Coucke invests 20 million euros in solar panel company EnergyVision

EnergyVision was founded in 2014 and is active in Belgium, Morocco and China. The group claims to install more than 400,000 solar panels every year and has an annual turnover of 100 million euros.

The special thing about EnergyVision is that it installs the solar panels for free at private individuals and SMEs and takes on the risk. The customers then pay less for their electricity than is customary. The company is currently mainly active in Brussels, under the name Brusol. The application process to become an energy supplier in Flanders is also underway.

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Since its inception, the company has always been fully owned by founders Maarten Michielssens, Hassan Mourhit and Koen Decourt, but now Coucke is joining it via a capital increase. This is the starting signal for additional investments, it says. EnergyVision wants to invest in charging stations for electric cars, among other things.

Since the sale in 2014 of the pharmaceutical company Omega Pharma, which he founded, Coucke mainly invests in three domains: pharmaceuticals, leisure and tourism and sustainable companies. In the latter domain, Coucke previously invested in Ekopak, which works in the field of water purification, and the producer of electric buses Ebusco.

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