Susanne Nies

Susanne Nies is an energy and climate professional and political scientist, specialising in EU and Eastern Europe.

From 2015 to 2020, Susanne Nies has headed the Corporate Affairs Section of the European Association of Transmission Network Operators, ENTSO-E.[2] Until then she was Head of Unit Distribution System Operators with EURELECTRIC, the European electricity sector association based in Brussels, since June 2014.

She published as editor and author ´The European Energy Transition: an Agenda for the Twenties, prefaced by Jacques Delors and with multiple experts contributing.

Nies, Susanne, Savitskyi, Oleh, Six Options to boost power transfers from Continental Europe to Ukraine, December 2024, Nies, Susanne, The EU’s Plan to Scale up Renewables by 2030: Implications for the Power System | IFRI - Institut français des relations internationales, IFRI Briefings April 2022 Nies, Susanne, European power networks for a zero emissions future: investments, regulation, optimization in: European Energy & Climate Journal Volume 10 Issue 4 (2021) Nies, Susanne (Editor and Author), The European Energy Transition: Actors, Factors, Sectors.

Claeys&Casteels, 545 p., Deventer 2019 2nd revised and augmented edition: The European Energy Transition: an agenda for the Twenties.

Nies, Susanne, The active customer paradigm and the transmission-distribution interface, in: European Energy Journal, Claeys and Casteels, Vol 6, Issue 2, September 2016, pp 37–45 Nies, Susanne, L'énergie, facteur d'intégration et de désintégration en Europe: bilan du quart de siècle depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, in: Herodote 155, 2014 Nies, Susanne, The quest for a European energy “Silicon valley”.

A worthy task for the German-French tandem, DGAP, in:Internationale Politik 2013 (in English and German) Nies, Susanne, Erneuerbare Energien im Erzeugungsportfolio: Risiken, Chancen, und die Notwendigkeit eines Europaeischen Entwicklungsweges, Chapter 1, in Nagel, P.

Internationales Projektmanagement Erneuerbare Energien, Frankfurt School Verlag, September 2013 Nies, Susanne, Power Outlook and Capacity Changes after Fukushima, in European Energy Journal, Claeys Castels, September 2011 Nies, Susanne, Setting up new conventional capacity in Europe and EU regulation: an overview and critical assessment of the regulatory environment, VGB Power Tech, 7-2011 Nies, Susanne, At the Speed of the Light?

Ifri, 220 p., La Documentation Française, July 2008 (English, translated into French and Romanian), 2nd edition published by Technip Paris 2011) Enclaves in the Postsoviet Space – a Challenge for Russia?

Paper presented at the BASEES Annual Conference 2003 (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies), Cambridge march 2003, (unpublished manuscript), http://www.bassees.org.uk/papers/nies.pdf Nies, Susanne and Gesa Walcher.