ONE-STOP FLEXIBILITY
More Than Just Flexibility Marketing: Reduce energy costs and emissions with our one-stop shop for electricity and natural gas flexibility solutions and digital energy services.
Working Together for an Energy System That Is Both Green and Secure
Our focus is on the short-term trading of electricity and natural gas to provide flexibility. Using our customers’ facilities, we respond to price signals from the energy exchanges—fully automatically, based on algorithms programmed specifically for each customer. This saves on energy costs, helps stabilize the power grid, and reduces CO2 to save money. Our solutions are specifically designed for:
Industry
Whether it's a production process, a power plant, or load management: We unlock the potential for short-term flexibility trading for your industrial facilities.
Examples:wood chipper, gas power plant, industrial furnace
Utilities
From balancing group and portfolio management to marketing the flexibility of your combined heat and power plants.
Examples:: CHP, Power-to-Heat, Heat Storage
Battery Storage
ESFORIN Cross-Market Optimization balances revenue, battery life cycle, and utility restrictions!
Examples:Stand-alone battery storage, co-location, VPP
Energy supplier
& power plants
From balancing group & portfolio management to flexibility marketing - we optimize your processes and energy costs.
Examples:Combined cycle power plants, gas turbines, biomass plants
Renewable energies
We harness the short-term flexibility of your renewable energy generation facilities—from wind, solar, and hydropower to biogas.
Examples:Biogas, wind power, co-location
Aggregators / VPP
We help VPP operators market the flexibility of their decentralized plants.
Examples:: Battery storage systems, heat pumps, EV charging stations
With ESFORIN, flexibility becomes the gold of the energy transition
Market leader in short-term flexibility trading
As pioneers in flexibility marketing, we work together with our customers to secure the energy system of tomorrow.
One-Stop Flex: Our customers can choose from individual energy services or opt for an end-to-end process.
Independent: Independent service provider with no conflicts of interest.
Advising without being an advisor: We work with our customers to help them realize their potential and take advantage of new opportunities for flexibility.
Experienced and reliable: 2.5 GW of flexibility under contract, over 100 years of energy expertise, and more than 20 types of facilities under active management.
„We Know the Energy Transition“: We are pioneers in short-term flexibility trading and understand the challenges of the energy transition.
1.5 million metric tons of CO₂ saved in 2025 – certified by TÜV Rheinland
Thanks to our Flexibility Marketing 2025 program, our customers have reduced CO₂ emissions by approximately 1.5 million metric tons. Our customers can also have their individual contributions certified by TÜV Rheinland!
70+ employees with energy and digital expertise
Our team combines in-depth energy expertise with digital innovation. More than 70 experts work every day to shape the future of the energy transition.
Over 2.5 GW of flexibility under contract
ESFORIN provides over 2.5 gigawatts of flexibility to customers ranging from industry and renewable energy to the energy supply sector. Our solutions are always transparent, efficient, and customizable.
For example, our customers have a transparent overview of every single trade as part of their flexibility marketing.
Experience with over 20 types of systems—from battery storage to industrial processes
We understand the requirements of a wide variety of facilities and industries. Through our flexibility marketing, we actively optimize more than 20 types of facilities. In this way, we make the flexibility of battery storage systems, industrial processes, and even municipal utilities economically viable.
News from ESFORIN

ESFORIN MARKET INSIGHT SEPTEMBER
Fall Alert | Christoph Gardlo's Assessment of Energy Market Trends in September

FOCUS Article
„What planet are you from?“ That’s what German companies asked our founder, Christian Hövelhaus, and co-founder, Christoph Gardlo, in 2014 when they presented the concept of flexible electricity consumption linked to spot market prices. Find out how ESFORIN uses artificial intelligence to tap into flexibility potential even more efficiently in the latest FOCUS article.

ESFORIN Podcast | Scaling Molecules
On the ESFORIN Change Makers podcast, Sunfire CEO and co-founder Nils Aldag discusses the future of green hydrogen, scaling up one of Europe’s leading cleantech success stories, and why Europe needs not only renewable electricity but also renewable molecules for the energy transition.
Flexibility knows no limits.