Managing Director

Werner Diwald

Mr. Werner Diwald has over 30 years of professional experience in the renewable energy industry and economy.

He is the managing partner of PtX Solutions GmbH. Mr. Diwald has played a major role in shaping the topics of "sector coupling" and "power to gas" in Germany. In the course of his work, he has been very successful in integrating the topics of the green hydrogen economy and sector integration into German and European politics. sector integration into the German and European political programs.

Before founding PtX Solutions GmbH and taking over the chairmanship of DWV, Mr. Diwald was responsible for the international project development of wind farms, technology development and plant construction in the field of hydrogen (electrolysis, hybrid power plant) at ENERTRAG Aktiengesellschaft. Under his leadership and responsibility, ENERTRAG successfully developed and installed wind farms and biogas plants with more than 1,000 MW in Germany, France, England, Poland and Bulgaria and commissioned the first industrial hybrid power plant in 2011. Together with ENERTRAG AG, as managing partner, he successfully built up a manufacturer for aviation identification systems and demand-based night identification of wind turbines and managed it until 2018. Between 2008 and 2011, he played a leading role in building up the electrolysis manufacturer ENERTRAG HyTec GmbH, whose business was acquired by McPhy in 2013. In 2012, the company successfully delivered a 6 MW electrolysis plant. Mr. Diwald successfully supports several companies in their market entry in Europe and Asia.

From 2014 to 2024, he had represented the German Hydrogen Association (DWV), with its more than 180 member companies, as Chairman of the Board.

From 2016 to 2021, he was also a member of the board of the European hydrogen umbrella organization "Hydrogen Europe".

Among other things, Mr. Diwald is a member of the civil society advisory board of the Copernicus projects for the energy turnaround, the steering committee of the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence (CoE) "Integrated Energy Systems", the federal expert commission "Energy Policy" as well as "Energy for Mobility" of the Economic Council of the CDU, the Economic Forum of the SPD, the Board of Trustees of the H2Global Foundation.

In addition, Mr. Diwald is a member of several political committees and bodies dealing with German and European energy policy.