Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, EnBW
With some five million customers, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, with its headquarters in Karlsruhe, is the third largest energy company in Germany. In 2006, EnBW generated annual sales of approx. €14,800 million with around 20,000 employees. Core activities focus on the segments of electricity, gas as well as energy and environmental services.
Traditionally, ENBW is firmly rooted in Baden-Württemberg, a region in the south-west of Germany. However, operational facilities are also spread over other parts of Germany and markets of central and eastern Europe. The close proximity to ENBW's customers and their loyalty are ideal prerequisites and also an incentive to continuously improve the distribution structures, to refine the product range in accordance with the requirements of customers, and to enhance ENBW's performance along the whole value-added chain.
Following the liberalisation of the electricity market, ENBW quickly gained a competitive position and was one of the first energy companies to offer electricity throughout Germany. As pioneers and forerunners on the energy market, ENBW gives impetus for scientific research and development. In the interest of sustainability, ENBW maintains a profile of an economically, socially and ecologically responsible company. By developing new concepts and ideas, ENBW plays an active part in shaping the energy policy of the future through current legislation.
Since late 2008, there has been a large project in Germany, called E-Energy, that is funded by the German Ministries of Economics and Environment to show the benefits of Smart Grids. In this context, six model regions are to be developed until the end of 2012. ENBW leads the preparation of one of these model regions within the MEREGIO project.
EnBW's contributions
ENBW provides expertise with the real-world applicability and exploitability of the research results developed over the course of the MIRABEL project. They also act as a link between the MEREGIO project and the MIRABEL project in order to foster the coherent combination of results from both projects. ENBW provides real-world trial data to be used in our testing and validation work package.
Key personnel
EeBW's MIRABEL team is led by Hellmuth Frey, who received his Diploma in Electrical Technology from the Technical University of Munich in 1992. He served as a scientific employee at the Technical University of Munich, with his main activities and responsibilities covering issues related to batteries, fuel cells, electrical vehicles, and hydrogen technologies, before he joined EnBW as an electrical engineer in 1996. Since 2000, Hellmuth Frey has served as a project manager in the department of Research, Development and Demonstration at EnBW. His main activities and responsibilities now lie with distributed generation, fuel cells, and dynamic price modelling.
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