Renewable energy jobs at Stromnetz Hamburg GmbH

The predecessor company Stromnetz Hamburg supplied approximately 1.1 million households and businesses with around 12.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually and achieved a profit of €89.8 million in 2022, which was fully transferred to the City of Hamburg (source: hamburg-business.com). In the same year, the company invested €496.9 million in maintaining, expanding, and digitalizing infrastructure to meet the demands of electromobility, heat pumps, and hydrogen electrolyzers (source: hamburg-business.com). The 2024 merger of Stromnetz Hamburg and Gasnetz Hamburg into Hamburger Energienetze GmbH consolidates electricity and gas network activities under one roof, strengthening its position as the city’s central network operator (source: absolventenkongress.de). Additionally, the HH-WIN project stands out as a strategic initiative for hydrogen network development, providing a 60-kilometer hydrogen infrastructure for large customers in Hamburg (source: kununu.com).

In September 2024, Stromnetz Hamburg GmbH and Gasnetz Hamburg GmbH merged to form Hamburger Energienetze GmbH, uniting the city’s electricity and gas network activities under a municipal company (source: absolventenkongress.de). The organization is currently in a phase of growth and expansion, with open positions in technical, commercial, and IT fields (source: hamburger-energienetze.de). The HH-WIN hydrogen network project continues to be a key strategic initiative aimed at expanding hydrogen infrastructure for large customers in Hamburg (source: kununu.com). Already in 2022, the company made significant investments in network infrastructure to enable the integration of new technologies such as electric vehicle charging infrastructure and hydrogen electrolyzers (source: hamburg-business.com).

Hamburger Energienetze offers a wide range of employment opportunities in technical, commercial, and IT areas, including network and system operators for high-voltage networks, electrical engineers, engineers, as well as administrative and IT specialists (source: hamburger-energienetze.de). Most positions are based at the headquarters in Hamburg, with the company placing great emphasis on a positive working atmosphere (source: kununu.com). Employee benefits include company pension schemes, training opportunities, occupational health services, referral programs, performance bonuses, company mobile phones, company cars, flexible working hours, free parking, and additional payments for certain roles (source: indeed.com).