The decision is made. Now we make it work in your systems.
We turn German energy regulation into a running programme for municipal and regional utilities, grid companies and metering operators. Programme management, architecture, regulation and prototypes come from one source.
30 minutes on your market role and your next deadline. No sales loop.
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Portfolio
One sequence, not ten.
Prioritisation, steering, budget, vendors.
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Architecture
The target picture that holds.
Clean Core, IS-U replacement, data spaces.
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Regulation
From statute to requirement.
§14a, MsbG, MaKo, NIS2, EU AI Act.
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Prototype and AI
Working code in days.
Forecasting, grid state, clarification cases, customer service.
DEADLINES
The next dates for grid, metering and market
The next deadlines that trigger budgets and programmes in 2026 and 2027. As of 28 September 2026.
Grid development scenarios 2027: end of the consultation
Distribution grid operators and municipal utilities can comment on the electricity and gas/hydrogen drafts. The assumptions frame the grid development plan.
Grid & low voltage Power gridGas grid 1 October 2026MaKo format release, notice no. 56
25 AHB and MIG versions covering 13 EDIFACT message types, AS4 profile 1.2 and the AS4 transport rules 2.6 become binding. Test plan, exception handling and fallback scenarios need to be in place.
Market communication & market processes Power gridGas gridMeteringSupplier 1 October 2026 plannedMiSpeL: ruling on market integration of storage and charging points
The Federal Network Agency plans to publish the ruling with a demarcation option and a flat-rate option for storage and charging points in mixed use. It sets how volumes are separated for EEG support and levy privileges.
Flexibility, storage & grid charges Power gridMeteringSupplier 1 October 2026WiM Gas 2.0 applies
Digitalised metering switch processes for gas, new message formats.
Market communication & market processes Gas gridMetering 15 October 20262027 network charges: publication by 15 October
Electricity and gas distribution grid operators publish their 2027 network charges online. If the charges are not yet calculated on the cut-off date, operators publish the expected level derived from the revenue cap.
Grid & low voltage Power gridGas gridSupplier 25 October 20262027 levies: publication by the transmission system operators
The transmission system operators publish the 2027 CHP levy and offshore grid levy by 25 October. Suppliers and grid operators carry the values into price sheets and grid fee billing.
Procurement, trading & market design Power gridTSOSupplier 31 October 2026Grid expansion plan under section 14d EnWG: first filing
Distribution system operators with 100,000 or more customers submit their first grid expansion plan to the Federal Network Agency, then every two years by 31 October. Smaller operators are covered only if they curtailed more than 3 percent of wind or solar output in each of the two previous years.
Grid & low voltage Power grid 1 November 2026EEG onshore wind tender: bid deadline 1 November 2026
Bids for onshore wind turbines must reach the Federal Network Agency by the bid deadline. According to the agency, the volume is about 2,495 MW and the 2026 ceiling price is 7.25 cents per kilowatt hour.
Generation & direct marketing Direct marketingGeneration 20 November 2026Price change on 1 January 2027: notice deadline in default supply
Default suppliers changing their general prices on 1 January 2027 must publish the change at least six weeks in advance, notify customers by letter and post it online. For household customers on special contracts, Section 41(5) EnWG sets a one month notice period.
Market communication & market processes Supplier 30 November 2026Redispatch 2.0: choice of settlement method for 2027
Under ruling BK6-23-241, the plant operator sets the settlement method for each technical resource by 30 November for the following year. Without a decision the simplified peak settlement applies; the flat-rate settlement ends for existing resources at the end of 2028.
Flexibility, storage & grid charges Power gridBalancingDirect marketingGeneration 1 December 2026EEG ground-mounted solar tender: bid deadline 1 December 2026
Bids for ground-mounted solar plants (first segment) must reach the Federal Network Agency by the bid deadline. According to the agency, the actual volume is about 2,079 MW.
Generation & direct marketing Direct marketingGeneration 2 December 2026EU AI Act: labelling duty extends to AI already in use
The four-month transition period ends. Generative AI systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026 must mark their output in machine-readable form.
IT architecture, data & AI Company-wideWhich of these deadlines hits your programme? Book an implementation check →
THE SITUATION
The deadlines are fixed. The projects behind them grow apart.
Deadline pressure on its own would be manageable. It gets hard because the projects behind it start in different departments and their dependencies never meet in one place.
Except that hardly any utility holds just one market role. A municipal utility often keeps distribution system operator, metering point operator, supplier and heat network operator under one roof; a group spreads the same roles across grid and sales companies, each with its own deadlines, its own processes and its own systems. That is where projects drift apart, long before anyone calls it a delivery problem. 20 market roles at a glance.
And under regulatory pressure each role spawns its own initiatives, which hang together. The rollout needs market communication, §14a needs billing, the grid connection portal needs master data from both. Run in different parts of the business, against different deadlines. Portfolio leadership means seeing those dependencies in one place and deciding the order.
- Strategy consulting Draws the target picture and is gone before the first requirement is written.
- A systems integrator Delivers the system it sells. It does not decide the sequence of the other six initiatives.
- Internal capacity Knows the house and the people, but already holds a full-time job. And rarely the standing to contradict a corporate vendor in an architecture dispute.
- An AI tool Does not solve it either. The bottleneck is not the model, it is data, process and sign-off.
What is missing is someone who decides the sequence across all the initiatives, then delivers against it.
SERVICES
What innobu delivers
A decision becomes a running programme. Four routes lead there, bookable on their own, and they interlock.
Interim programme and portfolio lead
We lead portfolios of mandatory programmes in grid, metering and market processes and deliver inside them: PMO, dependency maps, steering committee.
More on programme leadership →Enterprise architecture and target picture
IS-U replacement, IT/OT, data architecture: the target picture that holds the programmes together.
More on architecture →Regulatory implementation
§14a, MsbG, NIS2, MaKo: law and rulings translated into requirements, with a date.
More on regulation →Prototype and AI
Working code in days instead of a feasibility study in months. AI from pilot to regular operation, with governance that plans for the EU AI Act and BNetzA supervision from day one.
More on prototyping and AI →At the large firms the partner pitches and the juniors deliver. With us, whoever pitches also delivers. When a programme needs more hands, a fixed partner network joins, not a team you have to brief first.
FOCUS AREAS
Ten topic fields under one umbrella
Ten fields of the German energy transition for energy utilities of every size, from the deadline to a system that runs.
Grid & low voltage
Digital secondary substations, grid state, redispatch, grid connection.
View topics →Smart metering, SMGW & §14a
From rollout via gateway and control box to grid-oriented control.
View topics →Market communication & market processes
MaKo releases, LFW24, MaBiS hub, balancing, master data.
View topics →Flexibility, storage & grid charges
MiSpeL, AgNeS, time-variable charges, energy sharing, direct marketing.
View topics →Heat, gas & hydrogen
Heat planning, district heating, gas network transformation, hydrogen core network.
View topics →Sales, portals & e‑mobility
Customer portals, feed-in processes, dynamic tariffs, charging infrastructure.
View topics →Cybersecurity & resilience
NIS2, KRITIS umbrella act, IT security catalogue, OT security.
View topics →IT architecture, data & AI
IS-U replacement, Clean Core, data spaces, AI in grid operations, EU AI Act.
View topics →Generation & direct marketing
EEG, Solar Peak Act, direct marketing, PPAs, market master data register, power plants.
View topics →Procurement, trading & market design
REMIT II, capacity market, 15-minute products, bidding zones, carbon price.
View topics →KNOWLEDGE HUB
Latest energy insights
Current analyses of deadlines, rulings and systems of the German energy transition, written for energy utilities and their grid, metering and sales units.
LET'S COLLABORATE
Put our experience to work
Thirty minutes on your programme in the grid, in metering or in market processes: which deadline is pressing, which systems hang off it, what comes next. If you want, a one-page implementation map afterwards.
Whoever pitches also delivers: the first call is led by the person who later works in the project. Direct: info@innobu.com