Katrien Verwimp

Bio

Building on 20+ years of experience in managing and optimising energy certification systems, Katrien focuses on strengthening cooperation between energy certificate issuers and their stakeholders. Through her company Enunda, Katrien is helping the Association of Issuing Bodies, the CertifHy project, the EnergyTag Initiative and individual certificate issuers around the globe to create more transparency in the origin of energy and realize the purpose of their certification system.

• Strategy Coordinator - Energy Certificates

  Association of Issuing Bodies - Contract / consultant From December 2022 to Present

  Coordinate strategy of the European Energy Certificate Systemrnrnwww.aib-net.org/eecs

• Auditors team coordinator

  Association of Issuing bodies - AIB - Contract / consultant From September 2020 to Present

  Lead the team of professional reviewers who assess the quality of the national certificate schemes of the AIB members, for electricity and gas guarantees of origin

• Chair of the Independent Audit Committee

  EnergtyTag - Contract / consultant From May 2022 to Present

  Audit and coordinate audits of issuers of granular certificates (tradeable time-granular electricity origin certificates).rnAssess quality and improvement opportunities for the EnergyTag standardrnrnwww.energytag.org

• Coordinator origin of energy

  VREG - Flemish regulator for electricity and gas - Part-time From May 2010 to January 2020

  Senior Programme Manager "Transparency on the Origin of Consumed Electricity"rnSenior Product Manager "Guarantees of Origin"rnSenior Policy AdvisorrnMarket Supervisor Guarantees of Origin and Renewable Energy Support System

• Technical supervisor - renewable electricity and cogeneration

  VREG - Flemish regulator for electricity and gas - Full-time From September 2002 to April 2010

  Evaluation of applications for green and cogeneration certificates ;rnElaboration evaluation/calculation method for issuing support certificates to electricity production/ primary energy savings ;rnPolicy advice in developing legislation on RES-E and CHP support certificates and Guarantees of Origin;rnFollow-up certificate quota obligation fullfilment of electricity suppliersrnCoordinate development of internet based certificate registry;rnSet up 'GreenCheck'' webtool for energy consumers

• Coordinator energy sector integration

  Association of Issuing Bodies - AIB - Contract / consultant From January 2020 to Present

  Oversee and manage strategic projects for integrating different energy sectors at European level. This results in improving efficiency, reliability, and adequacy of the energy attribute tracking system in Europe.rnrnCoordinator of the EECS Gas Scheme Grouprnrnhttps://www.aib-net.org/news-events/aib-projects-and-other-news

• Master of Science in Energy Engineering

  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven From September 1997 to June 2002
• Executive Master of Business Administration

  Universiteit Antwerpen Management School From September 2018 to June 2020

Biomethane Climate policy Energy Law Energy policy Green Certificates Guarantees of Origins Hydrogen Market supervision/monitoring Market-based mechanisms Power-to-gas/electrolysis

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