Ampere (company)

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Ampere AG
legal form Corporation
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Arndt Rottenbacher
Number of employees 81 (Germany)
Branch Energy , electricity , gas , services , energy supply
Website www.ampere.de

The Ampere AG is an independent service provider ( energy broker ) for energy procurement. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Berlin . Ampere AG employs around 80 people and operates nationwide. Its customers include medium-sized trade, craft and the manufacturing industry. According to the company, in 2018 the company served over 41,000 customers who purchase electricity and natural gas. This corresponds to an energy volume of around 4 billion kilowatt hours per year.

history

At the same time as the liberalization of the electricity market in 1998, Ampere AG was founded by the brothers Dr. Arndt Rottenbacher and Claus Rottenbacher as well as Thomas Heilmann founded as the first German energy broker. They named their company after the French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère .

In 2001, Ampere AG founded the Austrian subsidiary bestconnect Ampere Strompool GmbH in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. This became self-sufficient in February 2004 under the name bestconnect Unternehmergemeinschaft GmbH. At the same time, Ampere AG and the Baden-Württemberg Crafts Day founded Germany's first commercial gas pool - after the first commercial electricity pool had been operating successfully since 1999. Together, the two pools still make up the energy purchasing community for the trade. Polly Schmincke: Attack of the electricity rebels . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1999, p. 90 ( online ).

Together with Trianel , Ampere AG submitted urgent applications to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG) in 2002 to stop the merger between the energy supplier E.ON and the Essen gas group Ruhrgas . The reason was a feared massive hindrance to business activity. The OLG expressed doubts about the legality of the special permit issued by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which approved the merger despite a ban by the Federal Cartel Office. The takeover then dragged on until March 2003.

In June 2010, Ampere filed a model suit against RWE Vertrieb AG at the Dortmund District Court . The background was an excessive billing of the renewable energy surcharge . The group had added a correction amount of 0.1 ct / kWh for 2008 to the nationwide uniform rate of 2.047 ct / kWh. According to Ampere, this is illegal as the Renewable Energy Sources Act provides for a deadline for recalculation. This expired on November 30, 2009. RWE had thus exceeded the statutory deadline for subsequent billing. A final judgment is still pending.

service

Commercial customers

Ampere AG organizes energy purchasing for commercial electricity and gas customers by bundling energy demand. For this purpose, consumption data, power values, voltage levels and network areas are analyzed. In addition to brokering energy contracts, Ampere AG checks the electricity and gas bills of its customers, handles switch management and prepares consumption analyzes. The energy broker also oversees the Europe-wide tender management for public properties and offers special services for multisite customers.

Energy buying groups

In addition to looking after individual customers, Ampere AG cooperates with associations and interest groups for tradespeople. Including the energy purchasing association of the trade with more than 8,000 members and the DEHOGA electricity and gas pool of the hospitality industry in Hanover. Ampere negotiates framework agreements with the utilities for the member companies. In 2018, the company looked after over 80 energy purchasing groups across Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Energie-Broker helps reduce electricity prices , tagesspiegel.de, accessed on April 16, 2011
  2. ↑ Stadtwerke Hannover / Ampere-Eklat: Ampere may not withdraw lawsuit against E.ON / Ruhrgas-Fusion , strom-magazin.de, accessed on April 16, 2011
  3. ↑ EU still does not feel responsible: Eon goes through all instances for Ruhrgas , handelsblatt.com, accessed on April 16, 2011
  4. ↑ Steffen Florschütz, Bochum University: The takeover of Ruhrgas AG by the E.ON Group , June 19, 2006
  5. ↑ Expensive green electricity: model lawsuit against RWE - industrial customers covet , handelsblatt.com, accessed on April 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ See Oliver Wagner, Kora Kristof (2001): Energy-related, eco-efficient services and communal cooperation . In: Wuppertal Papers No. 115, ed. from the NRW Science Center. ISSN  0949-5266
  7. ↑ Cf. Detlef Effert: Competition of sales systems: strategies and solutions for the private customer business of banks . 1st edition. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-409-12538-8 , pp. 169 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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