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How can Germany’s energy transition succeed — ensuring security, affordability, and reliability? In this interview, our Managing Director, Christoph Maurer, explains why transforming the energy system is indispensable, what challenges arise from wind and solar power, and how we can overcome them. The video has been published here.

Since September 2025, Pia Halkour and Severin Kohlmann — and since October 2025, Unmukt Bhardwaj — have joined our consulting team at Consentec as Junior Consultants. We warmly welcome our new colleagues and look forward to working together.

Our managing director, Christoph Maurer, had the opportunity to join the energate Talk, moderated by Christian Seelos and Rouben Bathke, to discuss the topic “Where is the power market headed?” together with Peter Reitz (EEX), Tobias Heyen (Engie), and Jannik Schall (1KOMMA5°). The video recording is now available.

EPEX and the German TSOs publish the report “Assessment of Potential Social Welfare generated by Combining or Coordinating Portfolio-Based Markets for Scheduled Energy and Balancing Capacity“. The report is commissioned by Consentec in cooperation with the Institute for High Voltage Equipment and Grids, Digitalization and Energy Economics at RWTH Aachen University.

The German regulatory authority Bundesnetzagentur intends, as part of the new incentive regulation regime, to create incentives for improving the energy transition competencies of electricity network operators. E.ON SE had already proposed an incentive instrument at an early stage, aimed directly at the development and industry-wide provision of necessary solutions by highly competent network operators, thus promoting efficient cooperation within the industry. Consentec, together with PWC, has elaborated and assessed this instrument called LSE in detail in an expert report for E.ON. It could be introduced in addition to the indicator-based instrument planned by Bundesnetzagentur in order to provide targeted short-term impulses for accelerating and improving the efficient transformation of electricity networks.

Upcoming events

Our colleague Anna Weiß, Consultant, will speak as a presenter in the session “Securing the Future, Rethinking Support – The New Investment Framework for Renewable Energy.”
Our Managing Director, Christoph Maurer, will give a technical presentation at the 6th Power Market Forum and participate in a panel discussion as part of the TenneT Panel.
Our Managing Director, Christoph Maurer, will deliver an introductory keynote within Topic Block 2, “Costs of the Energy Transition — Who Pays the Bill?”, at the Erneuerbare Energie conference and will also join a panel discussion with Angela Köppl, Karina Knaus, and Reinhard Draxler.