German Energy Agency

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German Energy Agency

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legal form GmbH
founding Fall 2000
Seat Berlin
management Andreas Kuhlmann
Number of employees 200 (2016)
sales 20.1 million euros (2016)
Branch energy
Website www.dena.de

The German Energy Agency (dena) is a State-owned German to the energy and climate policy goals of the company that provides nationwide and international services, according to company agreement energy policy to design and implement. Dena sees itself as an independent driver and pioneer of the energy transition - at national and international level. With studies, pilot projects, platforms and initiatives, it sets impulses, develops standards and, as a think tank, promotes the development of a sustainable energy system. The dena was in the fall of 2000 at the initiative of the SPD-Green Party government as a private GmbH founded.

Financing and Shareholders

The shareholders with voting rights are the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy , the Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture , the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure , as well as the KfW banking group .

On July 4, 2017, dena announced that it would take over the shares held by its private shareholders Deutsche Bank AG , DZ BANK AG and Allianz SE with retroactive effect from January 1, 2017 . The private shareholders had been involved in dena since January 2008.

Representatives of all shareholders sit on the supervisory board. The Federal Republic of Germany is represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI). A representative of the BMWi always chairs the supervisory board.

The chairman of the dena Supervisory Board has been Thomas Bareiß , Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy , since September 2018 . The BMU has been represented by State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth since July 2014 , the BMVI by Astrid Freudenstein , Head of Department, and the BMEL by Michael Stübgen , Parliamentary State Secretary. Before that, the post of chairman of the supervisory board held (newest first):

Other Supervisory Board members are Katrin Leonhardt, Director of KfW Bankengruppe , Head of KfW Mittelstandsbank / Control, and Velibor Marjanovic, Director of KfW, Tanja Gönner , Board Spokeswoman for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) , Helmut Schönenberger, Managing Director of Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Partners GmbH and the entrepreneur TUM GmbH as well as Ewald Woste, management consultant.

The company works in a profit and performance-oriented manner. Dena says it finances its projects through public, project-related grants and from private or other income. Revenues in 2016 totaled 20.1 million euros (2015: 17.4 million euros), of which 7.4 million euros came from government grants and 12.7 million euros from private and other income. More than 50% of the income was achieved through project participation or orders from various areas of the private sector. This includes companies in the construction, energy and automotive industries, companies in the renewable energies sector and in mechanical and plant engineering.

Organization and fields of work

Managing directors

Since July 1, 2015, Andreas Kuhlmann has been the chairman of dena's management board. Before that, he was head of the strategy and politics division of the energy industry interest group BDEW . He is also the spokesman for the Alliance for Building Energy Efficiency (geea) and a member of the Presidium of the World Energy Council - Germany.

Kristina Haverkamp has been the managing director of dena since October 2015. The lawyer previously headed the economic department of the Federal Republic of Germany at the European Union.

Departments

Dena is divided into five work areas: energy-efficient buildings, energy systems and energy services, renewable energies and energy-efficient mobility, communication and administration.

Fields of work

According to its new articles of association, dena provides services that serve the general economic interest of designing and implementing the energy and climate policy goals of the energy transition - including energy efficiency , renewable energies, climate protection and the associated restructuring of the energy system; environmental protection concerns are taken into account . Dena advises the federal government, federal states and municipalities, business and research as well as relevant stakeholders at European and international level. Dena should work as an interface and cooperation partner between politics and business. In addition, dena is to advise and support the federal government in implementing its energy management strategy and to develop and implement the projects, campaigns and activities required for this.

In 2011 dena founded an association that it called the “Alliance for Building Energy Efficiency” (geea). The geea is a cross-sector association of representatives from research and science, associations and organizations as well as companies from the energy and building efficiency sectors. The aim of geea is to improve energy efficiency in buildings in Germany through recommendations for politics and concrete measures on the part of the economy. Once a year, the German Energy Agency organizes the dena Congress, which brings together representatives from politics, business, science and society as a cross-sector event on the energy transition in Germany.

Services

  • Strategy and advice: dena advises public and private clients on the development and implementation of strategies at regional, national and international level. Examples: Energy policy advice from the BMWi , dena renovation plans for large building portfolios.
  • Studies and analyzes: In cooperation with clients, experts, stakeholders and research institutions, dena creates the basis for further projects with surveys, future scenarios and strategy papers that take up the ideas from the studies and analyzes and put them into practice. Examples: Netzflex study, building report.
  • Project development: dena develops and manages projects for clients, for example for energy-efficient construction and renovation. The projects often serve as models for the market. Examples: energy efficiency networks, list of energy efficiency experts.
  • Market development: dena works with customers and partners to develop quality standards and advance the framework conditions for the energy transition markets. Examples: dena RES program, model projects for efficiency houses.
  • Networks: dena designs and moderates dialogue formats at the interface between politics and business, such as expert workshops, specialist conferences and congresses. Examples: the alliance for building energy efficiency (geaa), digital energy world.
  • Communication: dena develops communication platforms, campaigns, competitions and public relations. Examples: renovation campaign “Die Hauswende”, award ceremony “Energy Efficiency Award”.

Projects

(Examples)

  • In a study comparison from February 2019, dena, the German science academies with their project "Energy Systems of the Future ( ESYS ) and the Federation of German Industries (BDI) presented recommendations for a successful energy transition in Germany. According to this, for example, the annual net expansion of renewable Energies will increase to at least six gigawatts. According to dena, ESYS and BDI, the renovation rate for buildings needs to be increased to at least 1.4 to 2.0 percent. In order to achieve ambitious climate targets, 200 renewable synthetic energy sources will also be required in 2050 up to 900 terawatt hours.
  • The Integrated Energy Transition Lead Study is a project with more than sixty partners from business, science, society and politics to identify the most promising scenarios for the restructuring of the energy system. (2017/2018) The results were presented in June 2018 and met with a broad response. The study works with the central concept of the integrated energy transition. The aim is to take a holistic view of the energy transition. Different technologies, infrastructures and markets from the energy, industry, building and transport sectors should be coordinated and brought together in an intelligent energy system.
  • Since 2017, dena has hosted the Tech Festival once a year with international start-ups from the energy transition and presented the Start Up Energy Transition Award (March 2017 / April 2018).
  • Together with EIT Climate-KIC and the European Climate Foundation , dena founded a European offshoot in April 2018 based on the global climate protection initiative “Project Drawdown”. Drawdown Europe is intended to serve as a center for research, innovation, implementation and demonstration of climate protection solutions in Europe.
  • In November 2017 the first issue of the company magazine "transition" was published, which once a year highlights the progress of the energy transition in reports, interviews, graphics and analyzes. In June 2018, the magazine was awarded the silver certificate at the Best of Content Marketing (BCM) Awards in the category B2B magazines in the industry, energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and healthcare sectors.
  • Blockchain studies: In February 2019, dena published a study that examines the fields of application and possible uses of blockchain technology in the integrated energy transition. According to this, the study can already offer added value for companies and consumers in many areas of the energy industry. In November 2016, dena and ESMT Berlin presented a study on "Blockchain in the energy transition: Potential fields of application according to the assessment of executives in the German energy industry". The study is based on a survey among seventy executives in the energy and energy-related industries in Germany. It shows that the German energy industry is beginning to prepare for a new digital process for transactions that could change the industry permanently.
  • In September 2018 dena started the "Global Alliance Power Fuels" with partners from industry. The international alliance wants to open up global markets for synthetic fuels based on renewable energies.
  • In 2018, dena started the “Serial renovation of apartment buildings” project together with the construction and real estate industries, with the involvement of the BMWi and the Dutch initiative “ Energiesprong ”. The aim is to jointly develop prototypes that show which renovation solutions can be implemented in Germany.
  • In a third network study since November 2018, dena has been investigating how network expansion planning can be adapted for the next stage of the energy transition. Dena presented grid studies I and II back in 2005 and 2010. 
  • The dena building report is published once a year and, in addition to current trends in energy efficiency in the building sector, presents a selection of figures, data and analyzes on the building stock, energy consumption and climate policy framework conditions in Germany.
  • Digital Energy World Platform (2016)
  • Pilot project Demand Side Management Baden-Württemberg (2014)
  • dena network studies I and II for the expansion of the electricity transmission network
  • Platform Efficient Energy Systems for the dialogue about a sustainable energy supply
  • Energy Efficiency Initiative for the economical use of electricity
  • dena efficiency house seal of approval to identify particularly energy-efficient buildings, including an efficiency house and expert database
  • dena seal of approval for energy certificates for the neutral assessment of the energy requirements of buildings
  • Biogas partner for the development of biogas markets
  • Use of pumped storage plants for the energy transition

criticism

Debate about the alleged power gap

, Came under criticism that the dena 2008 before a circuit supply ( electricity shortage warned) if no new power plants would be built. A grand coalition ruled from 2005–2009 ( Merkel I cabinet ; Environment Minister was Sigmar Gabriel (SPD)). At the time, the CDU / CSU and FDP believed that, contrary to the nuclear phase-out plan of 2000 that was in effect at the time, an extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants was necessary and suitable as a campaign topic in the 2009 election campaign .

The German Environmental Aid with then-CEO Rainer Baake called the numbers "purpose propaganda" used for this purpose, throwing the study methodological weaknesses and the background of a policy agenda. The results of the dena study contradict a study by the Federal Ministry for the Environment , which examined electricity demand and the amount of electricity on an hourly basis and showed that a secure power supply by 2020 would not require any extension of the battery life or further coal-fired power plants.

Due to the economic crisis of 2009/10 (a banking and financial crisis that spilled over from banks to the real economy) and an economic slowdown in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area , energy consumption was lower than forecast for a number of years. As a result of the energy transition initiated by the red-green government, the electricity mix in Germany changed considerably; The unexpectedly low prices for emission rights in EU emissions trading also influenced this.

A study published in September 2009 emphasized: “Under the current framework conditions on the German electricity market, investments in large-scale fossil-fuel power plants often no longer pay off. [...] An expansion of renewable energies has the effect of lowering electricity prices on the electricity exchange . This leads to a deterioration in the yield of all power plants that have to assert themselves on the electricity market. [...] The increased investment of the large electricity suppliers in renewable energies is [...] to be seen as the economically correct step. "

At the end of 2008, dena itself criticized the term “electricity gap” as being misleading and emphasized the term “efficiency gap”. According to dena, the power plant analysis was not about the lights going out in Germany, but rather that insufficiently efficient and secure power plant capacity was available at peak load times . Since the nuclear phase-out , more electricity has been temporarily generated from coal and gas power plants.

dena network studies 2005 and 2010

The results of the dena network study were also widely discussed. The first part of the study appeared in April 2005 and stated that the existing transmission network would have to be expanded by 850 kilometers by 2015 in order to integrate the increasing share of wind power. The routes recommended in dena Network Study I have all been included in the Energy Line Expansion Act (EnLAG) as urgent network expansion projects. The second part followed in November 2010. It compared several variants for network optimization up to 2020. The most frequently quoted result was that using established 380-kV overhead line technology, a further 3,600 km of high-voltage lines would have to be built by 2020.

Environmental groups strongly criticized the dena study, claiming that the scenarios are based on questionable assumptions and unclear scenarios. In addition, the publication of the underlying data was requested. The scenarios would be based on a strong expansion of coal-fired power plants and a current extension of the service life of the nuclear power plants - in contradiction to the energy concept adopted by the federal government. Also a report by the TU Berlin , which was published by Christian von Hirschhausen et al. was carried out on behalf of the WWF , emphasized that the "methodical approach" in the dena II network study called "central results of the study into question". This is "conversely not designed to help shape the transformation of energy route planning with the horizon 2050".

Former management, conflicts of interest

Stephan Kohler was chairman of dena's management from 2000 to 2014 . In 2006/7, dena managing director Stephan Kohler was accused of engaging in mismanagement at dena. The daily newspaper taz reported that in a report dated September 4, 2006 , the Federal Audit Office found considerable deficiencies in the allocation of public funds from the Federal Ministry for the Environment to dena, including the misappropriation of 55,000 euros. Dena has also seriously exaggerated the success of a media campaign that it implemented and cost 13 million euros to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Dena calculated to its donors that the campaign would save 2.3 million tons of carbon dioxide. Internal dena calculations assumed savings of only 55,000 tons. Hans-Josef Fell (1998-2013 Member of the Green Bundestag) said in the taz that “it must be checked whether Mr. Kohler is up to his task.” Uwe Leprich ( Saarland University of Technology and Economics ) criticized “technical errors in management, which is not up to its tasks ”. The private-sector structure of dena leads to conflicts of interest that prevent an effective efficiency strategy. As of July 2014, he questions the need for dena as a whole:

"We have consumer advocates, research institutes and associations - why another Dena?"

Stephan Kohler, former CEO of dena, in 2012

The managing director Stephan Kohler was about to move to RWE in the spring of 2009 , as a member of the board of the planned RWE efficiency company; a contract was already signed. Kohler announced in May 2009 that he would stay with dena. The background to this decision was apparently that Rolf Martin Schmitz , who has been a member of the RWE Executive Board since 2009, did not want to give up any competencies and wanted to limit Kohler's department at RWE to a “ think tank ”.

At the beginning of 2011, Kohler took over the chairmanship of the advisory board of RWE Innogy , which bundles the activities related to renewable energy within the RWE group .

In 2012, Kohler received total remuneration of EUR 183,755 from dena. The Federal Audit Office criticized this as beyond what befits a public servant. The dena violates the prohibition of betterment (for example: if an institution is financed by the state, a manager may not earn more there than in the public service). The Federal Court of Auditors has therefore recommended that the remuneration be reduced; the Bundestag has called on the Federal Minister of Economics ( Sigmar Gabriel ) to act. Kohler's deputy Andreas Jung received 157,966 euros in 2012. He left this position on June 30, 2014.

At the end of 2014, Kohler left the management at his own request. Ulrich Benterbusch was the successor to the management until the end of July 2015.

Web links

Footnotes

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