SunEnergy Europe

SunEnergy Europe GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	2001
Seat	Seevetal , Germany
management	Hartwig Westphalen (company founder)
Number of employees	> 60 (as of November 2011)
sales	112 million euros (2010)
Branch	Photovoltaics , solar technology , solar power technology
Website	www.sunenergy.eu

SunEnergy Europe is a company active in the field of photovoltaics (electricity from the sun) with the two main business areas of specialist wholesaling and the planning and construction of large-scale photovoltaic systems. SunEnergy Europe is active in Germany, Europe and worldwide. The company's headquarters are in the Seevetal municipality in Lower Saxony. SunEnergy Europe employs around 60 people, most of them in Germany.

history

In 2001 Hartwig Westphalen founded SunEnergy GmbH. The GmbH emerged from a consulting company that started in 1997. Initially, SunEnergy mainly served the northern German photovoltaic market from its Hamburg location. Together with a growing partner network, sales were finally expanded to all of Germany. In parallel with the expansion of the trading business for photovoltaic components and system solutions, the project business was also intensified. The first solar power plants such as the system at the Neu-Wulmstorf landfill near Hamburg laid the foundation for the advance into the megawatt range. After a large number of follow-up projects, SunEnergy has references for photovoltaic systems of all sizes. Expansion on a European level began in October 2006 in collaboration with partners in the Spanish market. With the renaming to SunEnergy Europe in 2007, the increasingly international orientation was also taken into account in the name of the company. At this point in time, further solar power plants had already been built in Italy, Bulgaria and Greece together with partner companies. Today SunEnergy Europe GmbH sells photovoltaic products in Europe and worldwide. In 2011 SunEnergy Europe is the main sponsor of the German Solar League .

At the beginning of 2017, SunEnergy Europe was taken over by SPR Energie GmbH, a full-service provider in the areas of planning, installation, and technical and commercial management of photovoltaic systems and charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Today SunEnergy Europe is based in Seevetal in Lower Saxony.

Fields of activity

SunEnergy Europe operates a photovoltaic wholesaler for large commercial customers such as solar technicians, electrical installers, roofers and plumbing and heating engineers. The range includes solar modules , inverters , mounting systems for roof and ground-mounted systems, connector systems, solar cables, monitoring services and storage systems. Furthermore, SunEnergy Europe sells system solutions such as photovoltaic kit packages and the “energy hall”. For many years, SunEnergy Europe has been planning, projecting, building and operating large-scale photovoltaic roof-top systems and solar parks in open spaces.

Major projects

In 2005, SunEnergy Europe, as general contractor, built a solar power plant with an output of 500 kWp on the former Neu Wulmstorf landfill for Hamburg city cleaning service. Mathematically, the electricity yields of the system are sufficient for the annual power supply of approx. 280 people. In the course of the European expansion, SunEnergy Europe built an open space solar power plant with 3.2 MWp output on the Balearic island of Menorca in 2008 as the general contractor . In 2010, together with partners, the Meldorf citizen solar power plant with 7.6 MWp was built, as well as a solar park in the Achtrup with 8.3 MWp. To finance the Meldorf solar power plant, the Solar Energy North Fund was set up together with Q1 Capital and Neitzel & Cie, in which many citizens of the Meldorf region have participated. Meldorf's yield data can also be viewed on the website. Further projects in the megawatt range were implemented in 2010 in Löbnitz (Western Pomerania) and Lucignano (Italy). In addition, a system with a peak output of 150 kWp was built on the premises of the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg on the basis of an energy contracting model. Via the possibility of self-consumption provided for in the Renewable Energy Sources Act , most of the electricity will be consumed by the Hagenbeck Zoo itself and will thus be available for cooling the Arctic Ocean under construction in the future.