Sonnen managing director Philipp Schröder spoke to Recharge about the solar storage specialist's plans to transform itself into a 'utility of the future' that offers energy services connecting individual storage systems to a kind of swarm that can provide system functions and much cheaper power prices.

After Chinese energy company Envision recently took a stake in Sonnen, the German company is now also contemplating holding an IPO within the next two years  – but only if it can remain independent.

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