Before joining IDEEMATEC, Tobias served as Member of the Management Board at ENERTRAG, where he was responsible for the company’s international business, engineering, energy systems and project execution. ENERTRAG develops, builds, owns and operates wind, solar, battery and hydrogen projects in nine countries globally. 

Before joining ENERTRAG in 2017, Tobias lived and worked in South Africa for six years, where he contributed to South Africa’s long-term power system planning and large-scale renewable energy integration at Eskom, and later built and led the Energy Centre at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Earlier in his career, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group after studying engineering and energy regulation in Darmstadt, Berkeley and New York.esign of combined power plants, international project development and the company’s project implementation organisation. Previously, he founded and headed the Energy Centre at the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which under his leadership became a central institution for the energy transition in southern Africa. Other stages of his career include Eskom, South Africa’s national electricity utility, where he was Chief Engineer and helped develop the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), and the Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt. Tobias Bischof-Niemz studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and UC Berkeley, as well as public administration at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of the book South Africa’s Energy Transition and was a member of the South African Ministerial Advisory Council on Energy, among other things.