About Us

With more than seven decades of experience helping customers control energy use, Techem has embarked on a game-changing strategy to become a global leader in innovation in integrated, digital energy efficiency solutions for the building sector. 

Founded in 1952, Techem’s first products allowed residential buildings to fairly distribute heating costs among tenants. From there, it was a natural evolution for the company to aspire to become a core player in sustainable buildings to meet today’s climate challenges.

Building operations – largely from heating, cooling, and ventilation – are estimated to contribute about 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. And as consultants are fond of saying, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. The potential global impact from reducing emissions in the building sector is tremendous. Our traditional metering expertise and global reach provide a strong springboard for Techem to become a leading innovator in smart energy solutions for buildings.

 

Customer Value

Techem delivers customer value through its range of integrated energy efficiency solutions. And the value created extends beyond our immediate customers to include significant contributions to climate protection and decarbonization by making energy use in the building sector more transparent, tracking successes in abatement strategies and measures, and creating greater transparency.

Our suite of solutions strives to further expand our One Digital Platform which allows us to fully digitalize our services to increase energy efficiency of buildings and to improve our customer experience. This is backed by our passion for innovation and a focus on products that are easy and cost-efficient to implement in residential buildings. While conforming to data security mandates in Europe and other markets, Techem builds transparency by providing consumption statistics as part of the open data economy. By enabling the transition away from fossil fuels, our solutions provide strong support for our customers in reducing both their energy costs and their carbon footprints.

As regulators are turning increased attention to emissions from day-to-day building operations, often setting specific abatement targets in cities or entire countries, Techem systems will command even greater urgency. We deploy digital monitoring and AI-assisted analysis to encourage landlords and tenants alike to consciously reduce their energy consumption.

Along with their significant contribution to global decarbonization, our integrated solutions also contribute to lower operating costs for building, benefiting investors, owners, and tenants alike.

Our greatest challenge: Climate Change

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. At Techem, we are aware of our responsibility to contribute to greenhouse gas abatement and are working on solutions for a successful digital energy transition in the building sector. An affordable net zero building stock is only possible through digitalization and modern technologies, and Techem is committed to contributing to this effort through digitally networked solutions and devices that help reduce energy consumption, increase efficiency, and channel renewable energy generation across sectors.

Digitalization also makes property management more cost effective, reliable, and convenient. For Techem, climate protection, process efficiency and legal certainty go hand in hand.

We are blazing the path to nearly net zero neighborhoods by 2050.

Reducing CO₂ emissions in buildings is a core component of this effort. 

The Techem Group

Techem is a leading service provider for smart and sustainable buildings. Our suite of innovative solutions covers a range of priority issues amid the global climate challenge, including energy management and resource conservation, a healthy living and working environment, and process efficiency in real estate. Techem monitoring systems improve efficiency all along the entire value chain for heating and water systems in buildings. In addition, our comprehensive portfolio includes wireless smoke detectors that can be watched remotely and systems to assure healthy drinking water throughout a building.

Founded in 1952, the company has more than 4,300 employees in 18 countries, and our solutions are present in more than 13 million residences. We are the global market leader in remote recording of energy consumption in homes, and, as we continue to innovate around networking and digital processes, strive to become a leader in smart energy solutions for the building industry worldwide.

Techem Solutions specializes in the supply of heat, cooling, flow energy and electricity, in connection with combined heat and power or photovoltaics. Therefore, Techem Solutions plans, builds, finances and operates energy plants and offers complete solutions for all types of real estate and a wide range of technologies, with a clear focus on integrated and cross-sector energy supply. In addition, Techem Solutions develops solutions for climate-neutral and energetically autonomous neighborhoods to promote the energy-efficient supply of real estate and to implement the digital energy transition in the building sector. They identify possible savings, operate water treatment plants, offer customized supply solutions and advanced consumption monitoring. Techem Solutions supplies over 148,000 homes throughout Germany with heating or electricity, operating more than 2,500 heating systems and over 350 combined heat and power plants.

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Techem, bautec is part of the Techem portfolio of products and solutions. As a service provider, bautec offers its numerous major customers a modern, integrated heating and operating costs billing system with a direct link to our customers' housing industry ERP systems. With customized solutions and individual support, we reduce the burden on our customers, create space and reduce costs – for a significant and sustainable increase in efficiency. The focus of bautec lies in the preparation and creation of the apportionment statement and the necessary support for it, as well as the exchange of data with customer systems.

Owner

Since October 7, 2025, Techem has been owned by a consortium of investors comprising Partners Group, one of the largest companies in the global private market industry, GIC, a leading global investor, TPG Rise Climate, a fund specializing in climate investments as part of TPG's global impact investing platform, and Mubadala Investment Company, an Abu Dhabi-based investment company. The new owner consortium will further strengthen Techem's position as a leading digital provider of energy services for the real estate industry in Europe.

Partners Group is one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry, with around 1’800 professionals and approximately USD 150 billion in assets under management. The firm has investment programs and custom mandates spanning private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, and royalties. With its heritage in Switzerland and its primary presence in the Americas in Colorado, Partners Group is built differently from the rest of the industry. The firm leverages its differentiated culture and its operationally oriented approach to identify attractive investment themes and to transform businesses and assets into market leaders. For more information, please visit www.partnersgroup.com or follow Partners Group on LinkedIn.

GIC is a leading global investment firm established in 1981 to secure Singapore’s financial future. As the manager of Singapore’s foreign reserves, they take a long-term, disciplined approach to investing, and are uniquely positioned across a wide range of asset classes and active strategies globally. These include equities, fixed income, real estate, private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure. Their long-term approach, multi-asset capabilities, and global connectivity enable GIC to be an investor of choice. They seek to add meaningful value to our investments. Headquartered in Singapore, they have a global talent force of over 2,300 people in 11 key financial cities and have investments in over 40 countries. For more information, please visit https://www.gic.com.sg or follow them on LinkedIn.

TPG Rise Climate is the dedicated climate investing strategy of TPG’s $19 billion global impact investing platform. TPG Rise Climate pursues climate-related investments that benefit from the diverse skills of TPG’s investing professionals, the strategic relationships developed across TPG’s existing portfolio of climate-focused companies, and a global network of executives and advisors. The fund takes a broad-based sector approach to investment types, from growth equity to value-added infrastructure, and focuses on climate solutions in the following thematic areas: clean electrons, clean molecules and materials, and negative emissions. For more information, please visit www.therisefund.com/tpgriseclimate.

Mubadala Investment Company is a sovereign investor managing a global portfolio, aimed at generating sustainable financial returns for the Government of Abu Dhabi.

Mubadala’s US$330 billion (AED 1,212 billion) portfolio spans six continents with interests in multiple sectors and asset classes. They leverage their deep sectoral expertise and long-standing partnerships to drive sustainable growth and profit, while supporting the continued diversification and global integration of the economy of the United Arab Emirates.

For more information about Mubadala Investment Company, please visit https://www.mubadala.com or LinkedIn.

Our history at a glance

Techem looks back at more than seven decades of helping our customers with energy management. Some milestones.Techem looks back at more than seven decades of helping our customers with energy management. Some milestones.

Techem was founded in 1952 by Friedrich Ott in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, as a company for the evaluation of technical-chemical processes and patents, helping measure and distribute heating costs in residential buildings fairly. At the time, evaporator tubes was still the standard method of measurement.

A new standard: Techem introduced electronic heat cost allocators to the market in 1983 which work more accurately than the analogue devices and can compensate measurement errors better.

Techem began offering energy contracting in 1992 and introduced a radio system for recording consumption in 1996.

Techem ushered in a new era in 2005 with the launch of remote reading via mobile communications. In 2007, wireless smoke detectors were added to the product portfolio, and in 2009 the Techem Smart System was introduced. It records and transmits the consumption values of the individual recording devices centrally and automatically. 

In 2010, Techem Energy Contracting’s energy management system was certified according to DIN EN 16001. 2011 saw the introduction of wireless smoke detectors with remote inspection, and in 2012, Techem expanded its range of services to include legionella testing in cooperation with the SGS Institut Fresenius. The Techem heating service was launched in 2013 and supplemented by the Techem heating service with direct electricity in 2014. Hydraulic balancing and Techem drinking water treatment were launched in 2018. Digital system monitoring with Techem Smart Monitor was introduced in 2019. 

In 2020, Techem added a focus on renewable energy generation and entered the holistic metering operation with Techem SmartMetering in 2021. This was followed that same year by the market launch of e-charging solutions.