02 settembre 2026 | 11.01
LETTURA: 3 minuti
Featuring EcoFlow Chief Strategy Officer Nick Chen alongside leaders from CEER, Elia Group, and Equinix, The Economist Panel "Flexible by Design: Energy Resilience for Business" explores how energy flexibility and smart technologies drive European industrial competitiveness
BERLIN, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As the explosive growth of AI data centers and electric vehicles pushes European power grids to their limit, energy resilience has rapidly shifted from a utility concern to a board-level imperative across the continent. Ahead of IFA Berlin 2026 (Sept. 4–8), The Economist Enterprise and EcoFlow today announced the broadcast release of the executive panel, "Flexible by design: energy resilience for business."The session brings together key leaders from energy regulation, grid operations, digital infrastructure, and manufacturing to tackle Europe's most pressing commercial challenge: overcoming grid bottlenecks and unpredictable power costs.Confronted with historic price volatility and years-long grid connection queues, EcoFlow is leveraging its footprint of over 10 million deployed devices and 5 million global users to power its expansion into the small business and enterprise sectors. By transferring its battle-tested consumer architecture—modular hardware, automated dynamic tariff optimization and AI software—EcoFlow is providing commercial operators with immediate, cost-effective energy independence."Small and medium businesses are facing the exact same energy volatility and high costs that residential consumers are dealing with," said Nick Chen, Chief Strategy Officer for EcoFlow. "Through powering millions of homes worldwide, we learned that mass adoption of clean energy requires three things: extreme simplicity, modular scalability, and intelligent software automation. By taking our proven consumer technology foundation and software intelligence into the commercial market, we are giving businesses the tools they need to easily manage complex energy needs, lower operational expenses and ensure power resilience."Key Panel InsightsDistinguished Panel RosterWatch On-Demand & Meet EcoFlow at IFA 2026The Economist Events PortalAbout EcoFlow
