Weltenergierat – Deutschland is the national member representing the Federal Republic of Germany at the World Energy Council. Its members include companies in the energy industry, associations, academic institutions and individuals. As a non-governmental, joint profit association, Weltenergierat – Deutschland is independent in its opinion. The objective of Weltenergierat – Deutschland is to implement and disseminate the WEC results in Germany, in particular, to bring the global and longer-term issues and needs of the energy and environmental policy to the attention of the national debate. To this purpose, it organises its own events and carries out its own studies.
Jürgen Stotz is the Chair of the World Energy Council's German National Committee. He is an electrical engineer and graduated from Technical University in Stuttgart in 1971. He has been CEO of Vereinigte Energiewerke AG (VEAG), who he worked for from 1990 until 2001. Before joining VEAG, Jürgen Stotz worked for different utility companies including PreussenElektra AG and Nordwestdeutsche Kraftwerke AG. On an international level he took on responsibility as President of the Union for the Coordination of the Transmission of Electricity (UCTE) and as a member of the Prezidents’ Council of European Transmission System Operators (ETSO).
Carsten Rolle, Secretary General of the German Member Committee of the World Energy Council since 2005, holds a PhD in economics from Münster University. After his studies, he managed the department for telecommunications and postal services at the Federation of German Industries (BDI) in Berlin. Since 2008 he has been the Managing Director of the Energy Policy department.