Ready for Electrification: Preparing the Power Grid for EVs

As the Director for Sustainable Mobility at the Dutch Ministry for Infrastructure and Water Management, Petrouschka Werther oversees the department responsible for the transition towards climate neutral road transportation, serving national and international climate, air quality & health goals. Petrouschka has extensive experience across the transport policy domain. As deputy director for Civil Aviation, she oversaw the drawing up of the White Paper on Aviation 2020 - 2050 and was responsible for Sustainable Aviation, Connectivity and Drones. Previously she has been responsible for various other policy fields at the ministry (eg. roadpricing), specializing in setting up public-private partnerships, with the Netherlands as a living lab for innovations that can be rolled out internationally. Petrouschka holds degrees in Political Science and in Journalism; she studied in the Netherlands and in the UK.

Julia Hildermeier joined RAP's Europe team as an electro-mobility and transport expert to explore the benefits of integrating electrified transport in a smarter and decarbonized power market. She lends her expertise to RAP's Europe programme and leads RAP's work on demand-side flexibility and the integration of new demand into the power system through RAP's Global Expertise Center. Before coming to RAP in 2018, Hildermeier worked for the European Federation for Transport & Environment, advocating for a cleaner, fairer, and more sustainable transport system. As clean vehicles and e-mobility officer, she conducted policy research and managed internal and external research projects, co-created and implemented the organization's advocacy strategy on electro-mobility, and advised decision-makers at the EU level as well as in key Member States. This included expanding stakeholder coalitions and networks, such as the European Platform for Electro-Mobility. Julia Hildermeier holds a doctorate in sociology from Humboldt University Berlin and Ecole Normale Superieure Cachan in Paris. Her academic work included identifying the path-rupture potential of environmental regulation in the European automotive and transport sector. Previously, while earning a master's degree in social sciences and serving as a research assistant in an EU-funded project at Berlin's Center for Social Sciences, she compared the innovation potential of electric vehicle battery politics in Germany and France. Hildermeier publishes and reviews papers in scientific journals on mobility and climate topics. A native German speaker, Julia is also fluent in English and French.

Dirk Großmann, after completing his studies in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, he was employed for six years at ETAS, four years in the devel-opment of realtime operating systems and two years as product manager in the U.S. Since 2003 he has been working at Vector Informatik in Stuttgart in the department for Embedded Software Development. Since 2008 he was additionally responsible as a group manager for the TCP/IP basic software, including the responsibility for the OnBoard- and OffBoardCharger software according to ISO/IEC 15118 and DIN SPEC 70121. Since 2016 he took over the responsibility as group manager within the embedded research department, still leading the overall E-Mobility activities within Vector. In 2019 Dirk took over the responsibility for E-Mobility infrastructure products within Vector as Senior Director.He is an active member of the ISO/IEC 15118 JWG1 since 2009 and is the convenor of this group since 2018. Besides this he is also representing Vector within CharIN e.V. and a member of the CharIN steering committee. In 2026 Dirk was elected as Board Member and Treasurer of CharIN.

Albert is an Associate Researcher at the ICCT Europe team, where he analyzes the charging demands of battery-electric heavy-duty vehicles and their implications for the power grid. He holds a PhD in Engineering from Reykjavík University, where his research focused on the feasibility of electrifying road freight transport in Iceland. Albert also holds a BSc in Environmental Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and an MSc in Sustainable Cities from Aalborg University.