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Markus Schwab

Weather Innovation Expert and Climatologist, Energy Specialist

Who Is Markus Schwab?

markus schwab, weather innovation expert, energy specialist

Markus Schwab is Weather Innovation Expert & Climatologist at Meteomatics, where he focuses on helping energy companies, grid operators, and traders build weather resilience strategies through high-resolution forecasting and real-time weather intelligence.

He holds a Diploma in Geography from Ruhr University Bochum, with a focus on climatology, renewable energy, and GIS, and is a certified wind energy expert from the University of Oldenburg. He has spent his entire twenty-year career at the intersection of meteorology and the energy sector — starting at EWC Weather Consult and Meteomedia, where he built his foundation in business development, product management, and key account management for weather-driven energy services. At MeteoGroup, he deepened his expertise as Key Account Manager for Energy, specialising in renewable energy forecasts and meteorological consulting for the German market. He subsequently joined UBIMET and later DTN as Business Development Manager, expanding his reach across European energy markets and working with weather-sensitive industries on data-driven decision-making.

Across these roles, Markus developed a sharp understanding of how forecast accuracy, data accessibility, and visualisation tools directly affect operational and trading decisions — particularly for balancing markets, spot trading, and grid management.

At Meteomatics, he brings that accumulated expertise to bear in positioning the company's weather intelligence capabilities within the energy sector, helping clients leverage high-resolution forecast models, robust weather APIs, and flexible visualisation tools to navigate an increasingly weather-dependent and climate-volatile energy landscape.

Expert Contributions and Media Mentions

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Customer stories / Energy
06/09/2026 / By partnering with Meteomatics, Swissgrid replaced fragmented, project-specific data workflows with a centralised weather data platform, enabling faster operational decisions, significant cost savings, and high-resolution solar forecasts that help keep the grid balanced.
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Customer stories / Energy
04/07/2026 / The VSE Group’s grid operators are strengthening network resilience, improving planning reliability with precise weather data, and evolving their capabilities from reactive damage response toward proactive operational preparedness.
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03/11/2026 / Handelsblatt / The article covers how energy companies can use Meteomatics to reduce costly grid imbalances. Markus Schwab serves as the company's main spokesperson, explaining everything from the technical capabilities of their EURO1k model and computing infrastructure, to the financial benefits for clients, to future opportunities in drone networks and grid operator partnerships.
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02/24/2026 / Energate / The article covers Meteomatics' weather drones as a replacement for costly weather balloons. Markus Schwab explains how drone data fed into their EURO1k model improves forecast accuracy by ~15%, delivering sharper renewable energy forecasts and better grid stability for traders and grid operators.
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Customer stories / Energy
01/21/2026 / Axpo, Switzerland’s largest power producer and a leading international energy trader, manages a renewable portfolio totaling several gigawatts across the globe. For its European portfolio, the team relies on Meteomatics’ power forecasts based on EURO1k to sharpen day-ahead and intraday trading. This unique model diversification has proven decisive, reducing balancing costs and allowing for stronger weather-driven decision-making across the team.
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08/10/2025 / E-on Youtube Channel / The video covers Eon's innovation ecosystem and how it helps start-ups like Meteomatics scale. Markus Schwab explains how Meteomatics provides grid operators with real-time severe weather warnings and 24/7 climate resilience monitoring, while Eon representatives describe their hands-on approach to matchmaking and scaling new solutions within their ecosystem.
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02/12/2025 / Commodities People / How can high-resolution, rapid-refresh forecast models reduce imbalance costs? The webinar covered innovations in weather forecasting for short-term power trading. Markus Schwab presented Meteomatics' EURO1k high-resolution forecast model and demonstrated its superior accuracy and value in reducing energy trading imbalancing costs.
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12/11/2024 / Energate / This webinar explored how high-resolution weather models can improve short-term energy trading and reduce imbalancing costs. Markus Schwab presented Meteomatics' EURO1k model, demonstrating its superior accuracy over traditional forecasting tools and its practical value for renewable energy traders.