施耐德宣布，它以2.68亿美元收购了能源采购和管理公司顶峰能源公司（Summit Energy）。成立于1991年，顶峰能源公司为工业和商业公司提供能源管理服务，以及能源采购和咨询。顶峰能源公司表示它负责管理超过650个公司的数千个设备，这些设备每年的能源开支超过200亿美元。顶峰能源公司预计今年的销售额将达6500万美元。
像施耐德，西门子，通用电气和ABB这些竞争对手一直在收购智能电网和下一代能源技术。智能电网和能源管理是绿色技术的主要产业，也是出现了大量并购的行业。
Power gear company Schneider Electric has made one of the larger acquisitions in the industrial and commercial energy management sector. Thursday afternoon Schneider announced it has bought energy procurement and management company Summit Energy for $268 million.
Schneider Electric is fond of saying that 70 percent of the world’s electrons flow through its equipment. When it comes to the smart grid and next-generation energy technology the company has a multi-faceted approach, largely based on its strength in low and medium-voltage equipment and its industrial and commercial energy management systems. In particular, managing energy in buildings and connecting them back up to the smart grid looms large in its plans. (Schneider Electric’s VP of Smart Grid Strategy, Scott Henneberry, will be speaking at our Green:Net 2011 event on April 21, Super Saver tickets end this Saturday.)
Founded in 1991, Summit Energy provides energy management services, as well as energy procurement and consulting to industrial and commercial companies and says it manages more than $20 billion in annual energy spending for its more than 650 companies across thousands of facilities. Summit Energy is estimating it will generate sales of about $65 million this year.
Schneider reported revenues of $11.2 billion in the first half of 2010, double those of the same period last year, and last year Schneider also closed on its joint acquisition of the transmission and distribution unit of French giant Areva. Other than that acquisition however, Schneider hasn’t been all that active in swallowing small startups.
Power gear competitors like Siemens, General Electric and ABB have been acquiring smart grid and next-gen energy technology, too. The smart grid and energy management is one of the industries in greentech, which actually has seen a significant amount of acquisitions (see this recent shopping list).
The deal is contingent on regulatory approval and closing conditions.