Lecturers (in alphabetical order)
Berthold Breid, Renewables Academy
- Berthold Breid is the CEO of Renewables Academy AG. Before co-founding RENAC, he worked as a project director for the German Energy Agency (dena), building up and managing the International Solar Roof Program.
- Courses: Frameworks and support models for renewables energies, current and future markets for PV
Daniel Becker, Ecofys Germany GmbH
- Daniel Becker works as senior consultant at Ecofys Gemany, Energy and Climate Strategy. He is an expert on international market conditions and support schemes for renewable energies.
- Course: Legislation and Supporting Schemes for Energy Efficiency
Roland Berger, Ökotec Energy Management GmbH
- Roland Berger is Managing Director of Ökotec Energiemanagement GmbH in Berlin and an expert in the areas of energy efficiency, energy acquisition, water and waste water and biogas.
- Course: Energy Efficiency in Industry & Trade
Dipl.-Ing. Jens Bömer, Ecofys Germany GmbH
- Dipl.-Ing. Jens Bömer works as a Consultant in the Power Systems and Markets department at the Ecofys office in Berlin. He is expert in the grid integration of renewable energies and responsible for power flow and dynamic grid studies.
- Course: Grid connection of RE
Marcus Brand, KWA Eviva GmbH
- Marcus Brand is consultant for Biomass within the Ecofys Germany GmbH. On the basis of his last 6 years experience in construction and erection of biogas plants he is primarily involved in biogas projects.
- Course: Biogas
Hartwig von Bredow, Schnutenhaus & Kollegen
- Since June 2007, Hartwig von Bredow has been working as attorney-at-law for Schnutenhaus & Kollegen, Berlin, a highly specialized law firm in energy law. His main area of interest is renewable energies law – a subject matter Mr. von Bredow regularly lectures and publishes on.
- Course: Supporting Schemes and Legislation
Katie Brown, Renewables Academy
- Katie Brown worked with renewable energies systems at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales (CAT), where she taught many CAT courses aimed at professionals and students of all ages.
- Courses: Project planning, system design and installation, combined heat and power units
Werner Bußmann, Federal Geothermal Association
- Werner Bußmann is a technical journalist and member of Board Federal Geothermal Association. He is also the General Manager of the GtV Service GmbH and the Editor of the journal “Geothermische Energie” .
- Course: Geothermal Energy Electricity Production
Dr. Bernd Degen, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries
- Since 2004 Dr. Bernd Degen is the director of the Institute of Forest Genetics at the Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries in Grosshansdorf, Germany. There he is responsible for research on tree breeding, biotechnology, genomics and population genetics of native and exotic tree species.
- Course: Bioenery - short-rotation plantation
Dr.-Ing. Bernd Eikmeier, Bremer Energy Institute
- Dr.-Ing. Bernd Eikmeier is senior scientiest and project manager at the Bremer Energie Institut since 2003. One of his main areas of research is cogeneration and other solutions to increase energy efficiency.
- Course: Energy Sector
Carsten Ernst, Ökotec Energy Management GmbH
- Mr. Carsten Ernst is senior consultant and works as a project manager for Ökotec Energiemanagement GmbH.
- His key areas are energy efficiency, conceptual energy design and low energy design for commercial/ industrial buildings, heating, ventilation, cooling energy, compressed air, combined heat and power.
- Course: Energy Efficiency in Industry & Trade
Dr.-Ing. Joachim Fischer, FH Nordhausen
- Dr.-Ing. Joachim Fischer acts as short time consultant for the German Environmental Foundation, DBU, the Agency for Biological Raw Material, FNR, and the Environmental agency, UBA. His expertise includes potential analysis and resource management as well as technological development and economical feasibility of bioenergy projects.
- Course: Energy from firm biomass
Alberto Gallego, Renewables Academy AG
- Alberto Gallego coordinates training programs at RENAC mainly in the field of solar energy. He holds a MsC on Electrical Engineering and a Masters on solar energy as well as an MBA. Before working at RENAC he has gained several years of experience as management consultant at Accenture and KPMG. His experience in the area of solar energy spans further a stage at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energien as well as his activities as teaching assistant at the TU Berlin in the area of photovoltaic systems.
- Course: Photovoltaics
Dr. Jürgen Gabriel, Bremer Energy Institute
- Dr. Jürgen Gabriel joined the Bremer Energie Institut in 2002 as senior scientist. His main fields of research are liberalised energy markets.
- Course: Energy Sector
Dr. Matthias Hampel, Lahmeyer International
- Dr. Matthias Hampel is a solar thermal engineer and works as a project manager at Lahmeyer International. He has studied Physics at the Philipps-University of Marburg and wrote his PhD thesis at the Institute for Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering (ITW) in Stuttgart. From 1999 until 2006 he was a scientific employee at the University of Stuttgart, at the Research and Test Centre for solar thermal systems (TZS). Since 2008 he is working for Lahmeyer International. There he is responsible for due diligence studies, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies as well as project development and general technical studies in the field of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP). He has got more than 12 years of experience in solar thermal engineering.
Dr. Marie Hanusch, Bosch & Partner GmbH
- Dr. Marie Hanusch joined Bosch & Partner Consultants in 2008. She manages consultancy and research projects in the field of environmental and spatial planning and renewable energies with a focus on wind energy. Besides dealing with a wide range of projects in German spatial planning, she worked for the GTZ and supported a province in Vietnam in site and planning issues of wind energy. Previously, she received her doctorate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and worked as trainee with the European Commission.
- Course: Spatial planning for wind farm projects
Anna Heimsath, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)
- Dipl.-Ing. Anna Heimsath works as a scientist at Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg in the field of solar thermal power plants. Her key qualifications are optical quality assessment of key components for CSP-collectors and modelling and simulation of concentrating solar systems. She studied production engineering at the University of Bremen with technical focus on thermal processes and technology assessment. Since 2006 Mrs. Heimsath works on the FRESDEMO project: The construction, operation and qualification of a 100m long linear fresnel collector at the Plataforma Solar de Almería, Spain. The project is financed by the German BMU and MAN Ferrostaal. Her personal project responsibility is the optical characterization of key components.
Dr. Andreas Hermelink, Ecofys Germany GmbH
- Andreas Hermelink has studied business economics and civil engineering and has finished a PhD in sustainable evaluation of buildings. After his activity at the University of Kassel and Florida Solar Energy center, in June 2008 he was employed as Consultant at Ecofys.
- Course: Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Frank Hofmann, Ecofys Germany GmbH
- Frank Hofmann is working as a consultant in the workfield of bioenergy at Ecofys Germany GmbH. His core expertise covers all aspects of biogas projects, especially biogas upgrading to natural gas quality.
- Course: Biogas
Marita Hoheisel, ÖKOTEC Energy Management GmbH
- Marita Hoheisel is an industrial engineer for energy and environmental management working at ÖKOTEC Energiemanagement GmbH (ÖKOTEC) since 2009. As a junior consultant her main focus lies on the implementation of energy analyses and concepts.
- Course: Energy Efficiency in Industry & Trade
Frank Jackson, Renewables Academy
- Frank Jackson has been involved in the solar energy industry since the early 1990s, running courses and seminars, and designing and installing systems. He has worked in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia.
- Courses: System types, solar resources, PV modules, wiring modules, lights and appliances, charge controllers, batteries, site survey, system commissioning
Volker Jaensch, OneCarbon Berlin
- Volker Jaensch is a Senior Consultant for Carbon Credits Development at OneCarbon Berlin, focusing on Asia and Eastern Europe.
- Course: Project Financing with CDM
Dr. Karin Jahn, Bremer Energy Institute
- Dr. Karin Jahn is physicist and obtained her PhD in 1989 from Philipps-Universität Marburg for her work on transport processes in photovoltaic semiconductor materials. Since 1993, she is senior scientist at the Bremen Energy Institute.
- Course: Energy Sector
Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.) M.A Corinna Klessmann, Ecofys Germany GmbH
- Corinna Klessmann, Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.) M.A. works as Senior Consultant for Energy and Climate Strategies with Ecofys Berlin. She is specialised on renewable energy and energy efficiency policy analysis.
- Course: Legistation and Supporting Schemes for Energy Efficiency
Dr. Oliver Lang, Solarc GbR
- Dr. Oliver Lang set up the Solarc GbR with focus on development, production and marketing of solar products. Since 2006, he has been a stockholder and member of the supervisory board of Photovoltaik Berlin AG.
- Courses: Project calculation
Dipl.-Ing. Jan Liersch, Key Wind Energy GmbH
- Jan Lierschhas more than 15 years experience within the wind industry. He has been lecturing for numerous years at the Technische Universität Berlin as part of the courses “Wind Turbines I” and “Wind Turbines II", and within the framework of the ForWind course of studies “Technology and Management of Wind Energy”. He has managed projects in more than 20 countries worldwide.
- Course: Wind Energy
Gabriel Morin, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)
- Gabriel Morin has a diploma in industrial engineering with a degree of the University Karlsruhe. Mr. Gabriel Morin has been working in the field of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) with Fraunhofer ISE since 2002. Since 2008, he has been the coordinator of market area Solar Thermal Power Plants at Fraunhofer ISE.
- His areas of expertise are planning and management of CSP projects, techno-economic simulation and optimization of CSP plants, energy yield assessments as well as strategy consulting in CSP.
Anton Neuhaeuser, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)
- Anton Neuhaeuser (Dipl.-Ing.) studied Energy and Process Engineering focusing on renewable energy. He received his diploma degree for his diploma thesis “Implementation of a simulation model for a solar power-plant with linear Fresnel-collectors and estimation of economics at 1 MW thermal power”.
- His recent fields of R&D activities include the simulation of different power generating cycles for combined heat, cold and power for grid connected and off-grid applications. At TU Berlin he lectures "Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)".
- Course: CSP
Dr. Werner Platzer, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)
- Dr. Werner Platzer is head of the department "Material Research and Applied Optics" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE.
- He studied Physics and Mathematics at Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich and wrote his PhD thesis on "Solar Transmittance and Heat Transport-mechanisms for Transparent Insulation Materials" at University Freiburg.
- He has been working since more than 25 years in research and development of solar thermal energy, facade technology and energy efficiency in buildings. Recent focus is the development of solar thermal power technology and concentrating collectors with an emphasis on the Linear Fresnel Collector, optics, heat transport, thermodynamics and energy performance.
- He has authored more than 180 articles and conference papers and is lecturing Solar Thermal Energy courses at the University of Freiburg and the University Koblenz-Landau.
- Course: CSP
Gerard Reid, Ardour Capital
- Gerard Reid is the head o the European operation of the US investment bank Ardour Capital.
- Course: Funding RE & EE Projects
Martin Schnauss, Renewables Academy
- Martin Schnauss has been working in areas of renewable energies for more than two decades. In his career, he has been working as an engineer for the Berlin University of Technology, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar) and the engineering firm of Dr. Valentin.
- Courses: Overview on renewables energy technologies
Eva-Maria Schubert, Solarpraxis AG
- Eva-Maria Schubert has been with Solarpraxis AG (Berlin), working in the areas of technical publications on photovoltaics, photovoltaics service hotlines and professional training.
- Courses: Designing grid connected application, control, compatibility, testing of systems, practical training
Jan-Benjamin Spitzley, eclareon GmbH
- Jan-Benjamin Spitzley is a lawyer. He finished his studies of law with the “First State Examination” at the University of Münster. He has a Master of International Law of the University of Sydney. Since November 2008, he is working for the eclareon GmbH as a policy consultant.
- Course: Support mechanism
Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
- Gerhard Stryi-Hipp is representing the German Solar Industry since 14 years. He is a senior expert in solar thermal and photovoltaic market development, subsidy programs, solar technology, standardisation, awareness campaigns.
- Course: Supporting Schemes and Market Introduction of RE
Albrecht Tiedemann, Renewables Academy
- Albrecht Tiedemann is responsible for topics such as grid integration of Renewables and wind energy (wind farm financing, operation and maintenance of wind farms, wind farm planning and design, wind energy fundamentals and hybrid systems). Before he started at RENAC he worked as a scientific assistant at the Federal Environmental Agency of Germany (Umweltbundesamt) and as Project Director for the German Energy Agency (dena) where he has been involved in consulting for the German and European energy sector (integration of Renewable energies into energy supply systems; development and implementation of the German offshore wind energy strategy; wind power integration in power markets; smart systems). At RENAC he teaches topics such as grid integration of Renewables, Renewables for rural electrification (hybrid systems), wind energy technology and grid integration of Renewables (PV, concentrating solar power and wind).
- Course: grid integration of renewables, renewables for rural electrification (hybrid systems), wind energy technologies
Dirk Volkmann, Volkmann Consults
- Dirk Volkmann has more than 28 years of experience in the industrial installations and contracting industry, during the most recent years in Renewables (i.e. Biogas, Bioethanol, Biomass conversion and Photovoltaics).
- Courses: Biofuels
Camilo Varas, Lahmeyer International
- Mr. Camilo Varas works as Project Manager for CSP and PV projects in the Renewable Energies Department of Lahmeyer International. He holds a degree on Electrical Engineering (concentration Power) and a Masters on renewable energy, where he started on the CSP area by developing a software tool for modelling parabolic trough plants. He has specialised in power generation and renewable energy through his professional career, participating in different project stages: from project conception and development, passing through construction up to operation and maintenance. As CSP expert, Mr. Varas has provided engineering assistance to project Developers and Owners (site selection, basic engineering, tendering), and to Lenders and Investors (project assessment, performance expectations, contractual review, risk analysis, financial base case preparation); providing services for different CSP markets throughout the world (Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Middle East).
Otmar Werner, KfW Development Bank
- Otmar Werner is Sector Economist in the Energy Sector and Policy Division of KfW Development Bank in Frankfurt. In addition to his position as Sector Economist he is as well the responsible Project Manager for the KfW energy projects in Nepal and Bangladesh.
Christiane Wörlen, Arepo Consult
- Christine Wörlen is an international consultant on issues of integration of renewable energies in the energy sector. She has degrees in Geo-Ecology and Economics from Bayreuth University (Germany) and a Ph.D. from Boston University. Until 2009 she was the Head of the Renewable Energy Division of the German Energy Agency GmbH (dena).
- Before joining dena, she was the Program Manager for Renewable Energy and New Low-GHG Emitting Energy Technologies at the Global Environment Facility, and a staff member of the World Bank. There she administered grants of more than 100 mUSD p.a. to developing countries and economies in transition. Previously, she worked as a Research Associate for the Study Commission of the German Parliament on “Sustainable Energy Supplies in View of Globalization and Liberalization”, which examined the future of energy supply for Germany.