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Oct 20, 2026
MeganHOST
Wary of a testing few years ahead, buyers and sellers are chasing optionality.
MeganHOST
Large utilities such as Japan's Jira and Germany's Uniper are acquiring trading staff, storage, and regasification units so they can sit on excess purchases and resell when the price is right.
MeganHOST
Project developers wanting to capture more margin are cutting out middlemen and setting up their own trading desks.
MeganHOST
Oil and gas majors are signing deals left and right to become one-stop shops for smaller clients.
Ethan PreteHOST
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, privacy professionals alike, and welcome again to the Web Privacy Podcast, the place where I get to fulfill my dreams of simplifying the web privacy space by bringing together the world's best privacy professionals to share their cutting-edge ideas.
Ethan PreteHOST
I'm your host, Ethan Prete, and today we're joined by Indu Rajeswary, head of data privacy at Uniper.
Ethan PreteHOST
Indu brings a deep GDPR-first perspective from the energy sector, where data governance isn't just a compliance checkbox, it's actual infrastructure.
Ethan PreteHOST
Now, full disclosure to our listeners, for those of you that haven't caught on to this yet, I spend my days at ObservePoint staring at tag audits, so I thought I'd seen every way a tag could misbehave.
Ethan PreteHOST
But today we're presenting Indu with a scenario that keeps enterprise DPOs up at night, a silent 18-month leak hiding behind a user login screen.
Ethan PreteHOST
Indu, let me start by just saying welcome to the show.
Ethan PreteHOST
If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to hear just, like, a brief introduction about who you are, how you got into your role, and also tell us a little bit about Uniper.
Indulekshmi RajeswariGUEST
Sure.
Stuart BroadleyHOST
It's absolutely brilliant to welcome you to this series of podcasts linked to the Hydrogen Technology World Expo.
Stuart BroadleyHOST
Uniper is such a brilliant company.
Stuart BroadleyHOST
And I didn't know, you've just told me that Uniper stands for unique performance.
Susanne ThöleGUEST
Exactly.
Susanne ThöleGUEST
This was an employee suggestion.
Stuart BroadleyHOST
It would be great to learn a bit more then, Susanna, about your role.
Susanne ThöleGUEST
Maybe I start a bit with myself.
Susanne ThöleGUEST
I lead what we call green molecule assets at Uniper.
DennisGUEST
Our competitive and comprehensive product portfolio has enabled us to win important projects in the year, including a Neptune 5 project with Westnets in Germany, a Neptune 2 project with a cement producer in Spain, a Poseidon contract with Morgen in the UK, and a Neptune 5 contract with Octopus Energy Generation.
DennisGUEST
We also secured important project supplier selections for opportunities progressing towards FID, including with Uniper for the 120 megawatt Humber project, with a confidential customer in Asia for a project larger than 300 megawatt and with German stable grid for two projects totaling 710 megawatt.
DennisGUEST
In addition, we entered into 150 megawatt capacity reservation with RWE.
DennisGUEST
I will skip the UK government investment and our Rheinmetall partnership for now, as we will talk about that later in the presentation.
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DennisGUEST
We have seen first projects being awarded, especially also to us.
DennisGUEST
HA2, as I said, it got a bit quiet.
DennisGUEST
The messages we received from government, also from the new administration now, is going in the direction that is still going ahead, which would be important for us, because we have been selected as a supplier for many of those projects, and some of them are very decent in size, like the Uniper 120 megawatt Humber project, which we announced, but also many, many others which we haven't yet announced.
DennisGUEST
Interestingly, there's also first engagement on half three, so the subsequent phase, where companies are now already invited to submit interest or submit first projects.
Tobias FedericoGUEST
A bit a political situation also, not really geopolitical, as the owner of the gas storage facilities are state-owned.
Tobias FedericoGUEST
One is SEFE, which is owned by the Ministry of Economics, and the other one is Uniper, which is owned by the Ministry of Finance.
Tobias FedericoGUEST
And Uniper itself is not refilling their gas storages on purpose by an order from the government, but SEFE right now is.
Tobias FedericoGUEST
So, Katarina Reiche, uh, who is the Ministry of Economics in Germany, said to SEFE that they should need to refill the gas storages, but she did that two weeks ago, which was a bit late.
Tobias FedericoGUEST
This is one thing.
Housley CarrNARRATOR
Despite the increase in LNG imports from March twenty twenty-three, it is clear that LNG can only replace a small percentage of the lost Russian pipeline gas volumes.
Housley CarrNARRATOR
We should note that German utility Uniper, which had been the country's biggest importer of Russian gas, was nationalized in twenty twenty-two after facing severe financial pressure.
Housley CarrNARRATOR
After nationalization, Uniper faced tighter financial discipline, limiting its capital flexibility while the company rebuilt its financial position.
Housley CarrNARRATOR
Germany initiated a plan to sell down its ninety-nine percent stake in Uniper in May.
Housley CarrNARRATOR
Another reason for the shortfall is the Persian Gulf conflict, in which Qatari LNG deliveries into Asia, its main market, have been replaced by LNG cargos shipped from the US, pulling US-sourced volumes away from Europe.
Housley CarrNARRATOR
US LNG exports and destination markets are tracked in our weekly LNG Voyager report.
Danny FelberHOST
Under the terms of the agreement, SEFE would purchase one MTPA of LNG for up to twenty years, with deliveries expected to begin in the early twenty thirties.
Danny FelberHOST
In July twenty twenty-six, Uniper, one of Europe's largest energy companies, signed a binding long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement with SeaCysum LNG.
Danny FelberHOST
The contract covers two MTPA over a period of up to twenty years, with first deliveries targeted for twenty thirty-two.
Danny FelberHOST
Uniper said that volumes will help supply customers across Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands, further strengthening the role of Canadian LNG in Europe's long-term energy diversification strategy.
Danny FelberHOST
In addition to growing its European market share, Asia remains a primary target for Canadian LNG exports.
Danny FelberHOST
British Columbia's geographic advantage provides shorter shipping routes to major importing nations such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China compared with LNG exporter from the US Gulf Coast.
Paul GerkeHOST
It signed an EU Innovation Fund funding agreement in March.
Paul GerkeHOST
Last week, Uniper agreed to buy 40,000 metric tons a year for more than 10 years.
Paul GerkeHOST
Pretty big agreement there.
Paul GerkeHOST
About half of what the plant plans to make.
Jack BoggisGUEST
But there's now deals being made with Germany and India.
Jack BoggisGUEST
So there's an offtake agreement signed between Uniper and AM Green from a project in India there for 500,000 tons per annum of green ammonia there.
Jack BoggisGUEST
And I think it'll be green ammonia will be the main derivative that will be looked into instead of just pure hydrogen.
Jack BoggisGUEST
It's easier to, uh, transport by ship, et cetera.
speaker_1GUEST
If you track the assets swept up under Decree 302 since early 2023, this distinct irreversible pattern emerges.
speaker_1GUEST
Like in April 2023, the Finnish energy provider Fordham and the German utility Uniper were placed under state management.
speaker_1GUEST
Then three months later, the French multinational Danone saw its massive Russian dairy operations targeted.
Jack RussoHOST
And didn't the management of Danone get handed over to someone with like very specific political ties?