“They feel like the Oxford Dictionary when Wikipedia came out”
Handelsblatt
Digitalisation is the “key driver” of a successful energy transition as it is needed to manage a decentral power supply, Heiko von Tschischwitz, founder of renewable power provider LichtBlick, told Handelsblatt. The times of “simple supply” were over and large utilities would have trouble coping with the decentral energy world. “They feel like the Oxford Dictionary when Wikipedia came out,” said von Tschischwitz.
Read the interview (behind paywall) in German here.
For background, read the CLEW dossiers Utilities and the energy transition and The digitalisation of the Energiewende.
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