About us

For 20+ years, the name of VPP has been synonymous with innovative and environmentally conscious energy solutions. With our turn-key solutions, we have been among the first to respond to market trends and provide state-of-the-art answers to our customers' needs: this is the driving force behind our operations.

"VPP Intelligent Energy" sums up everything we believe about the future of energy. We believe that decentralised energy production that integrates renewables, as well as the digitisation of energy systems will successfully contribute to achieving the long-term goals of businesses, environmental protection and society.

Our  nearly 100-strong team possess a wide range of engineering and business competencies, which has facilitated dynamic development and successful project deliveries for our clients at all times.

Our thinking revolves around complex systems; accordingly, we provide our services integrated with each other. The solutions we offer cover every phase in the life cycle of energy investments and projects: technical and financial project development, construction, operation, electricity trading and energy management.

VPP’s milestones

The methods and sources of producing the energy needed for everyday life have been constantly changing for over two decades now. We are living in a challenging transitional age that probably holds a variety of new developments for us. We are proud to be present at every major milestone of this global process and to contribute the best of our knowledge and work to it.

System integration and energy management

2017 -

With the dynamic growth of the Hungarian solar energy market, VPP has returned to its roots as a system integrator. Besides intensive organisational development, the company's activities since 2017 have been focused on the implementation and operation of solar systems for households, businesses and for investment purposes. During this time, we have developed and constructed nearly 150 solar power plants and industrial solar systems with a total installed capacity of 280 MW, and our partners also entrusted us with operating a significant portion of those systems. We have installed 400 household solar systems under the brand name Fuzia. In 2023, we obtained accreditation from HUPX and MAVIR again and we are now able to support our customers in electricity trading and energy management, too.

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Virtual power plants in our focus

2011-2018

VPP’s response to the discontinuation of the subsidy for Feed-in Tariffs (KÁT) was to develop a unique Virtual Power Plant Solution, an innovation used to be unrivalled on a global scale. Even international patent protection was acquired for VPP’s unique system and procedure.

VPP’s virtual power plant was the first in Hungary to join MAVIR’s secondary regulation and to offer a solution to help the survival of small-scale decentralised power plants that were left without an electricity market in Hungary.  With its 34 small-scale power plants, 60 generating units and a total installed capacity of 145 MW, VPP’s virtual power plant emerged as one of the largest players on the Hungarian virtual power plant market by 2013.  Over the years, it consistently delivered a balanced performance and maintained a solid position on the market of ancillary services.           
With the international boom in the virtual power plant market, VPP opened an office in Munich and continued the intensive development of its Virtual Power Plant Solution. In addition to creating an online customer portal, it adapted its virtual power plant for controlling also weather-dependent solar and wind power plants. The research and development programme with a budget of HUF 650 million received a subsidy of HUF 321.72 million from the Hungarian government.       
VPP’s Virtual Power Plant Solution was acquired by Veolia at the end of 2018.

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ESCO business in our focus

2002-2010

The story of VPP began with the establishment of Greenergy Group in 2002. Under the leadership of founder and CEO Gábor Dicső, Greenergy built and operated a 60 MW energy portfolio (including 22 gas-powered small-scale CHP power plants co-generating power and  heat, two biomass-powered heating plants and a wind power plant), and developed a 120 MW wind power plant project. By 2010, Greenergy had implemented investments worth €80 million and its annual sales revenue exceeded €30 million.

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