About innobu
Why regulation, portfolio, architecture and delivery sit in one place here.
30 minutes on the project that's pressing for you right now. No sales loop.
§14a EnWG. The smart-meter rollout. NIS2/KRITIS, Redispatch 2.0, market communication, CSRD. Six statutory deadlines, each with its own owner, its own budget and its own steering group, and in 2026 they all come due at the same utility. Somewhere around the third one the project map stops matching the org chart.
We close that gap: regulation, architecture, portfolio and delivery in one place.
The purpose isn't abstract. It's the energy transition. Grids have to absorb decentralised generation, new consumers and new market roles inside a regulatory framework that moves faster than most programmes can replan. That's the work. Not slides about the work.
Niels Schuldt
Managing Director
innobu GmbH
WHO ADVISES YOU
Where strategy meets execution
Most consultants do either strategy or execution. We do both. Not sequentially. At the same time.
We develop enterprise target architectures, structure multi-year programmes, design capability maps and ship working prototypes. And we keep steering committee discussions calm and grounded.
That's a specific combination. Most organisations never find it in one pair of hands.
Whoever pitches also delivers. When a programme needs more hands, a fixed partner network joins, not a team you have to brief first. Who is on it and what carries the mandate when the lead is out: Team and partners.
Where this comes from
Measure, order, control. Energy and measurement technology have been our field since 2010. What sorts a grid portfolio today started on a factory floor.
from 2010 · measure
Compressed-air and gas measurement, Harrislee
From 2010 Niels Schuldt, today managing director of innobu, ran a manufacturer of compressed-air and gas measurement technology and co-founded its Scandinavian subsidiary in Denmark. Around 30 people directly, roughly 100 indirectly. Product development, production, sales. What the company actually sold was transparency: flow, pressure, dew point, consumption, leakage.
the demand side
Compressed air is electricity, just invisible
Compressed air is made with electricity, and on a factory floor it is among the most expensive energy there is. A leaking network and one bar too much burn power every single day. Nobody finds that on the bill. This is the demand side of the energy transition, and it is where the work began.
What is not measured cannot be controlled.
The rule holds in the compressed-air network of a factory and in the distribution grid of a utility alike. Only the consequences are more expensive in the grid.
in between · order
Programmes and portfolios in other sectors
Between the factory floor and the distribution grid lie years of programmes and portfolios outside energy. Leadership turned into method there: make dependencies visible, decide the order, keep the decisions traceable. So metering and controllable loads are not new ground here.
today · control
Programme and portfolio lead for energy utilities
Today the offer is programme and portfolio lead for utilities. Many mandatory initiatives under one steering structure, §14a EnWG, the smart meter rollout and MaKo releases among them.
Same rule, different names
- Controllable load compressorbecomesheat pump, wallbox, battery
- Measurement flow sensorbecomessmart meter gateway
- Network compressed air in the hallbecomeslow voltage in the local grid
The difference sits in the regulation, not in the physics. What used to be an operating decision is now written into §14a EnWG.
The aim is narrow: turn a fragmented project landscape into a portfolio with defined capabilities and interfaces. Governance as light as it can be. As heavy as it has to be.
AI shows up twice here, and the two are easy to confuse. innobu works with AI itself: role-based orchestration, agents for clearly bounded tasks inside a programme, the human still deciding. Depth under Agentic Harness Engineering. And innobu builds AI for utilities, where it pays along the value chain: Prototype and AI.
Where we work
The work is different in each sector. The discipline behind it isn't.
We work for utilities of every size: municipal and regional utilities, grid companies, metering operators, transmission system operators. Not as an IT consultancy at the edge of a project. As the people who run the portfolio, give it a structure and translate between legislator, operations and IT.
At the centre sits the infrastructure itself: grid transformation, smart metering and metering operations, regulatory programmes, portfolio management across all of it. One usually depends on the other.
The methods come from programmes in other sectors. The industrial demand side isn't foreign ground here. It is where the work started.
What innobu delivers
One promise, four routes. Bookable on their own, and they interlock.
- Programme and portfolio management Prioritisation, steering, budget, vendors.
- Enterprise architecture Target picture, Clean Core, IS-U replacement, data spaces.
- Regulatory implementation §14a, MsbG, MaKo, NIS2, EU AI Act.
- Prototype and AI Forecasting, grid state, clarification cases, customer service.
Let's collaborate
Does this fit what you are planning?
If your deadlines are fixed and the projects behind them keep drifting apart, that is the seam innobu works on. One conversation settles whether it fits.
Energy and measurement technology since 2010 · innobu GmbH since 2014 · Based in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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