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Our Managing Director, Christoph Maurer, participated in the panel discussion on the topic “New Technologies, Changing Global Situation: What’s Next for the Energy Transition?” at the BETTER FUTURE CONFERENCE Sustainability on April 29, 2025.
Other participants in the discussion included Gitta Connemann (CDU), Dr. Carsten Rolle (Federation of German Industries – BDI), and Wolfram Axthelm (German Wind Energy Association – BWE). The discussion was moderated by Mr. Daniel Wetzel (Welt).
A recording of the entire conference can be found here(ger).
Since beginning of April, Martin Theile has joined the Consentec Team in his position as Controller. We give Martin a warm welcome.
Distribution system operators are increasingly faced with the challenge of forecasting the dynamic developments expected in their grid areas on both the consumption and generation side — and proactively planning grid expansion accordingly. Consentec supports DSOs in this task with a forecasting methodology that uses building-level geo-information to generate high-resolution scenario data for expansion planning. This proven approach, successfully applied in over 20 projects, is explained in more detail in a recent blog post.
In the current debate on electricity prices in Germany, there is also talk of possible federal subsidies to reduce grid fees.
In this context, Consentec has analysed the practical feasibility and distribution effects of various options for such subsidies in a recently published report(ger) for the VKU and ZVEI associations.
The result is that, in addition to the frequently discussed subsidies for transmission grid fees, subsidies to reduce the surcharges levied together with the grid fees should also be considered in order to achieve more balanced relief effects.
The March issue of “ifo Schnelldienst” focuses on the topic ‘Electricity market – balancing competitiveness, sustainability and affordability’.
Alongside many other experts, our Managing Director, Christoph Maurer, contributed an article entitled ‘Electricity market: optimisation, but no price turnaround’.
The full article can be viewed here(ger).