Below is a list of my interviewees and project-related activities, with links to the relevant blog posts. (Links will be added as the relevant posts become live.)
[Jump to Country: Germany, India, South Korea, Japan, Chile, Other]
// Germany
Cooperatives and Municipalities
- Luise Neumann-Cosel — BürgerEnergie Berlin (energy cooperative)
- Peter Majer — Office of Innovation and Ecology at Badenova (municipal utility)
- Peter Schmidt — German Association of Local Public Utilities (VKU), BürgerEnergie Berlin (energy cooperative)
- Sebastian Müller — Freiburg City Council
- Tanja Gaudian — EWS Schönau (energy cooperative)
Ecologic Institute
- Andreas Prahl — Researcher (energy and climate)
- Benjamin Görlach — Senior Fellow (environmental economics)
- Katharina Umpfenbach and Andreas Graf — Senior Fellow (energy and resource efficiency policy) and Researcher (climate, energy, and biodiversity), respectively
- R. Andreas Krämer — Founder and Director Emeritus
EUREF campus
- Andreas F. Raab — TU Berlin, Forschungscampus Mobility2Grid Project
- Felix Creutzig — Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
- Franziska Kaiser — Forschungscampus Mobility2Grid Project
- Mauricio Rojas — Innovation Center for Mobility and Societal Change (InnoZ) GmbH
- Sohail Ahmad — Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy
- Gerhard Stryi-Hipp — Coordinator for “Smart Energy Cities” and Head of Energy Policy
- Matthias Vetter — Researcher (autonomous power supplies, mini-grids, and electric storage systems)
- Wolfgang Biener — Researcher (electrical energy systems)
- Kristin Goldbach — Researcher (user behavior for renewables and Smart Cities)
Independent Consultants
- Christian Huder — Christian Huder Consulting
- Dieter Seifried — Büro Ö quadrat
- Harald Schäffler — Schäffler Consult
- Klaus Hoppe — Klaus Hoppe Consulting
Smart Grid Platform Baden-Württemberg
- Albrecht Reuter — Chairman; Fichtner IT Consulting AG
- Jürgen Treiber — Assessor; Smart Grid Development OHG
- Stefen Tenbohlen — Treasurer; Institute of Power Transmission and High Voltage Technology at University of Stuttgart
RWTH Aachen
- Antonello Monti — Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems
- Christian Michelsen — Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior
- Researcher from Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior
Technical Practitioners
- Georg Riegel — deZem GmbH
- Johannes D. Hengstenberg and Justus von Widekind — co2online gGmbH
- Richard Hubert — Hubert & Associates GmbH
- Omar Gorgies — SmartExergy WMS GmbH
- Tim Kleeberg — Ebee Smart Technologies GmbH
- Werner Ziel — Siemens AG
University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs University)
- Chelsea Tschoerner — Ph.D. Candidate in Social Sciences, Mobility Planning, and Governance
- Franz-Josef Brüggemeier — Professor of Economic, Social, and Environmental History
- Michael Pregernig — Professor of Environmental Governance
- Philipp Späth — Professor of Environmental Governance
- Sabine Reinecke — Ph.D. Candidate in Forest & Environmental Policy and Environmental Governance
- Simon Funcke — Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Governance, Researcher at the Centre for Renewable Energy (ZEE)
University of Stuttgart’s Research Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies
- Ortwin Renn — Professor
- Pia Johanna-Schweizer — Senior Researcher
- Sandra Wassermann and Sophia Alcántara Rodriguez — Researchers
Wolfhagen Energie Offensive
- Christina Sagar-Klauß — Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
- Elisabeth Stark — Stadtwerke Wolfhagen
- Manfred Schaub — ENERGIE 2000 e.V.
Other
- Aaron Best — Climate-KIC
- Antonella Battaglini — Renewables Grid Initiative
- Christoph Heinemann — Öko Institut
- Jennifer McIntosh — International Solar Energy Society
- Stephanie Ropenus — Agora Energiewende
- Theresa Gründler — Student at P. H. Freiburg
- Wolfgang Teubner — ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Events
- FINESCE “Utility 4.0” Project Final Conference
- S3C Project Final Conference
// India
Academia
- Anant Sudarshan — Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago (EPIC)
- Kaustubh Dhargalkar — Welingkar Institute of Management
- Krithi Ramamritham — IIT Bombay
- Manoj Gulati — IIIT Delhi
- Nipun Batra — IIIT Delhi
- S. A. Khaparde — IIT Bombay
Consultants
- Chanmeet Singh Syal — Mercados Energy Markets India, Consultant to CERC
- Rajul Saxena — NPTI
Distribution Companies
- Gopal Saxena — BSES Delhi
- Pavan Rajappa — BESCOM
- MSEDCL (multiple employees)
- TATA Power Mumbai (multiple employees)
Government
- India Smart Grid Forum (Reji Kumar Pillai, C. Amritha, Amol Sawant, Hem Thukral, and Akshay Ahuja)
- Nipen Kumar Deka — Assam Electricity Regulatory Commission
Rural Electrification
- Aalekh Sharan — International Innovation Corps Fellow
- Bijit Biswas — Husk Power Systems
- Kunal Amitabh — DESI Power
- Mrinalini Penumaka — International Innovation Corps Fellow, World Bank
- Nikhil Jaisinghani — Mera Gao Power
- Paras Loomba — Global Himalayan Expeditions
- Simpa Networks (multiple employees)
- Smart Power India (Disha Banerjee and Samit Mitra)
Smart Grid Companies
- Amarjeet Singh — Zenatix Solutions Pvt. Ltd, IIIT Delhi
- Customized Energy Solutions (Harsh Thacker, Netra Walawalkar, Vinayak Walimbe, and Rahul Walawalkar)
Think Tanks
- Alekhya Datta — TERI
- Ashwini Chitnis — Prayas
- Debajit Palit — TERI
- Priyavrat Bhati — Centre for Science and Environment
- Shirish Garud — TERI
Other
- Ankit Verma — NPTI
- Nikhil Kolsepatil and Ashish Verma — ICLEI South Asia
- Raghav Mittal — SunAlpha Energy
- Srinivasan Iyer — Ford Foundation
- USAID (Priya Sreedharan, Apurva Chaturvedi, and Anurag Mishra)
- V. Subramanian — Indian Wind Energy Association, Former Secretary of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Events
- DESI Power Site Visit (Araria, Bihar)
- Energy Storage India (3rd International Conference & Exhibition on Energy Storage & Microgrids in India)
- ISGF-VJTI Joint Certificate Course on Smart Grids Session at TPDDL
- National Workshop on “Renewable Energy for Empowering Women and Livelihood Generation in Jute Sector”
- TERI Gram Campus Tour
// South Korea
Interviewees
- Chan-Kook Park — Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI)
- Changsun Jang and Sejin An — Green Technology Center Korea (GTCK)
- Chung-hwan Lim — Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
- Dong-Joo Kang — Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) and International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN)
- Hee Tae Lee — Hanwha S&C
- J.D. Lee — KT Corporation
- Jiyeon Shim — Danish Embassy in Seoul
- Johnny (Junseong) Lee — Korea Energy Technology Evaluation & Planning (KETEP)
- Jong-Arm Jun — Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
- Jong Cheon Son — Korea Smart Grid Institute (KSGI)
- Jun Ill Yoon — Hyosung Corporation
- K. D. Lee — Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI)
- Nick Kim — SNE Research
- Sang-il Kim — Korea Power Exchange (KPX)
- Seung Ill Moon — Seoul National University (SNU)
- Sohn Chang Hee — LSIS
Events
- Jeju Island Smart Grid Center and Interoperability Center Tours
- KEPCO Smart Grid Station (Guri Branch Office) Tour
- LS Tower Smart Grid Tour
- Magok Smart City Facilities Tour
// Japan
Interviewees
- Andrew DeWit — Rikkyo University
- City of Yokohama
- Eri Isono — Toshiba
- Hideo Ishii — Waseda University
- Hiroki Kudo — Institute of Energy and Economics Japan (IEEJ)
- Hitomi Tanaka — Toyota City
- Jun Hashimoto and Junichi Watanabe — Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA)
- Kazumi Ueda — New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
- Kaoru Yamaguchi — Institute of Energy and Economics Japan (IEEJ)
- Kazuhiko Hanaoka — Fuji Electric
- Kazuhiko Ogimoto — University of Tokyo
- Kenji Yamaji — Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
- Saya Mizuno — Ministry of Environment
- Shigeru Bando and Hiroshi Asano — Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
- Takashi Iwamoto — Keio University
- Tom O’Sullivan — Mathyos
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government
- Yuichiro Shimura — Mitsubishi Research Institute
- Yukari Hino — Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry
Events
- International Smart Grid Action Network Public Workshop
- Smart Common City Akashidai Visit
- Toyota City Ecofultown Tour
// Chile
Interviewees
- Carlos Finat — Asociacion Chilena de Energias Renovables A.G. (ACERA)
- Claudio Seebach — Generadoras de Chile
- Eduardo Calderón A. and Alex Alegría M. — Transelec
- Fernando Farías Ellies — Climate Change Division, Ministry of Environment
- Francisca Martinez — Smart City Santiago Project, Chilectra
- Francisco Leiva Ibañez — Fundación Chile
- Gabriel Guggisberg — Ministry of Energy
- Guillermo Jiménez E. — Centro de Energía, Universidad de Chile
- Hector Lagunas, Cristian Herrera, and Marisela Ricke — GTD Ingenieria Consultores
- Isabel Rojas Astorga — Division of Information and Environmental Economy, Ministry of Environment
- Javier Bustos — Energy Policy and Forecasting Division, Ministry of Energy
- Matthias Grandel — GIZ Chile
- Mauricio Tapia Callegari — Regional Ministry Secretary of the Coquimbo Region, Ministry of Energy
- Nicola Borregaard — Division of Sustainable Development, Ministry of Energy
- Jean Paul Zalaquett — Chilectra
- Ricardo Cofré Mesa — Peñalolen Municipality
- Roberto Celis P. — Agencia Chilena de Eficiencia Energética (AChEE)
- Rodrigo Castillo — Asociación de Empresas Eléctricas
- Sergio Luna — Pattern Energy
- Vartan Ishanoglu — ENGIE Factory
// Other
Interviewees
- Anil Pahwa — Kansas State University
- Klaus Kubeczko — Austrian Institute of Technology
Events
- Sustainable Energy and Technology Asia (SETA) 2016
- Watson Returning Fellows’ Conference