Industrial flexibility without production risk: RIZM and Entelios present AI-based end-to-end solution for energy cost optimization
Munich/Münster, 9 February 2026 – Tech startup RIZM and flexibility marketer Entelios are combining their technologies to enable energy-intensive companies to monetize industrial flexibility fully automatically. By linking digital twins in production with cross-market optimization, industrial companies can monetize their energy systems fully automatically on the electricity market for the first time – without jeopardizing ongoing operations.
The challenge: Valuable flexibility is lying idle
Many German industrial companies have enormous potential for energy flexibility, for example through electrode boilers, battery storage or controllable process plants. Until now, this potential has often remained untapped due to concerns about disruptions in the core process and the complexity of the various electricity markets (day-ahead, intraday and balancing energy).
The partnership between RIZM and Entelios closes this gap with a fully digital end-to-end process that builds a real-time bridge between the factory floor and the power exchange.
The digital twin (RIZM): The RIZM platform uses AI to identify and quantify flexibility directly in on-site operations. It creates automated “flexibility bands” that reflect the actual operational freedom while strictly adhering to all operational constraints (e.g. process heat guarantee, delivery deadlines).
Cross-market optimisation (Entelios): Entelios takes this live data and optimizes capacities using a cross-market optimisation developed in-house. This analyses price signals in real time and automatically decides whether flexibility should be used in the day-ahead, intraday or balancing energy market, thus maximizing cross-market revenues.
Strategic advantage: additional revenue with 100 percent security of supply
This results in a directly measurable economic advantage for customers. They can significantly reduce their energy costs by providing the electricity grid with flexibility precisely when it has the highest value on the grid and market side. As control is based on the actual “operating reality”, production remains protected at all times.
Joshua Küpper, CBO and co-founder of RIZM, explains: “In a volatile energy world, flexibility must not be a risk for production, but must become a calculable profit factor. Thanks to the synergy between our digital twin and Entelios’ marketing expertise, we are taking the fear out of market participation for companies. We create the technological basis so that the industry not only saves costs, but also becomes an active and profitable partner in the energy transition.”
Kevin Eckl, CCPO of Entelios, adds: “Industrial flexibility marketing only works if production processes and downstream processes are consistently taken into account. This is precisely why we are creating a genuine end-to-end solution for the first time with RIZM. With the help of RIZM’s digital twin, we are connecting the operational reality of the plant directly with our cross-market optimization. A shared vision and hands-on mentality: this is exactly what it takes to implement innovative solutions in the industry.”
Further information can be found in our article: RIZM & Entelios: Next generation of flexibility optimization
About RIZM
RIZM is a leading provider of digital energy solutions for industry. The company uses digital twins, AI and algorithms to make companies’ energy infrastructure transparent and optimize processes. The software identifies the optimal operation of systems in order to utilize existing energy flexibility and shift energy consumption to times of green and cost-effective energy. It provides signals for production planning and supports energy trade and risk management. RIZM is already being used by more than 20 percent of DAX 40 companies, including the BMW Group, Daimler Truck, Continental, Schaeffler and Bosch (B/S/H) as well as customers from the chemical, steel and paper industries.
About Entelios AG
Founded in 2010, Entelios is the European pioneer in the field of industrial demand response services and has extensive experience in optimizing the flexibility of complex plants. With systems developed in-house, Entelios maximizes its customers’ revenues on all relevant short-term markets by marketing flexibilities algorithmically and AI-supported in intraday trading as well as in control reserve products. As a comprehensive service provider, Entelios supports its customers from consulting and identifying flexibility potential through to technical implementation, pre-qualification and marketing.
Media contacts:
RIZM
www.rizm.de
Simon Zunk
Senior Partner Manager
simon.zunk@rizm.de
Entelios AG
www.entelios.de
Benjamin Dausch
Head of Marketing
benjamin.dausch@entelios.de
