Hans-Günter Schwarz

Senior Business / Asset Developer & Battery Enthusiast

Sprockhövel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Long-term experience in energy business and managerial positions; Proven track-record in developing utility-scale battery projects up to FID and in implementing innovative business models; Deep understanding of drivers of battery business, of battery value-pools and of realising portfolio effects with other assets; Expert knowledge in translating battery use cases in best fitting technical designs; Proven entrepreneurial capabilities; Power market expert.

Experience

  • RWE (18 yrs 6 mos)
    • Head of Battery Development (RWE Supply & Trading)
      Oct 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

      Commercial responsibility for driving the utility-scale battery business in RWEG core markets in Western Europe (BE, DE, NL & UK); this means: • First-of-all identifying commercial opportunities for battery business and subsequently initiating and running battery projects up to point of Final Investment Decision (FID) • Responsibility for management of belonging project budgets, programs and schedules • Organising the interfaces with sponsor (RWEG board), executing and operating unit • Leading an international team of battery project & business case developers, embedded battery & balance-of-plant engineers and embedded modeller

    • Head of Commercial Battery Solutions (RWE Supply & Trading)
      Aug 2016 - Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      Responsibility for driving and supporting (from nowadays perspective) RWE’s first steps into the battery business; this means: • Commercial responsibility for RWEST related battery business (those days around industrial customers) • Support role for standalone battery business (with respect to business cases, control algorithms, etc.) • Leading an international team of business case and project developers

    • Head of Electricity Market Analysis (RWE Supply & Trading)
      Jul 2011 - Jul 2016 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Associate Lecturer in MBA Program Energy Management at Technische Universität Berlin
    Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

  • Lecturer at Institute for Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Nov 1999 - Dec 2007 · 8 yrs 2 mos

  • Research Associate in Program Group Systems Research & Technological Development at Forschungszentrum Jülich
    Jun 1997 - Oct 1999 · 2 yrs 5 mos