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Overview

Next Kraftwerke is a Cologne company founded in 2009 that operates one of the largest virtual power plants in Europe. Its software aggregates thousands of small solar, wind and biogas units and trades their output on electricity markets. The company is owned by Shell and balances distributed generation in several countries.

News

News Solarserver 1 month ago
Next Kraftwerke vermarktet 173 Megawatt aus Solarpark Halenbeck-Rohlsdorf
Mit einer Leistung von 229 MW auf rund 200 Hektar zählt der Solarpark Halenbeck-Rohlsdorf zu den größten Photovoltaik-Projekten in Deutschland.
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News FinanzNachrichten.de 1 month ago
Next Kraftwerke vermarktet 173 Megawatt aus Solarpark Halenbeck-Rohlsdorf
Der Solarpark Halenbeck-Rohlsdorf ist eine der größten Photovoltaik-Freiflächenanlagen in Deutschland. Im Rahmen eines 10-jährigen PPA zwischen Shell Energy und den Betreibern übernimmt Next Kraftwerke
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News FinanzNachrichten.de 4 months ago
Next Kraftwerke und Eco Stor: neues Vermarktungsmodell für Batteriespeicher
Zur Vermarktung der Kapazitäten eines 300 MW Batteriespeichers haben Next Kraftwerke und Eco Stor ein neues Vermarktungsmodell geschlossen. Bei der flexiblen "Tolling"-Vereinbarung sind 80 Prozent fix
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News FinanzNachrichten.de 4 months ago
Next Kraftwerke und Eco Stor schließen Tolling-Vertrag für 300-Megawatt-Speicher in Förderstedt
Der Speicherentwickler Eco Stor und der Direktvermarkter Next Kraftwerke haben für das Großspeicherprojekt in Förderstedt in Sachsen-Anhalt einen fünfjährigen Vermarktungsvertrag abgeschlossen. Dieses
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News the vpp 5 years ago
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News CleanTechnica 8 years ago
UPDATED! Next Kraftwerke Teams Up With Jedlix On Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Response Pilot
Cologne, Germany-based Next Kraftwerke has partnered with electric vehicle smart charging platform provider Jedlix on a new pilot that will aggregate electric vehicle charging stations as a deployable demand response unit aka secondary control reserve (aF
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News pv magazine Global 8 years ago
Next Kraftwerke connects 2 MW battery to its VPP in Belgium
The virtual power plant (VPP) solutions provider connected its product with a 2 MW storage system in Belgium. It will be the country's first storage system to take part in the grid's frequency control reserve.
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Press release pv magazine Global 8 years ago
Next Kraftwerke introduces new VPP software as a service solution NEMOCS
At E-world 2018 in Essen, Cologne-based Next Kraftwerke is introducing NEMOCS, a new service that allows users to operate their own virtual power plant.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Next Kraftwerke over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
25
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Python
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
Django
FastAPI
Pandas
Pydantic
Cloud & platforms
Azure
GitHub
GitHub Actions
RabbitMQ
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People

Marc Rühs
Vertreten durch
Katrin Jedamzik
Vertreten durch
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
13
9 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
15 days
faster than 61% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
20% ▲
Backend
15% ▲
Management
15% ▲
Early Careers
15% ▲
Leadership
10% ▲
Finance
10% ▲
Actively hiring for Early Careers (+3 in 30 days)

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Cologne
Cologne Germany
HQ
Verantwortlich für den Inhalt nach § 55 Abs. 2 RStV
13 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 8% engineering
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance, Management
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings

Jobs

≈ $64k – $123k per year (Estimated) • In office • Cologne
Python
JavaScript
FastAPI
Django
Pydantic
Databases
RabbitMQ
AI/ML
Pandas
Frontend
Vue.js
DevOps
Splunk
Terraform
Ansible
GitHub Actions
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
Docker
Graylog
GitHub
GitLab
Management
Scrum
QA
Pytest
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≈ $87k – $176k per year (Estimated) • In office • Cologne
OpenShift
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
DNS
BGP
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
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Financials

Total raised
$265k
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2016 $265k Details