ES·FOR·IN SE

ES·FOR·IN SE (stylized ES·FOR·IN or Esforin) is a German digital energy services company headquartered in Essen. Its name stands for "Energy Services for Industry." Founded in September 2014 as a European public limited company (SE), it began operating as an independent digital energy service provider for electricity and gas in 2016. The company focuses on short-term flexibility marketing, using customer assets to respond automatically to price signals from energy exchanges via custom-programmed algorithms. This helps customers reduce energy costs, stabilize the grid, and cut CO2 emissions. ES·FOR·IN's core business is flexibility marketing at European energy exchanges, including auction-based and continuous trading. It operates a digital optimization platform for algorithmic intraday trading of electricity and gas. The company serves energy-intensive industrial customers, municipal utilities, battery storage operators, energy suppliers and power plants, renewable energy producers, and aggregators/VPPs. Its services include portfolio management, short-term trading on electricity and natural gas markets, and flexibility marketing. Since 2020, it has also served municipal utilities, and it increasingly provides direct marketing services for biogas, biomass, and wind power plant operators. ES·FOR·IN is active in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, and has operated in four European countries. In 2021, its electricity and gas supply business in the UK was transferred to E.ON following the loss of a distribution customer to that competitor; necessary licenses for the supply business remain. The company is led by CEO Christian Hövelhaus and COO Christoph Gardlo. It holds a 90% stake in subsidiary IT 24/7SOLUTIONS GmbH, which provides IT consulting and services and manages investments. In 2022, ES·FOR·IN had 27 employees, with additional staff at the subsidiary. Revenue rose from approximately €276.74 million in 2021 to €647.08 million in 2022, driven by sharply increased electricity and gas prices after the reduction of Russian gas supplies and expansion of new and existing customer business. ES·FOR·IN has partnered with the Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. (FNR) on the VisuFlex project, which makes visible the contribution of flexible biogas CHP plants to supply security. Since 2022, it has marketed available energy volumes from photovoltaic systems for Sonnen through algo-trading on the intraday market of the European power exchange EPEX Spot, enabling private households to participate indirectly in intraday trading for the first time. In 2023, a cooperation with 1Komma5Grad, a group specializing in sustainable energy system installation, was announced. In early 2023, TÜV Rheinland issued ES·FOR·IN the Product Carbon Footprint certificate (PCF C01-2022-01-21254731), confirming that its flexibility marketing of electricity in intraday trading indirectly achieves CO2 reductions using transparent, traceable, and consistent calculation methods based on established data sources. Indirect CO2 avoidance increased from 197,394 tonnes in 2021 to 363,267 tonnes in 2022. The company's official website highlights that 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 were saved in 2025.

ES·FOR·IN SE was founded in September 2014 in Essen, Germany, as a European public limited company (SE). The name stands for "Energy Services for Industry." After building up the company in 2015, it began operating in 2016 as an independent digital energy service provider for electricity and gas in the energy market. The company is currently active in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. In 2021, its electricity and gas supply business in the UK was transferred to E.ON, following the loss of a distribution customer in that market to the competitor E.ON; the necessary licenses for the supply business still exist. ES·FOR·IN is led by its two board members, Christian Hövelhaus (CEO) and Christoph Gardlo (COO), and has a digital optimization platform for algorithmic intraday trading of electricity and gas. The company operates in four European countries and trades goods according to customer specifications on European power exchanges such as EPEX Spot. ES·FOR·IN also holds the subsidiary IT 24/7SOLUTIONS GmbH, in which it held a 90% stake at the end of 2022. IT 24/7SOLUTIONS GmbH provides IT consulting and services and holds and manages investments and capital assets. In 2022, 27 employees were employed at ES·FOR·IN, with additional employees at the subsidiary. In the 2022 financial year, annual revenue rose from around €276.74 million in the previous year to €647.08 million, driven by sharply increased electricity and gas prices following the phase-out of Russian gas supplies and the expansion of new and existing customer business. ES·FOR·IN is a partner of the Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. (FNR) in implementing the VisuFlex project. In the VisuFlex project, direct marketers send the electricity feed-in volumes of biogas plants from their plant pool daily to the VisuFlex database. This is intended to make visible the contribution that flexible biogas CHP plants can make to supply security when operated in addition to fluctuating renewable energies. Since 2022, ES·FOR·IN has marketed available energy volumes from photovoltaic systems for the company Sonnen through algo-trading on the intraday market of the European power exchange EPEX Spot. For the first time, private households are thus indirectly participating in intraday trading. In 2023, a cooperation between Esforin and the 1Komma5Grad group, specialized in the installation of sustainable energy systems, was announced. In early 2023, TÜV Rheinland issued ES·FOR·IN the certificate Product Carbon Footprint (PCF C01-2022-01-21254731). This confirms that ES·FOR·IN indirectly achieves CO2 reductions for its flexibility marketing of electricity in intraday trading and uses transparent, traceable, and consistent calculation methods based on established data sources. After 197,394 tonnes in 2021, indirect CO2 avoidance increased significantly to 363,267 tonnes in 2022.

• ES·FOR·IN founded in Essen as a European public limited company (SE).

• Company build-up phase.

• Began operating as an independent digital energy service provider for electricity and gas.

• Started serving municipal utilities (Stadtwerke).

• UK electricity and gas supply business transferred to E.ON.

• Began marketing PV energy for Sonnen via algo-trading on EPEX Spot intraday market.

• Revenue rose to €647.08 million; 27 employees.

• TÜV Rheinland issued Product Carbon Footprint certificate.

• Cooperation with 1Komma5Grad announced.

Pioneer of short-term flexibility marketing, enabling customers to reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions while stabilizing the grid.

• Flexibility marketing for electricity and gas

• Algorithmic intraday trading

• Portfolio management

• Direct marketing of renewable energies

• Digital energy services

1. 1Startseite - ESFORINesforin.com
2. 2Flexibilitätsvermarkter ESFORINesforin.com
3. 3ES·FOR·IN SE - Wikidatawikidata.org
4. 4ESFORIN - Wikipediade.wikipedia.org