Siemens Gamesa to Acquire Senvion’s European Assets for €200 mn

Siemens Gamesa has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire selected European assets of the Senvion Group for EUR 200 million.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire selected European assets of the Senvion Group for EUR 200 million.

The assets included in the transaction are a large part of the European Onshore Service Business of Senvion and all associated assets and operations to provide full service, all the Intellectual Property of Senvion, as well as the onshore blade manufacturing facility in Vagos, Portugal.

Senvion’s European service assets will strengthen Siemens Gamesa’s capacity and potential in an important segment. The acquisition of a Service fleet of 8.9 GW from Senvion will take Siemens Gamesa to a total of nearly 69 GW under maintenance. The addition of these assets helps to diversify the company’s business mix and geographical exposure with contracts that offer long-term visibility and renewal rates that have historically been very high.

The onshore blade manufacturing plant in Portugal is one of Europe’s most competitive manufacturing facilities. The Vagos plant would help to strengthen the firms’ industrial value chain and reduce dependency on supplier sourcing from Asia, mitigating volatility amid the uncertainties brought about by current trade issues. The highly competitive facility is complementary to existing SGRE blade capacity, has best-in-class operational features and will help to support international sales.

The intellectual property of Senvion allows Siemens Gamesa to further enhance its technology portfolio for future Siemens Gamesa development.

“This transaction is an important step forward for Siemens Gamesa,” said Markus Tacke, chief executive officer. “Bringing Senvion’s service assets on board will help us to drive growth in a key market segment and add important capacity in Germany and other important European markets, while the blade factory helps us mitigate the risk in the difficult trade environment. We’re bringing good people and good business into the company and that’s a win for all parties.”

As part of the acquisition, approximately 2,000 Senvion employees are expected to join Siemens Gamesa.

Subject to obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals and achieving other closing conditions, the firm expects to close the respective acquisition of assets in the first half of the fiscal year 2020 (October 2019 – March 2020).