- Wind, bioenergy and CSP activities remain EPURON’s core activities
The Conergy group is further simplifying its structures by placing all photovoltaics business under the roof of “Conergy PV”. EPURON’s photovoltaics business in developing and financing large solar power plants will soon be handled by Conergy PV too. The development and financing of wind and bioenergy projects and large solar-thermal power plants will still be managed by EPURON. Nikolaus Krane will continue to manage the EPURON business.
Conergy’s CEO Dieter Ammer: “This enables us to create an even more efficient and streamlined Conergy, and a sharper profile as one of the world’s leading downstream PV companies. This will enable regions to be run more independently as well as to improve their proximity to the marketand will place us in an even better position in the future with regards to international competition.”
The previous restructuring initiated the Group’s separation from non-strategic activities as well as its retreat from countries which Conergy deemed non-profitable. It has already managed to successfully sell more than half of the affected companies and has withdrawn from five countries. It will enable Conergy to concentrate its activities on a smaller number of core and future markets. The group has also successfully brought the Conergy and SunTechnics organisations together and bundled their photovoltaics strengths, enabling it to achieve considerable synergetic and savings effects.
Another step towards making the organisation more efficient will be the separation of Conergy’s global activities in the Conergy PV sector into four independent regional areas: Europe 1, Europe 2, Americas and Asia Pacific. Philip von Schmeling, who was responsible for Conergy’s PV business in the past, will remain responsibility for this sector. The three distribution channels for PV business in the regions – partner networks, wholesalers and project business – will be handled together in future. Depending on market conditions, the individual regions will be able to select and optimally use the distribution channel which will provide them with the best possible growth and profit. The Components division, an aggregation of all manufacturing activities, is the third of the three pillars and will remain unchanged and report to the Conergy Board of Management independently.