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Dr Oliver Schmidt
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Oliver is a clean energy expert with a particular focus on energy storage. He set up Storage Lab to share insights on energy storage cost and value based on the belief that more transparency will enable better decisions. For the same reason, he published the book Monetizing Energy Storage as well as the analysis site www.EnergyStorage.ninja.

 

Besides his role as Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London, Oliver is the CEO of dvlp.energy, a software company supporting developers of energy storage, solar and wind projects in Germany. He previously worked as project manager at the strategy advisory firm Apricum, the International Energy Agency and E.ON. Oliver has a PhD on the future cost and value of energy storage from Imperial.​

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Oliver is from Berlin where he also lives now. Beyond sharing insights on storage, he enjoys sports, ideally involving one of the beautiful lakes around the city, or taking friends on a boozy Kreuzberg canal tour in his own inflatable boat.

Dr Iain Staffell

Iain Staffell is a multi-disciplinary scientist holding degrees in Physics, Chemical Engineering and Economics. He is a lecturer in Sustainable Energy at the Centre for Environmental Policy with ten years’ experience in energy R&D. 

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His research centres on decarbonising electricity systems, ranging from the economics of battery storage and nuclear power to efficient ways of integrating renewables into electricity markets, modelling their impacts plus technical and economic solutions.

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Iain is co-developer of the Renewables.ninja, an open web platform that lets you simulate the hourly power output from wind and solar power plants located anywhere in the world.

The Storage Ninja

The Storage Ninja is our digital team member. It compiles the methodologies developed by us at Imperial College London and enables you to use them in a relatively easy user-interface. Specifically, the Storage Ninja enables you to assess: 

  • Profitability of electricity storage technologies in all possible applications

  • Lifetime cost of electricity storage technologies in all possible applications

  • Comparison of lifetime cost of electricity storage technologies against one another

  • Cevenue potential in arbitrage application

  • Future investment cost of electricity storage technologies based on cost-reduction rate and market scale-up

  • Amount of electricity storage needed in power systems with high shares of wind and solar power generation

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