EWE: setting the pace for renewable energies

The supply of energy is the EWE Group’s core business. The company delivers natural gas and electricity to customers in northwest and northeast Germany. EWE also conducts business through overseas affiliates in Poland and Turkey.

EWE covers the entire value creation chain for the supply of energy with natural gas, from production through to distribution and sales. The natural gas comes from our own production as well as several domestic and overseas sources. Long-term contracts ensure that we will continue to have access to international natural gas sources in the future. As a direct importer EWE is also an upstream supplier of the municipal utilities in the region. EWE has special expertise in the area of natural gas storage. As a pioneer of underground storage, EWE is capable of compensating for supply bottlenecks with natural gas stored underground and distributing it to customers through its own modern network infrastructure.

EWE also covers the entire value creation chain for electricity as a one-stop supplier. Renewable energy sources – particularly wind energy – play an increasingly important role in the company's own energy production. The network area includes the windy coastal areas of Lower Saxony. For this reason EWE made the decision early on to expand and develop its comprehensive expertise in wind energy technology. The Group is currently one of Germany’s technology leaders in this area and continuously implements progressive technology to expand on the advantage provided by its expertise through participations in important offshore projects like alpha ventus and Riffgat. EWE also makes use of the rural character of the region in which the Group is mainly active in order to exploit the energy potential of biomass. EWE has also recently intensified its commitment to photovoltaics: along with swb the company installs the largest photovoltaics system in any stadium in Germany as part of the expansion of the Weser stadium in Bremen.

The company procures a large amount of its energy from upstream suppliers and the energy exchange in order to secure its ability to supply energy to its customers. EWE also provides services and manages energy trading for municipal utilities.