壳牌收购德国太阳能电池制造商Sonnen宜城

中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社法兰克福报道，荷兰皇家壳牌已同意收购德国住宅太阳能电池制造商Sonnen，壳牌正在扩大其电力业务，以求在全球向低碳能源过渡的过程中发挥更大作用。

Sonnen在全球拥有4万套电池系统，2017年的销售额为6500万欧元（合7300万美元），是德国家庭电池市场的领头羊，并已将业务扩展到电动汽车充电系统。

Sonnen发言人表示，该交易涉及壳牌新能源，预计将在2019年第一季度获得监管部门的批准并完成，但没有透露交易的价值。

他说，Sonnen将继续在巴伐利亚的Wildpoldsried开展业务，其最高管理层将继续留任。

德国有150万个太阳能系统，其补贴销售关税将在未来几年逐步取消，通过购买电池，住户可以储存家庭生产的电力，这些电力可以自己使用或出售给电网。

全球第二大上市的油气生产商壳牌加快了对可再生能源和电力市场的投资，押注于电动汽车的使用和向清洁能源的转变将导致电力需求迅速上升。

壳牌已收购汽车充电技术，太阳能生产商和零售能源供应商英国First Utility公司。去年，壳牌向Sonnen注入了现金，帮助其实现增长。

Sonnen现有的投资者，包括通用电气风险投资公司（GE Ventures）和欧洲私人股本投资者，将被收购。

詹晓晶摘自路透社

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Shell buys German solar battery maker sonnen

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to buy German residential solar battery maker sonnen, as the oil and gas major expands its electricity business in its bid for a bigger role in the防飞溅剂 global transition to low-carbon energy.

Sonnen, which皮革足球 has 40,000 battery systems worldwide and in 2017 had sales of 65 million euros ($73 million), is the German market leader in home storage batteries and has expanded into electric vehicle charging systems.

Regulatory approval and completion of the transaction, involving Shell New Energies, was expected in the first quarter of 2019, a sonnen spokesman said, without giving a value.

Sonnen would continue to operate from the Bavarian town of Wildpoldsried and its top management would stay on, he said.

Germany has 1.5 million solar systems whose subsidized sales tariffs are due to be phased out in coming years. By acquiring batteries, householders can store h阜康ome-produced power and use it for themselves or sell it to the grid.

Shell, the world’s second largest listed oil and gas producer, has accelerated investment in renewable energy and power markets, betting on a rapid rise in electricity demand due to electric vehicle use and a switch to cleaner energy sources.

It has acquired vehicle charging technologies, solar power producers and retail energy supplier First U木粉机tility. Shell injected cash into sonnen last year to help it grow.

Sonnen’s existing investors, including GE Ventures and European private equity investors, will be bought out.?