Our vision
Clear, pioneering and full of energy.
We want to help shape an environmentally and economically viable energy transition that benefits everyone well into the future. Our priority is to act sustainably and considerately so that we can meet our responsibilities to society and the environment. This is already reflected in the name of our company, clearvise (clear, pioneering and full of energy).
As an independent producer of electricity from renewable energy sources, we are working to provide green energy for the long term, thereby creating sustainable added value for the environment and our stakeholders. We are playing our part in securing a clean, safe and sustainable energy supply and a worthwhile future!
Our values
Our transparency, fairness and long-term partnerships help us to be commercially successful while also having a positive environmental and social impact. We will not be deterred in pursuing our long-term goals and are not afraid to face up to new challenges.
Our pragmatism allows us to develop practical and realistic approaches that stand the test of time in a dynamic energy market. Our consistent, solution-oriented approach means we can work in an efficient and focused way to implement sustainable energy solutions and actively help shape the energy transition.
Working together for a green future
Collaboration between equal partners is at the heart of what we do at clearvise. Our combination of financial and technical expertise creates fertile ground for outstanding new ideas, while trust-based relationships with our business partners lay the foundation for long-term partnerships.
We create energy projects with economic and social benefits and communicate openly to integrate these projects while taking account of specific regional factors such as the concerns of local residents.
Appreciation and participation
Our corporate culture promotes a working environment based on mutual respect and collaboration. Our close-knit team enables our employees to gain an insight into a wide range of business processes. Short communication channels and a participatory management style gives each of our colleagues scope for creativity and to contribute their own ideas in an inspiring workplace.
We are focused on sustainable success and mutual appreciation for all those involved in helping us achieve our goals. We also work together to manage challenging situations based on our team spirit and keen risk awareness.
Authenticity
Authenticity is a cornerstone of our corporate culture. We believe it is vitally important to act transparently and honestly towards our employees as well as our investors, partners and the public at all times.
Our decisions and actions are driven by our fundamental values, and our beliefs are reflected in our name.Our shares give everyone the opportunity to participate in our vision and play their part in shaping the energy transition in Europe.
Business model
clearvise AG is an independent producer of electricity from renewable energy sources. We manage a diversified European investment portfolio in two assets classes, onshore wind and photovoltaics. As of 31. December 2024, our investment portfolio consisted of around 316 MW of operational wind and solar farms in Germany, France, Italy and Ireland, with long-term feed-in payments of EUR >80,2/MWh.
Part of our business model is to continue building our portfolio from this stable commercial foundation based on our three-pillar growth strategy. As part of this strategy, we are acquiring completed wind and solar farms while also investing in attractive development projects. We are fully committed to collaborating fairly with our project partners, as together we make even better use of the opportunities presented by the renewable energy growth market.
We want to keep pushing ahead with the expansion of our wind and photovoltaic portfolio over the next few years, and are also investing in attractive development projects with the aim of integrating these into our investment portfolio.
Our entire investment portfolio currently comprises 316 MW (as of 31. December 2024). Of this, 37 MW are under construction and 30 MW are under development.
Three pillars, one growth strategy
In this model, we offer wind and solar farm operators non-cash capital investment opportunities, enabling them to add their plants to our portfolio and receive all or part of the purchase price in the form of clearvise shares.
We have established a co-development and co-IPP model that enables us to agree cooperative ventures with regional solar farm developers. This usually involves us working together to develop, finance and build power generation plants.
The regional developers often remain involved by taking a minority stake in the completed farm, bolstering participation by regional stakeholders.
In this traditional growth model, we acquire existing plants or newly constructed projects on a turnkey basis, harnessing years of industry experience to successfully realize even the most technically and financially complex projects.
Three pillars, one growth strategy
In this model, we offer wind and solar farm operators non-cash capital investment opportunities, enabling them to add their plants to our portfolio and receive all or part of the purchase price in the form of clearvise shares.
We have established a co-development and co-IPP model that enables us to agree cooperative ventures with regional solar farm developers. This usually involves us working together to develop, finance and build power generation plants.
The regional developers often remain involved by taking a minority stake in the completed farm, bolstering participation by regional stakeholders.
In this traditional growth model, we acquire existing plants or newly constructed projects on a turnkey basis, harnessing years of industry experience to successfully realize even the most technically and financially complex projects.
Management Board
CEO
(Born 1966) has held management roles in the renewable energy sector since 2001 and is familiar with every stage of the value chain.
As a director of New York investment banking boutique Global Capital Finance, she built the company's Renewable Energy team in Europe before joining the Management Board at ecolutions Group in 2008. From 2012, she served as Chief Operating Officer for Chinese firm Sky Solar Holdings with responsibility for the entire operating business worldwide.
In November 2014, she returned to Germany to become a Management Board member and Head of Finance & Distribution at ABO Energy.
She became CEO of clearvise AG on 1 March 2020, having been appointed to its Management Board by the Supervisory Board on 1 December 2019.
CFO
(Born 1987) has held various positions relevant to our industry since 2011 and has in-depth financial expertise gained from his previous professional experience and excellent expertise in all aspects of the energy markets.
He began his career in the Project Finance department at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg before moving to ABO Energy in 2013, where he was responsible for financing and selling wind farms to investors operating both inside and outside Germany.
In 2017 he joined Ampega Asset Management GmbH, where he was also responsible for a wide range of infrastructure investments across Europe. He became commercial director at clearvise AG in 2020 before being appointed to the Management Board as CFO in July 2022.
Supervisory Board
Chair of the Supervisory Board
Chair of the Supervisory Board, lawyer and managing partner of Maroban GmbH Martin Rey, a German citizen born on 23 February 1957, studied law in Bonn and business administration at the University of Hagen.
He held numerous management roles at Bayerische Vereinsbank AG and Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, most recently serving as a member of the Group Executive Management Board. Mr. Rey was then appointed as the Management Board member responsible for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region at international investment and advisory firm Babcock & Brown in Sydney.
His other previous roles include serving as a board member at Knight Infrastructure B.V. and as Chairman of Sword Infrastructure I B.V. in the Netherlands, as a board member at Brisa AutoEstradas de Portugal and as Chair of the Supervisory Board at Renerco Renewable Energy Concepts AG.
Mr. Rey is an Industrial Advisor to the funds of EQT Partners, Sweden, and a member of the Investment Committee for the IST Investment Foundation in Switzerland. He is Chair of the Audit Committee for the Supervisory Board of Nordex SE.
He is also a Supervisory Board member and Chair of the Audit and Investment Committee at BayWa r.e. AG, Munich, Chair of the Advisory Board of O2 Power Ltd., Singapore/Delhi, India, and a Supervisory Board member, member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Credit Committee of Kommunalkredit Austria AG, Austria. Mr. Rey serves as lawyer and managing partner of Maroban GmbH in Traunstein.
He was first appointed to the Supervisory Board of clearvise AG in 2019 and has served as Chair of the Supervisory Board since 2020.
Deputy Chair
Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board, lawyer and a member of the Board of Directors of Claussen-Simon-Stiftung
Astrid Zielke, a German citizen born on 20 February 1964, studied law in Hamburg and Lausanne.
Ms. Zielke has worked as a self-employed lawyer since being admitted to the bar and was initially partner at Hamburg law firm Witthuhn & Partner and cross-border law firm Buse before joining OliveLaw in Hamburg, which specializes in renewable energy law.
Ms. Zielke has been advising German and international companies on developing, buying, selling and financing renewable energy assets for more than 20 years, providing support for transactions across Germany and Europe as well as North America.
In addition to her work as a lawyer, Ms. Zielke has also held a number of management roles in the construction industry (Kölling Glas Group and property developer GfO) and served as interim Management Board member at WKN Windkraft Nord AG. She was a member of the Supervisory Board at global wind and solar farm development company BGZ Beteiligungsgesellschaft Zukunftsenergien AG, WKN Windkraft Nord AG (both based in Husum) and PNE Wind AG (based in Cuxhaven).
Ms. Zielke currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, Hamburg, and as a member of the Supervisory Board at Kontora Kapitalverwaltungs GmbH in Hamburg.
She was first appointed to the Supervisory Board of clearvise AG in 2020 and is Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of clearvise AG.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Supervisory Board, graduate industrial engineer and Senior Director of Capgemini Invent management consultancy
Christian Guhl, a German citizen born on 23 February 1969, studied industrial engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern (now the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau - RPTU) and Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
He was a research associate to the Chair of Business Information Systems and Operations Research at the University of Kaiserslautern before founding his own consulting firm in Kaiserslautern and Washington, D.C. Mr. Guhl has held a number of management positions, including leadership roles as a senior manager for C1 CONEXUS GmbH in Hamburg and as Head of Energy/Electric Mobility at Dornier Consulting GmbH in Berlin.
He later served as managing partner of SCIUS Consulting GmbH, Berlin, a strategy consulting firm specializing in the energy sector and e-mobility, and as Principal at KONEXUS Consulting Group GmbH in Hamburg.
Mr. Guhl is currently Senior Director of Capgemini Invent, the management consultancy arm of Capgemini Group in Berlin.
He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of clearvise AG since 2020.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Supervisory Board, Managing Director of the investment team at EQT Partners GmbH
Gebhard Littich, an Austrian citizen born in Vienna on 30 January 1987, studied Interdisciplinary Sciences with a focus on physics and physical chemistry at ETH Zürich.
He wrote his master’s thesis on quantum physics and quantum information theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Littich began his professional career on the energy infrastructure investment team at Credit Suisse Energy Infrastructure Partners in Zurich, before spending several years as an analyst in the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt and as a senior associate at McKinsey & Company in Frankfurt and Berlin.
Gebhard Littich has served as an investment professional at EQT Partners GmbH in Munich since 2017, where he has specialized in long-term infrastructure investments in the areas of renewable energy, and transport and logistics. He also heads up the European transport and logistics sector team. He is a board observer at Tion Renewables AG in Munich and served as a board observer at Unilode Aviation Solutions AG in Zurich until 2021.
Mr. Littich has been a member of the Supervisory Board of clearvise AG since 2024.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Supervisory Board, Managing Director of H.S. Hamburg Solar GmbH
Hartmut Schüning, a German citizen born on 7 March 1959, studied business administration at the University of Hamburg and completed his doctorate at the Institute for Foreign Trade and the Overseas Economy at the University of Hamburg.
He began his professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked as an auditor and consultant to companies across a wide variety of industries. Dr. Schüning then served on the management boards of tecis Group, Hamburg, edding Group, Ahrensburg, Q-Cells AG , Thalheim, and Northenergy AG, Hamburg, and as managing director of Second Solar GmbH, Halle.
He also held Supervisory Board positions at tecis Group, Hamburg, edding Group, Ahrensburg, Q-Cells Group, Thalheim, ecolutions KGaA, Frankfurt am Main, Northenergy AG, Hamburg, Mobisol GmbH, Berlin, and Solarkiosk AG, Berlin.
Dr. Schüning currently serves as Managing Director of H.S. Hamburg Solar GmbH in Hamburg, and is a member of the examination board for Wirtschaftsprüfer (auditors) in northern Germany. He also holds a Supervisory Board position at IBV GmbH, Berlin.
Dr. Schüning has been a member of the Supervisory Board of clearvise AG since 2020.
History
- ABO Invest AG founded by project developer ABO Wind AG to acquire the Eurowind wind farms (57 MW in Germany, France and Ireland).
- Power generation portfolio reaches 150 MW.
- ABO Invest AG renamed as clearvise AG
- Repositioned ourselves as an independent producer of electricity as part of a fundamental HR, organizational and strategic transformation.
- Introduced our three-pillar growth strategy with clearVALUE (acquiring turnkey farms), clearSWITCH (acquiring existing farms on a cash-neutral basis via non-cash capital increases) and clearPARTNERS (co-development and co-IPP model)
- Entered the photovoltaic asset class by acquiring an 80 MW portfolio from ALTUS AG
- Realized our first PV farm with a PPA and without government funding at Alsweiler 2
- Expanded the French IPP portfolio by acquiring the Le Champvoisin wind farm
- Power generation portfolio grows to over 300 MW, asset management digitalized further and team expanded
- Acquired and commissioned the 90 MW solar farm at Klettwitz-Nord, our largest to date, as well as additional solar farms from the ALTUS portfolio
- Implemented the clearSWITCH model for the first time by using a proportionate non-cash capital increase to purchase a Bavarian wind farm
- Strategically optimized our portfolio with the sale of the Finnish wind farms
- Repowering partnerships agreed with ABO Wind to double the capacity of our French wind farms
- Additional clearPARTNERS development partnership signed for around 125 MWp in Italy
- Optimized our portfolio to focus on onshore wind and photovoltaic segments
- Successfully entered the Italian market by acquiring three solar farms with a combined output exceeding 30 MWp
- Acquired and commissioned Wolfsgarten solar farm
- Agreed first corporate PPA (private power purchase agreement with an industrial company)
History
- ABO Invest AG founded by project developer ABO Wind AG to acquire the Eurowind wind farms (57 MW in Germany, France and Ireland).
- Power generation portfolio reaches 150 MW.
- ABO Invest AG renamed as clearvise AG
- Repositioned ourselves as an independent producer of electricity as part of a fundamental HR, organizational and strategic transformation.
- Introduced our three-pillar growth strategy with clearVALUE (acquiring turnkey farms), clearSWITCH (acquiring existing farms on a cash-neutral basis via non-cash capital increases) and clearPARTNERS (co-development and co-IPP model)
- Entered the photovoltaic asset class by acquiring an 80 MW portfolio from ALTUS AG
- Realized our first PV farm with a PPA and without government funding at Alsweiler 2
- Expanded the French IPP portfolio by acquiring the Le Champvoisin wind farm
- Power generation portfolio grows to over 300 MW, asset management digitalized further and team expanded
- Acquired and commissioned the 90 MW solar farm at Klettwitz-Nord, our largest to date, as well as additional solar farms from the ALTUS portfolio
- Implemented the clearSWITCH model for the first time by using a proportionate non-cash capital increase to purchase a Bavarian wind farm
- Strategically optimized our portfolio with the sale of the Finnish wind farms
- Repowering partnerships agreed with ABO Wind to double the capacity of our French wind farms
- Additional clearPARTNERS development partnership signed for around 125 MWp in Italy
- Optimized our portfolio to focus on onshore wind and photovoltaic segments
- Successfully entered the Italian market by acquiring three solar farms with a combined output exceeding 30 MWp
- Acquired and commissioned Wolfsgarten solar farm
- Agreed first corporate PPA (private power purchase agreement with an industrial company)