Part of the solution or part of the problem?

Andreas Piepenbrink shares his thoughts with us.

Andreas Piepenbrink is the cofounder of the electricity storage brand E3/DC and heads Hager Group’s Energy Management business unit called Hager Energy.

Acting sustainably is a matter for us all. Indeed, the world’s biggest challenges are rarely solved by one person or linear solutions.

A firm believer in the necessity and the capacity to have a carbon neutral home, Andreas Piepenbrink has found his niche: single family energy storage systems to allow households to create just the right amount of energy they need. “It’s so important to be able to contribute to reducing the effects of greenhouse gas, I play my part and contribute where I can. Using the principles of the circular economy and renewables is so much more responsible.” He is convinced that the business model he set up more than ten years ago continues to go in the right direction. “The storage system is an honest example of what we can do, given how complicated the situation is. I don’t claim to be a Greta Thunberg, however, doing the right thing matters to me. And we do have the technology to get the single family home to a CO₂ consumption of nearly zero.”

Ever conscious of the complexity of finding alternative energy sources to burning fossil fuels and being a critical thinker, Andreas admits that he has often asked himself if he is part of the solution for CO₂ reduction, or if he is part of the problem? But anyone who has the system installed can testify that it works and allows home owners to be in line with their values and ambitions to reduce their carbon footprint. He himself owns a home that is carbon neutral. As an entrepreneur, Andreas says that looking back now he couldn’t have gone the distance alone, even though “when you start out you have a vision, you want to do the impossible, and you are alone to make it work.”

Throughout his 10-year E3/DC adventure, he has sought the help of specialists and employed who he refers to as the “best of the best with a proven track record”. Particularly proud of the teams he has developed and the brand he has set up: “I am proud of having built up a strong brand together with a strong buy-in of private customers thanks to our proven track record of CO₂ balance in our technology.

If you’d like to know to what he attributes his success, read more here.