The Schmid Group will see Prof. Dr. Ralf Lüdemann leading the Energy Storage Business Unit, helping advice the PV sector.
The Energy Storage Division, which was under the temporary assignment of Frank Fuchs, is one of the new and key business fields the Schmid Group will be concentrating on in order to enter future markets and further expand the product portfolio.
Lüdemann was with SolarWorld for the last 10 years, helping to build the first solar cell line, and is active in the PV business since more than 20 years. After studying physics at the University of Karlsruhe, he earned his doctorate at the University of Konstanz. He worked seven years at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, establishing and heading the business unit Innovative Production Technology for PV. In 2000 he was assigned to the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he was responsible for technology transfer. Besides his responsibility as Managing Director of Deutsche Cell GmbH he became Managing Director of SolarWorld Industries Deutschland GmbH, the former Shell Solar Industries. Since 2005 he also was in charge of merging all R&D activities in the SolarWorld group in one company, the SolarWorld Innovations GmbH.
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