ABOUT US
Buss Energy Group is a leading provider of technical services for wind turbines.
With a strong focus on quality, safety and innovation, we offer customised solutions for the entire service life of wind turbines.
Our three specialised business units - Blade Services and Wind Services - cover a wide range of services:
- Inspection and repair of rotor blades
- Major Component Exchange
- Remote monitoring of wind turbines 24/7
- Retrofits
- Inspection and maintenance campaigns
AT A GLANCE
Buss Energy in figures
wind turbines
In recent years, we have successfully installed and maintained over 2,000 wind turbines onshore and offshore.
years Buss
Buss Energy Group is part of the Buss Group, which was founded in Hamburg in 1920.
Locations
Buss Energy is represented at seven locations in Germany, France and the Netherlands.
Employees
Buss Energy Group has grown strongly since 2019.
Management
The Management of
Buss Energy Group
Christian Busdiecker
- Buss Energy Group
- Buss Blade Services
- Buss Wind Services
Christian Busdiecker has extensive industry and management experience and has, among other things, managed the service business of wind turbine manufacturer Nordex. He is co-founder and managing partner of the management consultancy Greentech Partners and worked for Roland Berger before joining the wind industry.
Christian Busdiecker has been leading the Buss Energy Group as interim CEO since September 2024.
Jan-Gerd Müller
- Buss Energy Group
Jan-Gerd Müller was born in Lüneburg in 1979. During his training as a business economist and his subsequent studies in business administration, Jan-Gerd focused on the areas of corporate finance, international management, accounting and controlling.
After several years in consulting and five years as CFO of a Hamburg-based service company, the business graduate moved into the wind industry. At Nordex, he was responsible for group-wide budget, forecast and management reporting processes as Director of Corporate Controlling and acted as the interface between Investor Relations and the Finance Department.
Jan-Gerd Müller has been Managing Director at Buss Energy Group since 2023, where he is responsible for finance, human resources and IT.
Florian Husen
- Buss Blade Services
Florian Husen was born in Hamburg in 1974. After training as an industrial electronics technician, he went on to complete two degree programmes in electrical engineering and industrial engineering. Following positions at Lufthansa Technik AG and Hauni Maschinenbau AG, he gained further experience in management positions in sales. During his three-year stay in the USA, he led North American sales at Hauni Richmond, Inc. Florian Husen was most recently head of rotor blade services at SSC Wind GmbH until it was taken over by Buss.
He has been managing director of Buss Blade Services GmbH since 2019.
Roman Leopold
Buss Wind Services
Corporate tradition
The Buss Group in its 100th business year
Buss Energy Group is part of Buss Group, a corporate group originally founded in Hamburg in 1920. Currently, the company counts around 500 employees. For many decades, Buss was primarily a port company. Today, the owner-managed group of companies has a broad base in the business areas of port logistics, logistics real estate, shipping, investments and wind energy.
Port Logistics
The origins of the Buss Group go back to the so called Gerd Buss Stauerei, which was founded in the Port of Hamburg in 1920. The company quickly made a name for itself with the loading and unloading of ships and soon became one of the largest stevedoring companies in Hamburg. At its peak, Buss operated four transhipment terminals in the Hanseatic city. However, the rapid containerisation of general cargo transport since the 1960s made the Buss Group's core business, which was conventional cargo handling, increasingly superfluous.
Today, Buss offers maritime plant logistics services and still provides classic stevedoring services. Outside of Hamburg, Buss operates terminals in Sassnitz/Mukran, Stade, in Eemshaven in the Netherlands and a factory port in Duisburg, either alone or in partnerships. The port activities of the Buss Group are summarized under the name "Buss Ports".
Logistics Real Estate
A milestone in the company's history was the entry into the logistics and logistics real estate business in the 1990s. Today, with the name Ixocon, this area is an important pillar of the Buss Group. The business model is based on finding suitable sites for logistics property development and tenants. After the successful completion of the logistics centres, they are usually sold to institutional investors, such as pension funds. Buss also holds some logistics properties in its own portfolio. Since the division was founded in 1995, Ixocon has completed 54 projects with more than 800,000 m² of storage space and an investment volume of 613 million euros. The geographical focus initially lied on Hamburg. Today, Ixocon develops logistics properties all over Germany. An integrated project for Amazon was completed in 2019, which is the largest logistics centre implemented by Ixocon, covering an area of 150,000 square metres. For Amazon this is the most modern logistics centre in Europe.
Shipping
The shipping activities of Buss, combined under the name Buss Shipping, were merged with the traditional shipping company Leonhardt & Blumberg in 2017. This joint venture operates more than 40 container ships, whereas the chartering is carried out by Hanseatic Unity Chartering. This company with its headquarters in Hamburg and Singapore combines the chartering activities of five shipping companies: Asiatic & Atlantic Lloyd, Borealis Maritime, Leonhardt & Blumberg and Reederei NORD with a total of more than 150 container ships. The merger is proving to be an extremely sensible step in container shipping, since this area has been in crisis for over 10 years.
Investments
Since 2003, the issuing house has been designing and marketing closed-end funds in the field of maritime logistics. Buss Capital quickly became the market leader in container funds and at the same time an important financial partner for container leasing companies. From 2008 onwards, Buss Capital opened up further markets with real estate funds, ship funds and funds in the cruise market. To date, around 31,000 investors have invested around 1.1 billion euros of equity in a total of 88 funds and direct investments as well as a closed-end alternative investment fund. The total investment volume of the placed investments amounts to around 2.5 billion euros. As part of a strategic realignment, the management of Buss Capital has founded a new company in 2020: Buss Capital Invest designs and distributes investments in tangible assets outside closed-end funds and direct investments. Its focus lies on registered bonds, other similar investments and digital investments.
Wind Energy
The Buss Terminal in Eemshaven is the core field of the wind energy sector. Since 2011, it has primarily served as a base port for the storage, pre-assembly and shipping for offshore wind farms in the North Sea. In the following years Buss supplemented a number of other companies through acquisitions. Nowadays, Buss also offers the assembly and service of wind turbines onshore and offshore. In this development the division is pursuing a sustainable and innovative diversification of its services. These include, for example, drone-based inspection services with automatic damage detection or weather-independent blade repair platforms. In addition, Buss set up joint ventures with local partners in France and the USA to grow with the international renewable energy markets. Since 2019 all wind energy activities have been bundled in the holding company called "Buss Energy Group".
