Offtake and Asset Optimization - A Growing Opportunity in Continental Europe?

Felix Jedamzik leads the sales team Flex at coneva GmbH. As an expert for flexibility markets, Felix is helping utilities and commercial customers to valorize demand response capacities from batteries, EV-chargers and heat pumps on the European energy markets. He passioned about finding multi-use case strategies for commercial and industrial sites in order to optimize the overall energy costs with holistic energy management measures. Prior to coneva, for 8 years Felix has been working as International Business Development Manager at Next Kraftwerke GmbH, a leading Virtual Power Plant operator in Europe.

Martin Daronnat is currently Head of Flexibility Germany at Engie Global Energy Management et Sales (GEMS). Active since more than 10 years in the energy business, Martin has a strong background in Flexibility and Renewables origination. He has been developing flexibility markets and solutions (VPPs, demand side response, batteries) globally in Europe, Asia and Africa, for companies like E.ON, Vattenfall and Energy Pool. He lead and closed several large PPA transactions with financial and industrial partners on the back of RES assets, both pre and post FID, in the context of assets bids, asset divestments, or portfolio exposure hedging. The GEMS team currently offers flexibility offtake agreements of many sorts (fixed price, floor, VPS, profit share, consulting) towards flexibility assets (internal and external) to allow asset owners to make their assets bankable with the desired level of risks exposure.

Dr. Fabian Knoch is Head of Platform & Flexibility Trading of be.storaged GmbH, one of the leading companies in Germany for optimization and operations of behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems (BESS). After his PhD in theoretical physics in 2017, he joined be.storaged GmbH to work on the technology required to optimally control BESS based on power grid regulations, energy and ancillary markets. During the last years, as the market for BESS gained momentum, he served in multiple expert and management positions actively shaping the technology behind today's commercially available products of be.storaged GmbH. He is convinced that soon behind-the-meter BESS will play a dominant role in energy procurement for C&I companies by lowering the risk of market exposure as well as strengthening their profitability due to a combination of independent use cases.

Wolfgang is a Principal Data Scientist at Entrix. He works on Entrix's optimization algorithms for flexible energy systems, in particular BESS assets and VPPs in Germany and GB. These algorithms ensure that flexibility is most profitably deployed across wholesale markets and ancillary services every day. He has previously done Economics research on the effect of trading rules in different markets on the efficiency of these markets and has worked in data science in sustainable finance.

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