Christian Zimmer
Dr. Christian Zimmer is Principal Consultant and joined Consentec in 2002. He is a leading expert in the field of power economic and engineering issues, ranging from incentive regulation for distribution network operators to congestion management and market design for cross-border power trade. Christian has advised network operators, energy suppliers as well as industry associations and authorities. Between 1997 and 2002 he worked as a scientific staff member at the Institute of Power Systems and Power Economics of RWTH Aachen University where he received his doctoral degree and afterwards was head of research group “network planning and operation“. His work focused on research and consulting projects relating to questions on power economics. Christian studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and holds a graduation as Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.), his dissertation dealt with the consideration of cross-border power trade in operational planning of European transmission system operators.