01 — Consulting

Strategic Consulting

Strategic advisory for companies, investors and institutions navigating technological change, energy infrastructure decisions and battery storage investments. We combine market, technology and financial expertise.

3 Advisory areas
8+ Client types
4 Countries

Strategy & Technology

Advising leadership teams on strategic positioning in technology-driven markets. We help organizations develop strategies that account for the pace and direction of technological change.

Market positioning
Technology strategy
Competitive analysis

Energy Infrastructure

Strategic analysis of energy markets, storage systems and infrastructure investment dynamics. Deep analytical work on the evolving structure of European energy systems.

Grid infrastructure
Storage markets
Market dynamics

Investment & Market Strategy

Supporting investors and financial institutions in evaluating emerging energy technologies and infrastructure opportunities across European markets.

Due diligence support
Market sizing
Investment thesis development

Who we work with

Battery manufacturers
Project developers
Energy companies
Banks
Private equity funds
Infrastructure investors
Impact investors
Industry associations

Central Europe + UK

How we work

Impeto works on decisions with long lock-in: entering a new market segment, a major infrastructure or technology investment, or assessing a business model whose conditions change faster than the internal planning horizon. In those situations the problem is rarely a lack of information — it is the absence of a frame that makes information decision-relevant.

Every engagement therefore starts by taking the decision itself apart: which assumptions carry the business case, which of them are empirically supported, and which are simply set? Where are the break points at which a scenario flips? Only then does the analysis follow — market data, regulation, competitive structure, cost of capital — at the resolution the decision actually requires. Depending on the question, that ranges from a robust market definition to a detailed calculation at quarter-hourly granularity.

Impeto is deliberately small and works without intermediate layers. Engagements are led personally by experienced consultants and, where needed, complemented by selected specialists from academia, law and energy trading. That limits project size but increases accountability: whoever sits in the first conversation also sits in the final presentation.

This way of working is also why Impeto builds its own products alongside advisory work. Recurring analytical questions are better expressed as a verifiable model than as a slide deck. BESS Invest emerged from exactly that: advisory work that could be systematised.

Formats of collaboration

Engagements are shaped around the decision at hand rather than a standard package. Three formats have become established.

Strategic sparring partner

Ongoing, confidential support for management, boards or investment committees over several months. Not a project report but continuous interpretation of market developments and decision papers in a fixed rhythm.

Analysis & assessment

Scoped analytical work with a defined output: market sizing, economic assessment of a storage project, or a plausibility review of revenue assumptions in the context of a financing or due diligence decision.

Market access & positioning

Support for entering or repositioning in Central European energy markets — covering regulation, grid levels, competitive environment and the question of which revenue markets are actually accessible.

Revenue modelling for financing requests