Maybe this blog is a good place to elaborate on our company mantra:

“Demand Response is the fastest, most capital efficient and carbon neutral way to strengthen the power grid. It’s the most elegant solution to the pressing energy problems – Entelios aims to become an essential part of Germany’s energy mix.”

Fast: Demand Response does not require a long time for planning, permitting, or building. Other power infrastructure projects run into long planning processes and often adverse citizen initiatives. Even building new transmission lines to transport renewable wind energy from Germany’s North to the industrial centers in the Center and South is politically very difficult.

Capital Efficient: Demand Response is the elegant way to harmonize power consumption with renewable power generation. All that’s needed is technology well-known from the Internet, telecommunications and industrial automation. Contrast this to huge investments needed for power plants, wind and solar installations, or transmission lines.

CO2 Efficient: McKinsey published a report on “The carbon productivity challenge” in June 2008. According to their analysis, carbon productivity must grow tenfold (!) by 2050 to accommodate both CO2/climate targets and economic growth. Demand Response reduces the need for reserve power plants which are usually driven by fossil fuels. That’s why we believe Entelios and our Demand Response program is an important contributor to a new energy infrastructure.

Demand Response provider Entelios completes successful fundraising (Press Release, 02/03/2011)

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present: Entelios AG – Demand Response for Germany and Europe. Founded in 2010, headquartered in Munich, with another office in Berlin. Already 10 team members strong.

The founders are Oliver Stahl, Stephan Lindner and myself. Oliver has fallen in love with the Demand Response (DR)  model at MIT and Harvard where he was a Sloan fellow. DR is implemented by several players in the U.S. already, and EnerNOC and Comverge are public companies. We believe it’s the ideal time to introduce DR to the European energy market, as more and more renewable, but intermittent, energy sources are added to the grid. DR is adding new reserve power and helps with peak shaving, thereby reducing the need for expensive and dirty peak power plants.

At Entelios, we believe Demand Response is the cleanest, fastest and least expensive way to address the climate change, energy security and peak oil challenges. We call it “fast green”.

I have attached a quick and readable introduction to Entelios and DR here as a PDF file. We just submitted the plan to the GE Ecomagination Challenge. Please have a look and vote for us!

More blogs will follow, if you like them…let me know. Send feedback here or via email.

The Singularity Summit 2010

I just registered for the Singularity Summit 2010. Join me in San Francisco, August 14-15th!

The Singularity Summit is the premier dialog on the Singularity.

The first Singularity Summit was held at Stanford in 2006 to further understanding and discussion about the Singularity concept and the future of human technological progress. It was founded as a venue for leading thinkers to explore the subject, whether scientist, enthusiast, or skeptic.

Since 2006, the scope of this dialog has expanded dramatically. In 2008, the Singularity entered mainstream consideration. IEEE Spectrum, a sober and mainstream technology publication, issued a special report on the Singularity, and Intel CTO Justin Rattner remarked that “we’re making steady progress toward the Singularity” during his keynote to 2,000 people at the Intel Developer Forum. What was once a relatively unknown concept is now being discussed in corporate board rooms.

We invite you to join our extraordinary group of visionaries in business, science, technology, design, and the arts, as our community explores this exciting topic. Your participation offers a world of powerful ideas, a unique networking opportunity, and access to an exclusive directory of your peers.

See you in San Francisco!

MIT Technology Review May-Jun 2010

The May/June edition of MIT Technology Review lists their “Ten Emerging Technologies 2010″. “Solar Fuel” has been selected as one of the “technologies that are likely to change the world”. The article describes how organisms are used to produce fuel directly out of CO2 in the air, water, and sun light. Whereas some teams focus on modifying and optimizing the organisms, BioCee’s core competence is to provide an efficient, reliable and low-cost bioreactor. Companies mentioned in the article are Joule Biotechnologies, Synthetic Genomics, and BioCee / University of Minnesota Biotechnology Institute.

BioCee is a member of a consortium that has received one of the first ARPA-E grants in fall 2009, for the development of “direct solar fuel” technology.

P.S. There are still sponsorship opportunities available. Let me know if you’re interested. I think it’s well worth installing TED in Munich with a big bang!