Journalism for the energy transition
EXPERT EUROPEAN CLIMATE AND ENERGY EXPERTS
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Poland’s main gas grid operator.
Twitter: @GAZ_SYSTEM Location: Poland
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Iwona Dominiak, spokesperson [email protected] +48 502200081
Poland’s main grid operator.
Twitter: @pse_pl Location: Poland
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Beata Jarosz-Dziekanowska, spokesperson [email protected] +48 222421927 Public electricity company and until January 2021 the only electricity provider to consumers. Also manages and maintains the country’s grid.
Location: Cyprus
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Christina Papadopoulou, press officer [email protected] +357 22201350
Tasked with the operation and maintenance of the electricity grid in Greece.
Email: [email protected] Location: Greece
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Melina Kalampoka, communications consultant and spokesperson [email protected] +30 210 9281742
Independent authority overseeing the electricity network, from grids to substations. Responsible for system capacity.
Location: Greece PRESS CONTACT
Press office [email protected] +30 2109466955 +30 2105192582
Operator of the Norwegian power system, owns the transmission grid and maintains balance between consumption and production.
Twitter: @Statnett Location: Norway
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Henrik Glette, president corporate communications [email protected] +47 93233010
Exclusive gas transmission system operator. Member of ENTSOG, GIE and EASEE-gas.
Location: Czech Republic
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Vojtěch Meravý, senior communication specialist [email protected] +420 735191108 Scientist specialising in power grids and wind energy.
Email: [email protected] Phone: +356 23403650 Location: Malta
Brings together economic players active in the renewable energy sector (such as wind power, photovoltaics, hydroelectric power, biomass, biogas, etc.) and in the sustainable management of energy and smart grids.
Twitter: @EdoraFed Location: Belgium
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Géraldine Nethercott, spokesperson [email protected] +32 25118808
Transmission system operator (TSO), member of ENTSO-E (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity). Responsible for electricity transmission, system and market operation, and grid and market infrastructure development.
Twitter: @Transelectrica Location: Romania
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Office [email protected] +40 213035611
š Leading Slovenian engineering and scientific research organisation in the fields of electricity and general energy, founded in 1948. In the past, it played a key role in the development of the Slovenian electricity system. In recent years, it has actively participated in the development of a vision for smart grids in the Slovenian electricity system. Has developed, alone or together with partners, innovative technological solutions and products that it markets in Slovenia and abroad.
Location: Slovenia
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Office [email protected] +386 14743601
National transmission system operator, provides open data on the electricity market.
Twitter: @fingrid_oyj Location: Finland
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Tiina Miettinen, senior vice president tiina.miettinen@fingrid.fi +358 295335056
Responsible for the operational management of the electricity system, administers the electricity and balancing energy market and oversees the technical operation and maintenance of the electricity transmission network. Responsible for the adequate planning of grid development for greater integration of renewable energy sources (RES). Can provide data on grid development plans, RES integration, grid flexibility and resilience plans on national level.
Location: Bulgaria PRESS CONTACT
Office [email protected] +359 29696802
Regulatory body for the energy and water supply sectors in Bulgaria. Regulates retail prices in the gas and electricity markets and issues licenses for electricity generation, electricity trading, transmission and distribution. Responsible for secondary legislation (ordinances) and regulations with respect to electricity market liberalisation and the clean energy package. Can provide data on grid tariffs, power, water and gas prices and license holders for generation, trading and distribution of electricity, water and gas.
Location: Bulgaria
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Georgi Spasov [email protected] +359 29359698
Responsible for gas transmission and grid infrastructure.
Twitter: @nationalgriduk Location: United Kingdom
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Surinder Sian [email protected] +44 7812485153 Electricity transmission operator for England, Wales and Scotland.
Twitter: @ng_eso Location: United Kingdom
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Ben Davis [email protected] +44 7971539999
Red Eléctrica de España is the country's power transmission grid operator. It can provide data on electricity consumption and infrastructure.
Twitter: @RedElectricaREE Location: Spain
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Eva Santiago Moriana & Pilar Berengena Collantes [email protected] +34 914533333 +34 914533281
Represents 42 electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) from 35 countries across Europe. Its main activities include presenting policy positions; drafting network codes and contributing of their implementation; regional cooperation through the Regional Security Coordination Initiatives (RSCIs); technical cooperation between TSOs; publication of summer and winter outlook reports for electricity generation for the short term system adequacy overview; development of long-term pan-European network plans (TYNDPs).
Website: www.entsoe.eu Twitter: @entso_e Location: EU PRESS CONTACT
Claire Camus [email protected] +32 27410950 +32 476975093 (Mob)
Independent body to foster the integration and completion of the European Internal Energy Market for electricity and natural gas. The agency's main activities are supporting the integration of the EU national energy markets, by developing common network and market rules, coordinating national regulators at European level, as well as by taking part in regional and cross-regional initiatives and organising working groups; monitoring the well- functioning and transparency of the EU internal energy market; advising the EU Institutions on trans-European energy infrastructural issues. ACER also monitors the work of the European Networks of Transmission System Operators for gas and electricity (ENTSO-E and ENTSOG); issuing opinions on their EU-wide network development plans and ensuring that these are aligned with the priorities set at European level.
Website: www.acer.europa.eu Twitter: @eu_acer Location: EU
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David Merino [email protected] +386 82053417
ESO is a Lithuanian electricity and gas grid operator. It was established in 2016 by merging electricity distribution network operator LESTO AB and joint-stock company Lietuvos dujos and it is controlled by the state-owned Ignitis Group of energy companies. Main activities are electricity and natural gas distribution, guaranteed supply of electricity and natural gas, property connecting to electricity and gas networks, maintenance and development of electricity and gas distribution networks, security and reliability of energy distribution assurance. Under a reform started in 2020, households will be able to choose a supplier out of six, but as of June 2020, the ESO still held 99.85 percent of the market. Commercial consumers are served by 20 suppliers.
Location: Lithuania PRESS CONTACT
Paulius Kalmantas [email protected] +370 61751616
Since 2006, state-owned company EirGrid has developed and operated the national high voltage electricity grid in Ireland.
Twitter: @EirGrid Location: Ireland
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David Martin [email protected] +353 12370260
State-funded technical research centre specialised in mathematical modelling of power systems and networks, ICT-based control systems of power systems, renewable energy, security of energy supply, the development of energy planning methods, etc.
Location: Lithuania
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Simonas Mikalauskis [email protected] +370 37401826 A state-owned company in charge of operating the national power transmission grid. It is independent of the power generation and distribution company Vattenfall since the split in 1992.
Twitter: @svenskakraftnat Location: Sweden
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Press office [email protected] +46 10 475 8010
Manages the national transmission grid with 74,669 kms of high-voltage power lines. The first independent network operator in Europe and one of the largest in the world.
Twitter: @TernaSpA Email: [email protected] Location: Italy
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Ivan Dompé [email protected] +39 0683139081 +39 0683139232
The Renewables Grid Initiative brings together NGOs (e.g. Climate Action Network, WWF, Germanwatch) and transmission grid operators (TSOs) from across Europe. RGI promotes an environmentally sensitive grid development to enable the growth of renewable energy and the energy transition.
Like the Clean Energy Wire, the RGI is funded by the Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation.
Website: www.renewables-grid.eu/ Location: Germany
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Stephanie Bätjer, Senior Manager Communication +49 30 76771945 30 [email protected]
Armin Schnettler is senior vice-president of energy and electronics research at Siemens AG and head of the institute for high voltage technology at RWTH Aachen.
Website: www.ifht.rwth-aachen.de Email: [email protected] Location: Germany
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+49 241 80-94930 [email protected]
Oliver Brückl is professor of electrical engineering and IT at East Bavarian Technical University Regensburg.
Website: www.oth-regensburg.de Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 941 943 -9881 Location: Germany PRESS CONTACT
Maria Ettmüller +49 941 943 -1101 [email protected]
Götz Fischbeck is a Frankfurt based consultant and Managing Director of Smart Solar Consulting.
Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 6109 205 -1953 or +49 6109 71985 -11 Location: Germany
Innogy is a German energy company and a subsidiary of E.ON specialising in grid & infrastructure. According to its website, Innogy has more than 42,000 employees and is active in 15 European countries.
Website: www.innogy.com Location: Germany
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Dr. Thomas Breuer +49 201 12 -15251 +49 152 55673614 [email protected]
Paul Binder +49 201 12 -23462 +49 152 54924314 [email protected]
Sarah Schaffers +49 201 12 -20929 +49 152 54951481 [email protected] The Center for Flexible Electrical Networks (FEN) is an association of institutes of RWTH Aachen University and industrial partners. Its objective is research on future electricity grids designed to integrate decentralised sustainable energy sources. The transdisciplinary research concentrates on the integration and development of direct current (DC) technology at all voltage levels and grid solutions for alternating current (AC) and DC grids. This also touches on communication technology, cloud services, integration of energy storage and societal aspects.
Website: www.FENaachen.net Location: Germany
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Sascha Falkner +49 241 80 22474 [email protected]
The Association of Energy Market Innovators (BNE) represents the interests of grid-independent energy suppliers and energy service companies in Germany. Its members who supply around 7 million customers in Germany, work towards turning the energy transition into a success story, the BNE website states. The BNE is committed to fair conditions for electricity and gas suppliers, a smart grid infrastructure and a flexible electricity market design that can incorporate renewable energies. It advocates neutral grids where generation, sales and grid operation are kept separate. It further advocates high transparancy standards for grid operation.
Website: www.bne-online.de Email: [email protected] Location: Germany
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+49 30 400 548 -0
The renewable grid initiative is a non-profit organisation which promotes the integration of 100% renewable energy into the European grid. TSOs and NGOs join forces in RGI to support the build-up of a sufficient grid infrastructure in Europe for both decentralised and large-scale renewable energy sources. The initiative promotes grid development that is efficient, sustainable, timely, environmentally friendly, and socially acceptable to all stakeholders.
RGI is co-funded by the European Climate Foundation and Stiftung Mercator. It regularly issues reports on questions of grid functionality and hosts conferences on this particular topic.
Website: renewables-grid.eu Location: Germany
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Theresa Schneider +49 30 7677 194 50 [email protected] [email protected]
FENES is a research center for power networks and energy storage, located at the college of technology in Regensburg (OTH - Ostbayerische technische Hochschule). It focuses its research on grid technology and energy storage systems (various technologies, for example power-to-gas). It is managed by professors Oliver Brückl and Michael Sterner.
Website: https://www.fenes.net/ Location: Germany
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Prof. Dr. Ing. Oliver Brückl +49 941 943 -9881 [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Ing. Michael Sterner + 49 941 943 -9888 [email protected]
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is a global (US, Europe, China), non-profit team of experts focused on the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the power and natural gas sectors, providing technical and policy assistance to policymakers and regulators. RAP's senior associate in Berlin, Andreas Jahn, focuses on issues relating to the German Energiewende (energy transition), helping develop and advance regulatory options for a carbon-neutral power sector, including demand-side resources and tariff design. RAP is primarily funded by foundations and federal contracts. It maintains a close affiliation with the ClimateWorks Foundation.
Website: www.raponline.org Location: Germany
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Andreas Jahn Senior Associate +49 30 700 1435 421 +49 172 176 9727 [email protected]
Franziska Mohaupt is a research assitant at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research and project manager on InnoSmart, which aims to create a social impetus for the successful dissemination smart grids through user- friendly design.
Email: [email protected] Location: Germany
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Richard Harnisch +49 30 884 594 -0 [email protected]
The Federal Network Agency supervises operators of energy supply networks together with federal state regulatory bodies. It ensures that all users can access and use the energy supply network on a non-discriminatory basis. The aim of energy regulation is to create conditions for increased competition in the markets for energy generation, trade and supply. The agency is also responsible for tasks in connection with expanding the electricity grid and lawmakers have tasked it with ensuring more efficient licensing procedures and accelerated expansion of the grid.
Website: http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/ Email: [email protected] Location: Germany
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Anette Fröhlich +49 30 22480-300 [email protected]
TransnetBW is one of four transimission grid operators in Germany (the others are Tennet, Amprion and 50Hertz). The company is responsible for operating, maintaining, planning and expanding the transmission network in Baden Württemberg. Here, over 3,300 kilometres of extra high voltage (EHV) power lines transmit voltages of 220 and 380kV across an area of 34,600 square kilometres.
Map of transimission grid operators in Germany
Location: Germany
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Regina König +49 711 21858 3155 [email protected]
Amprion is one of four transimission network operators in Germany (the others are TransnetBW, Tennet and 50Hertz). Amprion operates an extra-high voltage grid with a length of 11,000 km reaching from Lower Saxony in the north to the Alps in the south.
Map of transimission grid operators in Germany
Location: Germany PRESS CONTACT
Dr. Andreas Preuß +49 231 5849 13785 +49 172 2407116 [email protected]
50 Hertz is one of four transmission network operators in Germany (the others are Tennet, TransnetBW and Amprion). The company is responsible for the operation, maintenance, planning, and expansion of the 380/220 kilowatt transmission grid throughout northern and eastern Germany.
Map of transimission grid operators in Germany
Website: www.50hertz.com Email: [email protected] Location: Germany
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Kerstin Maria Rippel, Head of Communications & Public Affairs +49 30 5150 0 [email protected]
Volker Gustedt, press officer +49 30 5150 2878 [email protected]
Volker Kamm, press officer +49 30 5150 2878 [email protected]
TenneT is one of four transmission network operators in Germany (the others are 50Hertz, TransnetBW and Amprion). It operates a large part of the extra-high voltage grid in northern, middle and southern Germany.
Map of transimission grid operators in Germany Website: www.tennet.eu Location: Germany
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Ulrike Hörchens , press spokesperson +49 921 50740 4045 [email protected]
Jeroen Brouwers & Eefje Van Gorp, Media Relations +31 26 373 26 00 [email protected]
The German Energy Agency (Deutsche Energie-Agentur, Dena) is a profit-oriented company working on topics such as energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and intelligent energy systems and is funded by a large number of public and private investors. Its key shareholders are the German state, KfW Bankengruppe, Allianz SE, Deutsche Bank AG and DZ Bank AG. Dena’s projects aim to promote economic growth while reducing energy consumption. The agency publishes information on buildings, mobility, grids and power storage. It sees itself as an interface between politics and business.
Website: www.dena.de Email: [email protected] Location: Germany
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Irene Beringer +49 30 66 777 -114 [email protected]
Alexander Perschel +49 30 66 777 -379 [email protected]