The energy turnaround: Perhaps seeming paradoxical at first? Current positions.

Dieter Mende

The book is written with the background of professional training in both chemistry and electrical engineering, supplemented with the background of the energy dialog EEZ Energie Energiewirtschaft Zukunftsenergien; I myself am the founder of the energy dialog EEZ, founded on 05.07.1995.

The professional basis is wide-ranging:

Since September 1997 commissioned with the central control technology for energy centers in the automation technology project office of a regional energy supply company; in November 2019 I moved to the electrical power grid construction planning department.

Since February 2003, initially commissioned with the tasks of setting up and expanding the regional hydrogen nucleus h2herten, subsequently commissioned with tasks of project and company acquisition, market communication and networking in the team of the hydrogen user center h2herten.

In both cases, the employers noticed the very successful EEZ energy dialog, so that the jobs arose from this.

My motivation for creating reports and books is, on the one hand, a passion for highlighting the opportunities and possibilities in the potential grid of the energy transition with hydrogen as an energy carrier and, on the other hand, the ambition to build and expand a hydrogen infrastructure with the advertising of cross-industry service providers, with the identification of sustainable contributions and the resulting complementary competencies.

I met the established companies in the energy market and their initial rejection of hydrogen as an energy source and the fuel cell as an energy converter with meaningful results of potential analyses, with the potential of Power-to-X sector coupling, the identification of unique selling points and with complex project impulses from the multi-layered interests of all those involved.
With perseverance and patience, even initial skeptics of hydrogen as an energy source and the fuel cell as an energy converter were successfully won over to a sustainable infrastructure in the energy transition.

Website: https://www.eez-mende.de/