Karlheinz Bender

Dipl.-Ing. (Univ.) Karlheinz Bender is a mechanical engineer at the Technical University of Munich. He has many years of professional experience in leading positions in the field of conventional power generation with fossil-fuelled power plants, especially gas turbine power plants. In addition to the development and realisation of standards for the automation of gas turbine power plants, his special commitment since 1990 has been the optimisation of power plant operation through the collection and evaluation of gigantic amounts of operating data by means of digitalisation.

Climate change and the need to convert conventional power generation and the entire future energy management on a large scale to renewable energies, storage technologies and sector coupling have moved Karlheinz Bender to contribute his experience in power plant technologies – but also with digitalisation – to the full extent for creating a sustainable energy management for future generations in order to contribute to achieving the 1.5 degree global warming target.