High Energy Prices are Hitting the Industry Hard: Battery Storage as an Opportunity to Reduce Electricity Bills?

Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Time
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Hall
ICM München
Room
Room 13 B

Even though the commercial and industrial battery storage market has been the subject of discussion for many years, most use cases were not economically viable because of low energy prices and relatively high system costs. Value stacking - the combination of different use cases - has been the preferred way to finance battery storage systems. In 2022, the skyrocketing electricity prices changed all of this while hitting the manufacturing industry hard. In this session, we will be discussing the challenges of the new market environment and will be showing how battery storage combined with renewable energy generation can help minimize energy costs.

11:00 am - 11:05 amWelcome and Introduction

Julian Jansen

Senior Director - Strategy, Market Development, Policy

Fluence

11:05 am - 11:45 amPitches by Panelists

Philip Gladek

CEO

Spectral Enterprise B.V.

Marian Süße

Head of Department Factory Systems Design and Production Planning

Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU

Dr. Alexander Hirnet

Vice President C&I

sonnen GmbH

Dr. George Hilton

Research Manager - Clean Energy Technologies

S&P Global

11:45 am - 12:30 pmPanel Discussion and Q&A

Speakers

Speaker

Dr. George Hilton, S&P Global

Research Manager - Clean Energy Technologies

Spain

Dr. Hilton joined IHS Markit in 2020 and has eight years of experience in the clean energy sector. He leads the global forecast for energy storage and has a particular interest in how energy storage integrates with other industries. He has recently published work on recycling, energy storage for EV charging, vehicle-to-grid technologies, second life batteries and the use of batteries in hydrogen production. He has published articles in multiple well-respected journals, responded to government calls for evidence on energy storage and electric vehicles (EVs), and has been quoted in a range of media outlets. Dr. Hilton holds a first-class Master of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in energy engineering with a focus on energy storage integration with renewable energy and EV infrastructure, both from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

Speaker

Marian Süße, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU

Head of Department Factory Systems Design and Production Planning

Germany

Marian Süße studied industrial engineering at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau (Diplom FH) and the Technical University of Chemnitz (Master of Science). The focus of his education here was on automotive engineering as well as factory and production planning. After internships at OEMs in the automotive sector, he started as an research scientist at Fraunhofer IWU during the master's degree and has the position as a research assistant after the master's degree in 2017. In 2019 and 2020 he was responsible for the group "Factory Design and Simulation" and since 2021 he is head of the department Factory System Design and Production Planning. The department combines aspects of factory and production planning with issues of sustainability and sustainable energy supply. In both areas, there is a focus on the use of various simulation tools.

Speaker

Philip Gladek, Spectral Enterprise B.V.

CEO

The Netherlands

Philip Gladek is a self-taught engineer with a background in business strategy. In 2012, he came to the Netherlands to help his sister start Metabolic, a consulting and venture building company that applies systems-thinking to tackle global sustainability challenges. In 2015, Philip founded Spectral, a leading smart energy technology company focused on accelerating the sustainable energy transition, where he is currently CEO / CTO. Over the past eight years, Philip has led Spectral's team to develop and scale up cutting edge solutions for integration of battery storage systems, renewable energy assets, and other sources of flexibility to enable the deployment of virtual power plants and smart grids.

Speaker

Julian Jansen, Fluence

Senior Director - Strategy, Market Development, Policy

United Kingdom

Julian Jansen is a Senior Director at Fluence. He leads the strategy, market development, marketing, and policy teams in the EMEA region. Julian is responsible for commercial strategy, as well as expansion in the region working with customers and industry stakeholders to enable the growth of energy storage markets. He also leads regional policy and regulatory efforts, early business development activities, as well as partnerships to enable new applications and help shape future market development. Julian has been working in the clean energy sector his entire career. Prior to joining Fluence, he was an Associate Director at IHS Markit leading the group's consulting activities on clean energy technologies, having previously managed IHS Markit's global energy storage team and establishing the energy storage research area at specialist consultancy Delta-ee. Julian holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in European management from Lancaster University, United Kingdom, a Bachelor of Science in international management from ESB Business School in Germany, and a Master of Science in ecological economics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Speaker

Dr. Alexander Hirnet, sonnen GmbH

Vice President C&I

Germany

Alexander leads Sonnen's commercial and industrial storage development activities in the position of Vice President C&I since 2019. Prior to sonnen, Alexander helped build the stationary energy storage business unit at VARTA as technical director. He has a diploma and a doctorate in physics.

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