Coming from two certified experts in their fields, this book is unique, remarkable and outstanding. It is both the ultimate Swiss Army knife of energy storage applied economics and the golden compass for storage investment. Incredibly well written, conceived, documented and illustrated; a great volume contributing to the Energy Transition Encyclopedia of the 21 Century. In my 30 years of electricity economic research I have not seen such a wonderful book: so well-conceived, so comprehensive, so useful: really great!
Oliver Schmidt works as management consultant in the clean energy industry. He has previous experience as project manager at the strategy consulting and financial transaction advisory firm Apricum, where he supported top management with strategic advice in the energy storage, solar PV and hydrogen industries. Oliver also worked as an energy analyst at the International Energy Agency and as a management consultant at E.ON. He has a PhD on the future cost and value of energy storage from Imperial College London. His background is in mechanical engineering and renewable energy, which he studied at Imperial and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
Iain Staffell is a multi-disciplinary scientist holding degrees in Physics, Chemical Engineering and Economics. He is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London, and previously worked at the University of Birmingham and Imperial College Business School. He has taught for ten years and authored 100 papers across energy economics, engineering, and energy systems modelling. He champions open-source science and is a developer of the Renewables.ninja, Demand.ninja, and EnergyStorage.ninja web platforms.