Company:Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
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| Type | Sociedad Anónima |
|---|---|
| BMAD: SGRE | |
| Industry | Renewable energy |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Zamudio, Biscay, Spain |
Key people | Markus Tacke (CEO), Rosa García (Chairman) |
| Products | Wind turbines, construction and sale of wind farms, solar energy products |
| Revenue | €2.736 billion (2010)[1] |
| €119.0 million (2010)[1] | |
| €50.2 million (2010)[1] | |
| Total assets | €4.939 billion (end 2010)[1] |
| Total equity | €1.629 billion (end 2010)[1] |
| Website | www.siemensgamesa.com |
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy , formerly Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡaˈmesa koɾpoɾaˈθjon teɣnoˈloxika]) and Grupo Auxiliar Metalúrgico, is a Spanish manufacturing company principally involved in the fabrication of wind turbines and the construction of wind farms.
It was formerly headquartered in Vitoria-Gasteiz, 40 km south of Bilbao, in northern Spain . 2010 it moved to Zamudio, Biscay, a suburb of Bilbao. Gamesa develops, manages and sells wind farms, for which it also supplies wind turbines. It is the market leader in Spain and the fourth largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world (2011).[2]
In 2016 Siemens Wind Power and Gamesa reached agreement on a 59:41 merger of their wind turbine businesses.
History
Gamesa began operations in 1976 focused at that time on developing new technologies and applying them to emerging activities. These included robotics, microelectronics, aeronautics and the development of composite materials. In 1994, Gamesa Eólica was created as a subsidiary specializing in the manufacture of wind turbines. The company became involved in the development, construction and operations of wind farms in 1995 and completed its first wind farm the following year. Gamesa had a 7-year partnership with Vestas that ended in 2002.[3]
The Corporation was officially listed on the stock exchange on 31 October 2000 and joined the selective IBEX 35 on 24 April 2001.
Since 2006, the company has focused on technologies associated with sustainable energy, principally wind power. It has divested of its interests in aeronautics, which were sold off to form a new company known as Aernnova,[4] and in services, which were sold off to form a new company known as Global Energy Services.
As part of the United Kingdom 's move to expand its production of offshore wind energy production, Gamesa has committed to the expenditure of £133.7 million on a production factory and other facilities in the UK, and will also move its offshore wind division headquarters to London.[5][6]
In January 2014, Gamesa and French nuclear manufacturer Areva announced a preliminary deal to create a joint venture (Adwen) in the offshore wind power business.[7]
On 17 July 2016 Siemens AG and Gamesa announced they were to merge their wind businesses, with the two operations forming 59% (Siemens Wind) and 41% (Gamesa) of the resulting company's shareholding, with Siemens offering €3.75 per Gamesa share. The resultant company was to be headquartered in Spain, with an offshore operations headquartered in Hamburg, Germany and Vejle, Denmark. Siemens was reported to have paid €1 billion cash for Gamesa shares. Cost savings between duplicated functions in the two businesses was expected by Gamesa to save c. €230 million in the first year of operation. The combined business would be the largest wind turbine manufacturer worldwide by installed capacity (c. 69GW), exceeding Vestas and GE.[8][9][10]
Recognition
Siemens Gamesa is listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index,[11] the FTSE4Good Index[12] which is concerned with corporate social responsibility on the KLD Global Climate 100 Index, and on the Global 100 Index of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world.[13]
Current projects
In the US, Gamesa is involved in the construction of the Allegheny Ridge Wind Farm and the Mt Stuart Wind Farm.
See also
- Wind power
- Wind power in Spain
- Wind power in the United States
- Wind power in the European Union
- Wind power in China
- Wind power in the United Kingdom
- List of wind turbine manufacturers
- REpower
- Vestas
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Annual Report 2010". Gamesa. http://www.gamesacorp.com/recursos/doc/accionistas-inversores/informacion-financiera/cuentas-anuales/english/consolidated-annual-accounts-2010.pdf. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- ↑ IHS Emerging Energy Research. Gamesa back in wind top-five as GE drops out - analysts Global Wind Turbine Supply Market Share Evolution, 6 March 2012. Retrieved: 8 March 2012.
- ↑ "Two wind giants go head to head -- Vestas and Gamesa split". Windpower Monthly. 2002. Archived from the original on 14 February 2016. https://archive.is/20160214230618/http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/950913/two-wind-giants-go-head-head---vestas-gamesa-split. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
- ↑ Aernnova homepage
- ↑ Lawson, James. Can the UK Attract Offshore Wind Turbine Makers?, RenewableEnergyWorld.com website, May 27, 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
- ↑ Gamesa. Gamesa In The Offshore Market , Gamesa.com website 6 June 2011.
- ↑ "Wind turbine firms Gamesa and Areva in joint venture". BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-25818347. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
- ↑ Hirtenstein, Anna (17 June 2016), "Siemens, Gamesa Merge Units to Form World’s Biggest Wind-Turbine Maker", www.bloomberg.com, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-17/gamesa-gets-siemens-merger-approval-to-expand-wind-turbine-units
- ↑ Rodriguez, Jose Elias (17 June 2016), "Siemens, Gamesa to form world's largest wind farm business", www.reuters.com, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gamesa-m-a-siemens-idUSKCN0Z22JC
- ↑ Siemens and Gamesa to merge wind businesses to create a leading wind power player, Siemens, 17 July 2016, https://www.siemens.com/press/PR2016060295COEN
- ↑ "Sustainability Indices - Sustainability Indices". http://www.sustainability-indexes.com/.
- ↑ "Sorry, the page you are looking for is no longer available or does not exist.". http://www.ftse.com/products/indices/FTSE4Good.
- ↑ "Global 100". Corporate Knights. http://www.global100.org/.
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