Ep. 30: Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO & Co-Founder of Enspired – Battery Optimization, AI and the Software-Defined Energy World

In this episode of Smart Charge by RiDERgy, Claudio speaks with
Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO and Co-Founder of Enspired, one of
Europe’s fastest-growing AI-driven battery optimization
companies. From his early days in Austria’s liberalized gas
market to scaling Enspired across Europe and Japan, Jürgen shares
how software, data, and automation are reshaping energy markets.


We trace his 20-year journey from gas logistics and power trading
to leading a fully automated optimizer managing over 1 GW of
grid-scale batteries. Jürgen explains how Enspired helps asset
owners maximize revenues across day-ahead, intraday, and
balancing markets—and how the company’s transparency initiative
with KPMG-audited performance indexes is bringing new trust to
the fast-moving storage sector.


Key topics include:


Scaling Enspired from Austria to Europe and Asia with a
tech-first, fully automated platform

Why Europe struggles with venture capital and boldness in
software compared to the US and China

The rise of the software-defined energy world and why
flexibility is the new grid infrastructure

Lessons from Visotech on scalability, speed, and growing
beyond the German-speaking market

How AI handles 10M+ intraday price updates per day and the
shift to real-time optimization

The future of long-duration storage, grid constraints, and
flexibility at TSO vs. DSO levels

How transparent data and auditing can mature the still-young
battery storage market

The convergence of fleets, EVs, and grid-scale optimization



Jürgen also reflects on the culture of entrepreneurship in
Europe, the challenge of scaling deep-tech energy startups, and
why he believes the 2020s will be remembered as the decade when
the decentralized energy system was built.