Industry Leaders
Renewable energies are more in the spotlight today than ever before. The media reports daily on market growth, new jobs and export numbers of wind, solar and geothermal energy, biomass and hydroeletric power. But who is behind those success stories?
The German Renewable Energies Agency presents the people who made this development possible and who are behind those great ideas and innovations of renewable energies.
CEO of SolarWorld AG, Bonn
“It’s highly motivating to be involved in efforts to create more jobs in Germany”
Expertise: Photovoltaic energy, energy prices, forecasts, national frameworks/EEG (German Renewable Energy Sources Act), financing and project development, communal use of renewable energies, jobs, climate protection
Chairman of NATURSTROM AG, Forchheim
“The power of corporations must be regulated, because these geared towards profit maximisation rather than attaining a sustainable supply.”
Expertise: Green electricity (philosophy, wholesale trade, suppliers), direct marketing of renewable energies, onshore wind, biogas, energetic utilization of wood and waste wood, hydropower, grid integration, financing and project development, communal use of renewable energies, national frameworks/EEG, total supply with renewable energies
CEO of WSB Neue Energien GmbH, Dresden
“It’s a great feeling to have been involved in shaping the sector from the outset.”
Expertise: Onshore-wind, photovoltaics, economic cost-benefit calculations for plants, financing / investments / project development, social acceptance of renewable energies, communal use of renewable energies, political frameworks and the advancement of renewable energies, EEG
Vice CEO of Windreich AG, Wolfschlugen
"Without wind energy – mostly offshore – our goals concerning climate, environment and energy policy are not achievable."
Expertise: Offshore wind, onshore wind, wave & tidal energy, grid integration of renewable energies, commercial cost-benefit analysis of plants, economic cost-benefit analysis of renewable energies, financing / investment / project development, political frameworks and funding of renewable, research and development, jobs
CEO of agri.capital GmbH, Münster
“ The industrial power generation based on biogas is taking an increasing share in the global energy mix. ”
Expertise: Biogas, biomethane supply, development and financing of biogas projects, agriculturalpartnership models, communal use of renewable energy, efficiency improvements andrepowering of existing biogas plants, biogas market
Director Sales Germany of Vestas Deutschland GmbH, Husum
“I work in a sector that’s making one of the most significant contributions to climate protection.”
Expertise: Wind power (offshore and onshore), energy mix, grid integration of renewable energies, financing and project development, national and European frameworks (EEG), climate protection, jobs and communal use of renewable energies
Board of Directors of BGZ Beteiligungsgesellschaft Zukunftsenergien AG (Future Energies Holding Company), Husum
“Something really big is happening here”
Expertise: All renewable energy technologies, economic cost-benefit calculations for plants, acceptance, climate protection
Managing Director of the Berliner Energieagentur, Berlin
“Many of the as yet unexploited application and development possibilities for Germany are becoming increasingly feasible.”
Expertise: Wind energy, photovoltaics, bioenergie, financing and investing into systems, communal use of renewable energies, national and european frameworks, services around energy efficiency and renewable energies
CEO of Geoenergie Konzept GmbH, Freiberg
“I find it motivating to see how more and more people across the world are getting involved with the issue of renewables”
Expertise: Near-surface geothermal energy for heating and cooling, financing and project development, economic cost-benefit analysis
CEO of Tauber-Solar GmbH, Tauberbischofsheim
“It’s quite simply fun to witness a paradigm shift and to be involved in shaping it.”
Expertise: Photovoltaics, cost-benefit calculations for plants, communal use of renewable energies, jobs, climate protection
Managing Director of First Solar GmbH, Mainz
“Solar energy is available in unlimited quantities. There have long been technological solutions in place to make use of it. We’re making it competitive”
Specialist fields: Photovoltaics, thin-film technologies, large solar power station, development on international markets, competitiveness of solar electricity
CEO of Naturstrom AG/ NaturStromHandel GmbH, Düsseldorf
“Green electricity has in the meantime really arrived at the heart of society”
Expertise: Green electricity, virtual power plants, EEG direct marketing, onshore wind, photovoltaics, biogas, hydropower, grid integration, financing and development of plants, communal use of renewables, national frameworks / EEG, climate protection and emissions trading
CEO of Westerwälder Holzpellets GmbH, Langenbach
“I’d like to be in a position to offer my employees secure future prospects"
Expertise: wood pellets, cost-benefit analysis of plants, communal use of renewable energies
Board of Directors of wpd AG, Bremen
Expertise: Wind energy, offshore wind, grid integration of renewable energies, financing and project development, communal use and acceptance of renewable energies, national and European frameworks / EEG, research and development
Managing Director of Ecofys Germany GmbH
"I have recognized renewable energies as the topic of the future already in the 1980s. The energy sector is changing and what is more exciting than to be part of shaping our future."
Expertise: Offshore wind, onshore wind, photovoltaics, solar energy, biofuels, biogas, pellets, wave & tidal energy, grid integration of renewable energies, commercial cost-benefit analysis of plants, economic cost-benefit analysis of renewable energies, financing / investment / project development, communal use of renewable energies, political frameworks and funding of renewables, EEG, European directives, research and development of renewables, climate protection, trade in emissions
Chairman of Green City Energy AG
“We are being propelled by climate change, the finiteness of fossil energy sources and the dangers of nuclear energy to aim for 100% dependency on renewable energies."
Expertise: Wind power, photovoltaics, biogas, water power, business assessment, financing, communal use of renewable energies, political frameworks and subsidies and innovation, such as the liquefaction of biogas
CEO of ehoche GmbH, München
“Renewable energies have an impact on many areas of life, on individual energy supply as well as economic development, the global climate and international politics.”
Expertise: Photovoltaics; solar thermal energy; biofuels; public acceptance of renewable energies; communal, private and public use of renewable energies; political frameworks and subsidies; EEG; Websites for renewable energies and energy efficiency
CEO of Schnell Zündstrahlmotoren AG & Co. KG, Amtzell
“Renewable energies will represent the largest economic sector after the car industry”
Expertise: Biogas, biofuels, engine technology, private and commercial application of renewables, national frameworks and funding / EEG, research and development
CEO of global-woods AG, Münstertal
“We don’t have the right to consume the resources of future generations.”
Expertise: Biomass from reforestation - worldwide, economic cost-benefit analysis of renewable energies, biomass to liquid, climate protection, trade in emissions
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg
"Solar Energy is the only energy that is unlimited to us. We could satisfy the global energy demand with approximately 0.1 per mill of solar radiation."
Expertise: Photovoltaics, Development of energy prices
CEO of Stadtwerke Bochum GmbH
“As a local energy supply company we have a particular responsibility to prioritise environmental arguments in the production of energy”
Expertise: Offshore wind, photovoltaics, geothermal energy, hydropower, biomass, financing and project development, political frameworks / EEG, communal use of renewable energies
CEO of juwi Holding AG, Wörrstadt
“Wind and solar energy will be the supporting pillars of energy supply in the future”
Expertise: Wind energy (onshore), photovoltaics, biogas, wood pellets, geothermal energy, hydropower, grid integration of renewable energies, business cost-benefit analysis of plants, eonomic cost-benefit analysis of renewables, financing and development of plants, communal use and acceptance of renewables, frameworks and funding, research, jobs
CEO of wodtke GmbH, Tübingen
“More than ever – and in response to the concept of climate change – it is of paramount importance that we realise it is down to all of us to support new and future-oriented construction methods and energy systems.”
Expertise: Pellets, financing and project development, acceptance of renewable energies, communal, private and oublic use of renewable energies, political frameworks and subsidies, pellet-primary-oven technology, research and development, jobs, trend research, design, development of pellets in Germany
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