Interview with EnBW CEO Stamatelopoulos: “The energy transition can also be achieved at a lower price”

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|Georg Stamatelopoulos heads EnBW, one of Germany's largest energy companies. He discusses the billions of dollars cost of the energy transition and his former colleague and current Minister of Economic Affairs, Katherina Reiche.
Georg Stamatelopoulos, 55, is probably one of the few CEOs in Germany in the midst of the economic crisis who is allowed to hire people instead of cutting jobs. He has been leading one of the largest The country's and Europe's leading energy company: EnBW . It supplies not only corporations in the automotive, metal, and food industries, but also millions of households. EnBW has wind and solar parks, several gas and coal-fired power plants, and is expanding distribution networks that bring electricity to households. For all of this, Stamatelopoulos needs more, not fewer, employees in the coming years. Time for a conversation with him about how the energy transition could continue under the new Minister of Economic Affairs.
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