Carolina Burger named New Head of Communications at APG
Carolina Burger (46) is taking over as head of the Corporate Communications & Reputation Management department at Austrian Power Grid AG (APG) and is the new corporate spokesperson for the Austrian electricity transmission system operator.
In her role, Carolina Burger is responsible for corporate communications, public relations, brand management, advertising, events & sponsorship, and social media. Together with her team, she oversees APG’s internal and external communications.
The communications expert has many years of experience in strategic communications, media relations, editorial work, brand management, and marketing. Before joining APG, she worked at the General Secretariat of Novomatic AG, served as press spokesperson for UNIQA Austria, and spent many years as an editor at the business magazine Format.
“We are pleased to have recruited Carolina Burger, a dedicated employee from within our own ranks, to lead our corporate communications. Thanks to her previous work at the company and her many years of experience in journalism and communications, she is ideally qualified to effectivelyfurther develop the communications strategy in line with the corporate strategy,” emphasize APG board members Gerhard Christiner and Marcus Karger.
Carolina Burger succeeds Christoph Schuh, who is leaving the company at his own request to pursue new professional challenges outside of APG.
About Austrian Power Grid (APG)
As an independent transmission system operator, Austrian Power Grid (APG) is responsible for ensuring a secure electricity supply in Austria. With our high-performance, digital electricity infrastructure and the use of state-of-technologies, we integrate renewable energy sources and thereby reduce dependence on imports; we serve as a platform for the electricity market; we provide access to affordable electricity; and we thus lay the foundation for a location that is both economically viable and sustainable, with a secure energy supply. The APG grid spans a route length of approximately 3,500 km, which the company operates, maintains, and continuously adapts to the growing demands of the electrification of society, the economy, and industry with a team of around 1,000 specialists. The control center in Vienna remotely operates the majority of the 67 substations distributed throughout Austria. In 2025, thanks to our dedicated employees, the supply reliability remained at 99.99 percent, placing us among the world’s leaders. Our investments totaling 680 million euros in 2026 (2025: 595 million, 2024: 440 million, 2023: 490 million euros) serve as an economic driver and a key building block for achieving Austria’s energy goals. In total, APG will invest approximately 9 billion euros in grid expansion and modernization by 2035.
