About e|m|w

e|m|w

e|m|w – Energie. Markt. Wettbewerb. is the energy-industry trade magazine published by energate GmbH in Essen – the management journal for the decision-makers who run Germany's energy supply. First published in 2003, it appears every two months with six print issues per year, addressing decision-makers from upper and middle management at energy supply companies. With specialist articles by top authors, interviews with the leading figures of the energy world and market overviews on changing topics, e|m|w supports energy experts in their work – reaching the top decision-makers of the energy industry, with a particular focus on the municipal-utility landscape where Germany's energy transition is implemented street by street, grid by grid.

Overview

e|m|w is published by energate GmbH, the Essen-based energy information service provider whose news services, market data and events have made it one of the industry's central information sources. The magazine appears in a two-month cycle with six issues per year as a print magazine, and is also offered as a PDF, in an app and as an e-paper edition. The print run is around 3,000 copies, with sold circulation reported at 3,500 copies – a focused, high-quality circulation that reaches exactly the managers who matter, rather than chasing mass numbers. Since 2022, the magazine has been a service component of the energate Club, reaching more than 5,000 specialists and executives – the top decision-makers of the energy industry – through the club's exclusive news, magazines and events, both online and in person.

The readership is precisely defined: specialists and managers at energy suppliers and municipal utilities (Stadtwerke), as well as at energy-trading, service, industrial and IT companies – the people who decide how Germany's lights stay on and what it costs. The focus lies on companies from the municipal-utility landscape – the hundreds of Stadtwerke that form the backbone of German energy supply – and on service providers working for the energy industry. With the supplement emw.trends – appearing alternately with e|m|w as a pure online PDF magazine – readers from energy-adjacent start-ups are additionally addressed.

The magazine's title says it all: Energie (energy), Markt (market), Wettbewerb (competition) – the three forces that have shaped the German energy industry since liberalization, and the three lenses through which every issue examines the sector. The ISSN of the print edition is 1611-2997.

History

The e|m|w was first published in 2003 – in the years when the liberalization of the German energy market was transforming municipal utilities and regional suppliers from monopolists into competitors, when the EEG was fueling the first renewable boom and the industry was discovering that electrons had become a traded commodity. The magazine was conceived as the management journal for this new competitive landscape: a publication that would give decision-makers at Stadtwerke and energy companies the market intelligence, strategic analysis and peer exchange they needed to navigate competition.

The publisher, energate GmbH, had established itself as an information service for the energy industry, and the magazine became its flagship print product – the management journal for an industry learning to compete. Over the years, e|m|w accompanied the energy industry through its successive transformations: the renewable-energy boom and the EEG surcharge debates, the nuclear phase-out decided after Fukushima, the coal exit, the digitalization of the energy system with smart meters and smart grids, and the current challenges of the energy transition – decarbonization, hydrogen, flexibility markets and the electrification of everything.

A significant development came in 2022, when the magazine became a service component of the energate Club – the publisher's membership program that bundles exclusive news, magazines and events for the energy industry's decision-makers. Previous e|m|w subscribers and customers of energate's messenger products automatically became club members, integrating the magazine into a broader community offering that now reaches more than 5,000 specialists and executives. The supplement emw.trends, appearing as a pure online magazine between the print issues, extended the brand to the start-up scene at the edges of the energy industry.

Content and Sections

The content of e|m|w follows the strategic agenda of energy-company management – the questions that occupy boardrooms and executive floors. Specialist articles by top authors – practitioners, consultants, academics and the magazine's own editors – analyze the markets, regulations and technologies shaping the industry: from wholesale power and gas markets to the regulatory frameworks of the Federal Network Agency, from renewable-energy business models to the digitalization of utilities.

Interviews with the leading figures of the energy world give readers direct access to the thinking of CEOs, regulators, policymakers and innovators – the people whose decisions move markets and set the industry's course. Market overviews on changing topics provide structured intelligence on segments such as energy trading, metering, grid operation, sales and customer management, or emerging fields like hydrogen and flexibility. The magazine thus combines the depth of a management journal with the currency of a trade publication.

The emw.trends supplement, appearing alternately with the print magazine as a PDF and e-paper online magazine, addresses the start-up scene and innovation topics at the edges of the energy industry – the new business models, digital platforms and young companies reshaping the sector, from virtual power plants to peer-to-peer trading. Between the print issues, the supplement keeps the brand present in the fast-moving innovation discourse.

Publisher and Organization

The publisher is energate GmbH, based in Essen – the Ruhr metropolis that remains the heart of the German energy industry, home to utilities, traders and the Federal Network Agency's shadow. energate is an information-service provider for the energy sector, operating news services, market-data products, the energate Club membership program and events alongside the magazine. The managing director is Marc Hüther, who leads the Essen-based information-service provider through the energy industry's ongoing transformation.

The editor-in-chief is Mareike Teuffer, guiding the magazine's strategic coverage of the energy markets. The editorial team combines energy journalists with a network of external top authors – the practitioners and experts whose specialist articles form the magazine's core, bringing boardroom experience and academic rigor to the page. The publisher's positioning as an independent information provider for the energy industry – serving Stadtwerke, suppliers, traders and service companies alike – gives the magazine its credibility as a neutral forum for the industry's strategic debates.

Digital Presence

The digital presence of e|m|w centers on emw-online.com, the magazine's portal and the digital face of the energate magazine brand. The site extends the bimonthly print rhythm with current content, article archives and information about the magazine. PDF, app and e-paper editions serve readers who prefer digital formats, while the emw.trends online supplement keeps the brand continuously present between print issues.

The magazine's integration into the energate Club since 2022 has deepened its digital embedding: club members access exclusive news, magazines and events through the publisher's platforms, creating a community of more than 5,000 energy decision-makers around the brand – the industry's professionals connected through shared information needs. The energate news services and messenger products complement the magazine's strategic depth with daily market currency.

Through its combination of a bimonthly print magazine with management-journal depth, a digital portal, e-paper and app editions, an online start-up supplement and the energate Club community, e|m|w serves as the strategic forum of the German energy industry's decision-makers – the magazine that Stadtwerke managers and energy executives read when they need to understand where Energie, Markt and Wettbewerb are heading, and what it means for their companies.