SMA in the United Kingdom

About SMA UK

SMA UK is sales and service subsidiary of SMA Solar Technology, a global leader in photovoltaic system technology.
 

Based in Milton Keynes, the SMA UK team serves the growing markets of Great Britain and EIRE. It comprises of experienced solar and storage energy professionals.
 

SMA UK focuses on various applications:

  • The Utility Storage applications which included provided anciliary services to the grid operator

  • Commercial applications, whereby Enterprise are looking to reduce their energy bills and find safer and greener ways to produce their own energy

  • The residential applications to meet the growing expectations of British consumers to rely on photovoltaic for their homes.

SMA UK is also developing its activities in the field of operations and maintenance in order to meet the growing requirement of assets owners to repower, optimize and ensure availabilities of their plants.
 

SMA UK has Service Hubs in strategic locations in the country in order to provide the fastest response time to the different plants under Operation and Maintenance contracts.

Energy that Changes

About SMA Solar Technology AG

As a leading global specialist in photovoltaic system technology, SMA is setting the standards today for the decentralized, digital and renewable energy supply of tomorrow. More than 4,000 SMA employees in 20 countries have devoted themselves to this task. Our innovative solutions for every type of photovoltaic application offer people and companies worldwide greater independence in meeting their energy needs. In collaboration with our partners and customers, we are helping people transition to a self-sufficient, decentralized and renewable energy supply.

3600+ employees worldwide

125 GW installed power

3 GW of battery inverters sold worldwide

1700+ patents registered

40 years of expertise

1,065.9 M€ turnover in 2022

Helping shape the energy supply of the future

With the digitization of the energy industry, we are now entering the energy world of the future. Photovoltaics are playing an important role, given that they will soon be the most cost-effective energy source in all regions.

To exploit their full potential, we will need to connect photovoltaics with storage, e-mobility and other sectors and integrate them into the entire system. Here, SMA has a key role to play. Our vast experience and comprehensive expertise make us a sought-after partner for leading companies from other areas. Today, SMA is developing sophisticated system solutions perfectly tailored to the needs of the “electricity prosumers” of tomorrow.

Since 2008, SMA Solar Technology AG, has been listed on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (S92) and is listed in the TecDAX index and MDAX index. Our technology has won multiple awards and is protected by approximately 1,600 patents and utility models.

Technological leadership

For 40 years, SMA has been setting technological trends and driving the development of renewable energies. With our groundbreaking inverter technology, we have made significant contributions in seeing that renewable energies leave the pioneer phase behind and increasingly become the norm worldwide.

Facts and Figures

Headquarters: Niestetal, Germany

Global presence: sales and service subsidiaries in 20 countries

Founded: 1981

Number of employees: over 4,000

2022 sales: 1,065.9 million euros

Selected Awards

2021

Finalist for the German Sustainability Award 2022

2020

TOP100 – Top-Innovator 2020

2018

smarter E Award 2018 für ennexOS in der Kategorie "Smart Renewable Energy"

ees Award 2018 für Sunny Central Storage in der Kategorie "Electrical Energy Storage"

2017

Intersolar AWARD 2017 for the SMA Sunny Tripower CORE1 in the "Photovoltaics" category

2016

Top Employer for Engineers

ees Award 2016 for the Sunny Boy Storage

Intersolar AWARD 2016 for photovoltaic diesel hybrid system on the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius in the category „Outstanding Solar Projects“

2014

Top Employer for Engineers

Intersolar AWARD 2014 for the SMA Fuel Save Controller in the "Photovoltaics" category

2013

Intersolar AWARD for the Sunny Boy Smart Energy inverter with integrated storage

Smart Energy Award 2013, “Energy Information Communications Technology” category, for the SMA Smart Home comprehensive energy management solution

Great Place to Work®: TOP 5 Best Workplaces in Germany, “Companies with more than 5,000 employees” category

2012

Great Place to Work®: 1st Place Best Workplaces in Germany, “Companies with more than 5,000 Employees” category

2011

Best Innovator Award in the Renewables category, Award from A.T. Kearney and WirtschaftsWoche

Great Place to Work®: TOP 10 Best Workplaces in Europe, “Companies with more than 500 Employees” category

Great Place to Work®: 1st Place, Best Workplaces in Germany, “Companies with more than 5,000 employees” category

2010

German Job Creation Award

Intersolar AWARD for the Sunny Central 800CP central inverter

Great Place to Work®: TOP 5 Best Workplaces in Europe, “Companies with more than 500 Employees” category

1st Place Energy Efficiency Award 2010 for the world’s largest inverter factory, which is also CO2-neutral Bad Staffelstein Innovation Award for the Sunny Tripower three-phase string inverter

Great Place to Work®: TOP 5 Best Workplaces in Germany, “Companies with 501 to 5,000 Employees” category and special award for “Lifelong Learning”