Ralf Gerhard Hoffmann

bfu Institut für Beratung, Finanz AG is a management consultancy firm based in Koblenz, Germany. bfu Institut für Beratung, Finanz AG provides management consultancy services. The German company was founded in 1997 and is led by CEO Martin Görliitz.

The company is a leading manufacturer of remote reading and metering systems to retrieve energy data and provide qualified metering data for business analysis systems. Automation, integration and IP communication are current challenges for European utilities, grid operators and metering service providers. GÖRLITZ AG provides its customers with products and solutions to successfully meet the demands of liberalization. Such as the latest member of the innovative meter family which the company presented last year. The energy data management system EDW3000 from GÖRLITZ has the same aim. This data hub, based on the experiences of the widely-used remote reading system ENZ2000, maps the entire process chain from measurement to billing for all energy types from the perspective of grid operators and energy providers. The EDW3000 supports Microsoft Windows OS and is future-proof with Microsoft.NET technology. GÖRLITZ has supported European utilities in implementing smart metering in numerous projects. The Advanced-Meter-Management-System Echelon is used for the intelligent residential meters scheduled to replace the standard Ferraris meters in Germany in the near future. Household customer's energy consumption will be measured and billed reliably and securely. More than 800 European customers in the industrial and energy sector in 22 countries apply the hardware and software from the Koblenz company to record, transmit, process and bill energy supply and consumption. The GÖRLITZ Group comprises of subsidiaries in Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Denmark. Other valued members of the group are EuroDCS Energiedaten AG, a data service provider situated in Koblenz, and Berg GmbH which caters to the industrial sector and is located near Munich.