IBC Solar

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  • Udo Möhrstedt ( company founder )
  • Norbert Hahn
  • Jörg Eggersdorfer

IBC Solar ( International Battery and Solar Power Consulting, proper spelling: IBC SOLAR ) is a company active in the field of photovoltaics companies. These include photovoltaic power plants, solar power plants and systems for off-grid power supply. Headquartered in the Upper Franconian Bad Season stone. IBC Solar has eleven subsidiaries in France, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, China and Austria and has approximately 400 employees, 290 of them in Germany.

Fields of activity

IBC Solar sells complete solar systems with all necessary components for photovoltaic power generation on electrical contractors, roofing contractors and plumbing and heating engineers. In addition, IBC Solar implements photovoltaic systems for large commercial customers. The product portfolio includes solar modules, mounting systems, inverters, display and measurement technology, charge controllers, cables, plug systems, batteries, solar pumps, lamps, refrigerators, and development of assembly technology, feasibility studies, monitoring via PC and after- sales services.

History

The company was founded in 1982 by Udo Möhrstedt, who runs the company as owner. The physicist, who had previously worked for many years at the battery manufacturer Varta, dropped the International Battery and Solar Power Consulting (IBC ) focus on Advice on energy supply by means of batteries and their charge with the help of solar energy as well as on the distribution of photovoltaic complete solutions. The continuous growth in turnover and employee numbers brought IBC Solar three times under Bavaria's Best 50 With this award, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the 50 fastest growing companies typically every year. For his contributions to the promotion of solar power and its commitment to increase its acceptance, he was elected by Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 in the category "trade".

IBC Solar has already created more than 100,000 complete photovoltaic systems worldwide. In calendar year 2010, IBC Solar generated a consolidated turnover of 971 million euros.

Major projects

In Spain, IBC Solar has taken as a partner of Enercoop a photovoltaic power plant with a nominal capacity of 13.2 MW in operation, which provides near Alicante since 2008 stream. For Greenpeace Energy IBC Solar has implemented planned globally as a prime contractor, the sixth largest photovoltaic roof at the New Stuttgart Trade Fair and that is to supply 1,100 households with 3.45 GWh of electrical energy per year. In September 2009, a system on the roof of the Mercedes -Benz plant was put into operation in Berlin, which feeds annually about 430 MWh of electricity into the public power grid. To further expand this business, IBC Solar has acquired a majority stake in the project developer KPM SUN in September 2009. In the second half of 2009 established IBC Solar Neustrelitz in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern a solar park with a capacity of 8.06 MWp, in the following year another one with a rated capacity of 7 MWp in Pomerania.

Solar fund

The "Solar Fund" is bundled in the IBC Solar Invest GmbH and allows investors to participate via solar fund of photovoltaic power plants. Since the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG ) guarantees enshrined feed-in tariff for 20 years, investors can benefit from this investment opportunity with high yield security. Invest IBC Solar has already 16 such solar -funds in which investors can participate from an investment volume of EUR 5,000. Here IBC Solar Invest takes over the entire project management of the examination of the sites, preparation of the financing concept, obtaining all permits, the distribution and management, through to the construction of the plant, the marketing of the shares and the monitoring.

Cooperations

IBC Solar is engaged internationally in a variety of projects. As a partner of the German Energy Agency ( dena), the company international "lighthouse projects" such as the German School in Rome, the German school in Lisbon, as well as for the Goethe Institute in Bangalore realized to the pioneering energy recovery technology "Made in Germany " on to bring the whole world to use. The " House of Peace " in Kabul, an aid project that supports the medical care and education of Afghan boys and girls, is powered by an IBC solar system with independent power. Secure solar pumps of IBC SOLAR and simplify the supply of water to rural areas in Africa. In addition, IBC Solar support through participation in the KAÏTO Energy Ltd to build plants for the decentralized power supply in rural Africa. For the project to power the rural West Africa KAÏTO Projekt GmbH of € Solar was awarded the Solar Prize 2009.

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