Solarplaza Summit | PPAs The Netherlands

After studying Strategic Management at Tilburg University, I started at Scholt Energy in 2017. For the first 5 years I worked at the energy supply department, advising our largest customers on the purchase of electricity and gas. Since last year I have been active within the Energy Transition Services department as Senior Energy Transition Specialist. Here we guide our customers through the energy transition and everything that comes with it, such as solar panels, asset management, HBE’s, Storage systems and PPA’s. My area of expertise is Corporate PPA’s.

At Aurora Energy Research, Marise Westbroek is responsible for researching trends in the Dutch electricity market. Recently she has dealt with questions such as: How can the Netherlands become emission neutral by 2050?; What does the future hold for hydrogen in Northwestern Europe?; How is the Dutch market for power purchase agreements (PPAs) developing?Marise holds a PhD in physics from Imperial College London and studied physics and mathematics in Utrecht and Cambridge.

Lianne has 8 years of experience in renewables. She has worked on the contracting side of the innovative offshore wind Two Towers project (19 MW, the Netherlands, 2021) and is currently involved in the contracting and financing of various solar projects (including PPA and storage aspects) in the Netherlands. Before joining Green Giraffe, Lianne worked as a lawyer at Allen & Overy in the Dutch project finance team. Amongst others, she advised on the financing of the Krammer onshore wind farm (100 MW, the Netherlands, 2016) and solar park Sunport Delfzijl (31 MW, the Netherlands, 2016). Lianne holds an LLM in European energy and climate law from the University of Groningen.

Bram Devlies, attorney at law, is an associate of the Energy & Infrastructure practice group in the Loyens&Loeff office in Belgium. Bram’s practice focuses on the energy sector, including renewable energy projects (solar/PV, wind, biomass/biosteam and district heating), energy storage projects, subsidy mechanisms (such as green energy certificates), production and supply licences, district heating and agreements (including corporate power purchase agreements and FIDIC agreements). Bram is the author of several articles and publications about energy law, speaks regularly at conferences on topics such as PPAs and energy storage and is an affiliated researcher at the KULeuven.

Jan Willem has over 20 years of experience in the energy market and worked for some of the larger utilities. Early 2020, Jan Willem sold his previous companies Greenspread and Greencrowd to private equity concern NPM Capital. Since his departure in October 2020, Jan Willem works as an independent consultant at Stratergy. Stratergy advises funds, banks, utilities, and large consumers and producers of energy and specializes in maximizing asset value and minimizing financial risk.

Daniel Peschel is Senior Originator at Ampyr Solar Europe. After studying industrial engineering in Berlin, he has been active in the renewables industry for over 10 years with roles in consulting, trading and origination. Daniel has successfully negotiated PPAs for more than 1 GW of new renewable capacity in several European jurisdictions. In his current role, he heads the PPA origination and route-to-market activities of the ASE group in Germany and the Netherlands

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Over the last 12 years, Zishanul Hasan has been associated with Retail industry -Sustainability, Production ,Supply Chain, Buying -innovating, pushing boundaries and delivering decisive competitive advantages to businesses. As a part of his journey, he has managed multi-cultural teams and multi-million Euro P&Ls . Zishanul Hasan has good knowledge of retail value-chain: from sourcing to sales.

Holding a degree in Business Engineering from the TU-Berlin, Julius is a leading expert in energy economics, market design & energy policy, and has been working as an analyst, consultant & senior consultant since 2011 at enervis energy advisors GmbH. . Julius has been involved in numerous projects with a focus on large-scale offtake-side PPAs and possesses vast knowledge in Sourcing strategy, procurement & negotiation of buy-side PPAs.

Edwin founded Solarplaza company in 2004. He is a senior PV expert and started in the photovoltaic solar energy business in 1994. He has experience as a solar energy consultant and project developer in more than 200 PV projects. Edwin holds a Master’s degree in Chemical engineering and previously worked in the Chemical industry before starting his first consultancy company in PV in 1994.