Ing. Martin Škopek, Ph.D.

After finishing his studies of Electrical traction in the transport at the High Technical School of Transport in Pilsen in 1993 Ing. Škopek Martin, Ph.D. (* 1975) continued his studies in the field of power engineering with a focus on electric machines at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of West Bohemia, where he graduated in 1998. Then he joined the local Department of Theoretical Electrical Engineering as a doctoral student, where he, besides teaching activities, focused especially on computer simulation of electromagnetic and associated physical fields, in terms of both theoretical and practical (software implementation) viewpoints. In May 2002 he successfully defended his thesis “Methods of Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Selected Coupled Problems”.

After passing the relevant examinations at the Ministry of Trade and Industry in 2009 and 2012, he became an energy specialist (auditor) under § 10 of the Act on Energy Management (No. 406/2000 Coll., as amended), authorized for the activities under the certificate no. 0628:

• development of Energy audits and assessments,
• development of Certificates of energy performance of buildings (PENB),
• examination of inspections of boilers,
• examination of inspections of air-conditioning systems.

In 2010 and 2014 he was appointed by the Regional Court in Czech Budejovice to an expert in the fields of:

• ELECTROTECHNICS, production, distribution and use of electricity; assessment of energy savings,
• ENERGETICS, production, distribution and use of energy; assessment of energy savings,
• ECONOMICS, prices and estimates, specialization of energy, fuel, heating and hot water distribution incl. cost allocation.

Within his expert activity he focuses mainly on the control of the supplied energy amount, the power balance, detection of unauthorized energy consumption and the subsequent determination of the overall costs caused to suppliers, assessment of the accuracy and legitimacy of the statement of the electricity, heat, hot water etc., evaluation of eligibility of applied damages related with energy devices, etc., ie mostly on applications related to the Energy Act (No. 458/2000 Coll., as amended) and the Energy Management Act (No. 406/2000 Coll., as amended).

At the time, except own expert and auditing activities, he deals with the various technical tasks according to the needs of his customers, particularly in the context of the company Energy Consulting Service, s.r.o.® He is a distributor and consultant of QuickField program for the regions of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. The results of his scientific work of non-commercial character he continuously publishes in various publications, professional journals and at international conferences (author or coauthor of more than 65 conference papers, technical articles and other publications). He also belongs to a regular contributors in professional discussions on portals elektrika.cz, tzb-info.cz, Elektro bastlírna and others.

He is an active member of various associations, eg .:

• Member of the Association of Energy Auditors,
• Member of the Chamber of expert witnesses of the Czech Republic, section Electronics and IT, electricotechnics, respectively EuroExpert - Organization for European associations of expert witnesses
• Member of the International Association Konnex,
• Member of the Junior Chamber International South Bohemia (JCI SB),
• Member of Czech energy company,
• Member of the Society for the development of public lighting,

or various commissions and boards, eg .:

• External evaluator of projects of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic,
• Member of the Committee for the state doctoral examination and defense of dissertations for the subject Energetics at the Faculty of Electrical Energy in Pilsen (University of West Bohemia),
• Member of the evaluation jury of the prestigious Energy Globe Award Czech Republic,
• Member of the state board of examiners for undergraduate and graduate courses at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (University of West Bohemia) in Pilsen, including supervisor, consultant or opponent of dissertations and theses,
• Energy adviser in the EKIS network (Energy Information and Consultant Centers) under the administration of the program EFFECT of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (formerly the CEA - Czech Energy Agency)
• Regular lecturer for the Institute for International Research GmbH,
• Member of the Advisory Group for GILDED project.

In the course of his business (since 1994 under the ID 60612738) he fully agrees with the initiative "We do business without corruption" and also, among other things, he regularly supports the international humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders.