June, 2026
This is a repeating eventJune 22, 2027 9:00 am
EM-Power Europe
Event Details
EM-Power Europe
22. – 25. June 2026 | Munich, Germany
Official Website: https://www.em-power.eu/home
The strategic misjudgment at EM-Power Europe is treating it as a software exhibition for the energy sector. This fundamentally misreads its role as the operational command center where the theoretical promise of the energy transition confronts the hard constraints of grid physics, market design, and regulatory compliance. Grid operators and utility strategists attend not to browse software dashboards, but to identify partners capable of orchestrating chaos—transforming millions of volatile, decentralized assets into predictable, monetizable grid services that maintain stability in real-time. Success hinges on demonstrating how your platform translates technical capability into auditable, compliant, and bankable grid services.
Strategic Snapshot
EM-Power Europe is the definitive European nexus for energy digitalization and flexibility markets, functioning as the critical interface where software engineering, regulatory frameworks, and grid operations converge to build the control systems for a decarbonized, decentralized power system.
Why This Fair Matters in Germany’s Exhibition Ecosystem
As part of The smarter E Europe in Munich, EM-Power leverages Germany’s position as Europe’s most advanced laboratory for energy market design and grid digitalization. It attracts the engineers and economists who literally write the rulebooks for flexibility markets and grid codes. A solution’s validation within this German context—where implementation precedes theory—signals its readiness for the complex, regulated environments that define European energy infrastructure investment.
Who This Fair Is For — and Who Should Skip It
Ideal for:
- Platform providers with proven interoperability across multiple asset types and demonstrable compliance with stringent grid codes and data security standards.
- Companies offering not just analytics, but certified prequalification services that streamline the process for asset owners to participate in flexibility markets.
- Specialists in grid-edge intelligence: solutions that optimize behind-the-meter assets for both self-consumption and grid services, maximizing dual revenue streams.
- Providers with clear roadmaps for AI/ML applications in predictive grid balancing and anomaly detection, backed by pilot data from live environments.
Not ideal for:
- Conceptual software startups without live deployments, real-world data on performance, or understanding of the multi-year sales cycles to regulated grid operators.
- Companies offering generic IoT or data platforms without deep domain expertise in energy market products, bidding strategies, and grid service specifications.
- Exhibitors unable to discuss cybersecurity protocols, data sovereignty requirements, and integration with legacy utility IT systems like SCADA and market interfaces.
The 3–5 Day Moment vs. the 365-Day Reality
EM-Power offers a concentrated view of the evolving digital ecosystem and a forum for aligning with market design trends. This convergence is vital for entering procurement processes for grid operator tenders.
The strategic rupture occurs in the “regulatory compliance and system integration abyss.” A platform demo shows elegant aggregation, but the provider fails to navigate the multi-year process of certification with transmission system operators, integration with existing utility data architectures, and adaptation to constantly evolving market rules. For a grid operator, software is critical infrastructure; a vendor’s inability to guarantee long-term regulatory alignment and provide 24/7 mission-critical support represents an existential risk to grid stability.
Thus, the true value is not in dashboard features, but in a provider’s proven governance model for maintaining compliance, ensuring cybersecurity, and delivering unwavering reliability as an extension of the grid operator’s own control room.
Strategic Next Step
Before exhibiting, rigorously assess your platform’s maturity for integration into regulated, safety-critical infrastructure. For a framework on establishing this essential role as a trusted grid technology partner, review the perspective in our analysis of trade fair visibility in Germany.
Explore the Ecosystem
Understanding the risk-averse, compliance-focused, and long-term evaluation criteria of German utility and public sector energy buyers
Principles for developing a trade fair narrative that addresses the strategic operational challenges of energy system operators
Strategic FAQs for Exhibitors
How does a software platform move beyond selling features to selling grid stability as a service
By providing quantifiable metrics on your platform’s performance in live grid services: accuracy of power forecasts, reliability in meeting dispatch signals, and speed of response. Offer service level agreements (SLAs) tied to grid code compliance and financial penalties for non-performance. Frame your value as reducing the grid operator’s balancing costs and operational risk.
What is the critical mistake in discussing artificial intelligence with skeptical grid engineers
Presenting AI as a black box. Grid operators need explainability and accountability. Demonstrate how your models work, what data they use, and how humans remain in the loop for critical decisions. Provide case studies showing incremental improvements in forecasting accuracy or anomaly detection, not promises of autonomous grid operation.
For a flexibility aggregator, how do you attract asset owners in a crowded market
Move beyond revenue share percentages. Provide transparent, auditable revenue statements and clear analysis of how participation impacts the asset’s primary use (e.g., does EV charging flexibility compromise driver needs?). Offer seamless technology integration with minimal disruption and guarantee performance to avoid penalties for the asset owner.
Why is demonstrating cybersecurity certification and data sovereignty non-negotiable
Because energy data is critical national infrastructure. You must have certifications like ISO 27001, comply with NIS2 directives, and offer data residency options within Europe. Grid operators cannot risk a breach that could compromise grid control. Your security posture is a primary component of your technical due diligence.
How should a company approach serving both large grid operators and commercial industrial C&I customers
Have distinct product configurations and value propositions. For grid operators, focus on scalability, reliability, and deep grid integration. For C&I customers, emphasize ease of use, rapid ROI, and minimizing operational complexity. The underlying technology may be similar, but the deployment model, support, and commercial terms are fundamentally different.
