Large, Grid-Scale Storage for More Supply- and Demand-Flexibility

Europe's biggest energy storage system of 200 MW is ensuring security and stability of energy system of Lithuania on it's way to synchronization with European Grid. After completing the project of four battery parks Vitalijus Baranskas now is leading BESS engineer of the system. Vitalijus Baranskas has 20 years of experience in energy sector and was one of the main team members while building first of its kind battery parks system in Baltic states.

Grid Leader with 32+ years of international experience in Power Grid sector covering, transmission & distribution including the latest technological resources employed in today's grid to meet the energy transition with renewable resources. Sankara holds 17 International Granted patents. He is very active member of Cigre, PSRC WG committees. Sankara has authored and presented 70+ combined conference papers and Journals over the last 20 years.

'Energy cells' built the Europe's biggest energy storage system of 200 MW. Four battery parks system is now providing isolated mode power reserve for Lithuania's TSO and insuring safety and stability of Lithuania's energy system. Rimvydas Štilinis has 25 years of experience in energy sector and also was the main lead of this 'Energy Cells' project.

Mr Clerens studied law at the University of Saarbrücken and the University of Mainz. Since 1996, he has worked as a consultant for a private company specialising in European Affairs in Brussels. In his capacity as Brussels Representative of different European associations, he has been involved in the climate and energy field since 2003. He has managed the EASE office in Brussels as Secretary General since its establishment in September 2011. Since then, EASE has grown from the initial 13 founding members to over 70 and is still growing rapidly.

Klemens Kaar is the Development Director for Corre Energy in Germany. He leads the development of large scale power storage projects and partnerships. Klemens has over 15 years of experience in the energy sector where he first had engineering and management roles in international refinery upgrade projects. He then joined renewable energy major Orsted, where he developed offshore wind farms and built a PtX business in UK and Germany and developed first industrial scale green hydrogen projects and partnerships for over 5 years before joining Corre Energy.

Marcel Schepers is product manager for flexibility marketing within EnBW Trading and the virtual power plant of EnBW and in this role responsible for the battery marketing business and offered range of services. He has deep expertise and insights about the flexibility markets, especially in Germany. Before he joined EnBW Trading, he formerly served as a consultant for the German energy industry and was part at the generation department of EnBW where he was involved in the development of large-scale battery projects.