Dominik Seebach

Special Expertise

Projects and studies on national and international issues of sustainable energy policy, in particular:

• Markets for green energy, particularly RES-E
• Energy disclosure and tracking mechanisms for electricity and other energy types
• Green power labelling
• Emissions accounting for electricity (scope 2 emissions)
• CBAM regulation relating to indirect emissions and electricity
• Certification of PtX and green hydrogen
• Permission regulation for renewable installations

Speaker of the Board of EnergieVIsion e.V.

Collaboration as working group member in national and European organisations like CEN/CENELEC, DIN, Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) and CertifHy

Key Projects

• Study on behalf of DG TAXUD with a view to defining the requirements for claiming actual indirect emissions in the context of CBAM (Project language: English; 2024-2026).
• Analysis of the EU-wide GO market, and analysis of options for a union-wide green energy label with a view to promote the use of renewable energy from new installations for DG ENER (Project language: English; 2024-2026).
• Monitoring of direct marketing for renewable electricity in Germany, for German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate (Project language: German; 2019-2025).
• Support of the European Commission (DG ENER and DG ENV) on the development of guidelines for the public procurement of high-quality renewable electricity and on options for a union-wide green energy label (Project language: English; 2015-2017; 2019-2020)
• Analysis of the performance of administrative and grid connection processes that are necessary for the realization of renewable energy projects in Europe, and development of policy recommendations based on identified best practice and further research for DG ENER in the scope of the RES Simplify project (Project language: English; 2020-2023).
• Projects on certification of green PtX and hydrogen, including tracking mechanisms and accounting rules for the electricity input, e.g. for German Ministry of Economy and Climate, GIZ, Climate Neutrality Foundation, German Federal Environment Agency (Project language: English/German)
• Green electricity labelling with reference to the EnergieVision quality label for green electricity (www.ok-power.de) (Project language: German; 2005-ongoing)
• Manifold projects and studies on effectivity and possible improvements of electricity and energy disclosure systems and of systems for guarantees of origin, e.g. for the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, for the Federal Environment Agency and for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (Project language: German)
• Support for the German Federal Environment Agency in several projects on the development of registries for guarantees of origin for electricity, gas, hydrogen as well as heating and cooling (Project language: German).
• Development and management of a GO system for electricity in Germany within the framework of the European Energy Certificate System EECS, and ongoing development of EECS (www.aib-net.org) (Project language: English/German; 2005-2013) 
• Support of European Countries with implementation of a coordinated accounting and tracking of electricity disclosure information, including application for emission accounting, funded by the European Commission (RE-DISS and E-TRACK projects) (Project language: English; 2005-2015)
• Projects on interaction between power markets and e-mobility, particularly focussing on the consumption of renewable electricity, for German Environmental Ministry, Ministry of Transport and for Daimler AG (Project language: English/German)
• Facilitation of a stakeholder process for the development of future visions of the energy transition in the Kopernikus projects ENSURE and ENSURE II supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Project language: German; 2016-2013)

Professional Training

Degree in Geoecology from Universität Bayreuth, graduating in autumn 2003)

Career

After completing his studies, Dominik Seebach worked at IFEU, the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, in Heidelberg (Germany). He worked on behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), analysing policy tools for the promotion of electricity efficiency. After a short spell as a trainee at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre Directorate General in Ispra (Italy), Dominik came to Freiburg in July 2005 as a researcher for Öko-Institut.

Language Skills

English, some French and Italian