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Ralf Sörgel

Energy Supply Engineer | Regulation | IT

€720/day
Bassum, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 2 hours

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About Ralf

I have been retired since April 2025, but I remain interested in the energy industry and would like to continue working - now as a freelancer. I see my field of work in the area between market, engineering, IT, and regulation. My education is more in the field of electricity, but my experience includes gas, heat, and power plant and gas storage technology. I see my strengths in the overall company's perspective on its respective project, always beyond departmental boundaries. Furthermore, I see my strength in many years of practical knowledge of daily operations and processes between and within energy suppliers. This ranges from embedding a process into the overall company to details of implementation and troubleshooting.
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Basic

  • Russian

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • freiberuflich
    Engineer
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    April 2025 - Today (1 year and 2 months)
    Bassum, NI, Germany
    ○ Field of work is energy supply between market, engineering, IT, and regulation
    ○ Education in the field of electricity grids, experience includes gas, heat, power plant and gas storage technology
    ○ Strengths: Overall company's perspective on its respective project; overcoming departmental boundaries in thinking
    ○ Strengths: many years of practical knowledge of organization, daily operations, and processes between and within energy suppliers
    ○ Customers are particularly in the energy and water industry
    Grid Operation Electricity Organization Regulatory Affairs ISMS Control Technology
  • Stadtwerke Lengerich GmbH
    Dipl.-Ing.
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    October 2000 - March 2025 (24 years and 5 months)
    Lengerich, NW, Germany
    ○ Head of Electricity Department, operationally active in the grid, on-call duty until the end of 2024
    ○ Energy procurement electricity, natural gas, EUA, derivative price hedging
    ○ Design of new or modified grid facilities in the electricity grid
    ○ IT management, many small permanent IT solutions, including hardware assembly
    ○ Supervision of IT trainees, organization of training cooperation
    ○ Creation of an EDM support solution due to the lack of commercial offers at the beginning of the liberalization of the energy market, coupled with the ERP system
    ○ Project development of investments
    ○ Ongoing operation of investments
    ○ Management of investments
    ○ Representation of SWL in the advisory and decision-making bodies of its municipal shareholders
    ○ Development of cooperation fields, cooperation partners, business areas
    ○ Rapid establishment of new business models at the beginning of the liberalization of the energy market
    ○ Development of contracts with cooperation partners and customers, clarification of legal issues
    ○ Representation of SWL in various committees: former VDN, BDEW, BBH, GÖRG, almost all specialist commissions of the shareholders in investment projects
    ○ Representation of SWL shareholder interests in energy industry investments
    ○ Supervision of grid control system, ISMS
    ○ Change of grid control system product and control system manufacturer
    ○ Transition of grid control system to SaaS solution
    ○ Future organization of the interface between grid control system and remote control technology
    ○ Transfer of expertise and experience to successor personnel
    Grid Operation Electricity Control Technology ISMS Investment Management IT Architecture
  • ehem. Krupp Atlas Elektronik, Bereich Prozessdatensysteme
    Development Engineer for Grid Control Systems
    August 1990 - September 2000 (10 years and 1 month)
    Bremen, Germany
    ○ Specification, creation, commissioning, customer support of calculation programs for electrical grids within grid control systems, sole responsibility
    ○ Activities at the interface between IT and users/operators on the customer side
    ○ Support for sales
    ○ Cooperation with the supplying university, acceptance of supplied services
    ○ Specification, programming, testing, commissioning, and training of corresponding program parts for customers
    ○ Unique selling proposition: parallel expertise in IT and processes
    ○ Company name changed several times in name and ownership; today: Kisters
    Electrical Engineering C Control Systems

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Education

  • Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Energy Supply
    former Technical University of Zittau
    1988
    ○ Mehrjährige Nebentätigkeit an der Hochschule, energiewirtschaftlich mit IT-Bezug (Berechnung elektrischer Netze) ○ 4 Monate Teilstudium am Moskauer Energetischen Institut ○ Praktikum in einer Netzleitstelle Strom ○ Spezialisierung: Regimesteuerung elektrische Energieversorgungssysteme
  • Limited University Entrance Qualification
    former Technical University of Zittau
    1984
    Vorkurs für junge Facharbeiter zur Erlangung der Hochschulreife

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