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Gerrit Jan Scheaffer

Gerrit Jan Scheaffer

General Manager, EnergyVille
Belgium

Prof. dr. ir. Gerrit Jan Schaeffer (1966) got his education in Business Studies, Technical Physics and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Twente in The Netherlands. He got his Ph.D at the same university in 1998.

After a career at the Energy research Center of the Netherlands (ECN) as a scientist and research manager he moved to the Flemish Institute for Technology Research (VITO) as Director Energy in 2007 where he stayed until 2016.

In 2016 he became an entrepreneur as CEO at Dutch Solar Energy in the Netherlands.

Since 1 June 2021 he is General Manager of EnergyVille in Genk (Flanders, Belgium). EnergyVille is the main sustainable energy research center in Belgium. He also is a guest professor at KU Leuven an UHasselt (Belgium).

Sponsors & Partners

Platinum Partner

  • Siemens AG

 

Gold Partner


  • Kaluza

Silver Partners

  • Capgemini
  • Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH

Utility Partners

  • Enedis
  • RTE

 

Sponsors

  • Bergen Engines AS
  • Driivz
  • Hiven Energy
  • Engie Laborelec SA/NV
  • PRIME Alliance
  • ProEnergy Services
  • Meters and More
  • NODES
  • Thales

 

Industry Partners

  • AIGET
  • ANIE Federazione
  • ANIMA Confindustria
  • Avere
  • CHARGE Energy Branding
  • CO2 Value
  • COGEN Europe
  • currENT
  • dena
  • DERlab
  • E.DSO
  • EASE
  • Elettricità Futura
  • Energia Media
  • ESMIG
  • ESWET
  • ETIP SNET
  • ETN
  • Eurelectric
  • Eurogas
  • Euroheat & Power
  • European Biogas Association
  • European Energy Retailers (EER)
  • Flow Batteries Europe
  • Generazione Distribuita (Distributed Generation)
  • GEODE
  • Hydrogen Europe
  • IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
  • IPPF
  • IRENA
  • Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster (LE2C)
  • OSGP
  • Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico - RSE SpA
  • SmartEn
  • Start Up Energy Transition (SET)
  • T&D Europe
  • UTILITALIA
  • VDMA
  • VGBE Energy