Bengt Stahlschmidt has been recruited by Varta for the newly created position of general manager energy storage systems in the division Power & Energy.The 56-year-old is responsible for the development, production and sales of private home storage systems and commercial large-scale storage systems, and he reports directly to Gordon Clements, the general manager for the division Power & Energy. Bengt Stahlschmidt has many years of experience in the energy storage market and in energy efficiency solutions. A graduate in mechanical engineering and business administration, he was last business development manager at redT energy storage, before that head of global sales at Gildemeister energy storage.