With 923 exhibitors from 30 countries and around 30,000 trade visitors from 72 countries in 2024, E-world is Europe’s leading trade fair for the energy industry. From global and regional giants to innovative start-ups, E-world offers a unique networking platform within the energy sector under the motto “Solutions for a Sustainable Future”. During the three days of the trade fair an extensive program will take place. At the four expert forums energy professionals discuss vital topics regarding the present and future of the industry.
Baringa is a proud sponsor of E-world.
Meet us on February 11-13 at our stand 2C138 in hall 2 and register for the event block “The Risk of Storing Energy: How to Market Battery Storage” to see our presentation:
February 12, 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm, New Energy Systems Forum, Hall 1
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Energy storage and the flexibility it can provide are critical to the energy transition. Properly sized and sited, it can provide benefits such as power system operability and resilience, power adequacy and, at least in part, replace the need for grid expansion or reinforcement. But: Who will pay for the benefits or services, and over what period of time? All benefits involve revenue streams that may be volatile and discourage banks from providing long-term financing. Some benefits are systemic, while others are of benefit to private actors. How can contracts capture both and underpin financing? Can energy storage be financed without contracts and what are the risks of doing so? - Dr. Marc Daube and Samuel Ebohon |
Our experts at E-worldHall 2, stand 2C138 |
Jochen Herrmann
Jochen helps energy businesses decarbonise. He also works with energy traders across the continent helping them improve every aspect of their business. A consultant since the beginning of his professional life, Jochen joined one of the big four after studying business administration. For his thesis, he worked with local football club Eintracht , evaluating intangible assets like players licences. Partly as a result, he sees energy as a asset that's much more than a simple transactional product - it has a profound impact on the future of society and the environment. Jochen aims to cultivate long-term, high-impact relationships with clients; including one he has now worked with for a decade, running multi-functional teams designed to address many client issues in a fast, effective and measurable way.
Andrew Singleton
Andrew is a partner in Baringa’s energy trading team, working with his clients to solve complicated problems as quickly and efficiently as possible. He helps them transform their trading business – by changing the way they operate, deliver solutions or the way they’re organised – so they can grow, invest, or compete in a rapidly changing environment. He specialises in architectural and solution delivery for both small and large programmes. For Andy, it’s all about finding the fastest way to release value into his clients’ business, so they can enter a new market, trade in a new location or implement the technology that will help them innovate and compete. In addition to drawing on over two decades of experience in the sector, Andy’s always on the lookout for new insights he can bring to his clients, both from within Baringa and the market at-large. By working on leading projects in the industry, Andy also plays a role in shaping the sector’s future – a future that will require adapting to climate change and transitioning to more sustainable energy sources.
Ralph Behrendt
Ralph specialises in helping utilities firms transform how they run their businesses using technology and process optimisation. As part of this, he works with senior executives to define and build the utilities of the future. Ralph started his career as a lawyer, then destiny took a different turn, and he’s spent the rest of his career working as a consultant in the utilities industry. Across positions at several firms, he’s always focused on large-scale transformation programmes involving people, processes and technology. His career highlights include partnering with one client to design and consolidate a new CRM and billing system with a first of its kind delivery model and helping another to overhaul its operating model to set the business up for long-term success.
Ralf Kurtz
Ralf joined Baringa from PwC where he was an energy consulting partner for 16 years. He has over 30 years of experience in strategy and operational excellence consulting for energy supply companies. He has also advised companies on Smart Metering and Smart Energy in Germany.
He advises whole companies as well as different parts of the value chain to grow their value through a holistic enterprise value creation approach. He analyses both the financial and non-financial success factors of energy supply companies, defines strengths and weaknesses and creates change paths.
He sees the digitalisation of the energy transition as the decisive issue for grid and metering point operators. Ralf advises on everything from the definition of a new digital strategy to the design of a new target operating model and the development of measures for implementation.
He advises his clients from strategy to implementation and helps with successful and sustainable transformation. For him, the involvement and development of the employees in his clients’ companies plays an essential role, as this is the only way to achieve sustainability.
Juana Tabaza
Juana is dedicated to the energy transition, supporting energy business reach their net zero targets. With her vast amount of experience in energy trading, risk management, system implementations, she has helped businesses adapt their practices to compete in fast changing markets. She is passionate about renewable energy, sustainable business solutions and strategic decision making. Juana has been in the energy industry over 12 years and is currently operating from Switzerland.
Katrin Behte
Katrin works with energy trading teams to help them respond to the dramatic changes the industry is facing. She’s passionate about operational excellence and works with our clients to ensure they’re set up for long-term success. She loves the variety in her work. One moment she’s rethinking processes, organisational design or operating models. The next, designing future system architecture or digital roadmaps to future-proof our clients’ businesses. Katrin knows that bringing the right people together is what delivers lasting results. She thrives in a collaborative environment, working hand in hand with our clients, and within our diverse team.
Isabel Scott-Skinner
Isabel leads our trading architecture centre of excellence, helping clients in the energy and commodities sectors to work through their business design and thorny IT issues. She is at her happiest when solving complex problems, ideally whilst sketching out designs on a whiteboard with her clients to deliver industry leading trading IT design. Isabel has always worked in the energy sector, having first worked for an energy retailer and then Elexon, the UK power market participant, before joining Baringa. She loves working in the energy and commodities trading space because it’s always changing, there are always new challenges to overcome, new technology and solutions to explore, and new markets and products to understand.
Andrey Shutov
Andrey is a risk management expert and programme manager in our Energy, Utilities and Resources practice. He specialises in helping trading organisations to develop fit for purpose risk management frameworks that set them up for success in dynamically changing environments. Over the course of his career, Andrey has worked with trading organisations in this space spanning investment banks, derivatives traders and energy and commodity trading companies. His career highlights include providing strategic risk advisory to CROs of trading organisations, delivering large risk transformation programmes with major European and UK investment banks and setting up new credit and liquidity risk functions for large commodity trading firms.
Karim Alnakkash
With 14 years of experience in wholesale energy markets, including serving as CTO of EDF Energy’s route-to-market business in Great Britain, Karim led the optimisation of diverse portfolios spanning renewables, thermal, nuclear, storage, and demand. He was instrumental in developing EDF’s Powershift platform, growing its controlled battery storage capacity from 6MW in 2018 to 750MW by 2023. Today, Karim advise asset owners, investors, and market-facing entities on unlocking value from short-term markets through strategic capability development, commercial contracting, and organizational design.
Marc Daube
Marc Daube leads the Power Market Advisory team in Germany. He has 15 years of experience in energy and environmental economics and is an expert on European energy markets with a particular focus on the German power sector. He has led numerous transactions in renewables, storage technologies and thermal generation, and possesses deep expertise in regulation and policy, fundamental market modelling as well as asset valuation and commercial due diligence.
Samuel Ebohon
Sam is a highly skilled energy industry expert and market modeler with more than 20 years’ industry experience. Sam’s background is in power market fundamentals, and he is a recognised expert in European power markets, with depth of experience in the Belgian, Dutch, French, German and Great British power markets. Sam co-leads our Electricity Flexibility capability at Baringa, from which he is frequently leading teams delivering qualitative market research and quantitative market analytics to support project developers, equity projects and lenders through commercial and market due diligence, market strategy and economic impact assessment.
Giovanni Sorda
Giovanni has worked in the energy and power sector for over a decade and is an expert in commercial and strategic advisory, market analysis and green transformation programs with a focus on renewables and flexibility assets. His experience ranges from helping large corporates decarbonise power consumption to leading commercial due diligence processes and supporting asset owners/investors in assessing the optimal route to monetize their assets vis-à-vis their risk-return profile.
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