The smarter E podcast is all about the current trends and developments in a renewable, decentralized and digital energy industry. Our moderators Tobias Bücklein and Zackes Brustik welcome and interview personalities who shape our industry and drive developments forward. A new episode is published every Thursday.
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A Heart for the Power Grid - How Heat Pumps Provide Balance in the Energy System Episode 119 with Egbert Tippelt, Product Manager Heat Pumps, Viessmann |
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Green Hydrogen: Electrolyzer Solutions for Sustainable Energy Systems Episode 118 with Dr. Fabio Oldenburg, Senior Consultant at Apricum & Co-founder and CTO of Gaia Membranes AG |
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Hybrid Power Plants: The Future of Reliable Power Generation Episode 117 with Dr. Julia Badeda, member of the management board at ABO Wind |
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Green Roofs and PV: Contradiction or Opportunity? Episode 116 with Gunter Mann from the Bundesverband Gebäudegrün e.V. and Immanuel Schäfer from the Bodensee Stiftung |
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Hard Shell, Smart Core: Why Inner Values Count in Industrial Energy Storage Systems Episode 115 with Julian Jansen, Director of Growth and Market Development (EMEA) at Fluence |
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The Beginning of the Green Hydrogen Age – What Else Does It Need? Episode 114 with Prof. Dr. Christopher Hebling, Head of Hydrogen Technologies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE |
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European Distribution Systems – Ready for Smart Grids? Episode 113 with Carmen Gimeno of GEODE, the European Association of Independent Electricity and Gas Distributors |
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Who Is in Charge of E-Mobility? Episode 112 with Christoph Stürmer, equity partner and leader of the automotive practice at Vindelici Advisors AG |
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E-mobility: What Questions Keep Fleet Managers Episode 111 with Team at CleanElectric, the emobility podcast |
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Virtual Power Plants – The Power of Many Episode 110 with Aleksandra Radwanska and Leonard Hirsch from Next Kraftwerke |
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This is How Sector Coupling and Vehicle-Integrated Power Generation Succeeds Episode 109 with Oliver Mayer, Head of Energy Department, Bayern Innovativ GmbH |
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What is "Smart Charging" and How Can Electric Car Drivers Benefit from it? Episode 108 with Baerte de Brey, Chief International Officer at ElaadNL and Vice President at AVERE |
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How Citizens Take the Energy Transition into Their Own Hands Episode 107 with Andreas Henze, CEO of Bürger Energie Genossenschaft BEG |
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How Start-ups are Driving the Mobility Revolution Episode 106 with Benedikt Gerber, eQuota & Harald Baumeister, Sopago |
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Agri-PV: Opportunities for Agriculture and Energy Transition Episode 105 with Stefano Amaducci, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
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Investments in Renewable Energies – Approaches for Investors, Banks and Insurance Companies Episode 104 with Stefan Garche, VDE Renewables |
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The Growth and Growth of the Global Energy Storage Market – Trends, Innovations & Developments Episode 103 with Sergio Duenàs, Strategen |
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Solar Thermal and PV in Latin America – an Emerging Market Episode 102 with Marisol Oropeza and Nelson Delgado |
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Life Cycle Analysis: The True CO₂ Emissions of All Drives Episode 101 with Johannes Buberger, Universität der Bundeswehr |
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Bake Bread While the Sun Shines: Solarbakery for Off-Grid Rural Communities Episode 100 with Simon Zimmermann, Solarbakery |
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Congestion in the Grid? How We Can Regulate Energy Flows in the Future Episode 99 with Ulrich Hempen, international key account and industry management of energy and process technology, WAGO |
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Facts and Fairytales of Floating Solar Solutions Episode 98 with Arnoud van Druten, Director business unit Floating Energy solutions, Sunprojects group |
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How startups are driving the energy transition Episode 97 with Andreas Kuhlmann. CEO of dena |
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Second Life as a leverage to refinance the transition? Episode 96 with Claudius Jehle. CEO of volytica |
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Why is AC bidirectionality key to large-scale V2G implementation? Episode 95 with Dennis Schulmeyer, LADE |
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Brazil's further way to become and maintain a global player on the solar market Episode 94 with Rodrigo Sauaia, ABSOLAR |
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Second Life, Zero Life and more - What does the future hold for energy storage? Episode 93 with Franz-Josef Feilmeier, Fenecon |
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Power Sector Accelerating E-Mobility: Can Utilities turn EVs into a Grid Asset? Episode 92 with Bruce Douglas, Eurelectric |
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Grid-safe integration of e-mobility - why battery electric vehicles save us from blackout Episode 91 with Markus Wunsch, Netze BW |
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What opportunities and challenges do PPAs bring to the energy industry? Episode 90 with Annkathrin Rabe, Statkraft |
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Decentralized energy supply as the basis of a clean energy system? Episode 89 with Gerrit Wörner, sonnen GmbH |
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How to break away from fossil fuels with hydrogen? Episode 88 with Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm, H2.B |
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Sector coupling in the neighborhood – the key to the energy transition? Episode 87 with Dr. Claudia van Laak and Dr. Karsten Schmidt, Open District Hub e.V. |
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No heat transition without solar thermal energy Episode 86 with Karin Rühling, TU Dresden |
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The Sky is the Limit – How Hydrogen will Power Aviation Episode 85 with Prof. Dr. Josef Kallo, CEO of H2Fly |
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Earning Money With Your Own E-car: GHG Quota and More Episode 84 with Marcus Fendt, Managing Director, The Mobility House |
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BIPV – Buildings as Power Plants of the Future? Episode 83 with Dieter Moor, CEO Europe, ClearVuePV |
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Business under Power: Promotion of Charging Systems for E-Vehicles Episode 82 with Conrad Hammer from the National Charging Infrastructure Control Center in Berlin |
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The Unexpected Return of Nuclear - What to Make of it? Episode 81 with Dr. Paul Dorfman, Associate Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex |
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System Vision 2050 - What will the climate-neutral energy system of the future look like? Episode 80 with Thomas Dederichs, Head of Energy Policy at Amprion . |
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Sunny Outlook for Photovoltaics & Storage in Europe Episode 79 with Michael Schmela, Executive Advisor and a member of the leadership team of SolarPower Europe. |
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Retrofitting: From Combustion Engine to Electric Vehicle - a Solution for Sustainable Mobility? Episode 78 with Heiko Fleck, Managing Director of Fleck GmbH. |
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Green Hydrogen as a Solution for a Reliable Power Supply? Episode 77 with Fabian Jochem, Head of Strategy at SMA Sunbelt. |
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