Juwi

Juwi AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1996
Seat	Wörrstadt , Germany
management	Michael Class, Stephan Hansen
Number of employees	930
sales	358.9 million euros
Branch	Energy technology / supply
Website	www.juwi.de
	As of December 31, 2017

The Juwi AG is a project development company for investments in energy supply from renewable energy sources based in the Rhineland-Palatinate Wörrstadt . The company is a 100% subsidiary of MVV Energie AG.

Company profile

history

The Juwi Group was founded in 1996. The name Juwi is an acronym from the first letters of the surnames of the company's founders Fred Jung and Matthias Willenbacher . Juwi covers all areas of project development (planning, project planning, financing, construction supervision and organization) and also practices operational management.

In addition to the original focus, the business field today includes the project development of wind farms , in particular solar energy .

As a result of Germany's nuclear phase-out , announced in March 2011 and decided shortly thereafter, and the envisaged energy transition , the wind energy division has gained in importance. Federal states such as Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria, which until then largely blocked the construction of wind turbines, have since viewed them much more positively.

Company locations in Germany are Wörrstadt and Brandis .

Juwi also has the following regional offices for planning wind farms: Bochum , Dürrwangen and Ostfildern and Waren (Müritz) .

International branches:

Southern Europe: Italy, Spain, Greece
America: USA
Asia: India, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, Philippines, Thailand and United Arab Emirates
Africa: South Africa
Australia

The company is promoting a power supply that is 100% generated from renewable energy sources. Juwi wants to demonstrate the feasibility with studies, scenarios and also in specific projects: By 2017, the power supply in the Verbandsgemeinde Wörrstadt is to be 100% renewable energies, by 2020 in the entire district of Alzey-Worms .

The two company founders were honored with the Clean Tech Media Award for the company's headquarters in Wörrstadt in the “Sustainability” category in September 2009 and as Entrepreneur of the Year in October 2009 . In December 2009 they were also honored as “Greentech Manager of the Year 2009” by the business magazine Capital .

In 2010 Juwi generated more sales abroad than in Germany for the first time. This should u. a. can be achieved through large open-space photovoltaic systems in the USA, projects are currently being implemented in Florida (15 megawatts), Ohio (12 megawatts) and Texas (16 megawatts). Large wind farms are also being planned in the USA. Taking wind and solar energy together, projects with a total output of over 1,000 megawatts are to be built over the next few years.

On October 16, 2014 it was announced that MVV Energie AG was taking over 63% of the company's shares as part of a capital increase, which had been hit by a significant drop in sales and dwindling equity. The two company founders Fred Jung and Matthias Willenbacher retained the remaining 37%. MVV Energie AG gradually took over the remaining shares and now owns 100% of Juwi.

Since April 1, 2015, Matthias Willenbacher is no longer a board member of the Juwi Group. As the chairman of the supervisory board of Juwi and chairman of the board of MVV Energie AG, Georg Müller, announced, the co-founder of the company left the board of management on March 31 "by mutual agreement" and has thus withdrawn from operational business - after 19 years on the top.

The co-founder of the Juwi Group, Fred Jung, withdrew from operational business for personal reasons and switched to the Supervisory Board on July 1, 2016.

The current board consists of Michael Class and Stephan Hansen.

Company headquarters

Company headquarters in Wörrstadt

The company started out in Bolanden and Mainz . In the summer of 2008 Juwi moved into the new headquarters in Wörrstadt, which lies between the two cities. In 2008, Juwi was awarded the Climate Protection Prize of Deutsche Umwelthilfe for the building with an area of 8500 m² on seven offset floors . With various photovoltaic systems on and around the building - including the self-developed “solar carport” for car park roofing - the office complex produces 220,000 kWh per year, more electricity than it consumes in total energy (around 200,000 kWh per year). The energy costs are around 2 euros per square meter per year. That is a tenth of today's standard house.

In view of the constantly growing number of employees, Juwi decided to mirror the middle part of the headquarters in Wörrstadt behind the actual building. This building opened in August 2009.

In 2012, a third building was built behind the existing houses.

Projects

solar power

The Lieberose solar park in November 2009

To date, Juwi has implemented around 1,600 solar systems with a total output of 2,200 megawatts. The Lieberose solar park in Germany has been fully connected to the grid since mid-October 2009 , with a total output of around 53 MW. An expansion of the solar park, for which 650 hectares of forest should be cleared, was rejected by the Brandenburg government. Another open space project is the Waldpolenz solar park near Leipzig , which is the fourth largest in the world with an output of 40 megawatts and an area of over 100 hectares. In Spain , Italy , France , Greece , the Czech Republic , the USA , Rwanda and South Korea there are other plants planned by Juwi. The total investment volume amounts to around 2.2 billion euros.

As of November 2016, the company's largest solar system, the Prieska solar park , was built by Juwi in South Africa at the end of 2016. It has an output of 86 MWp.

Wind energy

The approximately 900 wind turbines projected by Juwi have an installed capacity of over 2,000 MW and are located in more than 150 national and international locations, e.g. B. in Rhineland-Palatinate and France. In Costa Rica , the company has built the largest wind farm in Central America with 55 turbines and an output of 49.5 MW . The Kirchberg (Hunsrück) wind farm, operated jointly with Energieversorgung Offenbach , is the largest wind farm in southwest Germany with 21 wind turbines and 53 MW . The total investment volume in the wind energy sector amounts to 2.4 billion euros.

Bioenergy

Juwi has built a total of six biogas plants and four wood pelleting plants that are supplied with agricultural raw materials (e.g. corn). As part of the realignment in 2014 and 2015, Juwi parted with its bioenergy business.

Energy parks

Morbach energy landscape

The Morbach energy landscape in the Hunsrück, where wind, solar and bioenergy projects were implemented in close cooperation with the municipality of Morbach , is one of the projects of the Juwi Group that have received particular attention . The Juwi Group and the Morbach community received the German Solar Prize in 2007 for the energy landscape . The first wind gas test facility in Germany went into operation there in March 2011 .

Wörrstadt energy park

Juwi wind farm in Wörrstadt

At the company's headquarters in Wörrstadt, a wind park with initially five wind turbines (annual output around 30 million kilowatt hours) and a solar park (annual output around 5.6 million kilowatt hours) were built. The wind farm was supplemented by another five wind turbines in 2011, followed by twelve more wind turbines in 2012, spread over the districts of Schornsheim, Gabsheim and Wörrstadt. The total output is approx. 55.5 megawatts, which means that approx. 150 million kilowatt hours can be produced per year, corresponding to the annual consumption of approx. 43,000 households.

Movies

The company Juwi and its founder Matthias Willenbacher are based in Carl-A. Fechner's film " The 4th Revolution - Energy Autonomy " presented. With its protagonists - prominent environmental activists, Nobel Prize winners, innovative entrepreneurs and politicians - the film wants to prove that the switch to 100% renewable energies is possible within the next 30 years. The company was one of the main financiers of the film.

Foundation, endowment

The two company founders Matthias Willenbacher and Fred Jung set up the 100 percent renewable foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to promote environmental protection through the expansion of renewable energies. The foundation has specialized in the areas of regional energy concepts, citizen energy and acceptance of the energy transition.