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KOER | The First Croatian Virtual Power Plant is our new corporate member and a successful example of a technology company specialising in innovative energy solutions. KOER has developed the infrastructure of the first Croatian virtual power plant and has thus also become an aggregator – a new participant in the electricity market that is the link between the electricity market and end consumers. KOER operates a virtual power plant as an aggregator, and end consumers provide part of their electricity generation and consumption capacities. Aggregators as new entities in the electricity market play a very important role under the conditions of rapid decentralisation of the electricity system, the growing share of renewable energy sources in the production mix and the expected increase in consumption and electrification of transport.

INA, as a leading oil and gas company and one of the forerunners of the Croatian economy, is ready to contribute to the green energy transition. By joining the XEnergy Network for the Promotion of Women in the Energy Transition, INA confirms its commitment to the decarbonization of the European economy.

We are very pleased to announce that the circle of our corporate members has expanded to include IE-ENERGY, an innovative start-up company founded in March 2020, whose goal is to implement new technologies and create new functional and interconnected energy markets. IE-ENERGY is creating the first regional virtual energy community as an aggregated network of medium-sized decentralised power generation units such as wind farms, solar parks and combined heat and power (CHP) plants, as well as flexible electricity consumers and storage systems. The virtual energy community uses the technology of combining generation, storage and consumption units. The aggregated units form a unit and participate in the energy markets as a balancing group managed by IE-ENERGY.

Hitachi Energy is a leading global technology company operating in more than 140 countries and employing around 40,000 people. In the region, it operates united in a Balkan cluster consisting of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia and Serbia. The CEO is our XEnergy Menagement Board Member Nina Dusper Sušić.

Another extraordinary, strong and successful woman has joined the XEnergy Advisory Board! We welcome Marija Šćulac!

We are pleased to introduce our new corporate member.E.ON Croatia has been operating on the Croatian market since 2020 as a holding company that is part of the strong pan-European group E. ON, headquartered in Essen, Germany. In Europe, the group operates in 15 different markets, employs more than 72,000 people and serves more than 51 million customers in two main business areas: Energy Networks and Customer Solutions. The E.ON Group is one of Europe’s largest operators of electricity grids and energy infrastructure and a provider of innovative customer solutions. The company’s strength lies in the combination of its business areas, which include both energy networks and customer solutions. In the Croatian market, E.ON is involved in the energy value chain through the supply of electricity and gas, as well as gas distribution and wastewater treatment. It is also the leading company on the market in the design and construction of solar power plants for business customers and households.

We are pleased to introduce our new corporate member DOK-ING, a company that in more than three decades has managed to completely capture the world market for robotic demining systems with an incredible 80% share. The special value and contribution of DOK-ING to the mission of XEnergy lies in its role in the development of innovative green technologies that can significantly contribute to the energy transition. DOK-ING is developing a new technology for the production of hydrogen from organic waste, and green hydrogen opens up a range of new development opportunities for the Croatian economy.

It is with great pleasure that we introduce our new corporate member – the powerful Doğus Group, one of the largest private sector conglomerates in Turkey, with a portfolio of 250 companies in 7 industries. In Croatia, Doğus Group is known as the first Turkish investor in our country and has been present in Croatian tourism for 12 years. It has previously built a chain of marinas and hotels, but has since sold these projects and is currently developing the most challenging and valuable project – the reconstruction of the Maraska Hotel in Zadar.

We are pleased that the company Dalekovod d.d. has become our corporate member and will make an important contribution to the quality of our membership and the potential of cooperation between our members.

On Thursday, April 23, we socialized at another interesting networking event that we organized with our corporate member Privredna banka Zagreb. We heard extremely useful and very concrete information about sustainable financing through the capital market from our guests Vedrana Jelušić Kašić and Goran Kursan.

XEnergy is organizing a new training on November 27th in Zagreb (Sky Office, Roberta Frangeša Mihanovića 9) on the topic “Sustainable Energy Systems in Buildings Solar Technologies and Energy Sharing in Practice.”

We are very pleased to introduce our new corporate member AKUO ENERGY MED, a French company based in Paris that focuses on the development, financing and long-term management of renewable energy projects and electricity trading. Since it was first established in 2007, AKUO has invested nearly € 2,8 billion in renewable electricity generation and storage projects in more than fifteen countries.

Our new corporate member is ACCIONA Energia, the world’s leading company in the field of renewableenergy investments! With more than 30 years of experience, this company has produced enough greenenergy worldwide to power 7.6 million homes per year, reducing global CO2 emissions by more than 13million tons. ACCIONA Energia is also a leader in compliance with ESG standards and has been awardedthe highest rating by S&P Global Rating. Since 2015, ACCIONA Energía has been declared the “greenest”electricity producer for nine consecutive years, according to the Energy Intelligence Top 100 GreenUtilities Rating.

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Our new corporate member is A1 Hrvatska, a company whose sustainability strategy was developed under the slogan Future First. Their main sustainability goals relate to:

XEnergy is a networking platform where our female members together with male colleagues have the opportunity to connect, learn new information and strengthen their network of acquaintances. On Wednesday, February 28, in the wonderful premises of our dear partner KONČAR Group, we witnessed one such example.

U rujnu prošle godine predstavljeni su rezultati natječaja za prvi mentorski program XEnergyja „Osnaživanje žena u energetskoj tranziciji“, usmjeren na mlade žene na početku poslovne karijere. Tijekom 10 mjeseci trajanja programa, njihovi mentori, iskusni poslovni ljudi, jednom mjesečno održavali su individualne sastanke s njima. Oni su bili prilika za razmjenu iskustva i, od strane mentora, savjetovanje i usmjeravanje manje iskusnih kolegica.