Haselhorst Associates and H&Z are growing even closer. In August 2026, Haselhorst Associates GmbH was legally merged into H&Z Unternehmensberatung GmbH. The merger does not affect ongoing projects and clients. The people behind our projects and our long-standing client relationships, as well as our expertise, remain unchanged.
However, we are expanding the expertise available to you with our new industry Cities & Utilities. The Haselhorst Smart-City-Ranking will also continue as part of H&Z.
![[Translate to English:] Smart-City-Offensive “Norderstedt GO!”](/fileadmin/Bilder_HAC/Aktuelle_Beitraege/Aktuelle_Beitraege_NorderstedtGO_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Smart-City-Offensive “Norderstedt GO!”")
The city of Norderstedt has reached an important milestone in its “Norderstedt GO!” Smart City campaign: The team managing this project has presented the results of many months of cooperation at a digital information event, together with the city’s “future ambassadors”.
![[Translate to English:] Windräder am See](/fileadmin/Bilder_HAC/Aktuelle_Beitraege/Aktuelle_Beitraege_Interview-Erneuerbare-Energien_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Erneuerbare Energien")
“In addition to a strategy, digital infrastructure forms the foundation of a smart city—in other words, fiber optic expansion,” explains our managing partner Jürgen Germies in an interview with the trade magazine Erneuerbare Energien.
![[Translate to English:] Whitepaper Digitale Verwaltung](/fileadmin/Bilder_HAC/Aktuelle_Beitraege/Aktuelle_Beitraege_WP-Digitale-Verwlatung_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Whitepaper Digitale Verwaltung")
Germany has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to e-government: According to the latest<ahref="https://www.haselhorstassociates.com/fileadmin/user_upload/0_DESI_2021_Thematic_chapters__Full_European_Analysis_dhhO6dGif25zTsq4LXZQCIrI_80563.pdf" target="_blank" title="Digital Economy and Society…
![[Translate to English:] Tablet mit Smart Home Control App](/fileadmin/Bilder_HAC/Aktuelle_Beitraege/Aktuelle_Beitraege_Studie_Umweltbundesamt_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Smart Home Control")
How can smart products in the energy sector's end customer market help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Researchers at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and CO2-online investigated this question on behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency. The results of the study clearly…
![[Translate to English:] Stadt Bergheim Team Smart City](/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktuelle_Beitraege_Stadt-Bergheim_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Stadt Bergheim Team Smart City")
The course has been set: the district town of Bergheim has set itself the goal of decisively advancing its intelligent development. Like many other towns in the Rhenish lignite mining area in North Rhine-Westphalia, the district town with a population of around 65,000 is facing considerable…