Energy & Infrastructure
The energy transition is a tender market.
Grid expansion, municipal heat planning, solar on public roofs: Cernavio reads procurement portals, gazettes and council resolutions and shows you projects before the deadline runs.
Where sales fails in this industry
Projects hide across 4,500 portals
Municipalities, utilities, grid operators and special-purpose associations tender separately. Watching two portals means missing the rest of the market.
Resolutions run ahead of procurement
Heat plans, climate strategies and funding approvals announce projects months in advance. They sit in council minutes, not in procurement portals.
Deadlines and formalities eat capacity
Checking specifications, qualification requirements and award criteria manually means fewer bids. Every unread procedure is lost revenue.
This is what your morning looks like
Four real signal types, curated by cernaFeed for this industry. All companies fictional, the patterns are not.
Municipal heat planning, Ostholstein district: lots 1 and 2 tendered
Est. EUR 780,000 · deadline 16 days · qualification: references from 3 municipalities
TED / procurement portal SH · 14 min ago
Stadtwerke Nordbrueck approve 60 MW solar park: planning from 2027
Supervisory board decision + press release · planning and EPC not yet awarded
Gazette / cernaMoves · 1 h ago
Framework agreement cable civil works, distribution grid operator Weser-Ems: 4 years
Est. EUR 12M · 3 regional lots · deadline 28 days · knock-out criteria: 1 open
TED / utility procurement · 3 h ago
Stadtwerke Geesthang visited your heat planning page 4 times
Pages: /services/heat-planning, /references · dwell time 6:48 min
cernaTrace · today 07:58
Five signal worlds, weighted for your market
Not every source is worth the same in every industry. This is how Cernavio weights the five signal worlds for this profile.
Tenders from municipalities, utilities and grid operators
Council resolutions, heat plans, funding approvals
Utilities and project developers on your website
Insolvent developers, distressed projects
Project sales and portfolio takeovers
Three paths from feed to revenue
Positioned before the solar park
Signal
cernaMoves flags a utility board decision: 60 MW solar park, planning from 2027, nothing awarded yet.
Action
The engineering firm introduces itself to the project lead with references before the planning contract is tendered.
Result
Direct award of the feasibility study and pole position for the EPC contract.
Heat planning: a bid in two days
Signal
cernaTender matches a heat planning tender at 95 percent, deadline 16 days.
Action
cernaBrief summarizes 120 pages of documents in 30 seconds: lots, qualification criteria, scoring matrix.
Result
A bid in two days, both lots won, a reference for the next 20 municipalities.
The 4-year framework agreement
Signal
A distribution grid operator tenders cable civil works as a EUR 12M framework agreement, three regional lots.
Action
The civil works company learns about it on publication day and resolves the open knock-out criterion (prequalification) in time.
Result
One regional lot won: predictable utilization for four years.
The market in three numbers
10,700
municipalities must deliver a heat plan by mid-2028: an entire market on a deadline
Heat Planning Act
~EUR 300bn
investment in German power grids alone by 2045, much of it awarded through tenders
BNetzA calibration
4,500+
procurement portals across 29 countries on the radar, from municipalities to transmission operators
Cernavio source index
Sources: German Heat Planning Act, grid development plans and BNetzA publications, Cernavio source index. Figures rounded.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Beyond classic procurement portals, Cernavio reads utility and grid operator tenders as well as their board decisions and press releases; that is where the largest framework agreements originate.
Often months in advance. Heat plans, climate strategies, funding approvals and board decisions appear in gazettes and council information systems long before procurement. cernaMoves turns them into scored early signals.
Yes. The tender radar covers around 4,500 portals in 29 countries including TED. Your profile controls whether you see DACH only or entire EU corridors.
You store services, certificates, prequalifications and capacities. Cernavio scores every tender against them and delivers a match score with reasoning, including the knock-out criteria you still need to resolve.
See your feed before everyone sees it
In the demo we build your profile live: less than 5 minutes to the first feed, setup in one day.