• Making resilience a core design principle

    At the summit, the ‘Resilience by Design’ subtrack explores how resilience can be embedded into energy systems from the very beginning. Moving beyond reactive approaches, it highlights how robust design, digital security, and intelligent automation can enable infrastructure to withstand disruption, adapt under pressure and recover with speed and stability.   The subtrack ‘Resilience by Design’…

  • Can business really drive the energy transition? Only if strategy and responsibility move together.

    The energy transition will not succeed through ambition alone. It will succeed when companies turn decarbonisation into operational reality, while accepting responsibility for the people, skills and ecosystems that make long-term progress possible. A reflection on creating shared value through automation, regional talent and industrial leadership. When I joined ABB Switzerland earlier this year, I…

  • Aligning Storage, Grids and Flexibility

    How do we design energy systems that can withstand volatility and scale at speed? The BadenEnergy Summit’s subtrack ‘Storage, Grid & Flexibility’ explores how the smart combination of infrastructure and innovation can turn resilience from a concept into an investable reality.  Rather than focusing on a single breakthrough technology, the discussion within the subtrack ‘Storage,…

  • How data centres are powering the energy transition

    Once seen as heavy energy users, data centres are now emerging as unlikely allies in building a cleaner and more flexible energy future. By rethinking infrastructure, integrating energy planning, and embracing flexibility, they have the potential to accelerate both digital innovation and climate goals. As demand for cloud services accelerates, data centres are evolving from…

  • Balancing decarbonisation, security, and competitiveness in industry

    The industrial energy transition is no longer about ambition alone, but about delivery. At the summit, the ‘Industrial Energy Transition’ subtrack explores how companies can decarbonise in ways that are technologically feasible, economically viable, and secure in supply, highlighting practical solutions that can scale today. The summit places a sharp focus on one of the…

  • Rethinking energy systems in a digital age

    How are AI and automation making energy systems more resilient? The ‘Digital Energy Systems’ subtrack at the BadenEnergy summit explores how digital intelligence becomes an operational advantage, helping infrastructures respond faster, act smarter, and stay resilient under real-world pressure.  The ‘Digital Energy Systems’ subtrack zooms in on a question that feels more relevant than ever:…

  • Powering resilience: the defining challenge for energy systems

    As energy demand rises and systems become more complex, resilience is emerging as the key challenge. BadenEnergy 2027 focuses on how technology and industry can build energy systems that are secure, scalable and ready for the future. Energy systems are undergoing a fundamental transformation. Demand is increasing rapidly, driven by digitalisation, artificial intelligence and industrial…

  • Baden: a whole ecosystem for energy innovation

    Baden is more than a location. It’s a unique industrial ecosystem where engineering, research and production come together, which makes it the ideal foundation for a European platform on energy innovation. What defines a strong location for the future of energy? It’s not only infrastructure or proximity. It’s the combination of industrial capability, technological expertise…

  • From idea to platform: how BadenEnergy came to be

    BadenEnergy did not emerge by chance. It’s the result of a shared ambition between industry and the City of Baden to create a platform where technology, engineering and implementation come together to accelerate the energy transition. BadenEnergy was born out of a simple observation: while the number of conferences on energy and decarbonisation is growing,…