The decision is made. Now we make it work in your systems.
We turn German energy regulation into a running programme for utilities of every size, from municipal utilities to transmission system operators.
30 minutes on the project that's pressing for you right now. 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.
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.
The next dates for grid, metering and market
All deadlines in the calendarThe next deadlines that trigger budgets and programmes in 2026 and 2027. As of 2 October 2026.
2027 network charges: publication by 15 October
Power gridGas gridSupplier 25 October 20262027 levies: publication by the transmission system operators
Power gridTSOSupplier 31 October 2026Grid expansion plan under section 14d EnWG: first filing
Power grid 1 November 2026EEG onshore wind tender: bid deadline 1 November 2026
Direct marketingGeneration 20 November 2026Price change on 1 January 2027: notice deadline in default supply
Supplier 30 November 2026Redispatch 2.0: choice of settlement method for 2027
Power gridBalancingDirect marketingGeneration 1 December 2026EEG ground-mounted solar tender: bid deadline 1 December 2026
Direct marketingGeneration 2 December 2026EU AI Act: labelling duty extends to AI already in use
Company-wide End of 2026 plannedAgNeS: framework ruling on electricity grid charges
Power gridSupplier 31 December 2026Heating costs ordinance: retrofit remote reading
Heat networkCompany-wide 31 December 2026 planned§14a control: target for working control
Power gridMetering 31 December 2026Smart meter rollout: 90 percent of the installation cases since February 2025
Metering 31 December 2026WPG §32: decarbonisation roadmap for heat networks
Heat network 31 December 2026Smart meter rollout: 90 percent of new generation capacity up to 100 kilowatts
Power gridMetering End of 2026 plannedGas WACC: the rate of return decision is issued
Gas grid 31 December 2026CHP Act: cut-off for commercial operation or permit of CHP plants, heat networks and heat storage
GenerationHeat network 1 January 2027AFIR: ISO 15118-20 for new charging points
Charge points 1 January 2027 plannedGrid package: system-serving connection capacity instead of maximum output
Power grid 1 January 2027 plannedEEG 2027 (government draft): no fixed tariff for new PV below 25 kW
Power gridMeteringSupplier 1 January 2027BSI TR-03109-6 v2.0 for gateway administrators
Metering 1 January 2027Fallback metering operator: publication for 2027
Metering 1 January 2027AFIR: card payment at existing fast chargers from 50 kW
Charge points 1 March 2027VDE-AR-N 4105:2026-03: end of the transition period
Power gridCompetitive metering 2027, date open date openEnergy sharing: practical start with the BNetzA platform
Power gridSupplierWhich of these deadlines hits your programme? Book an implementation check →
How we work
What is missing is someone who decides the sequence across all the initiatives, then delivers against it.
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.
- 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.
- innobu Decides the sequence across all the initiatives, then delivers against it.
Knowledge
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.
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 →Let's collaborate
One contact, a team behind it
Thirty minutes on what you're working on, whether grid, metering, market processes, IT architecture or AI. Afterwards you'll know how we'd approach it and who would sit at the table.
Whoever pitches also delivers: whoever leads the first call stays your contact right through to the steering committee, with established partners in the project. Direct: info@innobu.com