PHILIPP FRIEDL

• Management and leadership of Green Energy Solutions, with a focus on Strategy & BD
• Focus on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
• Drive business development for battery storage, from opportunity identification to commercial close
• Develop turnkey BESS projects from greenfield to commissioning readiness, including grid connection, permitting, execution concepts and construction supervision
• Assess and prioritise a Swiss BESS opportunities of 100–450 MW stand-alone and 1–20 MW C&I projects
• Support M&A and investment processes, including CAPEX/OPEX assessments and technical due diligence for storage assets
• Lead commercial offers and tenders with volumes of up to CHF 13.5m
• Provide disciplinary and functional leadership, ensuring clarity, accountability and performance
• Identify, develop and retain high-potential talent within the team
• Translate sales and go-to-market strategies into structured and executable processes
• Align cross-functional stakeholders and drive operational excellence across development and delivery processes

• Spezialisation on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
• Owned the interface between project development and trading, aligning asset design with market requirements
• Assessed revenue potential and market participation strategies (system services, arbitrage logic)
• Translated operational constraints into commercial and investment-relevant specifications
• Defined contracting models and investment decision gates to steer project and portfolio decisions
• Identified sales and origination opportunities, leading commercial negotiations with key customers
• Held financial planning, budget and performance responsibility, ensuring economic viability

• Project mandates across Energy Systems, Industrial automation, Photovoltaik.
• Client / Location: SolaService (Augsburg, DE) - 2024: Senior Project Manager - BESS & PV
• Client / Location: WEFRA (Königsbrunn, DE) - 2023 - 2024: Senior Project Manager - new business areas; new assembly line; quotation, procurement, supplier coordination.
• Client / Location: SolaService (Augsburg, DE) - 2021-2022: Project Manager - Battery & PV project execution; customer/subcontractor/utility coordination; contracts and approvals.
• Client / Location: CR-Signs (Canada) - 2020-2021: Project Manager project execution; customer/subcontractor/utility coordination.
• Client / Location: Schmid Automation AG (Belgien) - 2019: Supervisor & Team Leader - automation and commissioning of brewhouse; on-site leadership and client interface.
• Client / Location: Schmid Automation AG (Hessen, DE) - 2019: Supervisor & Team Leader - automation and commissioning of malt plant; on-site leadership and client interface.
• Client / Location: Schmid Automation AG (CH) - 2018: Project assignment - feed mixing factory automation; control cabinet work; highway monitoring project scope.
• Client / Location: Kohl Wasser Wärme(Augsburg) - 2016-2017: Project assignment - Photovoltaik
• Client / Location: Wacker Chemie (Sir Lanka) - 2015: Special project: Autonomous photovoltaic system implementation, Battery, in a UNESCO village in Sri Lanka (on-site project leadership).

MM & PM 2010 - 2013

• B2B/B2C/public procurement sales; feasibility and tenders; procurement and execution steering.

PV Electrician 2008 - 2010

• Commissioning of PV plants, inverters, DC systems and HV converter stations.

Apprenticeship - Electrician 2004 - 2008

• PV field installations, monitoring and maintenance.