Impact Days 2024

5–7 Jun 2024 | Vienna, Austria

Simon Schmitz

Co-Founder & CEO at aWATTar GmbH

aWATTar GmbH

Vienna, Austria

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About me

Experienced entrepreneur and business leader, passionate about reducing GHG emissions. As an economist and philosopher by training, I am particularly fascinated by the power of collective learning to create impact. Over the last roughly 10 years, I have built up aWATTar, a 20m€ business (revenue target 2023) that is one of the leading innovators in the space of renewable energy tariffs in Austria and Germany. We are currently integrating aWATTar into tado° GmbH, a European leader in the bigger smart energy space, to further scale our impact. Before becoming an entrepreneur, I have successfully lead highly dynamic strategy teams that identified and defined new opportunities for E.ON, one of Europe's largest energy utilities. Before that, I spent 4 years at WBCSD, probably the first global green industry network, promoting the benefits of sustainable development to member companies, NGOs and governments alike, as well as shaping the business perspective on international climate policy. During that time, I was also fortunate enough to be one of the co-authors of the www.ghgprotocol.org Corporate Accounting Standard, which is still in use today.

My organisation

aWATTar GmbH

Sustainable energy is more important than ever. We are the first electricity provider in Austria and Germany with an hourly dynamic tariff, thus not only creating new savings potential for our customers, but also more space in the electricity grid for wind and solar energy. We have already been awarded the “Greenstar(t)” Award by the Austrian Climate Fund and have been shaking up the German electricity market for some time now. We recently gained a financially strong investor on our side in the form of the leading smart home company tado°, and the trend towards e-mobility and decentralized energy production is also boosting our growth.

Speaker sessions (1)

Thursday, 6 June 2024

13:30 - 14:45

The Green 100 - Wie finanziere ich mein Unternehmen? (in German)

Format:In-personLocation:Hofburg - ParterreTrack:The Green100
  • Climate
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Capital

Eine authentische und persönliche Diskussion, die Ihnen hilft, Ihr Unternehmensprojekt voranzutreiben und Herausforderungen in der Finanzierung erfolgreich zu meistern.