Uwe Leprich

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Uwe Leprich (* 1959 in Espelkamp ) is a German energy and economist .

Life

Uwe Leprich comes from the East Westphalian town of Espelkamp (Minden-Lübbecke district), where he also graduated from Söderblom-Gymnasium in 1978 . He then studied economics at Bielefeld University and at the University of Georgia in Athens , Georgia . After graduating, he worked for almost ten years as a research assistant in the energy department of the Öko-Institut in Freiburg, three years at the same time as a half-time consultant for energy policy in the Hessian Ministry of the Environment in Wiesbaden.

After receiving his doctorate in 1993 on the subject of " Least Cost Planning ", he took up a professorship at the Saarland University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in Saarbrücken in 1995 , which he still holds today.

Positions

In addition to his university activities at the HTW, where he represents the subjects of economics, economic policy and energy management, Leprich was a co-founder and since 2008 a member of the scientific management of the Institute for Future Energy Systems (IZES) in Saarbrücken, a research institute with around 50 employees. He ended his work at IZES with his secondment to the Federal Environment Agency on March 31, 2016.

In 2001 and 2002 he was an expert member of the study commission “Sustainable Energy Supply” of the 14th German Bundestag.

Since January 2010 he has been an Alternate Board Member of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) of the European Union . In addition, he is a member of a number of scientific advisory boards that deal with current energy policy and economic issues, such as that of the German Energy Efficiency Initiative (DENEFF).

He has been a member of the supervisory board of wind power project developer ABO Wind since 2000 (with an interruption between June 2016 and August 2018) . From April 2016 to March 2018 he was seconded from the Saarland University of Applied Sciences to the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau, where he headed the Climate Protection and Energy Department. He has been teaching at the HTW again since April 2018.

research

His areas of expertise include the liberalization of the energy markets and their framework conditions, instruments of national and international energy and climate policy, and sustainable corporate strategies. As a scientist, for example, he criticizes the market position and business policies of the large energy companies.

Individual evidence

  1. Press release: Can we still be saved? Climate policy and its possibilities. State Center for Civic Education Rhineland-Palatinate , March 14, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
  2. Supervisory Board on abo-wind.com

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