Junior Consultant
Cäcilia Gätsch
"Drive energy transition, pronto!" – This is the motto of our regulatory expert Cäcilia Gätsch, who joined our team in April 2021. Before joining cruh21, Cäcilia Gätsch drafted policy position papers for the AquaVentus Initiative and also headed the Regulatory Affairs Working Group there. For Cäcilia Gätsch, who is doing her doctorate on green hydrogen, two things are clear: First, there will be no climate change without green hydrogen and its derivatives. Second, if this key role is to be fulfilled, a supportive legal framework is needed – not in 20 years, but soon.
Within the framework of the three major hydrogen flagship projects TransHyDE, H2Mare and H2Giga, she now heads the regulatory department, which deals with the legal framework for a future hydrogen economy in Germany. In parallel, she is writing her doctoral thesis at the Sustainability and Climate Policy Research Centre and has also been involved in numerous publications.
Main focus
- Hydrogen regulation on the German and European level
- German and European energy law
- German and European climate protection law
Qualification
12/2020
First State Examination in Law
10/2014 – 12/2020
Studied law in Bremen and Geneva with a focus on environmental and public economic law
Career
Since 05/2021
Junior consultant and regulatory expert, cruh21 GmbH
Since 01/2021
Research assistant at the Research Center for Sustainability and Climate Policy (Berlin/ Leipzig)
2017 – 2019
Research Associate at the European Environmental Policy Research Centre (Bremen)
09/2018
One-month internship at the European Parliament (Brussels)
2014 – 2020
Law studies in Bremen and Geneva with a focus on environmental and public economic law
Relevant studies and projects
05/2022 – ongoing
Regulatoric advisor: TransHyDE Communication and Coordination
Client: BMBF
08/2022 – 07/2023
Regulatoric advisor: HyExpert Rügen-Stralsund: Preparation of the regional hydrogen concept for Rügen-Stralsund
Client: Hanseatic City of Stralsund
04/2022 – ongoing
Regulatoric advisor: SEN-1 pre-tender consulting
Client: International project consortium
01 – 04/2022
Commercial due diligence for the new construction of a production site of an electrolyser manufacturer
Client: Nord/LB
02/2022 – 03/2022
Co-author of the AQV short study – European perspectives for AquaSector+
Client: AquaVentus Förderverein and project family
01 – 12/2021
Head of the Regulatory Working Group
Client: AquaVentus Förderverein and project family
Since 2021
PhD on the regulatory framework of green hydrogen and PtX systems with special regard to sector coupling (ongoing)
Rath/Ekardt/Gätsch, Power-to-X: perspectives, governance, legal issues, ZNER 2021
Gätsch/Stalmann, Green hydrogen – potentials for climate protection and energy transition, KlimR 2022
Hennig/Ekardt/Antonow/Widmann/Gläser/ Rath/Gätsch/Bärenwaldt, The Easter Package and other new developments in energy law: legal and governance issues, ZNER
2022
Gätsch/Rath/Ekardt, From Coal Regions to Renewable Energy Regions: Legal issues of expansion, land protection, spatial governance and participation, EurUP, i.E.
Gätsch/Rath/Ekardt, Power-to-X and hydrogen: perspectives, governance and the new EU energy law, EurUP 2022, i.E.
Various statements and position papers in the context of AquaVentus
Contact
Cäcilia Gätsch
cruh21 GmbH
Mob: 0171 8131 865
Tel: +49 40 3346553-75
gaetsch@cruh21.com