Advanced Practical Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Implementation

CURRENT POSITION

Prof. Dr. Köhler is a professor for Renewable Energies at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik BHT. She is lecturing on energy technology (power plant engineering, conventional and renewables energy sources), energy economics as well as on related topics such as thermodynamics and turbomachinery. Her research focusses on the integration of renewable energy in complex energy systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prof. Dr. Köhler is a professional in energy systems since more than 30 years. She started her career at the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Emmerthal as research associate focussing on systems engineering of thermal solar plants. Later, Prof. Dr. Silke Köhler joined the Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam as doctoral researcher and wrote her dissertation on geothermal driven steam power processes. Later, she joined the energy supply company RWE, where she held various positions in the research and development department. Until 2012 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Köhler was a senior expert for RWE Power AG and later for RWE AG before taking over more responsibilities as Head of R&D for RWE Innogy GmbH.

EDUCATION

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Silke Köhler holds a PhD in Energy and Process Engineering of the Technical University (TU) of Berlin. She also graduated in Energy and Process Engineering at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. 

CURRENT POSITION

Albrecht Tiedemann is the project director at the Renewables Academy (RENAC) AG since 2009. He manages the CapREG Program “Capacity Development on Renewable Energy and Grid Integration” for professionals from different countries working in the public and private energy sector.

He is responsible for blended e-learning seminars (renewable energy and grid integration) and works as a trainer for wind energy (resource assessment, technology, hybrid wind/PV micro grids and wind farm economics) and for grid integration of renewables (balancing power and capacity credit calculation, short term power forecast for wind and solar).

Mr. Tiedemann moderates and chairs panel discussions, workshops, seminars and conferences.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

From 2003 to 2009 Mr. Tiedeman was the Project Director at the German Energy Agency (dena) GmbH. He worked as a consultant for the German Federal Ministry of Economics & Technology, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, the European Commission and enterprises in the energy sector. Furthermore, he was the Chairman of Offshore Wind Standing Committee of the Federal government and the coastal Länder as well of the Forum Offshore Wind Energy and Nature Conservation.

Mr. Tiedemann has been executively involved in the integration of renewable energies into the German energy supply system and also involved in conducting strategic analysis for the German energy sector (German grid-study I and II until 2020 and 2030). 

From 1989 to 2003 he worked as scientific assistant for the Federal Environmental Agency of Germany where he was responsible for developing environmental friendly technologies.

EDUCATION

Mr. Tiedemann holds a degree as Engineer of Environmental Protection Technology from the Technical University Berlin.

CURRENT POSITION

Paul Kohlenbach is a full professor for mechanical engineering with a focus on renewable energy technology at the BHT University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany. His research currently focuses on atmospheric water harvesting, energy economics, hydrogen technology, photovoltaics, refrigeration and solar thermal technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prior to starting at BHT university in 2010, Paul Kohlenbach founded SOLEM Consulting, an international consortium of leading experts in solar and refrigeration technology, which he still owns as of today. There, his work focuses on the design and economic efficiency of energy systems of all kinds. Earlier in his career, Paul Kohlenbach also worked as Manager Application Engineering at a leading manufacturer of parabolic trough collectors, as a PostDoc scientist at CSIRO Energy Technology in Newcastle, Australia and as director of the R&D department at Phoenix SonnenWärme AG, Berlin, Germany.

EDUCATION

Paul Kohlenbach received his PhD from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 2006. Prior to that he earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Energy/Process Engineering from the Technical Universities of Darmstadt and Berlin, Germany. During his studies he worked as a research assistant at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia.