Discover Germany | Special Theme | Hannover Messe 2016
Above: natGAS claim: ‘energy&solutions’ – Photo: natGAS AG. Top right: natGAS trading screens – Photo: natGAS AG. Middle: Jörg Bauth, CEO and chairman of the natGAS Executive Committee – Photo: Karoline Wolf. Bottom: Power plant: natGAS helps optimising and advertising a plant’s flexibility – Photo: Shutterstock.
The flexibility of independence Potsdam-based international energy provider and business consulting cooperation natGAS provides streamlined solutions for energy suppliers at warp speed. TEXT: CORNELIA BRELOWSKI
It all goes back to the beginning of the new millennium. In 2000, a group of independent mineral oil traders reacted on the palpable changes on the energy market resulting in a growing demand for natural gas, which led to the formation of the enterprise natGAS. Quickly attracting industrial clients in the beginning, today natGAS also delivers to distributors within the public sector such as municipal utilities. Private clients like farmers who want to dip into the new energy markets will also find resourceful information and guidance with natGAS. The main assets of the natGAS enterprise are flexibility stemming from independence as well as a personal approach to the customer, allowing quick and individually 72 | Issue 37 | April 2016
tailored solutions. As a counselling body, natGAS engages in two paths. Firstly, cross commodity management (CCM) optimises trading, maintenance and effectivity of an enterprise or facility using cogeneration plants. Secondly, demand side management (DSM) balances volatile electricity feed-in with actual existing demand, thereby providing security of supply and network stability. Due to the energy turnaround, which is underway on a global scale at this very moment, enterprises like natGAS are in high demand. Nowadays, natGAS provides delivery and advice to more than a hundred businesses, industrial companies and clients from the public sector. They help both distributors and service provid-
ers with any topic related to gas and electricity, from ensuring supply to optimising portfolios. With a revenue of more than three billion euros yearly, the cooperation is ever growing. At the Hannover Fair 2016, natGAS will follow up on their successful run at the E-world energy & water 2016 in Essen and proudly present their model of the so-called virtual power plant. The model effectively demonstrates optimised energy management for their clients. The virtual power plant is a cluster of distributed generation installations, collectively run by one central control entity, designed to replace large power plants in the future. For natGAS, their clients’ success is their ultimate goal. Vicinity to the customer and the detailed knowledge of their challenges in combination with their intensive analysis of the global energy market allow natGAS to act swiftly and focus on helping put any energy-related enterprise successfully on track. www.natgas.de