Rolls - Royce will curb a 73.1 % majority stake in Berlin - based electricity store specialiser Qinous GmbH from 1 June 2025 . The Group is get the shareholdings of all other current financial investor , including that of investment retention company IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH ( Berlin ) . The founding shareholders will continue to hold shares in the troupe and will retain their current part in the business . It has been agreed not to disclose item of the purchase Mary Leontyne Price or the other departing shareholders .
Rolls - Royce had already acquire a 19.9 % stake in the former scratch - up back in October 2018 . The company is involved in battery computer memory systems and associated control systems , and has already implement storehouse solutions around the human race .
Andreas Schell ( right ) , chief operating officer of Rolls - Royce Power Systems Division , welcomes Steffen Heinrich ( left ) co - beginner and co - managing director of index warehousing medical specialist Qinous GmbH
“ Our novel subsidiary is to act as a polar role going forwards , ” said Andreas Schell , CEO of Rolls - Royce Power Systems Division . “ This is where we are going to pool all the division ’s microgrid natural action – from simple storage solutions to complete , complex microgrid solutions of various sizing and configurations . As a young , start - up - style troupe , Qinous brings expertise that is an idealistic full complement to Rolls - Royce ’s industrial certificate . Together we will be able-bodied to respond quickly and with great professionalism to the demands of the market , ” he continued .
The joint development work on a kitchen range of storage solvent in recent months has shown that the two fellowship are an excellent tantrum and , as Schell explained , “ that we can accomplish new mart potency by integrate more closely . We see great market potential for sustainable exponent supplies , especially for lot , environmentally - friendly MTU microgrid solution . "
“ guide a majority holding in Qinous is a major step forward as we transform into a supplier of integrated solutions for our client . In hereafter , we will be able-bodied to declare oneself not just the technical solvent and associated service offer , but the finance too , ” said Schell . Qinous has made a name for itself with modular , scalable , prefabricated wad - and - bet battery products that combine renewable get-up-and-go sources , office source and battery storage engineering science . Rolls - Royce is a specialiser in customize energy solutions with the worldwide sales agreement and inspection and repair internet of its intersection and answer stigma MTU .
“ This even closer partnership between Rolls - Royce and Qinous is a legitimate and consistent step towards opening up the rapidly originate microgrid market . The functionality and reliableness of the solution have been proven in a large telephone number of labor . Now , with MTU ’s experience and world-wide presence , we can meet demand more quickly and more comprehensively , ” said Steffen Heinrich , Centennial State - founder and co - managing film director of Qinous . “ Also on behalf of co - managing director Reinhard Edelmann and co - founder Busso von Bismarck , I want to thank the seedcorn investors who made it possible to ready Qinous up as a company , and who have suffer us actively powerful through to the present day . ”
Sabine Wolff , Investment Manager at IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft comment : “ We are enthralled to have found an internationally famed partner for Qinous in the form of Rolls - Royce . The compounding of renewable energies and store solution , which are already being used successfully in on - grid and off - grid applications and to safeguard power system constancy , will also encounter further areas of software in tomorrow ’s microgrid markets . The partnership between Rolls - Royce and Qinous has become a succeeder story for the Berlin operation , and presents us with an attractive exit chance . ”
The modular component system of the coordinated Qinous / MTU mathematical product range of mountains will in future admit the configuration of solution from 30 kW/30kWh to several megawatt . “ The range of Robert William Service and deliverables continue the motivation of commercial enterprises , municipal utilities , vigour suppliers , and even goodly industrial industrial plant . Together with Qinous , we can pop the question customers a wide range of microgrid solutions consisting of different combinations of magnate generation and storage system of rules . In this way we will ensure sustainable , cost - optimized and – above all – climate - friendly power supplies , whether connected to the public power system or independent of it , ” said Cordelia Thielitz , Vice President of Rolls - Royce ’s Microgrid Solutions business . “ The key to this is the comprehensive expertise in storage applied science , the efficient integration of microgrid components and the development of intelligent control organization , ” she punctuate .
Qinous hire around 40 people in Berlin . Rolls - Royce is engaged in research and development of microgrids and power author at four locations : Friedrichshafen , Ruhstorf , Augsburg and Mankato ( US ) .
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