Sigholm and Hansen Technologies aim to empower district heating and CHP companies to maximize asset returns in volatile energy markets. By integrating Sigholm's production optimization with Hansen Trade, our market-leading, modular software for automated power trading with advanced Multi-Market Optimization (MMO) capabilities, this partnership enables companies to eliminate manual workflows, minimize balancing risk, and capture new commercial opportunities.
Oslo, Norway, 3/07/2026 – Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN), a leading global provider of software and services to the energy & utilities and communications & media industries, and Sigholm Tech AB recognize that today's volatile market requires a faster, more automated approach to energy commercialization, and have therefore entered into a letter of intent for a strategic partnership.
The joint ambition is to bridge the traditional gap between physical control room decisions and financial market execution. By consolidating fuel costs, market prices, volumes, and production constraints into a single, connected workflow, energy companies can transition away from slow, manual processes and act with unprecedented speed.
To deliver this operational agility, the partnership connects Sigholm’s platform Aurora by Sigholm (AbS), used by control room teams to optimize asset scheduling, directly into Hansen Trade. As Hansen's premier, cloud-native automated power trading platform, Hansen Trade delivers the advanced MMO capabilities required to execute trading positions across day-ahead, intraday, and balancing operations in real time.
“Through our partnership with Sigholm, we are creating a market-leading collaboration with the capability to support district heating customers through the transformation facing the industry. Rising biofuel prices, volatile electricity prices, and increasing emissions costs are creating strong momentum for the district heating sector to evolve. By combining leading production optimization, improved power trading, and access to capacity and ancillary services markets, district heating companies can maximize the return on their assets. Hansen and Sigholm want to enable that journey.”
— Carl Lidholm, EVP Energy & Utilities, Hansen Technologies
Combination of Two Strong Solutions
Hansen Technologies offers Hansen Trade, a highly scalable, enterprise-grade platform for automated power trading with advanced Multi-Market Optimization (MMO) capabilities across day-ahead, intraday, and balancing operations. Perfectly complementing this commercial engine,
Sigholm offers AbS, the Nordic region’s leading cloud-based platform for the digital and automated optimization of complex district heating and combined heat and power systems.
Together, the two platforms help customers seamlessly transition from an optimized production plan to real-time executable trading decisions with greater speed, accuracy, and agility. Optimization insights from AbS flow directly into Hansen Trade, allowing customers to dynamically align physical production with high-value market positions more effectively.
The partnership strengthens customer offerings in both directions: Sigholm brings established expertise and customer relationships on the generation optimization side, while Hansen Trade adds premium, automated market integration and advanced MMO capabilities across key power markets.
“At Sigholm, we have made significant progress in developing how large volumes of data can quickly create actionable insight for our customers. By integrating our AbS platform with Hansen Trade, we are adding a new and important piece to our customers’ ability to capitalize on their assets. It is no longer enough to simply have a strong production plan on paper; in today’s volatile market, decisions must be executable in real time. Together with Hansen Technologies, we are bridging the gap between physical production and financial power markets. This enables our customers not only to reduce production costs, but also to actively capture new revenue opportunities in ancillary services and flexibility markets.”
— Niclas Sigholm, founder, Sigholm Tech AB
Increased Customer Value in a More Complex Energy Market
With district heating and CHP companies across the Nordics and Europe facing unprecedented price volatility, rising biofuel costs, and climbing emissions fees, a seamless connection between production planning and market execution is no longer optional. Navigating this growing market complexity requires a completely automated, data-driven bridge from the control room to the trading floor.
The integrated offering is designed to unlock measurable commercial value by:
• Maximizing Market Access: Improving real-time access to key power markets via Hansen Trade's robust market connectivity.
• Mitigating Balancing Risk: Dynamically aligning financial trading positions with live, physical production constraints.
• Driving Operational Efficiency: Eliminating slow, manual processes across the entire asset-to-market workflow.
• Capturing New Revenue Streams: Automating entry into lucrative capacity, ancillary services, and flexibility markets.
To bring this value to the market, the partnership includes joint go-to-market activities. While the Nordic district heating and CHP sector represents the natural home market, Germany and the wider DACH region have already been identified as key strategic areas for further expansion.
Shared Ambition
Sigholm and Hansen Technologies share a clear vision for the future of energy commercialization. By combining Sigholm’s deep expertise in energy systems, production optimization and district heating with Hansen Technologies’ global leadership in energy software and automated trading, the parties empower customers to make faster, more accurate, and more profitable decisions.
Crucially, the partnership is built on a shared commitment to a flexible and modular architecture. This modularity ensures that energy companies can seamlessly integrate these advanced capabilities while continuing to choose the exact products and solutions that best fit their unique operational setups.
The integrated offering and strategic roadmap will be presented in more detail at Hansen Connect Live 2026, Hansen Technologies’ premier customer event taking place on 20–21 October in Oslo, where Niclas Sigholm will participate as a featured speaker.
Contact:
Niclas Sigholm, grundare, Sigholm Tech AB, niclas.sigholm@sigholm.se, +46 70-290 60 09
Fredrik von Schinkel, affärsutvecklare Sigholm Tech AB, fredrik.vonschinkel@sigholm.se, +4676-824 45 55
Carl Lidholm, EVP Energy & Utilities, Hansen Technologies, carl.Lidholm@hansencx.com, +46 73-953 46 76
Caption: Carl Lidholm and Niclas Sigholm
About Sigholm
Sigholm is a leading knowledge-based company in the energy sector. The company is also behind Aurora by Sigholm (AbS), a leading cloud-based platform for digital production optimization of district heating and combined heat and power systems.
For further information about Sigholm, please visit www.sigholm.se.
About Hansen
Hansen Technologies (ASX: HSN) is a leading global provider of software and services to the energy & utilities and communications & media industries. With its award-winning software portfolio, Hansen serves organizations with customers located in over 80 countries, helping them create, sell, and deliver new products and services, manage and analyze customer data, and control critical revenue management and customer support processes.
For more information, visit www.hansencx.com.
