Naturstrom AG

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Naturstrom AG

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legal form Corporation
founding April 16, 1998 in Düsseldorf
Seat Düsseldorf and Eggolsheim
management Thomas E. Banning,
Oliver Hummel,
Tim Meyer
Hermann Falk (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Number of employees around 438 (group)
sales 297.9 million euros (Group)
Branch Energy supplier
Website www.naturstrom.de
As of December 31, 2018

The nature Strom AG was founded in 1998 as a provider of renewable energy established for the private and commercial consumption and entered 1999 in the market. According to its own information, the company supplied around 260,000 customers in Germany in 2016, around 20,000 of them with biogas products.

history

Naturstrom AG was founded on April 16, 1998 in Düsseldorf. In 2003, the 100th generation plant was implemented with the support of the company and in 2009 the number of customers exceeded 50,000. In 2004 the company was restructured; the electricity trading business was outsourced to NaturStromHandel GmbH . In January 2013, NaturStrom XL GmbH started supplying bundled and commercial customers of the Naturstrom Group and the newly founded NaturStromTrading GmbH began marketing green electricity according to the market premium model . The affiliated companies appear on the market as a natural power group.

organization

Ralf Bischof was the sole director of Naturstrom AG until 2002, after which Thomas E. Banning took over this position. In February 2011, Oliver Hummel was also appointed by the Supervisory Board to the Management Board and Thomas E. Banning as Management Board spokesman. Tim Meyer has also been a board member of Naturstrom AG since June 2017. The chairman of the supervisory board is currently Hermann Falk, other members are: Manfred Rauschen, Michael Podsada, Christine Banning, Michael Ritzau and Christine Scheel . 438 people are employed at Naturstrom AG and its holdings (as of 2018).

The company is based in Düsseldorf and has an office in Eggolsheim , where project development and operations management take place.

There are several project companies that operate regenerative generation plants and in which Naturstrom AG is involved. The Natural Power Equipment Co., Ltd. designs and builds plants for the production of renewable energy and is responsible for operational management and service. There are also other minority holdings.

In the field of electromobility , Naturstrom AG currently supplies around six hundred charging stations in Germany, through which the charging station operator offers green electricity for electric vehicles . This makes Naturstrom AG one of the most prominent charging power providers in Germany, which tries to enforce the sustainability aspect in electromobility. Customers get access to charging at the charging stations with a charging card.

The customer magazine “ energiezukunft” appears twice a year and since August 2012 it has also had an online offshoot of the same name. The focus is on topics related to the development of the energy sector, climate change and, in particular, renewable energies.

Shares and holdings

The share capital of Naturstrom AG amounts to 30.5 million euros and is divided into 2,440,000 registered shares .

Naturstrom AG shares are not listed on a stock exchange.

Business areas

Power generation

NaturStromHandel GmbH invests 1 to 2 cents / kWh net in the construction of new power generation plants, depending on the electricity tariff. For gas consumption and Naturstrom XL customers, the amount is 0.25 cents / kWh net. This enabled 311 new power generation systems by March 2019. This is done through subsidies, subordinated loans or the provision of equity. The company also relies on public participation models to implement new systems.

The generation plants newly built since 1999 are divided as follows:

Electricity trading

The Natural Power GmbH (100% subsidiary) provides customers in accordance with current labeling according to § 42 of the German Energy Act (EnWG) with current of 100% renewable energy sources is derived. Naturstrom AG does not use RECS certificates. No gray electricity is purchased on the Leipzig EEX exchange for peak loads either . The control current assigned by the network operator is not necessarily 100% renewable electricity.

Since 1999 (and thus as the first provider ever), Naturstrom has been certified annually with the Green Electricity Label (GSL). The label is carried by Germany's largest environmental associations, u. a. the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) and the Nature Conservation Union Germany (NABU). These monitor the quality of the electricity and promote the expansion of renewable energies.

Since 2008, the company has been the first German electricity trader to obtain more than 50% of its green electricity from small and medium-sized generation plants in Germany, which previously only used the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). In 2014, this only related to wind turbines with at least 500,000 kWh / year. The producers receive a slightly higher remuneration from Naturstrom than they received from the EEG up to now. For renewable energies, this direct marketing is a step towards market integration, which is politically wanted. In return, pays Naturstrom law therefore two cents / kWh EEG levy less ( green electricity privilege ). However, 23% of the electricity price is accounted for by fees that have to be paid to the network operator. The green electricity privilege was valid until July 31, 2014, since the amendment of the EEG , the electricity producers have to feed the electricity directly into the grid and are subsidized with the state EEG surcharge.

In accordance with Section 42 of the Energy Industry Act, the following information on the electricity mix has been published:

Energy source NaturStromHandel GmbH
2014
NaturStromHandel GmbH
2015
NaturStromHandel GmbH
2016
NaturStromHandel GmbH
2017
NaturStromHandel GmbH
2018
Renewable energy 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
    Hydropower 55.1% 54% 54% 54% 47%
    Wind energy 13.3% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    Solar power 0.9% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    Biomass 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    EEG electricity 30.7% 46% 46% 45% 53%
Nuclear energy 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Fossil fuels
+ other
0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Radioactive waste
( µg / kWh )
0 0 0 0 0
CO 2 emissions
(g / kWh)
0 0 0 0 0

Other electricity business

Naturstrom offers event power for events, certified by the Grüner Strom Label e. V.

Gas business

Since December 2009 Naturstrom AG has also been offering a biogas product nationwide. You can choose between an admixture of 10 percent, 20 percent or pure biogas . As with electricity, a subsidy for the construction of new generation plants is included in the price. The use of genetically modified plants and manure from factory farming is excluded from natural electricity. The biogas range has been certified with the Green Gas Label (GGL) since January 2014 .

E-mobility

With the subsidiary Green Moves Rheinland GmbH & Co KG, Naturstrom has been operating the “Donk-EE” sharing system for electronic cargo bikes since 2018 . Each cargo bike is charged with 100 percent green electricity and can transport up to 100 kilograms. So far, the pedelecs are only available in Cologne.

Cooperations

In the field of electromobility , Naturstrom supports the expansion of individual transport through cooperation with the automotive groups Ford and BMW . In addition, the company maintains numerous other partnerships with environmental associations such as BUND and NABU , and environmentally-oriented companies.

Various local municipal utilities and electricity suppliers also offer their customers electricity in cooperation with Naturstrom AG (including BS Energy and Stadtwerke Kiel ).

Awards

Naturstrom AG received the German Solar Prize in 1999 , among other things "for its pilot function as a provider of a complete range of electricity from renewable energies."

In 2008, Naturstrom was named the best nationwide provider of green electricity by the German Institute for Service Quality .

In October 2009, Stiftung Warentest tested Germany's electricity providers for their consumer friendliness. Naturstrom achieved top ranks in all overall ratings and was the test winner in the consultation.

In a study commissioned by Handelsblatt in March 2010, Naturstrom was the service winner among 28 tested electricity providers. One month later, Naturstrom took first place in a comparison of 106 green electricity tariffs by the consumer magazine Öko-Test . Another ten tariffs also landed first, including Lichtblick , NaturWatt and Greenpeace Energy . In October 2016, Öko-Test tested 28 green electricity tariffs again, with natural electricity rated as "very good". In 2017 and 2018, Naturstrom received the Öko-Test rating of "very good" in comparison with other green electricity providers.

Naturstrom AG is one of the four recommended green electricity providers for the Doing nuclear exit yourself campaign by the major environmental associations in Germany, which was launched at the end of 2006.

In 2013 the company received the European Solar Prize for the “exemplary system integration of renewable energies in green electricity trading”.

In the category “Companies with up to 500 employees”, Naturstrom AG was among the top 3 in the German sustainability award in 2014. In the annual award ceremony in 2016, Naturstrom was among the “Top 5 Germany's Most Sustainable Brands”.

Individual evidence

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