Hansen Acquires Strategic Assets from CONUTI, Strengthens Market Presence in Germany

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One year after acquiring powercloud GmbH, Hansen Technologies is strengthening its market presence in Germany through the acquisition of complementary software assets from long-term powercloud partner, CONUTI GmbH.

Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN), a leading global provider of software and services to the energy & utilities and communications & media industries, is pleased to announce it has entered into an Asset and License Purchase Agreement to acquire selected software licenses and assets from CONUTI GmbH for a total consideration of up to EUR 7.5 million (approximately A$13.4 million).

CONUTI GmbH has been a trusted partner of powercloud for more than 10 years. powercloud was acquired by Hansen in February 2024. This latest transaction brings several strategic capabilities in-house, including a German-compliant market messaging solution, a data analytics platform, and other complementary applications that are already integrated with powercloud and operational with existing customers in the German energy market.

Andrew Hansen, Global Managing Director & CEO, commented:
“This acquisition marks another important step in our strategy to drive growth and investment in Germany and the broader DACH region. The assets from CONUTI are highly complementary to our existing offering via powercloud, bringing valuable intellectual property and deep expertise into the Hansen Group. This strengthens our ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, enabling deeper integration, greater innovation, and increased value for our customers.”

The German energy sector is undergoing rapid digital transformation, coupled with increasingly complex regulatory requirements. Hansen views this as a significant opportunity to ensure future-focused investment in key software applications, while also leveraging its global experience to actively support German utilities in their digital journeys.

The acquired software solutions are already well-established in the German market and will expand Hansen’s portfolio, offering utilities new opportunities to drive operational efficiency, automation, and regulatory compliance.

As part of the acquisition, Hansen will strengthen its service delivery capabilities and expand further modules to its core SaaS billing platform.

This strategic move aligns with the strong local leadership already in place, including the recent appointments of Sebastian Kleinke and Dr. Harald Varel, who bring deep market expertise and proven leadership to our German operations. Together, they will help drive Hansen’s continued growth and long-term commitment to the German energy sector.

 

About Hansen Technologies
Hansen Technologies (ASX: HSN) is a leading global software and services provider for the energy & utilities, and communications & media industries. Hansen serves customers in over 80 countries, helping them to deliver new products and services, manage and analyse customer data, and control critical revenue management and customer support processes.
For more information, visit www.hansencx.com

About CONUTI GmbH
CONUTI GmbH is an independent IT service provider headquartered in Karlsruhe, founded in 2010. Since then, the company has been supporting utilities, network and metering point operators, as well as new market participants, in the digitalisation of their business and market communication processes.

Contact:
Florina Neuhaus
Global Manager Public Relations
powercloud GmbH
florina.neuhaus@power.cloud

 

 

 

Review of E-world 2025: powercloud and Hansen Technologies draw a positive conclusion

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E-world 2025 was a complete success! With a new record of around 33,000 trade visitors and 980 exhibitors, the leading trade fair for the energy industry once again became the central meeting place for the sector. In addition to valuable new contacts, we were able to meet numerous customers, partners and long-standing companions in person.

The trade fair also once again provided a first-class platform for keeping up to date with the latest developments in the industry and gathering ideas for the future:
The energy sector is undergoing rapid digital change. Automation, artificial intelligence and cloud technologies are playing a central role in this and are significantly driving the transformation of the industry. At the same time, sustainability remains the dominant issue – companies are increasingly turning to more environmentally friendly and efficient solutions to actively shape the energy transition. However, all these developments are only possible through close cooperation: strategic partnerships between technology providers, utilities and regulators are proving to be essential to successfully shaping the future of the energy industry.

Joint appearance with Hansen Technologies
powercloud shared a booth with its parent company Hansen Technologies for the first time this year. Under the motto ‘Empowering Utilities with Billing Excellence’, we presented practical solutions for key challenges in the energy industry at booth 3G100 in hall 3. Our trade fair appearance covered a wide range of topics – from customer billing and market communication to energy trading and energy data management.

In addition to the powercloud trade fair team, numerous Hansen colleagues from Australia, Finland and Norway were on hand, along with our new managers for the DACH market, Sebastian Kleinke (Country Manager Germany) and Dr. Harald Varel (VP Software Delivery Germany). The trade fair provided the perfect opportunity for initial face-to-face meetings and an intensive exchange of ideas.

Practical insights and innovative solutions – a trade fair full of highlights
Our booth was very well attended throughout: trade visitors came to find out more about powercloud, Hansen and our innovative solutions. Our focus topics were the main topics of discussion at the meetings:

  • Effortless Scalability:  Easily handles large volumes of data with a cloud-native platform designed for high volumes and continuous growth.
  • Intelligent Automation: Reduces costs and streamlines operations with automated, user-friendly billing processes that minimise manual interventions and reliably prevent inaccuracies.
  • API-First Integration: Delivers maximum flexibility and future-readiness through standardised interfaces, ensuring seamless connectivity and rapid integrations.
  • Built-In Regulatory Compliance: Meets regulatory requirements automatically – thanks to integrated updates and reliable, always up-to-date solutions and processes.
  • Market-Driven Innovation: Brings innovative products and business models to market quickly, enhancing your competitiveness and effectively seizing market opportunities.

In numerous showcases, we showed how our solutions meet the increasing demands for scalability, automation and regulatory compliance. Visitors were given practical insights into topics such as dynamic tariffs, multi-utility billing, API gateways and an outlook on the implementation of 24-hour supplier change in the powercloud. In addition, Hansen presented its expertise in handling large volumes of energy data to seamlessly automate trading, balancing, billing and settlement processes and enable analysis-driven optimisation of short-term asset class trading with its utilities solutions Hansen Trade, Hansen EDM and Hansen MDM.

 

‘Three intensive days at E-world have shown that with the complementary software solutions from powercloud and the Hansen Suite for Energy & Utilities, we are ideally positioned to meet the demands of the German market,’ said Sebastian Kleinke, Country Manager Germany at Hansen.

 

Discussions with customers, partners and interested parties provided valuable insights and showed the great interest in our solutions. At the same time, our joint appearance at the trade fair with Hansen made it clear that powercloud, as part of an international software provider, is ideally positioned to meet the challenges of the energy industry. The synergies from our ongoing integration into Hansen Technologies are opening up new possibilities – an impression that visitors to E-world have already been able to experience first hand.

With all these inspiring impressions, we look to the future with great anticipation. Finally, a big thank you to everyone who visited us at this year’s E-world, discussed and celebrated with us. We look forward to next year – bye and see you at E-world 2026!

 

 

Hansen Technologies Strengthens Presence in the DACH Market with Key Leadership Appointments

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New leadership roles announced for Hansen in Germany strengthening its Utilities division in the DACH region and advancing the integration of powercloud, a Hansen company.

Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN), a leading global provider of software and services to the energy, utilities, communications, and media industries, is expanding its Utilities division in the DACH region. With the appointments of Sebastian Kleinke as Country Manager Germany and Dr. Harald Varel as Delivery Manager Germany, the company is strengthening its market presence and innovation capabilities.

Sebastian Kleinke, Country Manager Germany

Sebastian Kleinke has joined Hansen as Country Manager, overseeing Hansen’s Utilities division in Germany and the wider DACH region. He will also drive further integration of powercloud and collaborate closely with existing teams.

With extensive experience in sales and strategic business development within the energy sector, Sebastian Kleinke is renowned for driving growth and innovation. Most recently, he served as Head of Sales EMEA Residential Energy Products at Tesla. Prior to that, he was Country Director DACH/Eastern Europe at Enphase Energy, leading sales efforts in key markets. His career also includes senior roles at sonnen, Shell Energy, and Vattenfall.

Dr. Harald Varel, Delivery Manager Germany

As Delivery Manager, Dr. Harald Varel will lead the development and expansion of Hansen’s Utilities products and the powercloud platform in the German-speaking market.

Dr. Harald Varel brings deep industry knowledge and extensive experience in SaaS, product management, and digital transformation. Most recently, he worked as an independent consultant specialising in AI, product, and program management. Before that, he served as Director and Tribe Lead at Transporeon, overseeing the development and launch of cloud-based logistics solutions. Earlier roles also include leadership positions at Wilken Software Group, Nokia Siemens Networks, and T-Systems.

Strategic Expansion and powercloud Integration

With the appointments of Sebastian Kleinke and Dr. Harald Varel, Hansen is taking significant steps in ensuring the company’s continued expansion and innovation.

“The expansion of our team in Germany underscores the strategic importance and vast potential we see in the DACH energy sector. Over the past six years, Hansen has strengthened its presence by implementing our Hansen EDM solution for nearly 100 energy suppliers in partnership with Schleupen. Building on this foundation, we continue to collaborate closely to enhance and integrate EDM into our joint offering. Our ongoing engagement with customers and the industry has deepened our understanding of the region’s challenges and opportunities. These leadership appointments reaffirm Hansen’s long-term commitment to innovation and investment in the market. I have full confidence that Sebastian and Harald are the right leaders to drive our growth, strengthen our position, and deliver exceptional value to our customers,” says Andrew Hansen, Global CEO and Managing Director of Hansen.

A key strategic priority is the continued integration of powercloud into the parent company to maximise synergies and enhance customer value in the German-speaking market. Hansen acquired the leading German SaaS billing platform a year ago to expand its product portfolio and strengthen its market position in Germany.

 

About Hansen
Hansen Technologies (ASX: HSN) is a leading global provider of software and services to the energy, water, and communications industries. With its award-winning software portfolio, Hansen serves customers in over 80 countries, helping them to create, sell, and deliver new products and services, manage and analyse customer data, and control critical revenue management and customer support processes.
For more information, visit www.hansencx.com 

 

Zoran Petrovic is leaving powercloud: Successful Years and Strategic Realignment

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  • Organizational Realignment
  • Successful Advancement of the Billing Platform
  • Closer Integration with Parent Company

Change of leadership at powercloud: Zoran Petrovic is leaving the company at the end of the month at his own request. He has been working for powercloud since January 2017 and most recently served as Chief Growth Officer (CGO).

Zoran Petrovic can look back on a successful time: ‘The decision to leave powercloud was not an easy one for me. The past few years have been both exciting and intense. powercloud has undergone an impressive development. It has been a great pleasure for me to accompany and actively shape the company from a start-up to a system-relevant medium-sized company in one of the most important future markets. A stable company with a market-leading solution that is excellently positioned for the future has emerged from various growth and transformation phases. I remain deeply connected to the energy industry and look forward to the opportunities ahead — where powercloud could play a valuable role as a partner on this journey.’

The timing for a change in management is well chosen: a year ago, powercloud was acquired by Hansen Technologies, a publicly traded global software and services provider for the energy and telecommunications industries based in Melbourne, Australia.

‘Zoran has made a significant contribution to the development of powercloud. We would like to express our sincere thanks to him for his great commitment and valuable work. His expertise has played a crucial role in establishing powercloud as a leading provider in the industry and driving the digitalisation of the energy industry. We wish him all the best for the future. ‘said John May, Managing Director at powercloud summing up the work of the outgoing CGO.

Future Strategically Secured: Strengthened Partnership with Hansen Technologies
powercloud, the leading SaaS provider for the energy industry, has undergone a targeted strategic realignment over the past twelve months. The focus is now even more on its core product – the powercloud billing platform for energy providers in the DACH region.

The company is now led by an experienced, highly qualified leadership team and works closely with its parent company, Hansen Technologies. Through this partnership, powercloud benefits from Hansen’s global expertise in successfully implementing utility projects and solutions in various markets. The complementary products and proven best practices from other countries enable targeted platform enhancements and create additional value for customers. Moving forward, the collaboration will be further intensified to leverage synergies optimally and drive the digitalization of the energy sector in the DACH region.

 

 

Strong together: powercloud and Hansen at E-world 2025

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Experience the future of the energy and utilities industry at our joint booth

E-world energy & water, the central meeting place for the energy industry, will take place in Essen from 11 to 13 February 2025. This year, powercloud and parent company Hansen are combining their expertise and presenting practical solutions that address the key challenges of the energy market at Booth 3G100 in Hall 3.

Practical solutions for the entire value chain
The energy and utilities industry faces significant challenges: increasing regulatory requirements, growing competitive pressure, and the need for efficient digitalisation; this is precisely where we come in. Our joint trade fair appearance showcases practical solutions for customer billing, market communication, energy trading and energy data management.

Experience first-hand how our solutions support energy suppliers along the entire value chain – in a scalable, efficient and future-proof way. Discuss your unique situation with our experts and gain inspiration from our live demos and showcases.

Experience the future-proof solutions and advantages of powercloud
Under the motto ‘Empowering Utilities with Billing Excellence’, you can look forward to the following exciting insights and highlights from powercloud at E-world 2025:

  • Effortless Scalability:  Easily handles large volumes of data with a cloud-native platform designed for high volumes and continuous growth.
  • Intelligent Automation: Reduces costs and streamlines operations with automated, user-friendly billing processes that minimise manual interventions and reliably prevent inaccuracies.
  • API-First Integration: Delivers maximum flexibility and future-readiness through standardised interfaces, ensuring seamless connectivity and rapid integrations.
  • Built-In Regulatory Compliance: Meets regulatory requirements automatically – thanks to integrated updates and reliable, always up-to-date solutions and processes.
  • Market-Driven Innovation: Brings innovative products and business models to market quickly, enhancing your competitiveness and effectively seizing market opportunities.

Live demos and showcases at the booth
Our live demos and showcases will give you insights into the practical application of our solutions. Whether dynamic tariffs, multi-utility billing, API gateway, or an outlook on the implementation of the 24-hour supplier change in the powercloud we will show you how to simplify your processes and reduce operating costs.

Europe’s #1 Trading Software
Hansen will present its proven expertise in handling large volumes of energy data to seamlessly automate trading, balancing, billing and settlement processes and enable analysis-driven optimisation of short-term asset class trading across all markets.

Secure your appointment now
Take the opportunity to make an appointment with us on-site now. We look forward to talking to you and working with you to set new impulses.

 

Efficient payment allocation with powercloud’s machine learning service

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  • Smooth workflow
  • Decreasing process costs
  • High data security and optimal data protection

With its Machine Learning Service for improved payment allocation, powercloud offers an innovative, powerful solution for energy providers who want to further optimise their payment processes and reduce costs. The new payment allocation service continuously increases the number of incoming payments that can be automatically allocated, significantly reducing the manual workload for energy suppliers. powercloud customers who have already decided to use the Machine Learning Service enjoy an allocation rate of over 98 per cent.

How does the Machine Learning Payment Allocation Service from powercloud work?

The Machine Learning Payment Allocation Service is seamlessly integrated into the existing payment allocation business process: powercloud takes over the setup of the service in the customer’s cloud infrastructure. From then on, the service analyses historical payment data and, based on this, creates individual models that automatically allocate incoming payments – without the data leaving the cloud accounts.

The advantages at a glance:

  • Automation and efficiency: automatic payment allocation significantly reduces manual effort and processing costs.
  • Seamless integration: the service can be easily integrated into existing payment processes, enabling a high level of process quality.
  • Customisation: By building a custom machine learning model, payment allocation automatically adapts to the specific needs and challenges of the utility company in question.
  • Optional manual allocation: If required, manual allocation can be added as an extra feature. With this feature, the service continuously learns from previous decisions.
  • Data security: The service runs exclusively in the customer’s cloud infrastructure, which meets the highest data protection standards.

The service is easy to set up and is done in close collaboration with the customer. powercloud’s experts take over the integration and training of the machine learning service. A monthly model update ensures continuous improvement of results.

A Future-Proof Solution

powercloud’s machine learning services have a modular design. powercloud plans to continually expand its range of services to help energy suppliers make additional processes even more efficient.

 

powercloud completes strategic refocus on the DACH region and commits further investment into its Retail Core Service (RCS) application

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  • powercloud will now exclusively focus on the development of RCS for the DACH region, moving away from non-core activities and strengthening its path towards profitability. 
  • Additional investment has been allocated to R&D for the RCS application to consolidate its market leading position and continue providing enhanced value to customers. 
  • This renewed focus has necessitated a reduction in headcount to better align resources. 

SaaS provider powercloud has successfully completed its strategic refocus on its flagship Retail Core Service (RCS) application. This shift, which concludes the realignment announced in May 2024, was driven by an extensive market analysis and internal survey over the past few months that included an evaluation of customer feedback.  

As part of this move, powercloud will concentrate on strengthening its relationships with existing customers and exploring new opportunities within the DACH region – Germany (D), Austria (A) and Switzerland (CH). This marks a strategic move away from non-core activities pursued in previous years, including the company’s global expansion efforts and development of associated technology. 

Supported by Hansen Technologies, which acquired powercloud in February 2024, the company is now realigned with its origins as a technology leader in the DACH region and well-positioned to return to profitability. To ensure RCS remains at the forefront of the energy sector, powercloud has committed further investment in research and development (R&D) initiatives aimed at driving innovation and delivering enhanced value to customers in the region. 

powercloud is also deepening its collaboration with Hansen Technologies, leveraging their expertise in supporting customers in some of the most technologically advanced energy markets in the world. This collaboration will provide powercloud customers with greater support as well as access to Hansen Technologies’ award-winning utility products, including billing, market communications, energy data management (EDM), and AI-optimized power trading. 

As part of this refocus, powercloud has made the difficult but necessary decision to reduce its headcount to ensure its resources are aligned with its renewed strategy. The company is offering affected employees comprehensive support, including severance packages and career counseling. 

John May, Managing Director of powercloud said, “We are pleased that powercloud has returned to its strengths in providing leading advice and support to customers in the DACH region. The decision to reduce headcount was not made lightly but is necessary to ensure the company can continue supporting the energy sector’s needs, as well as set powercloud on a sustainable path to profitability. We are deeply appreciative of the dedication and hard work of our employees who have played a vital role in powercloud’s accomplishments to date. Moving forward, we have a clear strategy and are eager to leverage Hansen Technologies’ global expertise and bring innovative products and solutions to market. We are confident that these steps will benefit our customers and key stakeholders.” 

 

Press Contact
Kai-Hinrich Renner
powercloud@schoesslers.com
+49 159 – 04 12 47 09 

 

A secure future with powercloud – billing platform even more powerful

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  • More flexibility for utilities
  • For optimal customer satisfaction
  • Efficient and even more future-proof

Energy providers are constantly faced with the challenge of responding to complex, changing customer requirements and dynamic market conditions. In order to provide our customers with optimal support and a future-proof billing platform, we are continuously investing in the further development and optimisation of our software.

powercloud billing core now even more flexible and future-proof

The latest powercloud milestone ensures that our customers are well prepared for any eventuality: the comprehensive further development of our billing core through the introduction of a new billing feature.

Previously, the billing logic for creating invoices was embedded in the billing core. With the introduction of the new billing feature, we now offer an innovative solution with even more flexibility for our customers.

For the electricity and gas sectors, all existing billing rules from the billing core are combined with flexibly configurable billing templates. These templates make it possible to customise the billing rules for each electricity and gas product, enabling energy suppliers to tailor their invoicing.

Existing powercloud customers only need to make a few minor changes to get started with the new billing feature. New customers will immediately enjoy all the benefits of the new billing logic.

Numerous advantages for powercloud customers

The combination of billing rules with flexibly configurable billing templates offers powercloud customers several advantages

  • Maximum flexibility
  • Improved system stability
  • Better scalability
  • Accelerated implementation of new developments such as § 14a ENWG, dynamic tariffs, billing using price sheets and billing for complex systems

By combining billing rules with billing templates, we offer our customers a future-proof solution that ensures maximum adaptability. Suppliers are now able to react even faster and more flexibly to new circumstances and challenges.

The ability to adapt billing processes flexibly and efficiently to new circumstances will be crucial to remaining competitive in an increasingly complex energy market – with powercloud, energy suppliers have a clear advantage.

 

powercloud billing core – focus on our centerpiece

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Since the end of May, we have been focusing all activities and resources on the original powercloud billing core. But what exactly is that?

You can think of the powercloud billing core as the energy industry’s engine room: it enables energy suppliers to efficiently manage and bill for electricity, gas, heat, water, and wastewater, as well as various products and services.

All customers benefit from a unified standard that features a high degree of automation, excellent scalability, intuitive usability, speed, and flexibility. This allows energy providers to fully concentrate on their core tasks.

Energy Industry Engine Room

The powercloud billing core encompasses all business processes and data required for the “energy industry engine room.” This includes billing processes, market communication, payment transactions, receivables management, invoice verification, tariff calculation, and many other areas. By using web services, known as REST APIs, powercloud customers can also easily integrate their peripheral systems, whether from powerApp partners or third-party providers, ensuring a comprehensive customer lifecycle.

Reduction of Cost-to-Serve, Low Cost to Acquire

Through the use of modern technology standards, project and operational costs can be significantly reduced, and project timelines shortened. Streamlined processes, digital channels, and automation within the billing core reduce the costs for energy providers. New products can be brought to market independently within just a few hours – without the need for developers or complex configurations. This enables energy suppliers to target their audience even more effectively.

The powercloud platform handles all format changes and regulatory adjustments without the need for customer-specific development efforts or downtime. New requirements are implemented in an agile manner and are available for testing and productive use in a short time, without customers having to apply complex updates themselves. Instead of updates occurring only twice a year, they are released every two weeks.

A Look at the User Interface – Simple User Guidance

The central customer and contract management system is the heart of the powercloud billing core. The user interface, with its embedded functions and operational guidance, is designed from the user’s perspective, which makes a noticeable difference in day-to-day work. Intuitive and ready-to-use, it supports users in their daily business: it offers a comprehensive overview of the entire customer and contract cycle.

One unique aspect is that every contract stored on the powercloud platform can have a customer-specific price, meaning price adjustments can also be made for each individual customer – similar to flight bookings. In contrast to other systems, where tariffs apply equally to all customers.

Users intuitively navigate from the central customer object to the associated contracts and back. The contract management across sectors offers view and edit options for numerous business processes, such as market communication, tariffing, billing, receivables, and payments. Regulatory, periodic tasks like changes are clearly visible for each contract, and integrated basic CRM functionalities such as follow-up and note features support users in their daily work.

Every process proactively reports its status, enabling real-time tracking and corresponding responses. This detailed tracking of changes based on events significantly facilitates customer service and enables third-party systems to highly automate the further processing of data.

Seamless Collaboration

As a SaaS solution, powercloud allows users to access the platform and billing core online anytime and from anywhere. Collaboration is seamless, as even contract details can be shared within seconds by sending a URL.

EWE and powercloud are extending their cooperation by at least five more years

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  • EWE convinced by strategic realignment
  • Cutting-edge IT architecture enables reduction of CTS and CTA

EWE and powercloud are extending their partnership for at least another five years. The two companies have been working together since 2018, actively promoting the energy transition and digitalisation. A contract to that effect has now been signed.

The clear commitment of powercloud to focus on the core billing and the German market in the long term and to further improve the performance and reliability of the billing platform has convinced the leading energy service provider in north-west Germany, based in Oldenburg: the new contract is also a recognition of the successful cooperation over the past few years.

The two companies have been working together since 2018. Since then, EWE has been using the state-of-the-art IT architecture of the powercloud billing platform to respond quickly and flexibly to new challenges while also scaling. The platform’s high level of automation also enables continuous cost reductions, while new billing products are opening up new sales and revenue models for the energy industry.

Dr. Christian Friege, EWE Board Member for Market: “For us, the continuity, reliability and technical development in our partnership with powercloud as part of our digitalisation strategy in the energy segment has been important and crucial to our decision to continue our collaboration.”

“The strategic realignment of powercloud towards our core product and the German market has been met with a lot of positive feedback from our customers and the market. The recent signing of the contract shows that our measures are already bearing fruit. We are very pleased about the continued cooperation and look forward to continuing to support EWE’s development as an innovator for an increasingly decentralised, ecological and digital energy world,” explains John May, CEO at powercloud.