ABO Wind

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ABO Wind AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN DE0005760029 ( bearer share )
founding 1996
Seat Wiesbaden , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Andreas Höllinger, Jochen Ahn, Matthias Bockholt, Karsten Schlageter ( Board of Directors )

Jörg Lukowsky ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board )

Number of employees more than 600 (2020)
sales 150 million euros (2018)
Branch Renewable energy
Website abo-wind.com

The ABO Wind AG is a project development company for investments in energy supply from renewable energy sources (wind, solar and biomass), based in Hesse state capital Wiesbaden .

history

The company started in 1996, when Jochen Ahn and Matthias Bockholt founded the "planning company for the use of wind power and other regenerative energies". In 2000 they converted the GmbH into a stock corporation and renamed it ABO Wind. The first part of the company name is an acronym from the surnames of the founders Ahn and Bockholt. In 1998, the first went from ABO Wind projected Bürgerwindpark in Framersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate to the grid. The company's international involvement began five years after it was founded. The oldest subsidiary abroad is ABO Wind España SAU, founded in Valencia in 2001.

In 2010, ABO Wind founded ABO Invest AG in order to operate an international portfolio of wind farms together with citizens. Around 5,000 citizens and foundations have participated so far.

At the Annual General Meeting in June 2017, the shareholders elected the former Rhineland-Palatinate Economics and Energy Minister Eveline Lemke to the Supervisory Board. The other members of the Supervisory Board are: Attorney Jörg Lukowsky (Chairman), Uwe Leprich , Norbert Breidenbach and Maike Schmidt.

Business activity

ABO Wind covers all stages of the development of renewable energy projects internationally - planning, financing, construction supervision and organization. The company is currently active in 16 countries on four continents. According to its own information, ABO Wind is working on the development of new projects with a total output of "a good ten gigawatts". That exceeds the output of the four largest nuclear power plants still on the grid in Germany in 2019 . Two thirds of the projects under development used wind power and one third solar power. ABO Wind also works on biogas plants exclusively in Germany and deals in particular with waste fermentation.

At the beginning of 2019, ABO Wind announced that it had secured feed-in tariffs for a 30 megawatt wind power project in Tunisia in a tender .

By January 2020, the company had connected around 700 wind energy , solar and biogas plants with a nominal output of over 1,500 megawatts in Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Great Britain, Bulgaria, the Republic of Ireland and Iran. Usually when they are commissioned, ABO Wind sells the systems to, for example, energy suppliers , cooperatives or institutional investors. ABO Invest AG has acquired more than a dozen wind farms, which produce electricity in Germany, Finland, France and the Republic of Ireland. ABO Wind developed further renewable energy projects with a nominal output of more than 1,300 megawatts until they were ready for construction and then sold them - especially in Argentina, Spain and Finland.

As a service, the company offers commercial and technical management for wind and solar parks as well as biogas plants. ABO Wind also offers maintenance and other services. Customers are buyers of the systems planned by ABO Wind as well as other operators such as Rheinenergie. To improve the security of wind turbines and control access, the company has developed the electronic locking system ABO Lock. In April 2019, ABO Wind Betriebs GmbH has wind farms with a total volume of 1.7 gigawatts under contract.

In the first 20 years of the company's history, wind power was at the center of business activity. Since 2016, ABO Wind has been increasingly involved in solar energy. In a solar tender in Greece in summer 2018, ABO Wind secured feed-in tariffs for five solar projects with a total of 45 megawatts of output.

ABO Wind also offers heat contracting and additional services. A department of the company is working on concepts for energy storage and demonstration projects. The focus is on the use of hydrogen.

share

The share is listed in electronic Xetra trading and on the open market on various German stock exchanges, including the M: access segment of the Munich Stock Exchange. Around 28 percent of the shares belong to the families of the two founders and board members, Jochen Ahn and Matthias Bockholt. The Frankfurt-based energy service provider Mainova holds ten percent of the shares , the remaining 34 percent are in free float.

proportion of Shareholders
28% Matthias Bockholt family
28% Jochen Ahn family
10% Mainova
34% Free float

Status: July 2020

The analysts Guido Hoymann ( Bankhaus Metzler ) and Dr. Karsten von Blumenthal (First Berlin) regularly rate the ABO Wind share. The analyzes are published on the company's website.

Corporate actions

A convertible bond issue implemented from 2018 to 2019 strengthened equity by 6.4 million euros. The company's aim was to finance the accelerated expansion of business activities to include photovoltaics and further internationalization.

Projects

In 2018, ABO Wind built a wind farm with five Senvion 3.2M122 wind turbines on the former mining areas around the Jänschwalde open-cast mine in Briesnig and used special techniques for the foundation construction to ensure stability. For example, ABO Wind introduced natural gravel as a filler material into the ground at a depth of 40 to 60 meters with the help of vibration and water flushing.

In connection with the wind farm planning, ABO Wind designs and promotes the tourist offer to upgrade the area. In 2015, the company set up a so-called energy experience tour in Weilrod im Taunus , which provides information on the history of energy use at the location. The regional association FrankfurtRheinMain recognized the adventure tour as an exemplary energy transition project. A film by the regional association presents the project. According to Mayor Marcus Kirchhoff, the Geierlay suspension bridge , which brings several hundred thousand visitors to Mörsdorf in Rhineland-Palatinate every year, could only be built because the continuous income of the community from the wind farm built by ABO Wind covers the running costs of the suspension bridge. In addition, the company designed and financed an exhibition in the local museum with the community.

structure

ABO Wind has international branches in France, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Argentina, Canada, Colombia, South Africa, Tunisia and Iran. In Germany, ABO Wind is active at the company's headquarters in Wiesbaden and in Heidesheim near Mainz and in regional offices in Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland.

ABO Wind is a group with numerous holdings. The subsidiaries include in particular international planning companies - these include:

  • ABO Wind SARL, Toulouse
  • ABO Wind Espana SA, Valencia
  • ABO Wind OY, Helsinki
  • ABO Wind Iranian LLP, Tehran
  • ABO Wind Ireland Ltd., Dublin
  • ABO Wind NI Ltd., Belfast
  • ABO Wind Energias Renovables SA, Buenos Aires
  • ABO Wind UK Ltd., Livingston

Other subsidiaries cover individual business areas (e.g. biomass use, wind farm management, etc.) - these include:

  • ABO Wind Biomasse GmbH, Wiesbaden
  • ABO Wind Betriebs GmbH, Wiesbaden
  • ABO Wind Service GmbH, Heidesheim
  • ABO Wind Expert GmbH, Heidesheim

Former subsidiaries such as ABO Invest AG or ABO Kraft & Wärme AG are now economically independent companies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ABO Wind AG strengthens the board. In: zfk.de. August 10, 2018, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ ABO Wind - company profile , website of the company. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ Annual Report 2018 , website of the company. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ Timeline on page 4 of the company brochure , company website. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ Timeline on page 5 of the company brochure , company website. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  6. ^ ABO Wind international: Spain , website of the company. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  7. ↑ Company history of ABO Invest AG , website of ABO Invest AG. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  8. ^ Report of the Rhein-Zeitung of June 21, 2017 , accessed on July 24, 2017.
  9. ↑ Supervisory Board of ABO Wind AG , website of the company. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  10. ↑ Presentation of the individual steps of the wind farm development 2016 , website of the company. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  11. ↑ Company profile, company website. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  12. ↑ Press release of January 15, 2019 , company website. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  13. ↑ Website of ABO Invest AG . Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  14. ^ Reference list from ABO Wind , website of the company. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  15. ↑ Maintenance contract: RheinEnergie commissions ABO Wind , report of the newspaper for communal economy from September 10, 2018. Accessed on September 14, 2018.
  16. ↑ No more unauthorized access , web magazine Energy 4.0 report from September 10, 2018. Accessed on September 13, 2018.
  17. ↑ Overview of operations management , company website. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  18. ↑ Press release: New business field solar energy , website of the company. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  19. ↑ Greece: Lowest surcharge for photovoltaic project at 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour , report from PV Magazine from July 5, 2018. Accessed on September 14, 2018.
  20. ↑ The energy subscription from ABO Wind | Warmth | Services. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  21. ↑ ABO Wind - storage concepts , website of the company. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  22. ↑ Information on the shares of ABO Wind AG , website of the company. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  23. ↑ Information on the shares of ABO Wind AG , website of the company. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  24. ↑ ABO Wind shareholder structure. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  25. ↑ [ https://www.abo-wind.com/de/aktie/analystenlösungen.html analyst reviews on the shares of ABO Wind AG ], website of the company. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  26. ↑ Press release of November 4, 2019 , company website. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  27. ↑ Information on the convertible bond , company website. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  28. ↑ Wind farm on opencast mining area: does it hold up? , Report of the newspaper for local economy of August 29, 2018. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  29. ↑ Information page about the Forst Briesnig wind farm , the company's website. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  30. ^ Energie-Erlebnis-Tour-Weilrod , website of the company. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  31. ↑ What the polar bear is doing in the Taunus , report of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from December 12, 2015, website of the company. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  32. ^ Film about the Weilrod Energy Experience Tour , You Tube. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  33. ↑ Commitment to the Geierlay suspension bridge and Mörsdorfer Heimatmuseum , website of the company. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  34. ↑ https://www.abo-wind.com/de/unternehmen/international/buerostandorte.html Overview of branches of ABO Wind AG , website of the company. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  35. ↑ Annual Report 2016 ABO Wind AG, list of the main investments on page 33, list of fully consolidated companies on page 23 , company website. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  36. ^ History of ABO Invest AG , website of the company. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  37. ↑ Presentation ABO Kraft & Wärme AG , website of the company. Retrieved August 23, 2017.