“Becoming a big electricity company is not an aim in itself, but it is a prerequisite for operating in the free electricity market in the long term, and for safeguarding our independence and freedom of action.” This is how Gert Braae, a manager at NRGi, explains the establishment of the energy company NRGi in the year 2000. The merger of Energiselskabet ARKE, the electricity division of Århus Kommunale Værker, Grenå Kommunale Elforsyning and Ebeltoft Kommunale Elforsyning resulted in the creation of one of the largest enterprises in Denmark, which supplies approx. 140,000 households and businesses in East Jutland. At the same time, the ownership of NRGi was extended to 90,000 new owners in the form of the network customers who buy their energy from the company.

The NRGi merger should also be seen as springing from a wish to be able to take up the challenge of intensifying competition once the electricity markets are liberalised in 2003. The establishment of the new company is therefore also an attempt to be at the forefront of the developments which are expected to dramatically reduce the number of Danish electricity companies. NRGi’s activities are not restricted to supplying electricity to the Århus region, Djursland, the peninsula of Mols and the island of Samsø, but also include consultancy services and the supply of heating from biomass-fired heating plants as well as the sale of pumps for heating systems.

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