Dortmund (energate) - After ten years, the chairman of the supervisory board of the transmission system operator Thyssengas, Klaus Homann, is stepping down. The 72-year-old will be succeeded by Hilko Schomerus, who has been managing director at owner Maquarie since 2008 and leads one of the largest investment funds for energy infrastructure there. Homann had accompanied the past two changes of ownership of the Dortmund-based company as the top supervisor: from the Australian infrastructure investor Macquarie to the two financial investors DIF and EDF Invest and after five years back to Macquarie (
energate reported). "With Thyssengas, he leaves a well-ordered house that is well equipped for the coming challenges of the energy transformation," Schomerus said on taking office. Under his watch, the company will have to reposition itself with a view to the switch to hydrogen. /mt
