Building a European battery industry
Batteries are enabling us to store electric energy in large quantities – this is a fundamental cornerstone of the electrification process.
In order to increase our production capacity of these batteries the industry is growing at a tremendous pace. Thore Sekkenes, who leads the European Battery Alliance and has the responsibility to drive this industry growth forward, will tell us about this.
Thore Sekkenes has 30 years of experience at management positions in system business related to electric power conversion within ABB and Bombardier Transportation.
He has consistently been working with technologies enabling the transformation to sustainability in the power and transport sectors.
Thore joined InnoEnergy February 2019 and leads the EBA 250 with the responsibility to develop the European battery industry.