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Demand response - Use and limits in a liberalized electricity market – Peter CLAES & Michaël VAN BOSSUYT
THE AUTHOR
Peter Claes graduated in Managerial Economics at the Catholic
University Leuven in 1984 and was Research Assistant in the same
department until 1986. From 1987 until 1992 he was Research
Department Analyst of the Belgian Economy at the BBL in Brussels.
In 1992 he became Director of the Economic Department of
essenscia (Federation of the Chemical Industry and Life Sciences,
previously called FEDICHEM), where he was General Manager from
2002 until end 2008. He also became Board Member of FEBELIEC
(Federation of Belgian Industrial Energy Consumers) in 1994, and
from May 1996 until May 2003, he was President of this same federation. Since
November 1998, he has been Vice-President of IFIEC Europe (International Federation
of Industrial Energy Consumers), and was also President of this federation between April
2003 and 2007. Since January 2009, he has been full time active for FEBELIEC.
Michaël Van Bossuyt holds a Master in Business Engineering from
Solvay Business School (2005) and a Master in Business Information
Management from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2006). He worked in
a research function at the university, before stepping into strategy
and management consulting. He previously also held a function in
energy sourcing for a large company in the chemical sector and
worked in the European Market Integration and Customer Relations
departments at Elia, the Belgian Transmission System Operator,
before joining FEBELIEC (the Federation of Belgian Industrial Energy
Consumers) as Energy Expert in 2015 and becoming Demand Response Expert for
IFIEC Europe in the same year.
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