Mathieu van Gehuchten

CEO & Founder chez Watt Else

Namur Metropolitan Area

About

Specialties: Renewable Energy, Sustainable development (water, energy, nature, climate change), cooperation to development, training.

Experience

  • CEO & Founder at Watt Else
    Apr 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

    Management of Watt Else company: Watt Else is a Belgian consultancy company specialised in sustainable energy and energy transition. In addition to managing and financing projects, Watt Else advises its clients in their strategy for innovation, investment and development. Watt Else offers its expertise for profitable and innovative projects contributing to sustainable development goals. Watt Else provides its services to industries, SMEs and the public sector.

  • Development Engineer and Project Manager at KDE Energy/ Yard Energy
    Nov 2009 - Apr 2015 · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Responsible for the development of wind energy projects in Wallonia (pipeline of 50 MW): - Project Management in Wallonia (site screening, negotiations with landowners and private partners, public meeting, environmental impact studies, grid studies, collaboration with local stakeholders and engineering offices, permit submission, legal follow-up of assets). - Business Development in Wallonia and support for the North of France. - Promotion of the projects, the company and the wind sector. - Reporting to Country Manager and KDE Europe

  • Manager of Belpower Energy at Belpower International sa
    May 2007 - Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    creation and development from scratch of the green electricity supply activities on the Belgian market (Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders): • Business plan: market and legal analysis, selection of partners, strategy determination, tasks and procedures, contacts with clients and suppliers, support for industrial projects in Renewable Energy (photovoltaic energy) • Training and management of Belpower Energy team: front-office and back-office management, collaboration with regulators and partners, product promotion, negotiations with external bodies (Test-Achats, Greenpeace, CRIOC) • Presentation of the business to KBC and BEI • Target reached: 10.000 clients.

  • Transfer Pricing Manager (Trading and Supply Dpt) at SPE-Luminus
    Apr 2006 - Apr 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Setting up of a methodology to process the pricing for electricity, gas, CO2 and green certificates commodities. Determination of risk components related to pricing.

  • Trainee: Research Assistant in Climate Change at Tractebel Engineering
    May 2005 - Jan 2006 · 9 mos

    Legislative analysis of the climate change policy and study of the greenhouse gas markets (EU-ETS, ETS). Research under study: “Impact analysis of the European Linking Directive regarding the introduction of international CO2 credits on the European market (EU-ETS)”.