Uniper SE has divested a subsidiary working liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) filling stations in Germany and France to EnviTec Biogas AG.
LIQVIS GmbH, based 2015, runs a complete of 18 LNG stations “at strategic site visitors hubs with significantly excessive truck site visitors”, in keeping with German gasoline and energy utility Uniper.
EnviTec Biogas, primarily based in Lohne, Germany, plans to make use of the stations to completely promote bio-LNG produced from its amenities.
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“With regard to gross sales volumes, LIQVIS is an ideal match for the present manufacturing volumes of fuel-grade biomethane, together with biomethane from our personal vegetation in Forst, Friedland, and Güstrow amongst others”, Jörg Fischer, chief monetary officer of EnviTec Biogas, mentioned in a joint press launch.
The 2 companies had a deal for Uniper to promote Envitec Biogas bio-LNG on the stations from 2022, as introduced Might 27, 2021.
The announcement of Envitec Biogas’ takeover didn’t disclose the monetary particulars of the transaction.
Earlier in 2025 Uniper mentioned it had accomplished the sale of a pure gas-fired energy plant in Gönyu, Hungary, to the native subsidiary of France’s Veolia SA.
“The sale of this non-strategic funding is a part of the situations that Uniper should fulfill underneath EU state assist legislation”, Uniper mentioned January 7. Uniper had agreed to make divestments for the European Fee to grant clearance for the German authorities’s bailout of the corporate in 2022.
Commissioned 2011, the facility plant generates as much as 430 megawatts, in keeping with Uniper.
The brand new proprietor is Veolia Make investments Hungary Zrt. Uniper and Veolia had agreed to not disclose the monetary phrases of the transaction, in keeping with the announcement of the sale settlement February 19, 2024.
In one other sale aimed towards the success of the bailout situations, Uniper introduced December 10, 2024, the launch of bidding for its 18.26 p.c stake in AS Latvijas Gaze, which is concerned in pure gasoline buying and selling and gross sales to Baltic shoppers primarily in Latvia.
In late 2022 the German authorities took over about 99 p.c of Uniper’s shareholding and agreed to a capital injection of EUR 25 billion ($25.62 billion). The state’s takeover from ex-majority proprietor Fortum Oyj served to stop Uniper from collapsing from war-induced losses together with from the acquisition of substitute gasoline after Russia’s Gazprom PJSC allegedly didn’t ship contracted provide from mid-2022, in keeping with on-line info from Uniper.
For the bailout to fulfill EU state assist guidelines, Uniper agreed to a number of divestments that have to be accomplished by 2026.
The opposite belongings within the divestment package deal are an 84 p.c stake in Unipro in Russia, a 20 p.c stake within the OPAL pipeline, a 20 p.c oblique stake within the BBL pipeline, a tough coal-fired energy plant in Germany, Uniper’s German district heating enterprise, a part of Uniper’s energy operations in North America, its Center Japanese marine fuels unit Uniper Power DMCC and its worldwide helium enterprise, Uniper says on its web site.
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