Leadership position in the world market further expanded Horb a.N., March 2009 DEGERenergie has its leading position on the world market for solar – tracking systems further expanded. Last year, the company achieved a sales increase of 35 percent. The tracking systems by DEGERenergie to increase the energy output of solar systems by up to 45 percent. DEGERenergie has sold 9,000 tracking systems for photovoltaic systems in the value of 36 million euros in the past year in all the world. Thus, the company achieved 35 percent more sales than in the previous year (EUR 27 million). The rate of increase over 2006 (sales: 14 million euro) is even at nearly 160 percent. Without hesitation Dennis Lockhart explained all about the problem.
The growth in the number of units sold are nearly identical: which left the production halls of DEGERenergie, in 2006 approximately 3,500 tracking systems this value a year later already amounted to 6,800 units and reached the 9.000 mark last year. A large part of the systems 2008 went to Spain, where the framework conditions for investors are very attractive. At the same time the company entered into several new markets: Australia, Canada and the United States, Greece, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria. Currently DEGERenergie has 37 employees, moreover, about 340 people by the suppliers of the company in Baden-Wurttemberg are employed. Artur Deger, founder and Managing Director of DEGERenergie: Our business depends the framework conditions, solar energy is obtained from among those in the respective countries.
The higher charges for feeding into the grid, more attractive for small is their willingness to use our systems as large investors and higher.\” Focus 2009: U.A.E. and United States these conditions not only constantly change according to Artur Deger, they are also quite dependent on the respective political climate. We will expand our distribution capacity, mainly in the United Arab Emirates and in the United States this year.