Underlying conditions in the energy markets continue to be subject to far-reaching changes. The largest publicly listed group of municipal utility companies in Germany, the MVV Energie Group, consists of a network of successful energy distributors and service providers. Our group of companies is very well placed to face the challenges of the energy market. Our well-balanced mixture of business fields in regulated and non-regulated markets, coupled with our determination to manage change proactively, enable us to master market and regulatory risks and to achieve long-term growth.
The MVV Energie Group is drawing on three entrepreneurial approaches to meet the various challenges it faces: excellence and efficiency in its administrative and business processes, a risk-optimised product portfolio in its core business and a major commitment to high-growth areas closely related to our core business. This combination provides us with stability in spite of the changes in underlying conditions and enables us to exploit growth opportunities in emerging market sectors.
Excellence and efficiency act as our guiding principles for optimising processes at our locations and within our network of companies. By means of consistent target management and performance monitoring we provide powerful incentives for improving processes and cooperation. Cooperation projects within our network of municipal utility companies, such as the standardisation of technology or joint regulation management, enable us to integrate our partners and to implement best-practice solutions across the Group.
We focus on:
Our stable core business:
- The MVV Energie Group is successful in the distribution of electricity, district heating, gas and water, as well as in the incineration of non-recyclable waste and the exploitation of biomass for energy generation.
- The MVV Energie Group is a network of municipal utility companies. By providing management and support, we raise the earnings power of our shareholdings in stable markets in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Our cooperation projects enable us to generate numerous synergies.
- We are well-positioned to face the challenges presented by the regulatory authority, CO2 trading and the high level of competition and consistently exploit the opportunities involved.
Our growth potential:
- The MVV Energie Group extends its network of municipal utility companies by acquiring shareholdings and establishing cooperations and taps new regional markets.
- Our energy-related services and our environmental energy segment harbour a high level of growth potential, which we will consistently exploit.
- In the sale of electricity across the whole of Germany, we acquire new customers on the basis of intelligent products and a marketable procurement structure.
Our core business segments of electricity, district heating, gas and water form a solid foundation for our earnings. Although we are confronted by unpredictable factors, such as the sharp rise in commodity and CO2 prices and the establishment of the Federal Network Agency, the measures we have initiated mean that we are largely able to master such challenges. While our electricity and gas segments are affected by such factors, we also operate in segments marked by a high degree of stability, such as district heating and water.
Building on our healthy core business, we draw on our expertise in order to succeed in high-growth business fields as well. The environmental energy segment, which is very well established in the market, plays a particularly notable role in this respect. Our focus on the incineration of non-recyclable waste and the generation of electricity from biomass, coupled with the favourable legislative framework resulting from the Technical Guidelines for the Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste coming into force in June 2005, have placed us in a very good competitive position. We are committed to achieving consistent growth in our energy-related services and in the sale of electricity throughout Germany. The German market for value-added services has shown particularly dynamic developments. We aim to assume a leading role in this sector.
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