Investment for Dresden energy start-up

Felix Leitmeyer Felix Leitmeyer | 02.11.2021

The Cottbus-based energy group LEAG and the Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) together secure a 15 percent stake in the start-up Die Energiekoppler GmbH.

LEAG and Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen invest in Die Energiekoppler GmbH. The start-up was founded out of the Institute for Electrical Power Supply and High Voltage Technology at the Technical University of Dresden. Since 2011, the team had been researching the start-up's technology, among other things. The founders are Jens Werner, Tobias Heß and Irina Weis.

"With the participation of LEAG and TGFS, we are primarily securing the build-up of human resources," says Jens Werner. "We want to set up our business more broadly. It is important to us to develop our company sustainably and to achieve profitability with a clear horizon."

The start-up's product is a so-called flexibility plant, a new form of virtual power plant. One of these is intended to make it possible to control and monitor energy plants. The technology is intended to solve major problems of previous virtual power plants - and make them more economical.

The energy couplers have already been working with LEAG for about two years. LEAG's innovation manager, Robert Klimpke, had heard about the start-up and introduced the founders to the head of innovative energy solutions, Harald Altmann, in 2019. "We were in the process of launching virtual power plant services ourselves for the remote control and marketing of a wide range of energy plants," says Altmann. "The business idea of the energy couplers convinced us immediately."


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