Markus Göring is Director Asset Value Management within Vattenfall Business Area Heat. Vattenfall operates several district heating grids in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and UK, and manages the value chain from heat production to customer sales. Markus studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, followed by a PhD on engineering of automation systems at Helmut-Schmidt University Hamburg. He started his professional career at Vattenfall in 2009. Developing as risk-based maintenance expert and driving digitalization, Markus shaped the maintenance approach within Vattenfall, for example, as program manager for the data-driven operations and maintenance program in the wind business. Since 2020 he is responsible for developing asset management and securing asset value in the heat business.