Tobias Engelmeier
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Is The German Car Industry Losing The Electric Race?
Germany's car companies and government is too slow in adopting to electric cars. Is the country's fabled industry loosing the race? → Read More
There Are Many Challenges For African Microgrids, But They Are The Future
The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that as many as 220 million sub-Saharan Africans will gain access to electricity through micro-grids by 2040. This translates into a deployment of 100,000 – 200,000 systems or a market opportunity upwards of $1bn. A pretty clear call to arms for the business community, it seems → Read More
Right-Sizing & Servicification: The Keys To Microgrid Profitability
The global microgrid market is ready for significant private investment. While there remain some challenges – especially around the regulatory framework and aggregation of projects - there are now enough businesses with viable business models to provide early stage, strategic or even crowd investors with commercially attractive opportunities. The expansion of microgrids is accelerating due to → Read More
Building Climate-Friendly Cities (In A Factory!)
We are currently in the midst of the world's largest human migration. It takes place as a vast movement from rural areas to cities and is most pronounced in poor and rapidly developing parts of Africa and Asia. New cities spring up. Existing ones grow beyond recognition. Over the next 30 years we will be building a → Read More
Wanted: Business Models For The Energy Future
The energy world is changing fast. Investments into renewable energy are outpacing investments into conventional energy. The incumbents, unused to this pace of change and tied down by large asset bases and long-term investment strategies, are struggling. The first to be hit were the utilities in developed countries with a high share of renewables in the electricity mix. But other → Read More
Deployment Or Innovation — Which Road To A Low-Carbon Future?
Should we focus on deploying and improving the technologies we already have or do we need more innovation to fight global warming? → Read More
Deployment Or Innovation — Which Road To A Low-Carbon Future?
Should we focus on deploying and improving the technologies we already have or do we need more innovation to fight global warming? → Read More
4 Ways In Which You Can Contribute To Reducing Global Warming
We as individuals can do a lot to fight global warming. We can make conscious green choices as consumers, as voters, as investors and in our profession. → Read More
The Battle We Can Win: Green Growth In Developing Countries
Green growth for developing countries is needed to avoid climate change. It is also very much within our grasp. This opportunity needs to be converted. → Read More
Why We Need “Green Market Design”
Green market design is the need of the hour. Renewables and energy efficiency solutions have reached meaningful parity with conventional energy sources in many parts of the world. The timing is extremely opportune. It presents a historic coincidence. Firstly, just now, many fast-developing countries in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa are getting ready to → Read More
Notes From Paris, Part 1: Forget The Developed vs Developing Country Divide
The division between developing and developed countries has been a core feature of the global climate talks since the first meeting (COP) in Berlin in 1995. Back then, low-carbon technologies were considered far too expensive for poor developing countries and would have constrained their growth options. And besides: it was the developed countries who were responsible → Read More