KUGU sichert sich 8,5 Millionen Euro für die Dekarbonisierung der Immobilienbranche

Berlin, April 09, 2025 — With KUGU Days 2025, Berlin-based KUGU Home GmbH brought together experts from the housing industry, energy service providers and industry experts in Berlin on April 2 and 3. More than 120 participants accepted the invitation to the Ahoy Berlin event location to discuss digital energy management and submetering software at Innovation Day and ABSys User Day. The company's new logo and image was also presented at KUGU Days.

Innovation Day on April 2 focused on a question: How can existing energy transitions be achieved — in concrete terms, digitally and economically viable? The day was opened with a top-class impulse from Andreas Kuhlmann, CTO/COO of the management consultancy Christ&Company and former CEO of the German energy agency dena. In his keynote speech, Kuhlmann emphasized the central role of the building sector in the success of the energy transition. He spoke out in favour of technology-open, digitally supported decarbonization — particularly in the heating sector, which offers great savings potential. In the subsequent panel discussion with Sebastian Czaja (member of the Federal Executive Committee FDP) and host Christopher von Gumppenberg (Co-Founder and CEO KUGU), clear appeals were made against the backdrop of ongoing coalition negotiations: Reliable framework conditions must be created in the future to specifically promote innovations such as those from KUGU and ensure investment security.

This was followed by a practical insight into the implementation: Dominik Unger, Technical Director at Gewobag ED, showed in a case study how significant savings potential can be realized in inventory through digital control. Together with KUGU, ten selected properties were optimised as examples during the 2024/2025 heating season — with energy savings of over 20 percent compared to the previous year and measurable CO₂ reduction. The intelligent regulation was carried out without sacrificing comfort for tenants. “We see great potential in working with KUGU. The initial results are promising and motivate us to continue along this path,” says Unger.

KUGU's optimization is based on the digital twin — a central unique selling point of the platform. This is modeled individually for each building and combines building physics, consumption data and weather forecasts. In this way, KUGU enables daily, automated control on autopilot. Intelligent, data-based regulation not only increases efficiency, but also makes an effective contribution to digital decarbonization of existing buildings.

“Decarbonization is no longer an issue of the future — it is happening now. We must have workable tools and real data at our fingertips. That is exactly what we are working on at KUGU,” says Christopher von Gumppenberg. After the presentations, it was time to get into practice: On a technical tour, KUGU presented the live operation of its control box while visiting a Gewobag boiler — from simple installation to automated control of the heating system. At the end of the day, KUGU invited people to the Berlin office to round off the day together.

On April 3, ABSYS User Day was all about KUGU's own submetering software. ABsys is more than just software for heating bill billing: it is the smart, digital solution for efficient, transparent and future-proof consumption recording. The team provided information on migration strategies and presented further developments for billing multivalent systems and heat pumps as well as for connecting external interfaces. In a detailed demo, participants were able to see the software in action.

Another important agenda item was the presentation of the new KUGU Portal 2.0: The portal comes with a new user-friendly and intuitive user interface, facilitates cooperation between measurement service provider and property management, and offers an extended connection to ABSys, including control over data transfer. Finally, the participants were able to contribute their experiences in open workshops and, together with the KUGU team, think about future functions. “Only when digital solutions are practicable and transparent can they have a real impact,” says von Gumppenberg. “We are very pleased with the great interest and the open exchange, because the energy revolution in the building sector is a joint task. ”

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