As Head of Energy Retail Innovation, Markus Grote builds and scales the propositions E.ON's residential customers use to take part in the energy transition - from home batteries to energy sharing, smart charging and vehicle-to-grid. Over more than 15 years at E.ON he has worked on this problem from both ends. As Acting VP Corporate Strategy he shaped the group's flexibility strategy; as a business builder he took E.ON Sweden's smart-metering service Elna from idea to scale. Today he leads an international team that turns those two perspectives into services with a working commercial case.