• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Johannes Rittershausen

Convergent Energy + Power

Chief Executive Officer

As the Chief Executive Officer, Johannes oversees strategic planning, business development, investor relations, capital planning, and organizational stewardship at Convergent Energy + Power (Convergent). Johannes co-founded Convergent in 2011 and has guided its growth from a two-person company into a leading independent developer of energy storage solutions in North America. Prior to Convergent, he spent five years at Southern California Edison, working as a senior project manager in corporate strategic planning and the electric vehicle readiness unit. He began his utilities career as an analyst in SCE’s power procurement business unit. Johannes holds a BA from Pomona College and an MA from Georgetown University.

Sessions With Johannes Rittershausen

Thursday, 12 March

  • 10:30am - 11:20am (CST) / -

    Business Models for Behind-the-meter Energy Storage
    Clean Tech

    Electricity customers are increasingly adopting and deploying behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs) to reduce energy costs and increase reliability. Both electric utilities and their customers are discovering new value streams with behind-the-meter energy storage and it is rapidly changing electricity markets. While solar has historically dominated the behind-the-meter DER landscape, battery energy storage demand is growing rapidly due to evolving policy and rate design and new, innovative products and applications developed for electricity markets. What will be the key business models enabling behind-the-meter storage? Who is best positioned to capture the value?