In this Business Talk interview with Michael Avery, Lukas Stoltz, regional sales manager for Herholdt’s Group, discusses how the company is adopting core products and technology.
Stoltz holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computers and Programming from the University of Pretoria and an MBA from Concordia University.
He began his career as an engineer at Zoetix in 2003. Two years later, Stoltz joined Flextronics as a hardware engineer and in 2007 became an electronic design engineer at Crabtree.
Stoltz then joined Panaxion in 2009 as a consultant, followed by a programmer and manager role at Hanbay in Montreal, Canada.
He has been in Canada for over 10 years and worked at Hanbay for 6 years before joining Tiptol Solutions as General Manager.
In 2023, Mr. Stolz joined the Herholdt Group as Technical Manager and took up his current role as Regional Sales Manager for the Group in October 2025.
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In this interview, Stoltz begins by revealing the history of Herholdt and its core products.
He explains how South Africans can distinguish between trusted and illegitimate actors in the renewable energy sector, like Mr. Herholt.
Stoltz then talks about how Herholdt’s is adopting the latest technology to take its products to new heights through features such as AI-powered load balancing.
We also discuss the group’s embrace of energy system arbitrage and why this approach is so impactful.
Finally, Stoltz highlights where he sees the most opportunities in the sector in terms of new markets and technologies.
Watch the full interview with Lucas Storz below.
