Overview
Nina Waffenschmidt is CEO of PerPetum Energy, a role she took up in June 2026. She is based in Hamburg.
She was previously CEO of LichtBlick EaaS GmbH from April 2024 to February 2026, having served from April 2023 as Co-CEO of Installion GmbH within the same company. In parallel she was Director Operations at LichtBlick SE between March 2021 and March 2024, and CEO of Kamenica Service GmbH from December 2021 to November 2023. Between January 2018 and October 2020 she was a Senior Vice President at AlixPartners.
Earlier she held roles at D+H, as Director of International Sales at D+H Mechatronic AG and, for several months from September 2016, CEO of D+H Lumex A/S. At Dingfelder + Hadler AG she was a strategic project manager and then Head of Finance. She began her career at OC&C Strategy Consultants, where she was a Senior Consultant from 2010 to 2013.
Waffenschmidt holds an MSc in Strategic Management from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and a BSc in economics from WHU, Otto Beisheim School of Management.
Career history
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In the news
- In October, our clients avoided buying € 1.7 million worth of electricity from the grid. Sunny months usually make headlines for negative power prices. I’m glad October gave us a different headline. In Belgium, the sun shone every single day of October, for the first time since 1931. It was also an expensive month for power. Solar power earned an average of € 141.20/MWh on the market. When I talk to industrial leaders, energy mostly comes up as a risk. Prices they cannot predict, grid capacity they cannot get. A month like this
- Much of my time these past weeks has been spent on the road, mostly in Germany, sitting down with companies we might work with. It is a conversation we have regularly at PerPetum Energy. I am convinced that is where our way forward lies. Behind-the-meter energy is still a young market. Industrial companies are only starting to see what a system on their own site can do for them, and the companies that grow with that market will be the ones that work well with others. We take responsibility for the energy system on a client’s
- Electrifying industrial heat starts with the right contract model. At the BVES Investor Summit in Berlin, our CEO Nina Waffenschmidt heard one message repeated: industrial companies want to invest their capital in their core business, not in energy hardware. We already apply that model to PV and battery storage. We finance, own and operate the assets, and an energy management system steers them behind the meter. Electrified heat follows the same logic. Thermal storage does for heat what a battery does for power: it turns low-price
- An onsite PPA behind the meter always saves the customer money, as grid fees, taxes and levies that can make up to half of the customer‘s electricity bill don’t have to paid if the electricity is produced by a onsite PV behind the meter. A battery can increase savings even further as the electricity consumption can be steered away from expensive grid hours. And the customer can even make money through trading and ancillary services. A very compelling business case. Thank you for the interview, Hendrik Vermeersch, it has been a
- Stand-alone solar doesn't cut it anymore and active steering is what adds most value to a PV installation today, but how does that impact the set-up of the traditional solar PPA? How do you make sure it remains a win-win for the asset owner and the end-customer once batteries, technology bundling and flexibility enter the picture? Here's Nina Waffenschmidt's take on it.
- The main barrier to electrifying industrial heat is financing, not technology. That was the show of hands in the room at the BVES Bundesverband Energiespeicher Systeme e.V. Investor Summit session on industrial heat in Berlin last Thursday. After day one, I wrote that industrial companies want to keep their capital for their core business. On day two, one speaker put the reason plainly. A CEO grows the value of a company by investing in its core business. That is what drives growth, and with it the valuation and, for a
- Stand-alone solar doesn't cut it anymore and active steering is what adds most value to a PV installation today, but how does that impact the set-up of the traditional solar PPA? How do you make sure it remains a win-win for the asset owner and the end-customer once batteries, technology bundling and flexibility enter the picture? Here's Nina Waffenschmidt's take on it.
- Behind-the-meter storage is hitting its sweet spot. Day one of the 4th BVES Investor Summit Europe in Berlin showed where the money is and where the hurdles remain. 🔋My takeaways from the speakers, panels and conversations: 💶 The timing is right. Storage prices are low enough and power prices high enough for C&I investment to make sense. Financing appetite for fully merchant projects is shrinking, while behind-the-meter assets are gaining ground. 🏭 Industrial companies want to put their capital into their core business, and look
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