Vattenfall and CEE Group continue direct marketing partnership

Vat­ten­fall and the CEE Group are con­tin­u­ing their suc­cess­ful part­ner­ship in direct mar­ket­ing, which began in 2015. Vattenfall’s direct mar­ket­ing team will con­tin­ue to man­age and mar­ket the renew­able ener­gies port­fo­lio of the Ham­burg-based CEE Group in the com­ing four years. The 528 megawatt (MW) port­fo­lio com­pris­es solar (about 291 MW) and wind (237 MW) pow­er. All instal­la­tions are remote-con­trol­lable.

The CEE Group invests in alter­na­tive assets with a focus on renew­ables. The CEE Group devel­ops, builds, acquires and oper­ates pow­er plants to pro­duce pow­er and heat from renew­able ener­gy sources. With its solar and wind port­fo­lio, the CEE Group is one of the major inde­pen­dent green pow­er pro­duc­ers in Europe.

“We great­ly look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing our part­ner­ship with the CEE Group,” says Chris­tine Lauber, Head of Asset Opti­mi­sa­tion Sales and Renew­ables at Vat­ten­fall. “The process­es required for suc­cess­ful direct mar­ket­ing are now part of Vattenfall’s core busi­ness. Our inter­nal fore­cast­ing teams for wind and solar draw up fore­casts spe­cial­ly tai­lored to cus­tomers’ instal­la­tions for opti­mised mar­ket­ing on the trad­ing mar­kets. As an expe­ri­enced and finan­cial­ly sta­ble direct mar­keter, we are also able to ensure the nec­es­sary secu­ri­ty,” says Lauber.

Detlef Schreiber, the CEE Group’s CEO, adds: “In Vat­ten­fall, we have found a part­ner that shares our high qual­i­ty and per­for­mance stan­dards. We look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing our close col­lab­o­ra­tion in the future.”

The port­fo­lio of green pow­er plants mar­ket­ed by Vat­ten­fall cur­rent­ly amounts to 4,100 MW. A shift team ensures that the instal­la­tions are man­aged 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The com­pa­ny ben­e­fits from its exper­tise as one of the biggest oper­a­tors of onshore and off­shore wind farms. In its mar­kets, Vat­ten­fall cur­rent­ly has more than 1,100 wind tur­bines in oper­a­tion with an installed capac­i­ty of 2.2 gigawatts (GW).