Johanna Schickling
Fully qualified lawyer
Lawyer
Policy & Markets
Expertise
- Energy law
- Environmental law
- Administrative law
- European law
- Construction and mining law
- Public commercial law
Johanna Schickling is a fully qualified lawyer and works at HIC CONSULTING as a legal advisor specialising in energy, environmental and administrative law. She supports our clients and customers in consulting and research projects with the legal assessment and design of energy policy and energy industry measures. She is also an expert in the field of regulation of large-scale heat storage facilities and large-scale heat pumps. Her responsibilities include preparing expert opinions, drafting municipal statutes and legislative regulations, and analysing relevant national and European legal frameworks.
In addition, she develops proposals for the further development of the legal framework with the aim of advancing the energy transition in a legally secure and effective manner. Before joining HIC CONSULTING (formerly Hamburg Institut), Johanna Schickling worked as a solicitor in Munich and Aschaffenburg, specialising in public and private construction law and administrative law, among other areas.
Project experience (selection)
Heat transition: Strategies for the use of climate-neutral district heating technologies
Client: Federal Office for Energy Efficiency (BfEE) at the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA)
Fundamentals for guarantee of origin (HKN) systems for renewable gases, renewable heating and cooling, and unavoidable waste heat
Client: Federal Environment Agency (UBA)
TREASURE: EU research project on underground heat storage technologies
Client: European Commission
German-Ukrainian research cooperation on the certification of green hydrogen (GerUCCHy)
Funding organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Call for proposals ‘Cooperation on green hydrogen with Ukraine, Central Asia and the South Caucasus’ within the framework of the guideline for the promotion of grants for international projects on the topic of green hydrogen