Journalism for the energy transition
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Regulates public services in energy, communications, postal services, municipal waste management and water management.
Twitter: @SPRK_LV Location: Latvia
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Baiba Jakobsone, head of public relations [email protected] +371 67097252 +371 26331188 (mob.)
Promotes fairness, transparency and business ethics at companies competing in the energy, oil and gas sectors.
Email: [email protected] Location: Romania PRESS CONTACT
Prof. ing. Silvia Vlăsceanu, executive director [email protected] +40 313330967 +40 722769469
Representative body for the electricity industry and gas retail sector operating within the Single Electricity Market (SEM) in Ireland.
Twitter: @ElectricityAI Location: Ireland
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Dara Lynott (Chief Executive Officer) [email protected] +353 1 5242726 +353 87 9066 737 (mobile)
Renewable energy provider operating 40 wind farms across the country and supplying approximately 25 percent of Ireland’s total electricity need.
Twitter: @GroupEnergia Location: Ireland
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[email protected] Ireland’s independent energy and water regulator. Established in 1999 as the Commission for Energy.
Twitter: @UtilityregCRU Email: [email protected] Location: Ireland
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Karl Richardson [email protected] +353 860081470
Sweden’s largest power company. Wholly owned by the Swedish state. Operates hydro and nuclear plants, wind farms. Also active in Germany and the Netherlands.
Twitter: @VattenfallGroup Location: Sweden
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Press office [email protected] +46 8 739 5010
Organisation for companies in the energy industry, with about 400 members. Takes policy positions on energy- related issues and lobbies on behalf of the industry.
Twitter: @energiforetagen Email: [email protected] Location: Sweden PRESS CONTACT
Eva Rydegran [email protected] +46 8 677 2723
The Danish Energy Agency monitors and develops the country’s energy and supply sectors and administers climate initiatives. It is also responsible for supporting the economical optimisation of utilities that include telecommunication, water and waste. It offers a range of services from funding subsidies to publications, maps and analyses.
Twitter: @Energistyr Location: Denmark
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Ture Falbe-Hansen [email protected] +45 25 13 78 46
Burger's research focus is in the energy sector/ innovation/ blockchain and decision making/ negotiation. He is co-author of the dena/ ESMT study on “blockchain in the energy transition”, the “ESMT Innovation Index – Electricity Supply Industry” and the book “The Decentralized Energy Revolution – Business Strategies for a New Paradigm”.
Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 30 21231–8040 Location: Germany
Uniper is a German energy company with operations in more than 40 countries and around 13,000 employees. It was created when German utility E.ON split into two companies in 2016. Uniper's mainstays of business are power generation and global commodity trading. The company is engaged in gas production, energy storage, energy and gas sales, and a broad range of services. Nuclear power generation remained with E.ON. As of 12 September 2016, Uniper is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. At nearly 47 per cent, E.ON remains Uniper's largest shareholder but without majority share and influence. Uniper is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Website: www.uniper.energy Location: Germany
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Georg Oppermann +49 211 4579-5532 [email protected]
Oliver Roeder +49 151 12 65 84 65 [email protected]
Lucas Wintgens +49 160 9 56 53 00 4 [email protected]
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 PRESS CONTACT
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]
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Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH) is an energy utility based in the Czech Republic with operations in Slovakia, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Poland and Hungary. Its operations include gas transmission and storage, power supply and trade, heat and power generation, mining and coal trading. In Germany, EPH operates brown coal mining company MIBRAG. In 2016 EPH was in the process of buying Vattenfall's lignite operations in Eastern Germany.
Website: www.epholding.cz Location: Germany
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Daniel Častvaj +420 604 211 864 [email protected]
STEAG is a German power producer with an installed capacity of 10,150 megawatts, of which around 8,200 are situated in Germany. It operates 11 power plants and 200 local power facilities (some of them renewable) in Germany. The STEAG headquarters are in Essen. It also specialises in the planning and construction of power plants. Its shareholders are a consortium of 7 utilities from the Rhine-Ruhr region. Website: https://www.steag.com/de/ Location: Germany
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Daniel Mühlenfeld +49 201 801-4262 [email protected]
Trianel is a network of municipal utilities in Europe. It has over 100 members and partners from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland. Trianel helps the utilities in the areas of energy trading and acquisition. It also operates wind energy and hydro power installations as well as fossil power plants.
Location: Germany
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Dr. Nadja Thomas +49 241 413 20-466 [email protected]
Greenpeace Energy is an energy cooperative and power provider with 23,000 members in Germany (in early 2016). They supply their customers with green power, while standing by Greenpeace convictions and engagments. Greenpeace Energy builds clean power stations, conducts research on renewable energy innovations like wind-gas, and regularly enters the political debate on the energy transition.
Email: [email protected] Location: Germany PRESS CONTACT
Christoph Rasch +49 30 2848 3210
Michael Friedrich +49 40 808 110 655
AGFW is an independent efficiency association that for the past 40 years has supported the development and expansion of combined heat and power (CHP) in Germany, using renewable energies for heating as well as district heating networks. Its members are operators of CHP plants as well as service companies and technology companies in the field.
Website: www.agfw.de Location: Germany
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Christopher Martin +49 69 9543160 [email protected]
Wolfgang Irrek is Professor for Energy Management and Energy Services at the Hochschule Ruhr West, Campus Bottrop. He specialises in business strategies for developing profitable energy efficiency services and policy measures for enhancing framework conditions for energy efficiency services. He also does research on the economic aspects of nuclear power and its decommissioning and subsidies in the energy sector.
Website: www.hochschule-ruhr-west.de Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 208 88254-838 Location: Germany PRESS CONTACT
Beatrice Liebeheim-Wotruba +49 208 88254 -251 [email protected]
The Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) has 661,000 members in Germany, making it the third largest trade union in the German trade union association. They organise workers from the mining, chemicals, energy, oil, natural gas, glass, rubber, ceramics, plastics, paper, environment and waste sectors. Michael Vassiliadis has been its chairman since 2009. During the 2014 debate over a possible coal phase-out, Vassiliadis became an outspoken critic of the idea, aguing that industry would suffer if Germany was to exit nuclear power and coal at the same time.
In October 2010 the IG BCE and other trade unions launched a petition "For affordable electricity and good jobs," emphasising that the Energiewende must not endanger jobs by "shutting down one energy source after another".
Website: ww.igbce.de Location: Germany
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Lars Ruzic +49 511 7631-135 +49 151 23 50 86 38 [email protected]
Isabel Niesmann +49 511 7631-165 +49 171 33 89 767 [email protected]
RWE AG is one of Germany's largest utilities and has approximately 20,000 employees. It still operates many coal-fired power plants and lignite mines in the country. But a comprehensive asset swap with former rival E.ON has turned RWE into one of the largest international players in renewables, and the company has committed to becoming climate-neutral by 2040, following Germany's coal exit. Website: www.rwe.com Location: Germany
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Eva Wagner +49 201 12-23822
Wolfgang Schley +49 201 12-20580
E.ON is a German holding company and energy group based in Essen, with a total of almost 79,000 employees. Following a complicated deal with former rival RWE, E.ON now focuses on energy grids and retail. Among many others, it is majority owner of German energy company Innogy.
Email: [email protected] Location: Germany
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Lars A. Rosumek +49 2 01 18 44 240 [email protected]
Carsten Thomsen-Bendixen +49 2 01 18 44 236 [email protected]
EnBW is one of the largest energy providers in Germany. It is majority-owned by the Federal State of Baden- Württemberg and Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke, a municipal special-purpose association.
Website: www.enbw.com Email: [email protected] Location: Germany PRESS CONTACT
Angela Brötel +49 721 63 14290 [email protected]
Vattenfall, owned by the Swedish state, is one of Germany's biggest energy providers.
Location: Germany
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Sandra Kühberger, Head of Media Relations & Content Germany +49 30 81 82 23 23 [email protected]
Stefan Müller, Director Media Relations & Editorial Germany +49 30 81 82 23 20 [email protected]
Olaf Weidner, press spokesperson +49 30 81 82 23 61 [email protected]
Lutz Wiese, press spokesperson on renewable energy +49 30 81 82 23 32 [email protected]
The IWU is a non-profit research institute financed by the city of Darmstadt and the state of Hesse. The Institute does basic and applied research into housing, energy and integrated sustainable development, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary work.
Website: www.iwu.de Email: [email protected] Location: Germany PRESS CONTACT
Marc Großklos +49 6151 2904 47 [email protected]
AGEB is an energy market research group set up by several major German energy industry associations and economic research institutes. Its purpose is to evaluate current statistics in all areas of the energy market and to publish their results. Once a year, it publishes a report on the overall state of the German energy market. It also monitors the development of the Energiewende.
Website: www.ag-energiebilanzen.de Location: Germany
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Hans Georg Buttermann, EEFA GmbH +49 251 48 82 315 [email protected]
The RWI is an institute for economic research that provides advice to decision makers but also aims to improve the economic literacy among the general public. It receives public funding and support from industry and utilities (e.g. electricity supplier RWE). One of its areas of research is “Environment and Resources”. Studies published by this department often tend to favour a more market-oriented approach to energy policy.
Website: en.rwi-essen.de Location: Germany PRESS CONTACT
Sabine Weiler +49 201 8149 -213 [email protected]
Katja Fels +49 201 8149 -217 [email protected]
Leonard Goebel +49 201 8149 -210 [email protected]
The BDEW is the largest energy industry association in Germany. It has 1800 members, including local and municipal utilities as well as regional and inter-regional suppliers. The “big 4” producers and supply companies (Eon, Vattenfall, EnBW and RWE) and large grid operators support the BDEW. The association has considerable influence on German energy policy and is generally a proponent of free-market designs.
During the EEG-reform debate the BDEW was in support of integrating renewables into the market and giving them more responsibility when it comes to energy security. The BDEW is keen on ensuring a beneficial investment climate for power producers and grid operators.
Website: www.bdew.de Email: [email protected] Location: Germany
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Jan Ulland +49 30 300 199 -1160
Julia Löffelholz +49 30 300 199 -1168
The VKU represents 1400 local and regional utilities (Stadtwerke). These utilities are often at least partially owned by towns or communities, and are in charge of water and sewage, energy supply and waste management.
Website: www.vku.de Location: Germany
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Dorothea Misch +49 30 58580 221 [email protected]
Stefan Luig +49 30 58580 226 [email protected]
Elisabeth Mader +49 30 58580 227 [email protected]