ENERGIE GmbH 

Hüseyin Kazanc, Geschäftsführer, FairConsult 24|7 

GmbH 

11:30 Meeting an den Ständen der Unternehmen/Speed- 

Dating 

13:00 Partizipation statt Silodenken – 

Integriertes Management im Digitalen Stadtwerk 

Reinhard Bretzke, Leiter Energieerzeugung, Stadtwerke 

Kempen GmbH 

Michael Schottner, Stadtwerke Kempen GmbH 

Björn Wyrich, Solutions Architect, orgavision GmbH 

JETZT 

MESSETICKET 

SICHERN! 

NEHMEN SIE 

JETZT TEIL! 






NEW ENERGY SYSTEMS FORUM | TUESDAY 


NEW ENERGY SYSTEMS FORUM | WEDNESDAY 


EEX GROUP'S SECURE, SUCCESSFUL AND SUSTAI- 

NABLE SOLUTIONS FOR WORLDWIDE COMMODITY 

MARKETS 

10:00 – 13:00 

10:00 Future Electricity Market Design: How shall it look 

like and how do we get there? 

• What is the status of the current debate on EU-level? 

• What is the status of the current debate on German level? 

• What does the Electricity Market design need to be 

future-proof? 

Lisa Marie Wolf, Senior Strategy Analyst, EEX 

Jan Eustachi, Political & Regulatory Affairs Officer EEX 

Daniel Wragge, Director Political & Regulatory Affairs EEX 

11:00 New products and initiatives: How EEX Group develops 

its markets in line with the market demand 

• Between Crisis and Restart: The EEX Gas Markets in 2023 

Tim Greenwood, Aude Filippi, Peter Blogg, 

Anje Stiers (EEX) & Miriam Brandes (Statkraft 

Markets GmbH) 

• EEX Japan Power - trends and dynamics of a fastgrowing 

market 

Steffen Riediger, Director Business Development 

Power & Global Commodity Markets, EEX 

• What’s new at EEX Group? Insights into new products 

and services 

Steffen Riediger, Director Business Development 

Power & Global Commodity Markets, EEX 

12:00 Driving change: How Hydrogen, GOs and PPAs can 

contribute to a cleaner future 

• Pan-European GOs auctions – boosting market 

development for the energy transition 

Philippe Vassilopoulos, Director Of Product Development, 

EPEX 

• PPAs and long-term hedging after the crisis – what is 

the outlook? 

Viviana Ciancibello, Senior Business Developer, 

Power Derivatives, EEX 

• Hydrogen - Transparency is key: HYDRIX, the first 

market-based Index for hydrogen 

Sirko Beidatsch, Natural Gas Markets, EEX 

PARTNER 

CARBON CAPTURE - EIN EINFACHER WEG ZUR 

KLIMANEUTRALITÄT? 

13:00 – 15:00 

13:00 CCS – Ein Ländervergleich 

Arne Müller, Projektleiter, Bellona Deutschland GmbH 

13:30 PANEL: CCS- Ein Ländervergleich- Best practice für 

den Industriestandort Deutschland 

Arne Müller, Projektleiter, Bellona 

Sarah Endres, Projektleiterin Unternehmensentwicklung, 

EEW 

Dr. Georg Kobiela, Referent für Industrietransformation, 

Germanwatch 

Moderation: Michaela Koschak, Moderation und 

Meteorologin, MDR 

14:30 CCS und Biomethan: Wie Negativemissionen effizient 

möglich sind 

Zoltan Elek, Geschäftsführer, Landwärme 

KI MACHT NICHT ERFASSTE ZÄHLPUNKTE 

SCHNELL AUSFINDIG UND SCHLIESST SO LÜCKEN 

DER WERTSCHÖPFUNG 

15:00 – 16:00 

15:00 Michael Hartke, Geschäftsführer, clarifydata 

INTEGRATION DER ELEKTROMOBILITÄT IN DIE 

STROMNETZE 

16:00 – 17:00 

16:00 Vorstellung der Breite des Förderprogramms 

Elektro-Mobil 

Michael Blohm, BMWK, Lars Ostendorf, BF, 

Doris Johnsen, BF (tbd) 

16:15 „unIT-e²: Leitprojekt für interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit 

und Innovation zwischen 

Elektromobilität und Energiesystem“ 

Dr.-Ing. Simon Köppl, Michael Hinterstocker 

16:30 Projekt ARNi – Anwendungsregel NetzIntegration mit 

Markt und Kundeninteressen 

Peter Kellendonk, Annike Abromeit 

GLOBAL VIEW OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION 

10:00 – 12:00 

10:00 N.N., World Energy Council 

SMART METER ROLLOUT: 

BEST PRACTICES AND CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS 

ON THE EUROPEAN MARKET 

12:00 – 13:30 

12:00 Tomás Llobet, Managing Director, ESMIG 

Luis Goncalves, CEO of Iskraemeco and ESMIG President 

N.N., ESMIG 

PARTNER 

DEKARBONISIERUNG UND ZUKUNFTSFÄHIGKEIT 

DER (FERN)WÄRMEVERSORGUNG 

13:30 – 14:30 

13:30 Wärmemarkt und KWP – Wie kann die Dekarbonisierung 

in Deutschland gelingen? 

Katja Rösch, Consultant - Associate Partner, Rödl & 

Partner 

13:50 Wie optimal ist Ihre Fernwärmeversorgung 

aufgestellt – Ausblick (Fernwärme) Benchmarking 

Andreas Schwaiger, Consultant – Projektleiter Fernwärmebenchmarking, 

Rödl & Partner 

14:10 Ihr Weg zur Transformation der Fernwärme 

Daniel Batschkus, Consultant – Senior Associate, Rödl 

& Partner 

INTEGRATION DER ERNEUERBAREN INS 

STROMSYSTEM 

14:30 – 15:30 

Wie kann mehr grüner Strom ins Netz eingespeist werden? 

Braucht es dafür ein neues Strommarktdesign? Und 

welche technischen Voraussetzungen sind notwendig? 

Diese und weitere Fragen diskutiert dieser Block. 

HOW TO LORAWAN: ENERGIEEFFIZIENZ DURCH 

SMARTE SENSORIK 

15:30 – 17:00 

15:30 Digitale Infrastruktur und Anwendungen für Smart Citys 

Michael Kliebenschedel, Vertriebsmanager für Energiedienstleistungen, 

Mainova 

Christian Borg-Krebs, Leiter Business Development 

Smart City, Mainova 

16:00 Smarte Kommunen und Unternehmen – Verbrauchstransparenz 

und Kostensenkung mit LoRaWAN® und 

Sensoren 

Veronika Rüb, Managerin Dienstleistung, Netze BW 

16:30 Aus der Praxis – Energiemanagement im digitalisierten 

Gebäude 

Jan Bose, Geschäftsführer, Alpha-Omega Technology 

16:45 Projekt Banula – Nutzung der Blockchain für 

eine ladevorgangscharfe Strombilanzierung in der 

Energiewirtschaft 

Marc Schmid 





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NEW ENERGY SYSTEMS FORUM | THURSDAY 


DIE ZUKUNFT DER KLIMANEUTRALITÄT GESTALTEN 

10:00 – 12:00 

10:00 Mieterstrom – Wann kommt der Durchbruch? 

tbd., Bitkom 

10:30 Datentransparenz & Management halbiert CO2-Emissionen 

großer Gebäude in wenigen Jahren 

Dr. Georg Riegel, CEO, deZem 

11:00 Kraftwärmepumpe - Betrieb von Mini-BHKW mit einer 

Wärmepumpe 

Cord Müller, Geschäftsführer, EC POWER 

NACHHALTIGKEIT DURCH KLUGE DATENANALYSE: 

ERFÜLLUNG DER ESG-KRITERIEN 

14:00 – 15:00 

14:00 ESG, Energieversorger und die Krux mit den Daten 

Charlotte Behm, Head of Energy, Utilities & Industrials, 

Sopra Steria 

14:30 Sustainalytics: Grüne (Daten-)Lösungen 

für grüne Zahlen 

Markus Salomon, Principal Management Consultant, 

Adastra 

11:30 Kommunale Wärme(netz)planung – Herausforderungen 

und best-practise Ansätze aus der Umsetzung 

Britta Kleinertz, Leiterin Wärmetransformation, FfE 

BUSINESS CASES FOR BATTERY STORAGE: HOW 

BIG IS THE MARKET? 

12:00 – 13:00 

12:00 Building the business case for battery storage 

Charlotte Johnson, Global Head of Markets, KrakenFlex 

12:30 Empowering Batteries by Cloud Monitoring: Enhance 

Safety and Performance 

Georg Angenendt, CTO, ACCURE Battery Intelligence 

Impressum 

JOIN FORCES: HOW POWER TO X HELPS 

INTEGRATING RENEWABLES 

13:00 – 14:00 

13:00 P2X, this is how it works! Economic and technical 

design and analysis of Power2X 

Thomas Kalkowski, EMD 

13:30 Best practice sector coupling: Shaping the H 2 

value 

chain, illustrated on an HRS example from Gießen 

Marcel Corneille, Geschäftsführer, EMCEL 

JETZT 

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