Peter Meier
Geo-Energie Suisse AG
CEO
Peter Meier holds a master degree in civil engineering for rural areas from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. After working during 4 years as a field engineer for hydraulic testing of deep boreholes, he went back to academia to get a Ph.D. in hydrogeology and numerical modeling from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Thereafter he has been working for 3 years in France for ANDRA (Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs) as a project manager for international research projects in underground rock laboratories. From 2001 to 2010 he worked for the Axpo Hydropower Division and was in charge of the development of large hydropower projects in Switzerland. Since 2011 he is CEO of Geo-Energie Suisse AG, a company founded in November 2010 by seven Swiss utilities with the objective to get a break-through of deep geothermal energy in Switzerland.