# Karol Oponowicz

Source: https://ordergroup.co/experts/karol-oponowicz/

![Karol Oponowicz](https://ordergroup.co/media/images/T02DHCC1Z-USU628BDK-e_jtDMIDp.2e16d0ba.fill-320x320.format-webp.webp)

Karol Oponowicz
Co-founder & Business Owner, Order Group

Co-founder of Order Group and former CEO of Zeronest. Works on the business side of energy software and new products.

in Order Group since2013
articles9
glossary entries reviewed2

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-oponowicz/)

## Ask the expert

Describe your project or question. It reaches our team marked as a question for Karol Oponowicz.

[Ask a question](https://ordergroup.co/contact-us/?message=Question+for+Karol+Oponowicz%3A+&source=expert%3Akarol-oponowicz)

## Profile

Karol Oponowicz co-founded Order Group in 2013 and is one of its Business Owners. Karol was also CEO of Zeronest, a company whose energy management software Order Group builds.

Karol's articles, the first published in 2019, cover the product side of custom software: user journey mapping, product workshops, MVPs, pitch decks, and the fixed price and time and materials pricing models. Other texts deal with energy and industrial IoT, including SCADA interfaces and IoT dashboards. Karol is also the author of the OG Guide e-books.

In the Everything in Order video series Karol talks about the energy transition, energy storage, e-mobility, virtual power plants and the discovery phase of software projects.

## Areas of expertise

### Energy business and startups

The business side of energy products, from prosumer storage to energy cooperatives and dynamic tariffs.

- [Energy Hub](https://ordergroup.co/energy-hub/)
- [Dynamic electricity tariff](https://ordergroup.co/glossary/dynamic-tariff/)
- [Energy cooperative](https://ordergroup.co/glossary/energy-cooperative/)

### Product discovery and MVP

Product workshops, user journey mapping and deciding what goes into the first version.

- [Product Strategy Workshops](https://ordergroup.co/services/consulting-discovery/product-workshops/)

### Industrial IoT

SCADA interfaces and IoT dashboards for industrial and energy systems.

- [IoT & Device Software Development Services](https://ordergroup.co/iot-software-development/)

## Experience

### Co-founder & Business Owner

[Order Group](https://ordergroup.co/) · 2013–now

### CEO

[Zeronest](https://zeronest.pl/)

## Glossary entries reviewed

- [Dynamic electricity tariff](https://ordergroup.co/glossary/dynamic-tariff/)
reviewed October 10, 2026
- [Energy cooperative](https://ordergroup.co/glossary/energy-cooperative/)
reviewed October 10, 2026

## Articles

- [June 13, 2024
Startup Seed Financing in Scandinavia](https://ordergroup.co/blog/startup-seed-funding-scandinavia/)
- [June 12, 2024
How P2P Energy Trading Is Energizing Our Future](https://ordergroup.co/blog/p2p-energy-trading/)
- [May 13, 2024
OG Guide to Getting a More Precise Quote for Your Project](https://ordergroup.co/resources/ebooks/og-guide-to-getting-more-precise-quote-of-your-project/)
- [May 13, 2024
OG Guide to Outsourcing](https://ordergroup.co/resources/ebooks/og-guide-to-outsourcing/)
- [May 13, 2024
OG Guide to Software Development](https://ordergroup.co/resources/ebooks/og-guide-to-software-development/)
- [April 30, 2024
How We Run the IoT Development Process](https://ordergroup.co/resources/video/how-we-run-iot-development-process/)
- [April 25, 2024
Ultimate Partner](https://ordergroup.co/resources/video/ultimate-partner/)
- [March 21, 2024
Managing Surplus Renewable Energy with Energy Storage Systems](https://ordergroup.co/blog/surplus-renewable-energy-storage/)
- [December 17, 2019
User Journey Mapping in Practice. Part 1: What? When? and How to Set Up the Workshops?](https://ordergroup.co/blog/user-journey-mapping-workshop/)

## Talks, publications and media

- Talk
[How We Run the IoT Development Process](https://ordergroup.co/resources/video/how-we-run-iot-development-process/)
Order Group webinar, April 30, 2024
- Talk
[Discovery Process](https://ordergroup.co/resources/video/discovery-process/)
Everything in Order (Order Group video series), July 17, 2024
- Talk
[Net Zero and Energy Storage](https://ordergroup.co/resources/video/zero-emission-and-energy-storage/)
Everything in Order (Order Group video series), August 1, 2024
- Talk
[VPP, EMS, BMS](https://ordergroup.co/resources/video/vpp-ems-bms/)
Everything in Order (Order Group video series), August 2, 2024
- Talk
[E-mobility](https://ordergroup.co/resources/video/e-mobility/)
Everything in Order (Order Group video series), August 4, 2024
- Talk
[zeronest](https://ordergroup.co/resources/video/zeronest/)
Everything in Order (Order Group video series), August 14, 2024

Profile updated: October 10, 2026