Frithjof Staiß, Prof.
Managing Director of the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and Head of Energy Policy and Energy Carriers Division
Personal details:
Prof. Dr. Frithjof Staiß has been the Managing Director of the ZSW since 2007 and is the head of the institute’s Energy Policy and Energy Carriers Division. He graduated in Business Administration and Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and earned a doctoral degree in 1989 on the integration of wind energy into electricity supply systems.
From 1989-2007 Prof. Staiß worked at ZSW as a scientist and as the head of the Systems Analysis Department on potential and market analyses for renewable energies, energy scenarios, market introduction strategies and the implementation of funding instruments.
He has published numerous books on these subjects and is teaching as an honorary professor at the Department of Law and Economics of the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Moreover, he provides policy consulting to the federal government and the regional government of Baden-Württemberg, e. g. as a member of the German government’s independent expert commission for the monitoring process “Energy of the Future” and as a member of the Baden-Württemberg government’s advisory council for sustainable development.
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Establishing an Expert Advisory Commission to assist the G20’s Energy Transformation Processes
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Andreas Löschel, Prof.
(Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
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Philipp Großkurth
(RWI – Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research)
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Michel Colombier, Prof.
(Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI))
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Yu Cong, Prof.
(Chinese Academy of Engineering)
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Patrick Criqui, Prof.
(Université Grenoble-Alpes)
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Christoph Frei, Dr.
(World Energy Council)
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Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Prof.
(acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering)
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The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
(Committee on Climate Change)
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Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng (Julia King)
(Committee on Climate Change)
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Franck Lecocq, Dr.
(Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED))
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Jyoti Parikh, PhD, FNASc
(Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe))
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Dirk Uwe Sauer, Prof.
(acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering)
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Robert Schlögl, Prof.
(acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering)
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Christoph M. Schmidt, Prof.
(acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering)
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Frithjof Staiß, Prof.
(Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW))
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Cyril Stephanos, Dr.
(acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering)
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Kanako Tanaka, Dr.
(Center for Low Carbon Society Strategy (LCS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST))
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Eberhard Umbach, Prof.
(acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering)
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Matt Wenham, Dr.
(Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering)
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Du Xiangwan, Prof.
(Chinese Academy of Engineering)
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Koichi Yamada, Prof.
(Center for Low Carbon Society Strategy (LCS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST))
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Tian Zhiyu
(Chinese Academy of Engineering)