Subject: WG: Request for personal Interview on Future Energy Systems in 2040
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To: [email-masked]
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:47:36 +0100

Dear Professor Podesta,

please allow me to forward the request of Mr. Bucksteeg for a personal 
interview in our delphi study on future energy systems 2040. 

We would very much appreciate your participation. Please let us know, if 
we can do anything to make your decision easier. 
Thank you very much.

Yours sincerly, 

Birgit Heinrich
Communications department

BDEW German Association of Energy and Water Industries
Reinhardtstraße 32
10117 Berlin

Fon +49 (0)30 - 300199-1168
Fax +49 (0)30 - 300199-3168

[email-masked]
www.bdew.de

The German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), Berlin, 
represents over 1,800 companies. The range of members stretches from local 
and communal through regional and up to national and international 
businesses. It represents around 90 percent of the electricity production, 
over 60 percent of local and district heating supply, 90 percent of 
natural gas as well as 80 percent of drinking water extraction as well as 
around a third of wastewater disposal in Germany.

----- Weitergeleitet von Birgit Heinrich/BDEW am 21.11.2014 17:59 -----

Von:    Mathias Bucksteeg/BDEW
An:     [email-masked]
Kopie:  Birgit Heinrich/BDEW@BDEW
Datum:  07.11.2014 13:50
Betreff:        Request for personal Interview on Future Energy Systems in 
2040

Dear Professor Podesta,
 
I hope this email finds you well. In the name of the German Energy 
Industry, PricewaterhouseCoopers AG and GIZ, please allow me to contact 
you with the following request: 
Currently, we are conducting a research project on the future of energy 
systems in Germany, Europe and worldwide and we would like you to join and 
enrich the project as one of 50 international experts worldwide. 

As one of the outstanding speakers on the BDEW Kongress 2014 in Berlin, 
you know that there is a very lively debate in Europe, especially in 
Germany, about the design of our energy systems and how to implement the 
“Energiewende” – the sustainable energy transition. Thus, we are 
conducting a so-called Delphi-study on the question of how energy systems 
will change globally by the year 2040 and which factors are likely to 
cause that change. The aim of the “Delphi Energy Future” is to give an 
impulse to current political and economic debates that are focused very 
much on national and sectoral issues and tend to overlook international 
factors and their interactions. 

Delphi is a method of strategic foresight and makes use of assessments and 
visions of proven experts to draw up possible models of the future. 
As a next step we will interview selected experts from all over the world 
on their expectations and opinions of the future of energy systems.You are 
one of this very small group of individuals we are contacting worldwide. 
Based on the interviews with you and other experts, we will develop 
forecasts about the future of energy. These will be presented to a global 
panel of expert consisting of several hundred individuals, who will be 
asked to assess and comment on them. Based on these results we will 
develop scenarios about future energy systems to feed into political and 
economic decision making. The interview-results will be used anonymously. 

In this context  we cordially invite you to be part of the selected group 
of experts and share with us – in a personal interview – your expectations 
and visions of future energy systems in 2040. Main questions of the 
interview will be: 
·         What will be – from your point of view – the central differences 
in energy systems in 2040 compared to today?
·         What will be the main drivers, actors and dynamics  causing 
these changes? 
 
Given your renowned expertise and experience your participation in the 
project would substantially enhance the study’s outcomes. As stated above 
all statements made in interviews will only be used anonymously. No direct 
quotations from specific persons will be published in any form. 

Please find attached your personal invitation and the Mission Statement 
including further background information on “Delphi Energy Future”. 

We would very much appreciate your participation. Since we know your time 
is very valuable the interview would take no more than 1-1.5 hours. If you 
are willing to take part in the study,  I will contact you. Of course, we 
would try to pick a date that fits best to your schedule. Ideally, we 
would like to conduct the interview by the beginning of December. 
Thank you very much in advance.
 
Yours sincerely, 

Mathias Bucksteeg

Director Communications
BDEW German Association of Energy and Water Industries

[email-masked]
www.bdew.de
 
Reinhardtstr. 32
10117 Berlin

Phone +49 30 300199-1150
Mobile +49 175 18 23 364
Fax +49 30 300199-3150

The German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), Berlin, 
represents over 1,800 companies. The range of members stretches from local 
and communal through regional and up to national and international 
businesses. It represents around 90 percent of the electricity production, 
over 60 percent of local and district heating supply, 90 percent of 
natural gas as well as 80 percent of drinking water extraction as well as 
around a third of wastewater disposal in Germany.