Smart Solar and Prosumers: Electrification Strategies for Households and Businesses

Monday, June 22, 2026

Time: 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Hall: ICM München
Room: Room 14 B

Rooftop solar remains a key pillar of Europe's energy transition, helping households and SMEs hedge price volatility and maximize self-consumption. With electrification spreading to the heating and mobility sectors, there is a drive towards distributed PV combined with batteries, EV chargers and smart energy system management tools. Despite a decline in rooftop capacities last year, plug-in solar is attracting new customer segments, and more aggregator solutions are starting to unlock
flexibility benefits. This session explores how digitalization and new business models are reshaping prosumer's solar+ strategies in an energy system that is becoming increasingly electrified.

Key topics:

Policy and regulatory drivers of building-applied solar energy
The latest electrification strategies for homes and businesses
Overview of technical solutions and business models for turning self-consumption into grid-supporting flexibility

01:00 pm - 01:10 pmIntro & kick-Off Presentation: Smart Solar and Prosumers - The New Era for Residential and C&I Solar

Nikolai Dobrott

Managing Partner

Apricum - The Cleantech Advisory

01:10 pm - 01:20 pmFrom Kilowatt Hours to Flex Power: Why Residential Flexibility Is Europe's Next Big Value Pool

Lucinda Murley

Senior Consultant, Flexibility

LCP Delta

01:20 pm - 01:30 pmPerformance Optimization for Commercial PV: Turning Systems into Smart Energy Assets

Daniel Kirchner

Head of Technical Excellence & Engineering Strategy

LichtBlick Energy as a Service GmbH

01:30 pm - 01:40 pmMulti-tenant PV Installations - An Emerging Frontier of Distributed PV electrification market dynamics and direction

Gadi Hirsch

Senior Strategy Manager

SolarEdge Technologies

01:40 pm - 02:00 pmFire Side Chat

To Program Overview

Speakers

Speaker

Daniel Kirchner, LichtBlick Energy as a Service GmbH

Head of Technical Excellence & Engineering Strategy

Germany

Active in the energy sector for 15 years, currently serving as Technical Operations Manager at LichtBlick EaaS with a clear focus on the energy transition: through innovative photovoltaic concepts, I develop sustainable, economically viable solutions in the B2B sector and actively drive the energy transition forward.

Speaker

Nikolai Dobrott, Apricum - The Cleantech Advisory

Managing Partner

Germany

Nikolai Dobrott founded Apricum in 2008 to help companies navigate the strategic and financial challengesof the global renewable energy transition. He has led major solar market-entry projects for multinationalcorporations, advised governments across the USA, Germany, Mexico, and the Middle East, andsupported a range of M&A transactions in the renewable energy sector.His expertise spans renewable energy technologies, corporate finance, and strategic business developmentat a company, country, and regional level, across solar, wind, and the broader clean energy sector. He wasnamed among the top 250 decision makers in Who's Who in MENAT Renewables 2017.Prior to founding Apricum, he held leadership roles in consulting and industry, including positions atArthur D. Little, Rütgers (now Evonik), and Invest in Germany. He holds a master's degree in businessadministration and chemical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.

Speaker

Lucinda Murley, LCP Delta

Senior Consultant, Flexibility

United Kingdom

Lucy brings her 7 years of experience studying flexibility markets with a focus on residential flexibility. As the lead for our residential flexibility content, Lucy supports a wide range of client across the flexibility value chain helping them adapt to fluctuating prices, changing consumer attitudes and awareness and changing regulatory landscapes. With a deep technical understanding of European flexibility markets, Lucy leads or acts as technical advisor on consultancy projects. Lucy has been the lead author for five editions the annual smartEN/LCP Delta Flexibility Market Monitor. She supports a variety of clients, from executives in multinational vertically integrated utilities, to developer teams in start-up organizations.

Speaker

Gadi Hirsch, SolarEdge Technologies

Senior Strategy Manager

Israel

Gadi Hirsch is a senior strategy manager and lead market and policy analyst at SolarEdge Technologies. Gadi leads business analysis and strategy formulation efforts for key market segments, focusing on distributed energy resources and digitally enhanced energy business models. He also covers technological trends and policies, with an emphasis on European and North-American markets. He holds a BA in economics and has previously led economic analysis and management consulting teams.