What Quintel Intelligence does

Quintel Intelligence B.V. is a privately held Dutch energy modelling firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in Amsterdam, operating with a small team of roughly twelve energy system specialists, developers, and modellers. The company's core product is the Energy Transition Model (ETM), an open-source, open-access platform that performs hourly calculations across the entire energy system — electricity, hydrogen, and methane — for Dutch regions and all EU+ countries, and is used to build and compare energy transition scenarios.

Quintel monetises the ETM indirectly: the platform itself is free to use, generating no direct licence revenue, while the company earns professional services fees from advisory work, research projects, and model development engagements delivered to governments (national ministries, provinces, municipalities), grid and transmission system operators (TenneT, ENTSO-E, ENTSO-G, NBNL member operators including Stedin), energy consortiums (EBN, Gasunie, GasTerra, TKI Nieuw Gas), and NGOs (Greenpeace, Urgenda). Its go-to-market blends community-led adoption through the open-source ETM with sales-led direct consulting engagements and consortium-based co-development partnerships, with project work anchored in Dutch and European public-sector energy planning processes such as TYNDP, II3050, RES, TVW, pMIEK, and NPE.

The business has no disclosed external funding or institutional investors and operates as a founder and partner-owned private limited company, with the firm describing itself as a small, dynamic team with significant impact in the European energy transition modelling space.

Name

Quintel Intelligence

Legal name

Quintel Intelligence B.V.

Website

https://quintel.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quintel Intelligence is an Amsterdam-based firm that develops the open-source Energy Transition Model (ETM) and provides energy system scenario modelling and advisory services to Dutch and European governments, grid operators, and energy organisations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Energy Modelling Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

ESG Strategy & Materiality Assessment (EUAHAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainability & ESG Consulting (BPAHACAK), Data Integration, ETL/ELT & Reverse ETL (BPAMAOAI)

Keywords

• Energy system modelling
• Energy transition scenarios
• Open-source energy software
• Energy policy advisory
• Grid infrastructure planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Energy Transition Model (ETM): The ETM is provided as a free, open-source, open-access platform. Revenue is not generated directly from the tool but through associated consulting and advisory services that leverage the model.
2. Consulting and advisory services: Advisory work and research projects for governments, grid operators, and industry clients, providing energy system analysis, scenario creation, and policy support.
3. Model development services: Development and customization of energy system models and standard methodologies for provinces, regions, and municipalities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Quintel develops and maintains the Energy Transition Model (ETM), an open-source, open-access platform for modelling entire energy systems (electricity, hydrogen, methane) of Dutch regions and EU+ countries on an hourly basis, enabling scenario creation and comparison. Around this platform, Quintel provides professional advisory, scenario analysis, and custom model development services to governments, grid operators, and energy industry clients.

Product overview

Quintel Intelligence offers a single unified product: the Energy Transition Model (ETM), an open-source energy modeling platform. The ETM enables governments, grid operators, and other stakeholders to create, compare, and analyze energy transition scenarios at national, regional, and municipal levels across Dutch regions and EU+ countries. The platform models the entire energy system with hourly precision calculations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Energy Transition Model (ETM): Open-source energy modelling tool for creating and comparing energy transition scenarios. Designed by experts, it enables insights for informed decision-making on sustainable energy futures.

Products and services

• Energy Transition Model (ETM) Open-source, open-access web platform for creating and comparing energy transition scenarios. Models entire energy systems (electricity, hydrogen, methane) of Dutch regions and all EU+ countries on an hourly basis. Used by governments, grid operators, industry consortiums, and NGOs to explore energy pathways and inform decisions on the energy transition.
• Energy system consulting and advisory services Professional advisory, scenario creation, and quantitative energy system analysis delivered to government agencies, grid operators, and industry clients. Includes demand peak analysis, heating strategy assessment, hydrogen integration studies, infrastructure planning, and policy impact modelling.
• Custom energy model development services Development and customization of energy system models and standard methodologies for provinces, regions, and municipalities. Includes building tailored ETM scenarios, expanding modelling capabilities (e.g., hydrogen), and supporting consortium-led model development projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Demand for critical materials can be reduced by up to 49% by 2050 through system- and technology-level measures
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and historic.

• Copper8, Polaris, TU DelftmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Commissioned by Greenpeace and Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate (EZK) to analyse Dutch demand for twelve critical materials across multiple scenarios. Quintel contributed energy system modelling expertise while partners provided materials analysis and policy frameworks.
• EBN, Gasunie, GasTerra, Stedin & TKI Nieuw GascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025A consortium of Dutch national energy organizations partnered with Quintel to improve and expand hydrogen modelling in the ETM, providing grid operators with essential tools for future infrastructure planning and communication.
• GasuniemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Gasunie contributed to the NBNL 2025 corner stone scenarios that Quintel used for critical materials analysis in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
• ENTSO-E & ENTSO-GcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity and Gas partnered with Quintel to use the ETM for modelling the demand side for every EU country in the Ten Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP 2024) scenarios, assessing how electricity, hydrogen, and methane systems interact across Europe.
• NBNL (Dutch grid operators)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023NBNL (Dutch grid operators) created scenario analyses using the ETM for the II3050 studies and NBNL 2025 scenarios at national, provincial, municipal, and European levels.
• UrgendahistoricStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Urgenda developed a future scenario using the ETM as part of their landmark climate court case against the Dutch government, marking one of the earliest high-profile applications of the model.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• DNV: Global energy consultancy and software provider serving utilities, regulators, and infrastructure investors across the energy transition. Overlaps with Quintel's advisory work on energy scenario modelling and policy support, but DNV offers a much broader risk, certification, and asset-focused portfolio.
• BloombergNEF: Energy transition data, research, and scenario analytics provider used heavily by policymakers, TSOs, and corporate buyers. Overlaps with Quintel's policy and infrastructure scenario use cases, but operates as a global subscription research franchise rather than a free, open-source model.
• Wood Mackenzie: Global energy research and consultancy with substantial scenario modelling and outlook products. Comparable on the research/advisory layer serving governments, TSOs, and energy companies, though broader in scope (oil & gas, power, renewables, metals) and subscription/data-led.

Direct peers

• oemof (Open Energy Modelling Framework): German-led open-source energy system modelling framework with an active developer community. Closely comparable open-source peer with similar ethos (community-driven, Python-based, free to use) and partial overlap in EU academic and public-sector users.
• Artelys: French optimisation and energy modelling firm behind METIS, the European energy system model used by the European Commission. Directly comparable to Quintel: both build energy system modelling tools deployed for European policy and infrastructure scenarios, with similar customer base (EC, member states, TSOs).
• OSeMOSYS: Open-source, community-maintained energy system optimisation model used by IEA, World Bank, and national planning agencies. Directly comparable open-source energy modelling approach; serves a similar international policy/planning user base.
• DIgSILENT (PowerFactory): Power systems analysis and simulation software widely used by European TSOs and DSOs, including for grid expansion planning. Comparable on the power-system modelling layer; less focus on multi-vector whole-energy-system scenarios than Quintel's ETM.
• Energy Exemplar: Commercial vendor of PLEXOS and MarketVision, the most widely used private energy market and system simulation platforms. Comparable product category (energy system modelling software), but a proprietary, licence-based GTM versus Quintel's open-source, consulting-led model.

Emerging players

• Calliope / KTH Royal Institute of Technology spinouts: Open-source energy system model developed within European academic consortia. Comparable on open-source, multi-vector energy modelling and on user base overlap (academic and public-sector users); less commercially developed as a consulting practice than Quintel.

Regional players

• TNO (Energy Transition unit): Applied research organisation with extensive Dutch energy system modelling capability (including ECN legacy teams). Comparable in Dutch energy scenario work and policy support, but structured as a public research body and far larger; competes for similar public-sector mandates.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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