Marlous van der Veen Marlous van der Veen

“As DSO Architect Energy Transition at Enexis Group, I work on the transition from today to the near and distant future. My goal is to be a challenger to the organisation, to stretch the frameworks and to offer new perspectives. To seek out boundaries and ask questions. Not because I don’t want to and cannot accept how things are now, but because I want to work on how things can be. It is my belief and ambition to make energy accessible always, everywhere and to everyone. This requires renewal and innovation, which I facilitate and initiate from my role as DSO Architect (which is similar to Business Developer), but also from an academic framework. I am doing my PhD at the University of Groningen on the subject of ‘system innovation in energy transition’, in which I am trying to find an answer to the question: how do we ensure that various innovations interlock and realise change at the system level? In short, how do we make these system innovations in the energy transition possible instead of continuing to talk about them? I try to let professional and academic impact reinforce each other: I bring Enexis lessons from my research and vice versa; I bring the daily practice of energy transition to academia.”