Team overview

Dr Alexandra Styles

  • Senior Manager | Topic Lead Renewable Energy Marketing and Tracking
  • +49 (0)40 39 10 69 89-38
  • a.styles@hic-consulting.com

Dr Alexandra Styles

Doctorate in Economics; M.Sc by Research, Global Environmental Change; Graduate Economist
Senior Manager | Topic Lead Renewable Energy Marketing and Tracking
Policy & Markets

Expertise

  • Further development of certification systems for electricity, heating/cooling and gases
  • Granular guarantees of origin
  • Marketing strategies and support systems for renewable energies
  • Conceptual interfaces between climate accounting and guarantee systems
  • Evaluation of framework conditions for sector coupling and bioenergy policy
  • Heating policy

Dr Alexandra Styles is one of the leading experts and scientists in the field of guarantees of origin. At HIC CONSULTING and Hamburg Institut, she has led numerous research and consulting projects on the further development of guarantee of origin systems and support systems for renewable energies, as well as on complex issues relating to future climate accounting. Among other things, she played a leading role in the development of the first pilot guarantee of origin register for green district heating in Germany.

Other topics include the evaluation of framework conditions for sector coupling and bioenergy policy, as well as the field of heating policy. Dr Alexandra Styles also actively contributes her knowledge to European and national standardisation work: In addition to her work in the DIN working group on the revision of EN 16325, she was co-chair of the Heating & Cooling Project Team at CEN/CENELEC JTC 14 Working Group 5 ‘Guarantees of Origin related to energy’ from the end of 2020 to mid-2023. Since October 2024, she has been a member of the international Scope 2 Technical Working Group for the revision of the GHG Protocol.

Project experience (selection)

Sub-project ‘Green District Heating’ in the energy trasition Reallabor IW3 „Integrierte WärmeWende Wilhelmsburg“

Client: Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE)

Devaluation of guarantees of origin for the energy losses of network operators

Client: Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG and TenneT TSO GmbH

Basics for guarantees of origin (HKN) systems for renewable gases, renewable heating and cooling, and unavoidable waste heat

Client: Federal Environment Agency (UBA)

‘GO4Industry – Guarantees of Origin for Renewable Energies as a Tool for Decarbonising Industry’

Client: Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK)