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About GFG Energy
GFG Energy is your manufacturer-independent partner for energy projects in commerce and industry. We combine classical engineering with a software platform of our own and a strong finance partner. For you that means one point of contact, from the first assessment through delivery to years of operation and marketing.
Engineering, software and financing coming together · schematic
Where we come from
Most parties in an energy project master one side of it. Planners calculate yields, banks assess collateral, installers build. What is missing is the place where everything comes together — technically sound, financeable and with a point of contact who stays after commissioning.
Years of experience with plants, grids and what actually works on a commercial roof. That is where the ability comes from to check a design rather than believe it.
Years of experience with financing and with the documents a bank or a fund actually wants to see. That is where the ability comes from to prepare a project so it can be financed.
One permanent point of contact from the first conversation — and still there when the plant has long been running. That is where the ability comes from to support customers for years rather than only until handover.
Role
What GFG Energy is
What GFG Energy is not
Projects and capital
Many projects fail not on the engineering but because nobody prepares them in a way that investors can assess. Conversely, funds and investors are looking for projects whose numbers are technically sound. GFG Energy works at both ends of that gap.
Which structure is possible depends on the project. We calculate variants, not promises.
A project prepared so that banks, funds and investors can work with it — including models without any investment of your own.
Projects whose technical assumptions have been checked and whose calculation is open.
The translation: technical quantities into the language in which capital decisions are made.
Our own software
Energy management and virtual power plant run on a platform we develop ourselves. It brings together generation, storage, charge points and controllable loads, evaluates the metering data and produces the evidence from it. We use it in our own projects — and we pass it on.
You use the platform, we operate it.
The platform runs at your site and under your responsibility.
Software and operation from one hand, as a service.
For utilities and suppliers who offer it to their own customers.
Which form fits depends on who owns the plants and who is to be responsible for operation. That belongs before the design, not after it.
Our own system
GFG Energy maintains its own site database. Areas are captured from map data, roughly assessed and given a first estimate of their potential. That replaces no analysis — it makes sure a first conversation starts from a basis instead of a blank sheet.
A statement only becomes reliable with the load profile, the structure and the grid operator's information.
Attitude
We earn nothing from which plant gets built. Only from it being the right one.
That is why our documents also state what speaks against a project.
Principles
No sizing without a load profile, no binding recommendation without the grid operator's information.
Two or three routes, calculated against each other, with open assumptions.
If a project does not carry itself, that stands in the assessment — before the investment.
Everything is handed over so that work can continue with it, even without us.
Frequent questions
With assessment, planning and supervision, with operation, and with our own software — as a service, under licence or as a complete package, including for utilities. Not with the sale of plants or components. That is why our result does not depend on how large a plant becomes.
No, construction is done by specialist firms. We obtain comparable offers, make a proposal and coordinate delivery — the interfaces between roof, electrics and grid connection are our responsibility. The award is your decision.
Site check
In a thirty-minute first conversation you get an initial assessment of which combination of solar, battery storage and charging infrastructure could relieve your site. Checking and calculating come afterwards — with your load profile and the grid operator's information.
Helpful, but not required
If you have none of this, that is no obstacle. The load profile can be requested from your metering operator — we tell you how in the conversation.