SolarPower Europe, the continent’s trade association for the PV industry, has appointed Walberga Hemetsberger as its new chief executive.

Hemetsberger is currently the head of the EU Representation Office at Verbund, Austria's biggest utility, which sources more than 90% of its energy from renewables, mainly hydropower. She is also the board member in charge of energy transition solutions at trade body Hydrogen Europe, as well as a member of the governing board of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, a public-private partnership supporting R&D activities for those technologies.