The RGI Secretariat
The secretariat manages and coordinates all RGI activities, develops and implements strategies and action plans, administers approved budgets, publicly represents the Renewables-Grid-Initiative, networks and conducts background briefings. The RGI secretariat is legally represented by The Climate Shop UG.
The secretariat’s office is placed in Berlin:
c/o SEFEP
Neue Promenade 6
10178 Berlin
Germany
T +49 30 7677 194 50
F +49 30 7677 194 59
info (at) renewables-grid.eu
Antonella Battaglini
Executive Director
Antonella Battaglini is founder and Executive Director of the Renewables-Grid-Initiative. She is the CEO of The Climate Shop UG, the legal entity which runs RGI.
In addition to the RGI activities, she is also the Programme Director at SEFEP and mainly dealing with the power sector and in particular with grid expansion and renewable energies integration. Moreover, Antonella is senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) where she leads the SuperSmart Grid (SSG) process, a concept she developed together with her team to reconcile different approaches to renewables. By adopting a holistic approach, the SSG addresses the challenges of the transformation of the power sector considering generation, transmission and demand management. In this concept both centralized and decentralized generation play an undisputed role.
T +49 30 7677 194 51
M +49 170 584 9229
antonella (at) renewables-grid.eu
Antina Sander
Senior Project Manager
Antina Sander joined RGI in March 2012. She is responsible for the development of the transparency, public participation and acceptance section of the European Grid Declaration, for the workshops run by RGI and furthermore involved in the development of the Best Practice report. In 2011, Antina has finalised an MSc in Environmental Management and Policy at Lund University, Sweden where she has written her master thesis about grid expansion and public acceptance. The thesis "From 'Decide, Announce, Defend' to 'Announce, Discuss, Decide'" won the first prize of the "Ökostrom für Alle!" Award in 2012. Antina furthermore holds an MBA and has been working for seven years in the private sector (strategic management consultancy and in the consumer goods industry) and with the United Nations.
T +49 30 7677 194 58
M +49 173 719 6066
antina (at) renewables-grid.eu
Theresa Schneider
Project Manager
Theresa joined RGI in November 2011. She is mainly conducting the project on Best Practices. Prior to RGI, Theresa worked at a communication consultancy firm in Berlin, advising clients in public affairs, media relations and crisis communication with a focus on renewable energies. Theresa studied at the University of Passau and the University of Hamburg in Germany, obtaining a master degree in European Studies. During her studies, she also stayed in Växjö, Sweden and Prague, Czech Republic.
T +49 30 7677 194 55
M +49 162 205 6686
theresa (at) renewables-grid.eu
