Prof. Michael Sterner

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Prof. Dr. Michael Sterner
Ostbayrische Technische Hochschule, Regensburg / Germany

"We need a market introduction program for the core of almost all PtX-Chains, the electrolysis. Most of the technology is mature for this and we need clear market introduction and legal framework, to bring the costs down. We need to go through this learning curve to have the technology ready in MW-Scale for the time we need it."

 

Vita:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Sterner works as professor for energy storage and renewable energy systems at the Technical University in Regensburg in Germany. He is teaching energy storage, energy economics and solar energy and leading a research institute on energy storage with 30 employees. Before he was head of energy systems and energy economy at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology, were he invented a new storage technology together with colleagues: Power-to-Gas. Meanwhile, various industry companies have adopted the concept and built demo plants in MW scale. He guided various EU projects and focussed mainly on energy storage.

He is a co-autor for the Special Report on Renewable Energy (SRREN) in IPCC and consulting the German government on the transformation of energy systems and is member of scientific committees in BMWi and BMBF (head of scientific board hydrogen project HYPOS and expert committee for alternative fuels and drive trains). He is as well in the scientific committee of the Eurosolar IRES and the Energy Storage Europe (ESE) Conference and leading book author of the 860 p. work “Handbook of energy storage – demand, technologies, integration” at Springer editors.

 

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