Sonnen manufactures and operates battery storage systems and virtual power plant software for residential and commercial solar deployments. The company is consolidating on SAP (FI/CO, S/4HANA, SuccessFactors) across finance, operations, and HR — a infrastructure play that suggests scaling from a hardware-centric startup into an enterprise software and energy services operator. Hiring is broad across finance (collections expansion, controlling structure build-out), engineering, and sales, indicating simultaneous pushes into grid services revenue and operational efficiency.
Notable leadership hires: Managing Director
Sonnen GmbH, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Wildpoldsried, Bavaria, manufactures battery storage systems and operates a virtual power plant platform (sonnenvpp) that aggregates distributed solar and storage capacity. The company sells to residential and commercial customers seeking energy independence and renewable self-consumption. Operationally, the company is 501–1,000 people, primarily in Germany with growing U.S. presence, and is managing product compliance, CO2 emissions reporting, and a shift from hardware sales into grid-aggregation services and energy management software. Current pain points center on cost competitiveness, process bottlenecks in decentralized flexibility integration, and building controlling and compliance structures necessary for a maturing energy utility.
Sonnen manufactures residential and commercial battery storage systems integrated with a virtual power plant platform (sonnenvpp) that aggregates distributed solar generation for grid services and self-consumption optimization.
Sonnen is headquartered in Wildpoldsried, Bavaria, Germany. The company has approximately 501–1,000 employees and is actively hiring in Germany and the United States.
Sonnen uses SAP S/4HANA and SAP FI/CO for financial management, SAP SuccessFactors for HR, and Salesforce for customer relationship management. The company is currently rolling out a consolidated SAP blueprint across the group.
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