Civic Foundation Energiewende Oberland

Name

Civic Foundation Energiewende Oberland

Legal name

Energiewende Oberland - Bürgerstiftung für Erneuerbare Energien und Energieeinsparung

Website

https://energiewende-oberland.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Energy Transition Advisory Services

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (8134)

akta.pro primary industry

Renewable Energy & Clean Tech Access (Off-grid, Energy Poverty Solutions) (BPAGALAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Environmental & Climate Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAM)

Keywords

• Renewable energy advisory
• Energy transition consulting
• Municipal energy planning
• Building renovation consulting
• Climate protection education

Headquarters

HQ city

Penzberg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Foundation Supporters and Members: The civic foundation is supported by four Bavarian governmental districts (Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Miesbach, and Weilheim-Schongau), 80 municipalities, 21 organisations, 76 private companies, and 74 individual citizens who provide financial and organizational support.
2. Project Funding and Grants: EWO generates funding through EU, federal, and state-level project grants including INTERREG Alpine Space Programme, INTERREG Austria-Bavaria, Horizon 2020, Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Consumer Protection, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and German Federal Environmental Foundation.
3. Donations and Civic Support: Founded in 2005 by 86 donors consisting of citizens, private companies, organisations, municipalities and governmental districts. The foundation receives ongoing support from over 250 current supporters.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Civic Foundation Energiewende Oberland provides free energy advisory and consulting services to citizens, homeowners, municipalities, and district governments in the Bavarian Oberland region. The foundation supports the energy transition through independent consultation on building renovation, heating system replacement, photovoltaics, and energy efficiency, complemented by digital self-service tools (solar cadastre, heating calculator), educational programs in schools, and EU/federal/state-funded regional projects aimed at achieving 100% renewable energy in the Oberland by 2035.

Product overview

Energiewende Oberland is a civic foundation offering a comprehensive portfolio of advisory services, digital tools, educational programs, and regional projects aimed at achieving 100% renewable energy in the Oberland region by 2035. The organization provides direct citizen services including the EWO NEWS smartphone app and web-based tools like the Solarkataster (solar cadastre), Heizungsrechner (heating calculator), and Heizungsmatrix. Its core offering consists of consulting services for building renovation, heat pump assessments, and municipal heating planning, complemented by an extensive project portfolio including KARE (climate adaptation), AMETHyST (green hydrogen), POWER-E-COM (energy communities), INOLA (energy transition 2035), and Klima im Rucksack (climate education for schools). The organization functions as a coordination hub connecting citizens, municipalities, and the four administrative districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Miesbach, and Weilheim-Schongau.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Energieberatung (Energy Consulting) Comprehensive free energy consulting for citizens, municipalities, and organizations, including cooperation with Verbraucherzentrale Bayern for initial energy consultations. Covers renovation, heating systems, photovoltaics, and energy efficiency.
• Sanierungs-Checks (Renovation Diagnostics) Diagnostic checks for building renovation planning, helping property owners assess renovation needs and opportunities.
• Wärmepumpen-Check (Heat Pump Assessment) Assessment service for evaluating heat pump suitability and installation requirements for existing buildings.
• Klimaschutzkonzepte (Climate Protection Concepts) Climate protection concept development and support services for municipalities and districts.
• Kommunale Wärmeplanung (Municipal Heat Planning) Municipal heating planning services supporting cities and municipalities in developing comprehensive heat transition strategies.
• Solarkataster (Solar Cadastre) Interactive mapping tool showing solar potential for properties across participating districts including Weilheim-Schongau, Miesbach, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
• Heizungsrechner (Heating Calculator) Calculator tool to help citizens evaluate and compare different heating system options for their properties.
• Heizungsmatrix (Heating Matrix) Decision support matrix for comparing heating technologies and systems.
• Energiewende-Karten (Energy Transition Maps) Interactive maps showing energy-related data and potential across the Oberland region.
• EWO NEWS App Smartphone application providing real-time news, events, dates, and images about energy transition in the Oberland region. Available via chayns.net platform and in App Store and Play Store.
• Klima im Rucksack (Climate in the Backpack) Climate education program for elementary school children (grades 3-4) involving outdoor exploration, measurement, and research activities on meadows, moors, rivers, and lakes. Officially integrated into Bavarian curriculum (LehrplanPLUS).
• AMETHyST - Green Hydrogen in the Oberland H2 strategy project focused on green hydrogen development in the Oberland region as part of the AlpineSpace initiative.
• KARE - Climate Adaptation in the Oberland Region Climate adaptation project supporting seven municipalities in the Oberland region to become resilient against climate change impacts.

Quantifiable outcome

• The GO Altbau project consulted 700 renovation-interested individuals at events over three years (EU-Interreg Bayern Österreich funded)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• FabLab Oberland e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2025New cooperation announced in June 2025 for enhanced energy education at primary schools, combining FabLab maker culture with energy education programs.
• Verbraucherzentrale BayerncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Cooperation with Verbraucherzentrale Bayern to provide free initial energy consultations for citizens in the four Oberland districts. The Verbraucherzentrale offers free online lectures on energy saving and renovation topics throughout 2026.
• INTERREG Alpine Space ProgrammecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2012Multiple projects funded through the INTERREG Alpine Space Programme, including SEAP_Alps (2012-2015) which connected Alpine municipalities for sustainable energy planning, and PEACE_Alps (2016-2019) for pooling energy action and enhancing implementation in the Alps. Additional partners include 11 organisations from six Alpine countries.
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchencoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Scientific partner in the KARE project (Klimaanpassung in der Region Oberland), collaborating on research into climate change impacts and adaptation measures. Dr. Anne von Streit from LMU leads citizen surveys and climate adaptation research.
• KIT Campus AlpincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerScientific partner providing climate research data, specifically Prof. Dr. Kunstmann presenting research findings on climate change in the Bayerisches Oberland including increasing extreme rainfall events.
• Euregio Zugspitze-Wetterstein-Karwendel (ZWK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuregio cross-border cooperation partner. Landrat Anton Speer (President of ZWK) handed over funding for the INTERREG project 'KlimaWald' at the EWO Foundation Assembly in November 2025.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Energy Cities: European network of municipalities driving the energy transition at the local level. It is a directly comparable organization to Energiewende Oberland: supporting cities and municipalities in developing sustainable energy policies, climate plans and renovation programs, with strong overlap on SEAP_Alps-type transnational municipal coordination.
• co2online GmbH: Berlin-based non-profit project company funded by the German government that provides free energy advice, online calculators and informational campaigns around heating, renovation and energy efficiency (similar to EWO's Heizungsrechner/Solarkataster offering). It is a directly comparable digital advisory platform operating at federal scale with overlapping residential energy advice services.
• Verbraucherzentrale Bayern: State-level consumer advice center in Bavaria that already cooperates directly with Energiewende Oberland to deliver free initial energy consultations to citizens. It is the closest direct peer: same free-of-charge consumer-facing energy advisory model, same Bavarian geography, and overlapping mission in residential energy efficiency, heating transition and renovation advice.
• Klimaschutzagentur Region Hannover: Regional climate protection agency serving municipalities in the Hannover region with energy concepts, climate action plans, and citizen/municipal advisory services, structurally analogous to Energiewende Oberland's municipal support role. Same regional intermediary model, same mix of advisory, project management and educational services, but operating in Lower Saxony.
• Zukunft Altbau: Baden-Württemberg state-funded information campaign on energy-efficient building modernization. It is a directly comparable regional energy advisory program targeting residential renovation, HVAC changeover and energy efficiency - exactly the categories of advice EWO delivers through GO Altbau and its related advisory services.

Broad incumbents

• Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena): Germany's national energy agency operating across all Energiewende themes with programs for municipalities, citizens, and industry. It is a broader incumbent player in the same space as Energiewende Oberland: providing advisory, project management, and policy-support services related to energy efficiency, renewable energy and municipal climate planning, but at federal level rather than regional.
• Agora Energiewende: Berlin-based think tank focused on climate and energy policy research and stakeholder dialogue for Germany's Energiewende. It is a broader incumbent operating in the same policy, climate and renewable-energy space as Energiewende Oberland, providing independent expertise and policy analysis, though with a national rather than regional remit.
• Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Heinrich Böll Foundation): Politically affiliated German foundation affiliated with the Green Party with extensive programming around climate, energy and sustainability policy, including political education on the Energiewende. It is a comparable civic foundation in terms of institutional structure (legally recognized Stiftung) and policy-area overlap (renewable energy, climate, civic engagement), but operates at national and international scale.

Regional players

• BUND Naturschutz in Bayern: Bavaria's largest environmental NGO, working on nature protection, climate and energy transition advocacy, with overlapping civic engagement and education programs. It is a comparable Bavarian non-profit with parallel focus on climate advocacy and education, but broader in scope (biodiversity, agriculture, transport) and based in Nürnberg rather than Oberland.

Emerging players

• KlimaBürger: Energie eG (and similar German energy cooperatives / Bürgerenergiegenossenschaften): German energy cooperatives promoting citizen-owned renewable energy projects, with relevant overlap to EWO's POWER-E-COM energy communities project. It represents an emerging model of decentralized, citizen-led energy organization that overlaps with the regional energy transition focus of Energiewende Oberland and is a comparable peer for community energy deployment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/EnergiewendeOberland
• LinkedInde.linkedin.com/company/energiewende-oberland
• Xx.com/EnergiewendeEWO
• Facebookfacebook.com/EnergiewendeOberland

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Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

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