Solarplaza Summit | Renewable Electricity Trading

Kevin's education was at the Université de Bordeaux with a focus on Hedging strategies and derivatives pricing, Kevin joined Vattenfall in Commodity Sales (Gas and Power). In 2021 het joined Enerparc as Intraday Power Trader. Sunnic is a subsidiary of ENERPARC AG, one of Europe’s largest operators of solar power plants in the megawatt range. One of Sunnic's activities is administering the Enerparc existing PV portfolio.

Wilko Schuijff is Head of Pricing and Portfolio Management bij Eneco Energy Trade B.V.. He has in-depth knowledge and broad experience in the Energy Business (Grid operator, Trade and Supply) and processes. Over the past 5 years his focus is on commodity risk management, hedging, deal structuring, acquisitions of energy companies/assets and development of new business in the area of the Dutch energy transition.

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.

Tim de Knegt is responsible for the Investment, Treasury and Subsidiary activities at Port of Rotterdam. He initiated "Accelerate to Zero", a € 3bn investment program to further enhance the existing Port of Rotterdam strategy towards a carbon neutral port & industrial cluster. One of the strategy's main pillars in reducing the industrial cluster's 30 mio annual carbon emissions is to enable sufficient electrification and enable >25% of Europe's of hydrogen production. As CEO of Distro Energy he inspires a team to develop a renewable energy marketplace that enables local, peer-to-peer and predictive trading in an effort to accelerate the energy transition and make the respective benefits available for all that participate. Tim is a board member at several (global) institutions and a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Miguel holds a double degree in Energy Engineering and International Finance. He has previous quantitative analysis and M&A experience. During his 12+ years working in the energy markets, he held the positions of Head of Portfolio Management at Enovos and Vice President for Origination at Danske Commodities amongst others. He develops the project behind Our New Energy to provide an answer to the need for an independent, transparent and reliable partner in the energy transition journey.

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In his position at Tennet, Martijn is taking care of Customers & Markets - Balancing & Ancillary Services. He is involved in policy regarding and procurement of energy and capacity products that are used by TenneT for balancing and congestion management. Martijn has been active in various commercial and advisory roles in the energy market since 2001 and has fulfilled his current role within TenneT since the end of 2014.

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Luuk Veeken is the founder and CEO of Dexter Energy, where he helps build and commercialize the industry’s leading AI-based forecasting and trade optimization products. Under his leadership, the company has successfully launched innovative products such as Generation Forecasting, Trade Optimization, Wind and Solar Curtailment, and Battery Optimization, which help innovative energy traders manage risk and minimize balancing costs. Luuk holds a Master's Degree in Energy Science from Utrecht University.

Rein Schuil is co-founder and CCO of Envitron, a Groningen-based Energy Tech company that develops hardware and a software platform to communicate with energy assets. The platform allows users to retrieve necessary data from and send smart control signals to individual energy assets without having to worry about matters such as device protocols, security updates and support for new devices. Over the last eight years, Envitron has established itself as a strategic IT service partner for many energy providers delivering trading services and service companies active in the field of energy management, resulting in a strong customer base in the Netherlands and abroad. Envitron has two offices in the North of the Netherlands.

Paul has been working in the energy sector since 1988. Successively at Sep (predecessor TenneT), KEMA Consulting, NMa (now ACM) and before joining Energie Nederland, he was Head Advisor Market Policies and Regulatory Affairs at Statkraft. He has been member of the Electricity Committee, Member of the board at EFET (the European Federation of Energy Traders) and was also Board Member of Baltic Cable AB. Paul Giesbertz holds a master degree in power engineering. On a personal basis he regularly writes for the Trilemma section of Energeia.

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Jean-Paul Harreman joined EnAppSys in 2017 where he set up the European business unit. He has worked in energy markets since 2001, in several analytical and management roles. He is a director, principal consultant and CWE market expert at EnAppSys and specializes in short-term trading, balancing and ancillary services markets. He has helped many grid-scale battery projects reach financial close and provides regular training sessions for traders, analysts, project developers and financiers. He is based in the Netherlands and holds a Master’s Degree in Implementation and Change Management.

Maria is an energy specialist with more than eleven years of experience in the field of European energy market policy and regulation. Has worked with senior stakeholders to analyse the impact of regulatory changes and to promote the development of open, transparent, sustainable and liquid markets in electricity and gas across Europe. For the last 14 years, Maria is working for European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET), currently in the position of Director, Market Integrity and Renewable Electricity. She is covering topics like: Electricity market design: implementation of Clean Energy Package, EU network codes and guidelines; Renewable electricity: implementation of RED II, promotion of EFET standard (corporate/ utility) renewable Power Purchase Agreement, guarantees of origin trading and the future relation between EU and UK: analysis of priorities and challenges for energy markets.

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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.