New technologies create new opportunities, but also new technical, regulatory and investment risks. VDE SIS Technical Advisory helps you understand these risks, evaluate your options and make confident technical decisions.
We combine independent engineering expertise with access to the VDE network across standardization, testing, research and technology. Our advisory services are technology-agnostic, with expertise in energy systems, electrification and emerging technologies.
Independent technical advisory for safe, robust and future-ready decisions. We assess complex technologies, regulatory requirements and project risks in a structured way and make them transparent.
Understand the technical risks behind an investment, project or technology.
We provide independent assessments ranging from focused red-flag reviews to comprehensive Technical Due Diligence and Independent Engineering.
We assess technology, system design, safety, performance, grid integration, project readiness, construction, commissioning and operational risks.
Is the technology ready?
We independently assess the technical maturity, plausibility and bankability of established and emerging technologies.
Particularly for emerging technologies, we help identify risks that may not yet be fully addressed by existing standards.
Compliance is the starting point, not the end of the assessment.
We evaluate whether technologies and systems are safe, reliable and suitable for their intended real-world application.
Our services include safety assessments, risk analysis, design reviews, reliability assessments, failure analysis and root-cause investigations.
Identify regulatory gaps before they become market-entry barriers.
We support you in navigating standards, technical regulations and emerging requirements.
Our goal is to translate complex requirements into clear technical actions.
Independent technical expertise throughout your project lifecycle.
We support owners, developers and investors from early development through procurement, construction and commissioning to operation.
Our role is to independently challenge technical assumptions, monitor technical quality and provide transparency where critical project decisions need to be made.
Understand how your technology performs, and why it does not when something goes wrong.
We provide independent performance assessments, technical investigations and root-cause analysis for technologies and operating systems.
Where required, our advisory expertise can be combined with specialized testing and laboratory capabilities from across the VDE network.
Technology-agnostic by design. Technical Advisory is not limited to a specific technology. We assemble the expertise required for the individual challenge by drawing on specialists from VDE SIS and the wider VDE network. Our current focus areas include:
Battery Energy Storage Systems, battery technologies, solar PV, hybrid energy systems, power conversion, grid integration and energy management.
Electrical infrastructure, charging technologies, power electronics, control systems and grid-connected technologies.
Digital Product Passports, technical data governance, regulatory readiness and emerging digital compliance requirements.
Independent technical assessment of innovative products, technologies and system concepts where established market experience or standards may not yet provide the complete answer.
Weather-related risk assessment, resilience and loss mitigation for energy infrastructure, with specialized VDE expertise in site-specific hail risk intelligence for solar assets.
Our assessments are technology- and manufacturer-agnostic.
We provide evidence-based technical conclusions designed to support your decision, not a predetermined outcome.
A technology can comply with a standard and still present technical, operational or investment risks.
We therefore look beyond individual compliance requirements and assess the complete technical risk picture.
VDE SIS combines its dedicated Technical Advisory team with access to expertise across standardization, testing, research, engineering, regulation and conformity assessment.
This allows us to build multidisciplinary teams around your technical challenge.
VDE combines more than a century of experience in electrical and information technologies with active involvement in standards, testing and technology development.
Our Technical Advisory team translates this knowledge into practical decision support for new technologies, projects and markets.
VDE SIS is part of the VDE Group, one of Europe's leading technology organizations. VDE brings together science, standardization, testing, certification and technical application expertise under one roof.
Through VDE SIS Technical Advisory, you gain access to this broader ecosystem and the right experts for your specific technical challenge.
Our experts have supported complex technology and infrastructure projects internationally, from early technology development and market entry to investment, implementation and operation.
Bring us the challenge. We bring together the right expertise to solve it.