VNG Handel & Vertrieb

VNG Handel & Vertrieb GmbH is a leading gas supplier for distribution companies, municipal utilities, power station operators and industrial customers in Germany and abroad. The company offers services and consulting covering the entire value chain—from the right timing in purchase decisions to correct billing. VNG Handel & Vertrieb’s services include market information, market analysis, portfolio analysis and reporting as well as support in portfolio management processes.

“Our highly developed online and workflow-based customer experience accompanies the entire product life cycle and is supplemented by its approachable, accountable, efficient and innovative personal support” says Mr. Alexander Lück, the Head of Sales at VNG Handel & Vertrieb.

VNG Handel & Vertrieb works in a strategic partnership with its customers to find optimal solutions for their energy procurement. The company converts the products of the trading market into needs-based procurement solutions. These solutions are supplemented by professional services for effective portfolio management and transparent reporting. Depending on customers’ wants and needs, VNG Handel & Vertrieb has the capability to operationalize the complete process along with the risk management of the clients’ procurement. VNG Handel & Vertrieb can also offer its clients a transparent and market-oriented basis for well-founded procurement decisions.

Recently, VNG Handel & Vertrieb assisted a large company in the chemical industry that faced the challenge of sharply increasing Day-ahead prices. With joint risk and procurement governance, VNG Handel & Vertrieb and the company discussed an elaborate price-fixation and was able to fulfill the mandate so that the impact of price increases for Q4/2021 were reduced for the client. In another case, VNG Handel & Vertrieb was able to make a car manufacturer completely CO2-neutral by using carbon-neutral biomethane. As a result, the clients’ dependence on CO2-price developments was reduced, ultimately supporting its marketing strategy.

“We focus more on long-term partnerships than short-term economic gains,” states Mr. Lück. “This is also reflected in our long history, which has witnessed us mastering many political and economic upheavals, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the liberalization of the energy markets. Both events had a major impact on the VNG Group.”

Being a future distributor and provider of hydrogen, VNG Handel & Vertrieb is a founding member of the non-profit organization H2Global involving various industry sectors. The company perceives itself as a future distributor and provider of hydrogen. In the project Energy Park Bad Lauchstädt, VNG Handel & Vertrieb is implementing the production, transport, storage, and economical use of green hydrogen on an industrial scale together with its partners.

A large electrolysis plant with an initial capacity of 30 MW will generate green hydrogen using renewable electricity from a nearby wind farm. The green hydrogen will then be fed into the hydrogen network of the local chemical industry via a converted gas pipeline and will be used in the future, for example, in urban mobility solutions. In a later project phase, the green hydrogen will be stored in a specially equipped salt cavern. By covering all aspects of the intelligent and economically optimal integration of the energy source green hydrogen in the Bad Lauchstädt energy park, VNG Handel & Vertrieb is aiming at a large-scale demonstration of sector coupling.