sdp participants
The platform is being built prototypically by volunteers, financed by donations and funds from participants. In the design thinking process, the focus is on people, building owners and municipalities that have started with evidence-based climate protection.
Companies, energy agencies, institutes and non-profit foundations with many years of experience in climate action and digitization work together on the sdp. The basis of the “hybrid” collaboration is the platform code. Tools are developed together with municipalities, neighborhoods and housing companies.
drivers for data-based climate action
- AGT Akademie für Gestaltung und Technologie GmbH, D-Berlin: openBIM – openDATA, circular economy
- comgy GmbH ,D-Berlin: Digitalization of measurement and visualization of heat, water and electricity consumption
- Ulrich Leibfried, Consolar Solare Energiesysteme GmbH, D-Lörrach: Concept CO2COMPASS program
- Energieagentur St. Gallen GmbH, CH-St. Gallen: Promotion of energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources
- energy check gGmbH, D-Köln: Monitoring of efficient buildings and plants
- Engelmann Sensor GmbH, D-Wiesloch: Heat quantity recording and measured value transmission
- FEN Sustain Systems GmbH – Green Energy Center Europe, A-Innsbruck: Regional energy monitoring
- Form Follows You GmbH, D-Berlin: BUILDPLACE Modeling and simulation in the digital twin
- Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, D-Freiburg: Research for the energy transition
- Fritz Husemann GmbH & Co. KG, D-Gütersloh: Industrial energy management systems
- Gradeo Planung und Service GmbH & Co. KG, D-Ahaus: Local and district heating, system engineering
- greenventory GmbH, D-Freiburg: Digital concepts and scenarios
- HoWoGe Wärme GmbH, D-Berlin: Energy management of housing stock
- Peer4 GmbH, D-Waghäusel: IoT for Existing Facilities
- Wilfried Schumacher-Wirges, Waghäusel: Platform development, engineering and IoT services
- SEnerCon GmbH, D-Berlin: Products and services for more energy efficiency
- SKOPOS Institute for Market and Communication Research GmbH & Co. KG, D-Hürth: AI-supported data analysis and app development
- Stiftung Energieeffizienz D-Köln: Platform development, Commissarial responsibility
- T-Systems International GmbH D-Frankfurt: Tracking app for the reduction of vehicle emissions
- University of Tuebingen, Dept. of Computer Science, D-Tübingen: Research group on Experimental Cognitive Science
- Viadukt GmbH, D-Wuppertal, Digital assistants for the building energy transition
NEW: Introduction to sdp participants
Here you will find information about the sdp participants and their work. We are presenting this series in random order, starting with the 10th anniversary of the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck.
FEN Sustain Systems GmbH – Green Energy Center Europe, A-Innsbruck
16 June 2026: We congratulate the Green Energy Centre Europe (GEC) on its 10th anniversary and on its ongoing, systematic work towards achieving climate targets in Tyrol and Europe.
The GEC is now led by Dr Nikolaus Fleischhacker, the second-generation head of the organisation. Looking back on the GEC’s founding, Dr Ernst Fleischhacker highlighted the challenges involved in a successful transformation: “Ten years ago, it became clear that the restructuring of the energy system would require long-term learning and implementation processes that could not be supported by public systems or individual companies acting alone.” Ten years of the GEC have shown that building new energy and mobility systems requires perseverance, the ability to learn, long-term cooperation and a strong sense of responsibility.
The GEC has its roots in Tyrol’s sustainable water management sector and incorporated the Tyrol Province’s resource, energy and climate strategy – developed by Dr Ernst Fleischhacker – into the development of the sustainable data platform (sdp). The Province of Tyrol’s consistent monitoring is unique in Europe and worldwide thanks to its systemic analysis derived from nature and the incorporation of extensive bottom-up data. The permanent feedback process that has been implemented enables learning even from setbacks and provides an optimal foundation for an energy-autonomous Tyrol in 25 years’ time.
Pic.: Energieagentur Tirol GmbH, HERTL, A. & GLEIRSCHER, R. (2024): Tiroler Energiemonitoring 2024. Statusbericht zur Umsetzung der Tiroler Energiestrategie. Energieagentur Tirol. 163 S. https://www.energieagentur.tirol/uploads/tx_bh/3923/energiemonitoring-tirol-2024.pdf
The GEC’s feedback approach offers the potential to demonstrably boost European performance beyond the borders of Tyrol. In 2025, for example, Federal Presidents Alexander Van der Bellen and Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the GEC alongside the Governor of Tyrol, Anton Mattle. The visit centered on the vision: “Europe must and can reinvent itself!”
The 10th-anniversary celebrations, which included a visit to the H2 refuelling station currently under construction at the Sterzach truck stop (pictured) – aimed at decarbonising heavy goods traffic on the Brenner Pass – and to the IIT Hydrogen centre in Bolzano, focused on hydrogen mobility and infrastructure.
Dr Nikolaus Fleischhacker, who is involved with the sdp-H2 Wiki, explained how green hydrogen is produced on-site at the GEC with quality assurance, compressed, stored and utilised as required, and how research is being conducted within the broader system context to transform the energy system towards climate neutrality and autonomy. Long-term testing with Tyrolean industry partners offers the opportunity to develop globally competitive H₂ solutions for storage and the chemical industry as a building block of the transition.
Testing green hydrogen with MPREIS for food transport and mobility partner Hyundai. On the right of the picture are the elements of an H2 economy implemented at the GEC, the data from which is being used to further develop the resource, energy and climate strategy.
Platform operation and building
The non-profit foundation Stiftung Energieeffizienz is involved in the development of the platform, contributes proprietary software for open-source use and acts on a voluntary basis and financed by donations as the provisional sponsor of the sdp and the CO2COMPASS program in the initial phase. The foundation’s self-interest is access to improved and robust digital tools developed on the platform for use in accordance with its statutes.
Together with the non-profit Ludwig Boelkow Foundation, the goal is to establish a structure, e.g., through an association of foundations with the right to sue. Tasks include monitoring violations of the Code (e.g., data use for commercial purposes). In order to carry out the tasks professionally and permanently independent of particular interests, foundations with a particular affinity for data and with statutes that are congruent with the goals are welcome to participate in the ongoing platform building.