Profile

THE ENERGY HOUSE provides experience-based advisory services since 2011, when Michael Karasz decided to set up his own business.

With nearly 30 years of hands-on experience in the European energy industry Michael's commercial expertise covers the whole value chain of the natural gas and LNG business. He is an expert in negotiating complex gas sales & purchase, transportation, and storage agreements. He gained comprehensive expertise in preparing and successfully executing complex international arbitration cases.

Michael's long-lasting involvement in gas business started in the early 90's at Wingas. After having held different senior management positions, both in Germany and Central & Eastern Europe, with E.ON, EEX, RWE, and Bayerngas, he founded THE ENERGY HOUSE GmbH in 2011.

Michael holds degrees in Geology and Business Administration from the University of Cologne. He is author of the leading German textbook on risk management in the energy business and an English textbook on natural gas.