Stadtwerke Münster
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1901 |
| Seat | Munster , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| management | Sebastian Jurczyk (Chair and Energy Department), Frank Gäfgen (Mobility) |
| Number of employees | 1,093 |
| sales | 547 million euros |
| Branch | Infrastructure |
| Website | www.stadtwerke-muenster.de |
| Status: 2017 | |
The Stadtwerke Münster GmbH is a municipal utility , the support of public utilities and the public transport in Münster . The municipal utilities provide the supply of electricity , natural gas , district heating and drinking water and are the basic supplier in the area of the city of Münster. They also operate the city's bus network , port and street lighting.
Stadtwerke Münster was founded in 1901, when the city of Münster combined its own electricity, gas and water operations. Eight years later, local transport was also handed over to her area of responsibility. In 1941 the company was released from urban responsibility and continued as an independent company, in 1967 it was reorganized into a limited liability company (GmbH).
The company is wholly owned by the city of Münster.
Company history
Prehistory and foundation
The oldest branch of Stadtwerke Münster is the city's first gasworks, which was opened in 1853 and supplied the new gas lamps from January 1, 1854. In 1880 the city put the first water pumping station and thus the public water supply via house connection into operation. From 1888 the city managed the gas and waterworks jointly, and from 1901 the new electricity company supplemented the city's supply portfolio. The first horse-drawn bus line was also opened in Münster in 1888, and after 13 years the first three electrically operated tram lines replaced horses in local public transport.
In 1901, the city merged the utilities in the municipal gas, electricity and water works, so there was water, electricity and gas from municipal sources in Münster. The year is therefore considered to be the founding year of today's Stadtwerke Münster. In 1909 the tram company was added, from then on the company ran under the name of Städtische Betriebsverwaltung .
Second World War
There is little information about the effects of the Nazi takeover of power on the municipal utilities, as hardly any documents from this time can be found. According to oral statements by former employees, the first general director of the Stadtwerke, Richard Tormin, was regarded by the Nazis as an "unpleasant plant manager"; he died in 1933 and was replaced by Franz Schräder. The fact that the National Socialist factory cell organization was active in the company is shown by a photo from the transport company from 1933 or 1935, which shows employees in front of the tram hall with a corresponding banner and sometimes with their arms raised in a Hitler salute.
In 1941, the companies were released from municipal administration and continued to operate independently as Stadtwerke Münster (Westf.) . The reason for this was the Ordinance on Company Ownership , which the National Socialists had issued on November 21, 1938. During the Second World War , many municipal utility employees were called up for military service; In 1940, for example, 108 of 682, five years later 195 of 790. Whether these gaps were also closed by prisoners of war and forced labor cannot be proven by the existing files, but due to similar processes in other supply facilities and the known use of prisoners of war for the City of Münster possible and likely.
The city of Münster was heavily bombed several times during the war; 90% of the city center was in ruins at the end of the war. The generation and supply systems of the municipal utilities were largely destroyed or badly damaged. Just a few days after the city of Münster surrendered on April 2, 1945, the municipal utilities resumed the basic supply of the population, first with electricity and water, and later with gas.
post war period
From the 1950s onwards, the responsibility of the municipal utilities expanded significantly: in 1953 they were assigned the operation of the Münster inland port , which was previously operated by the city itself. The city also gave them the Stadtbad am Zoo in 1956 , and in 1966 the rest of the baths, which they kept until 1983. After that, the city took over the pool operation on its own again. In 1967 the previous city-owned company was reorganized into a limited liability company to make the company more flexible on the one hand, but also to limit the financial risks for the city on the other. However, the city of Münster remained the sole shareholder.
In 1968, the Münster and Dinslaken municipal utilities founded the Westfälische Fernwärmeversorgung GmbH as a joint subsidiary , adding district heating to the portfolio.
As a result of the municipal reorganization in 1975 by the Münster / Hamm Act , the city area - and thus the supply area of the municipal utilities - increased from 74 to 302 km² and by 60,000 new residents who were previously supplied by the United Electricity Works Westphalia (VEW).
Recent history
In September 1996, the Stadtwerke founded Citykom, which was to provide telecommunications services for the citizens of Münster as a subsidiary. With the fall of Telekom's telecommunications monopoly on January 1, 1998, the company began operations as one of the first local telephone and Internet providers (city carriers) . As of July 1, 1998, Helsinki Telephone Corporation took a 25.1% stake in the company. At the end of 1998 Citykom had 4,000 customers in Münster. A year later, 7,000 private and 1,600 business customers called the local provider. However, since business did not develop as expected, the municipal utilities decided to transfer Citykom 2000 to the new company Tropolys , in which they from then on held 11.1% of the shares. In 2003, the Stadtwerke also sold these shares to Elisa and thus withdrew from the telecommunications business. In 2017, the municipal utility began to re-enter broadband internet. To this end, they have been laying their own fiber optic network in the Kreuzviertel near the city center since 2018 , and the Hansaviertel at the port will follow from 2019. Stadtwerke is investing 10 million euros in this. In the long term, fast internet via fiber optic into the home is to be offered throughout Münster.
In 2001 the city council decided with a majority of the CDU and FDP to sell 49% of the municipal utilities to a private investor . Against this sale, a group of volunteers who had collected more than 17,000 signatures against the council decision in 2002, so one was formed referendum forced. On June 16, 2002, 42,929 people from Münster (65.4%) voted against privatization and 22,706 (34.6%) in favor. Since the opponents were also able to achieve the 20% quorum, the council decision was invalid, the municipal utilities remained 100% in the hands of the city. More information in the section “ Attempted partial privatization 2001/2002 ”.
On January 1, 2006, the Stadtwerke took over the operation of the street lighting from the city of Münster. For this they paid the city around 21 million euros, but received a flat rate of 14.69 euros per luminaire (2006), i.e. around 4.5 million euros a year. The reason for this was that the Stadtwerke had done around 85% of the work in the previous years. In addition, the city wanted to raise electricity tax benefits of around € 60,000 per year through the postponement.
In 2007 the city council decided with a majority of the CDU and FDP that the municipal utilities should participate in the construction of the new units of the coal-fired power station in Westphalia . Stadtwerke then acquired around 2% of the Steinkohle Hamm GmbH & Co. KG power station for 40 million euros . In 2015, after a request from the SPD, Greens, Linke, ödp, UWG and pirates to sell their participation for ecological and financial reasons, the municipal utilities withdrew from the project and sold their shares in the power plant. In the same year, the Stadtwerke used electric buses for the first time. The buses from the manufacturer VDL were funded through the European research project Zero Emission Urban Bus System (ZeEUS).
Operating areas
care
gas
From 1841, the city council planned to introduce gas supplies to supplement the old oil lamps. Due to disputes about the financing, it was not until 1852 that the Aachen entrepreneur A. Sabey built the plant as municipal property and received a 25-year monopoly on gas production in Münster as a tenant. In 1853 the first lanterns were connected to the gas network. After disagreements between Sabey and the city, the lease was terminated in 1872, after which the city took over the gas works.
The gasworks had already reached its capacity limit by 1890, also because it was now supplying more and more households. Therefore a new gas plant was opened in 1897, the old one was shut down. However, this too was only able to keep up with the increasing demand for a few years, so that the city was supplied with long-distance gas from the coking plant of the Radbod colliery near Hamm from 1917 . During the Second World War the pipeline and the two gasometers were hit by bombs, so that the gas supply failed again and again. After the end of the war, the municipal utilities supplied the first households with gas again in the spring of 1947, and a year later all of them were connected to the gas network. In 1952 a new gasometer with a storage capacity of 75,000 cubic meters was opened to replace the old gasometer.
In 1971 the municipal utilities switched their supply from coke oven gas to natural gas. In 2004 the gasometer was taken out of operation and instead an underground natural gas pipe storage facility with 260,000 m³ of storage capacity was built in the Albachten district . However, the gasometer remains as a protected industrial monument.
Stadtwerke Münster supplies type “L” natural gas in the Münster urban area ; “H” gas is only supplied in the Sprakel district . There are two network coupling points for L-gas in Mecklenbeck and one in Roxel, and one in Sprakel for H-gas.
water
A public water supply with house connections was established in Münster in 1880. The city opened the first pumping station in Mecklenbeck that year . In addition, the Buddenturm was converted into a water tower in order to ensure the supply and sufficient water pressure.
The rapidly increasing consumption - from 676 consumers with around 400,000 cubic meters in 1880 to over 4,000 consumers with over 1.7 million cubic meters in 1900 - required new waterworks, so that between 1888 and 1899 three more pumping stations were in operation in the Vennheide area in the south of the city were taken. In 1903 the water tower "Auf der Geist" was put into operation, which holds up to 2500 cubic meters of water. In 1906, the fifth pumping station along the Münsterland gravel sand train , the Hohe Ward waterworks, was opened in the then still independent community of Hiltrup .
The installation of a de-ironing system in the Hohe Ward caused the temporary shutdown in 1911, for which a sixth pumping station was opened in the Vennheide. In 1913 the Mecklenbeck plant had to be shut down for hygienic reasons. Due to the increasing demand for water, the municipal utilities began to take water from the Dortmund-Ems Canal in the Hohe Ward area and to allow it to seep away using the groundwater recharge process . Contrary to the original plan, pumping station VI was expanded for permanent operation after 1925.
During the Second World War, the pumping stations and the water supply network were also damaged. In the financial year 1944/1945 the water loss was 54%, at the end of the period 450 water pipe bursts had to be removed. After the war, the restoration of the water supply was treated with urgency level I; the pumping stations were primarily supplied with the scarce electricity, the reconstruction carried out with priority. The first pumping stations went back into operation in April 1945, and three years later the supply network was complete again. While the Buddenturm was no longer prepared as a water tower, the Geist water tower survived the war “disguised” as a church and remained in operation.
In 1945/1946 the plants pumped 1.7 million cubic meters of water as they did in 1900. By 1950 this value rose to 5.8 million cubic meters, and by 1955 to over 8 million cubic meters. In 1957, the municipal utilities opened another waterworks in the Kinderhaus . Since the demand continued to grow faster than the production, the municipal utilities signed a contract with Gelsenwasser in 1958 , which from then on supplied additional water. In 1973, the latest plant to date went into operation in Münster-Handorf in the Hornheide Haskenau area.
Today Stadtwerke Münster operates four waterworks. These are the Geist / Vennheide location opened in 1888 (processing capacity 1000 m³ / h), the pumping station V in the Hohen Ward (1000 m³ / h), which has existed since 1906, as well as the two newer systems in Kinderhaus (150 m³ / h) and Hornheide Haskenau (1200 m³ / h). The first three systems are located on the Münsterländer gravel sand train, the latter on the Urems channel . The four plants pump over 10 million cubic meters of water annually and thus cover around two thirds of Münster's water requirements. The other third is bought by Gelsenwasser's municipal utilities; it comes from the Haltern waterworks .
electricity
In 1898 the decision was made to build a municipal power station in order to operate an electric tram and to improve street lighting. In 1900, Elektrizitäts-AG, formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. in Frankfurt am Main, was awarded the contract . In May 1901, the first machine for delivering electricity to the tram went online, and a year and a half later construction was completed. The plant was purely a direct current plant ; two generators were set up to convert it into three-phase current to transport electricity over long distances . In order to circumvent this complex procedure, a three-phase generator was installed in 1904. An expansion of the power station was necessary as early as 1910. A steam turbine with a single armature converter was introduced. Since it was not possible to enlarge the plant at the site, a contract was signed with Elektrizitätswerk Westfalen AG in Bochum (since 1925: Vereinigte Elektrizitätswerke Westfalen (VEW)) for the supply of electricity. The necessary transformers were installed in the power station. In this way, the municipal utilities were able to meet the population's increasing demand for electricity.
On September 12, 1944, the power station was completely destroyed by bombs, so that self-generation came to a standstill. As early as April 13, eleven days after the city surrendered, VEW was able to restore a rudimentary, temporary power supply. The power plant, which was originally intended to be dismantled, was rebuilt by 1951.
The old power plant was operated until 1977 and then replaced by a new coal-fired power plant (HKW). From there the city was supplied with electricity and district heating . Most of the coal was brought to the port by ship via the Dortmund-Ems Canal and stored there in the coal bunker directly on the quay wall.
In 1988 Stadtwerke Münster got into renewable energies . At Havichhorster Mühle on the River Werse , the municipal utilities opened a hydroelectric power station this year , which supplies around 240,000 kWh of electrical energy per year. In 1992, the wind power plant built together with the Borkum municipal utility went into operation on the North Sea island . Since 1997, all of the biowaste from Münster has been fermented in the biowaste fermentation plant and turned into electricity in a neighboring combined heat and power plant.
In 1990 - after initial difficulties two years later than planned - the first system for combined desulphurisation and denitrification of flue gases from coal-fired power stations in Block 3 of the coal-fired power station went into operation using the so-called DeSONOx process. It was developed by the municipal utilities together with Degussa , Lurgi and Lentjes , and the installation was funded by the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology . The system can remove up to 90% of the nitrogen oxides and 94% of the sulfur dioxide from the flue gases; these values were somewhat lower in the Münster demonstration system. The waste product is 70 percent sulfuric acid , which is used in industry. In 1992, another system went into operation in Block 2.
In 2005 the coal-fired power plant was shut down and demolished. On August 24, 2006, a fire broke out in the flue gas cleaning system . Due to the enormous heat and smoke development, two fire engines from the Münster professional fire department, ten fire engines from the Münster volunteer fire department, an articulated mast from the BASF Coatings company fire department and a crane from the Dortmund professional fire department arrived .
The power plant was replaced in 2005 by the modern, more environmentally friendly combined cycle power plant Münster Hafen , which has an efficiency of 88% and has tripled the energy production at the port to 570,000 MWh per year. That corresponds to around half of Münster's energy requirements. Since June 2011, Stadtwerke Münster has also been offering electricity to private customers outside the city of Münster. The core area of the expansion is the Münsterland.
According to the electricity labeling of Stadtwerke Münster, 60.3% of the electricity supplied in 2018 came from renewable sources, 34.6% from fossil fuels and 5.7% from nuclear power.
District heating
The subsidiary Westfälische Fernwärmeversorgung GmbH, founded in 1968, took over two heating plants built by Ruhrkohle in Münster , which supplied the university and parts of the north-eastern city center with district heating . With the commissioning of the coal power plant at the port in 1977 also in increased cogeneration district heating produced by Stadtwerke significantly in the area of downtown.
In 1986 the first block-type thermal power station (BHKW) at the education center of the Federal Finance Administration in Gievenbeck supplemented the district heating portfolio of the municipal utilities. Today there are ten CHPs and an additional 24 small CHPs in multi-family houses or public facilities that generate local heating and are mostly operated with natural gas. Landfill, sewage and biogas are used for incineration in the Coerde bio-waste fermentation plant, and sewage gases in the Loddenbach CHP.
The coal-fired cogeneration plant was replaced in 2005 by the combined cycle power plant , which also took over the district heating for the inner city areas. The old coal storage facility at the port was converted into a district heating storage facility in 2007 . If more heat is generated than is consumed, it is stored in 8000 cubic meter water tanks and released again when demand increases. In this way, the operation of the power plant can be smoothed and energy can be saved. In 2016, this storage facility was expanded to include a power-to-heat system with a capacity of 22 MW, which enables the more flexible integration of wind energy into the energy system. The system can be switched on within 30 seconds and reach its nominal output within 5 minutes, which means it can provide secondary control power . 1.7 million euros were invested.
Around 20% of Münster's heating requirements are covered by district heating.
traffic
tram
On August 8, 1888, the coachman Heinrich Hagenschneider opened a horse-drawn bus network in the city of Münster . He maintained two lines between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. In 1895 the city set up a commission to examine the use of an electric tram. Ultimately, the Elektrizitäts-AG, formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co., received the order in 1900 to build the tram together with the Elektrizitritäts-Werk. In addition, the company received a ten-year lease for the tram network. On July 13, 1901, the three lines were opened, marked with the colors red, yellow and green. Due to inefficiency, however, the green one was quickly deleted and partly served by the red one.
Since the operation was quickly profitable, the city wanted to expand the network, which the Elektrizitäts-AG did not agree to, so the lease was canceled. In 1909, therefore, the tram operation passed into the hands of the city, which expanded the network accordingly in 1910 with a new green line and made it a longer blue line in 1913. In 1913 the city registered five million passengers in the expanded network, with twelve kilometers it reached its greatest extent.
Because of the galloping inflation and lack of coal, the blue line was stopped first in 1920 and then the entire tram service on September 30, 1922. The yellow and red lines were not reconnected until February 1924, and then the blue lines in July. From 1925 on, buses were introduced that served branch lines.
The tram was badly damaged in World War II. From 1941 on, the tracks were bombed and traffic was restricted. When the electrical works were destroyed in 1944, the tram had to be completely shut down due to a lack of electricity. After the end of the war, the network was restored: On November 13, 1946, the first train ran on Line 2 (formerly yellow). In 1948 the former red line was also partially reactivated as line 1. In the meantime, the municipal utilities have been using buses and trucks to transport people.
The immediate post-war period could not be used for a comprehensive modernization of the vehicle fleet. Modern post-war trams were no longer used in Münster. Instead, the transport planner Max-Erich Feuchtinger recommended switching to trolleybuses . Most of the tram units and motor vehicles still in existence at the time, as well as the associated infrastructure (contact line, rails), were demolished. More recent railcars and motor vehicles were used in the cities of Osnabrück and Würzburg . One of these tram cars, number 65, found its way back to Münster in 1993 and can now be viewed in a fully restored condition in town house 3.
trolleybus
On 1 October 1949, the Stadtwerke opened the first 3.9 km long O bus -line, two years later it became a ring line adds. Defective tracks ultimately marked the end of the tram in 1953: the council spoke out against renewal and in favor of trolleybus operation on lines 1 and 2 as well. In October 1954, the trolleybus took over line 2, and on November 24th, line 1 was the last tram to transport people in Münster. From that day on, local public transport was carried out entirely with trolleybuses and omnibuses.
Ultimately, however, the trolleybuses were too problematic. In terms of the routing, they were only slightly more flexible than trams, and they were not very weather-resistant: when it rained, the carbon brushes on the pantograph wore out very quickly, and when the temperature was around freezing, two trolleybuses had to drive off the network permanently to prevent the overhead lines from icing over.
In 1962 the municipal utilities decided to only use buses with diesel engines , and the first three articulated trains were purchased in the same year . Trolleybuses drove through Münster for another six years, and on May 25, 1968, trolleybus operations ended completely. Since other cities also abolished the trolleybuses at that time, it was not possible to resell the vehicles.
omnibus
With 18 new vehicles, the diesel buses took over the trolleybus lines by 1968. Along with this innovation, the conductor was also dropped; ticket sales in the vehicle were taken over by the drivers until 1971. The first female bus driver was sent to the line in 1979 after women had been trained as car drivers as early as 1917 during the First World War.
In 1975, the Münster / Hamm Act expanded the urban area and thus also the public transport sector. However, since the new parts of the city were mostly served by regional bus companies, different tariffs applied there. These were harmonized in 1978 with the establishment of the Münster transport association. At the same time, the municipal utilities also put their own lines into operation in most parts of the city. In 1983 the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Münsterland (VGM) was founded, which offers a uniform tariff throughout the Münsterland .
With the call collective taxi (AST) in 1993, the municipal utilities also introduced a night bus system on weekends , and from 1995 on every weekday . In 2001 the AST was dropped, instead there was a "real" night bus system without prior registration. In 2006, the night network was reorganized again: Instead of an evening network between 8 p.m. and midnight on the lines of the day network with reduced frequency and a subsequent night network, an offer is served from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. a week and continuously on the weekend.
In the process of the planned partial privatization, the City Council of Münster planned in 2001 to outsource the bus drivers to a new company. This plan was implemented on July 1, so that the drivers were no longer subject to a collective agreement. After a ballot by ver.di on July 3rd, the Stadtwerke drivers went on strike on July 4th and again from July 9th. With the help of private subcontractors, the municipal utilities kept traffic on the night network all day. After enough signatures were available at the end of July to force a referendum, the council withdrew the decision, so that the drivers resumed their work on August 1st and were transferred back to the municipal utilities. The TV-N sectoral collective agreement was introduced there. Subsequent surveys showed that the people of Münster showed understanding for the strike and solidarity with the drivers, but also that the strike restricted only a few in their mobility.
Stadtwerke Münster currently operates 20 city buses and two shuttle bus lines (18: Hiltrup - Wolbeck; 19: Coerde - Kinderhaus - Sprakel) in the daytime network and six lines in the nighttime network. The public utilities share the concessions for individual lines with Regionalverkehr Münsterland (RVM), Westfalenbus and Kraftverkehr Münsterland / Weilke. As subcontractor addition, companies are Jungnitsch / Theo's Reisen , Erfmann Travel , Travel Service as Bils , Verkehrsbetrieb Schäpers and transport companies Bils own vehicles on different courses go.
The main hub is the main station , which is served by all lines. This results in a star-shaped network in which most of the lines run from the edge towards the city center and from there to other suburbs. The biggest point of criticism of the system was the lack of a ring line that directly connects the outdoor areas. Their introduction in October 2016 further increases the attractiveness of the urban bus network. Since 1993, the so-called “city cycle” has generally been in effect. The daily rhythm is 20 minutes, on the main traffic axes an exact 10-minute cycle is achieved by bundling lines. During rush hour there are additional relief trips (marked with an "E" in front of the line number) between the city districts and the city center. Between 9 p.m. and midnight, the night network operates at 30 minutes, then every 60 minutes for the night bus.
In surveys on customer satisfaction, the municipal utilities regularly take top positions; the TNS-Emnid customer barometer survey in 2003, 2004, 2011 and 2012 was won. The “Talking Stops” project, in which the blind can read out the next departures at many inner city stops at the push of a button, was recognized in 2008 as one of the “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” as part of the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative . With 46 million passengers, more people rode in Münster's buses in 2018 than ever before.
At the end of August 2012, the Stadtwerke put their first two hybrid buses of the type Mercedes-Benz Citaro GDH into operation. Since 2015, all- battery buses from the Dutch manufacturer VDL Bus & Coach have been running on line 14 . As part of the ZeEUS project, the line is operated entirely by electric buses. Five more electric buses were purchased in 2018, and the municipal utilities in Münster want to use 100 electric buses in public transport by 2030.
Stadtwerke Münster group
Stadtwerke Münster is a limited liability company. The city of Münster is the sole shareholder, so the Stadtwerke are to be regarded as a municipal company .
Attempted partial privatization 2001/2002
In 2001 the city council decided with a majority of the CDU and FDP to sell 49% of the municipal utilities to a private investor . Against this sale, a citizens' initiative was formed around the former SPD mayor Marion Tüns and the former student pastor Otto Meyer. In February 2002 the initiative of the city of Münster handed over 17,009 signatures against the decision. Since the council did not want to comply with the citizens ' demand after the municipal utilities had been retained, a referendum was started.
The CDU used the slogan “We in Münster are not yesterday” to attract voters. She cited seven arguments in favor of partial privatization: Only with a strong partner could the municipal utilities secure jobs, strengthen their market position and open up new areas of business. The example of the telephone also shows that consumers are benefiting from falling monopolies. A quarter of the money raised should go to the school renovation, the remaining three quarters to the repayment of the city's debts. Finally, the time is good because many potential partners are interested in the municipal utilities and many municipalities have had good experiences. In 2001 the council expected to be able to collect up to 400 million Deutschmarks.
The citizens' initiative, however, argued that the municipal utilities are indispensable for the common good and guarantee a safe and citizen-friendly energy supply with electricity, gas, water and heat in municipal hands. Supply and local transport should not be left to a company that only strives to maximize profits. The Stadtwerke support the city's budget with around 15.5 million euros annually, plus 15.5 million euros in subsidies for the transport company and 41 million euros in contracts for the Münster economy. The municipal utilities are "the valuable silverware" that the CDU wants to sell for debt repayment.
The referendum finally took place on June 16, 2002. The question was: "Should the city of Münster remain the sole shareholder of Stadtwerke Münster GmbH?" 42,929 (65.4%) people from Münster voted “yes”, 22,706 (34.6%) voted “no”. Since the necessary “yes” quorum was exceeded by 20% of all eligible voters, the referendum was adopted and binding for the council for two years. Economists at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität criticized the decision as a result, and Stadtwerke management and CDU were also disappointed. The then Stadtwerke managing directors Norbert Ohlms and Werner Spickenheuer reacted to the result with the announcement that they now want to enter into more horizontal cooperation with other municipal utilities.
Holdings
The municipal utilities are directly involved in several companies. In addition to operational holdings, there are also some originally municipal holdings in the Münster municipal utilities that do not directly serve the operational purpose. The municipal office for finance and holdings is responsible for the management of the municipal utilities as a direct subsidiary as well as the indirect holdings.
Verkehrsservice Gesellschaft Münster mbH (VSM) and münsterNETZ GmbH, as well as a company that operates a wind farm, are fully owned by Stadtwerke . These companies are fully consolidated in the Stadtwerke's balance sheet as affiliated companies .
- VSM was the "driver company" of Stadtwerke Münster. It was founded in 2001 with the aim of integrating bus drivers into public utility services. This was prevented by the bus drivers' strike in summer 2001. Since then, all new drivers have been hired at VSM until 2018. As part of an in-house award , the drivers then took on liner services for the municipal utilities and school transport for the city of Münster. In 2018 the VSM bus drivers were transferred back to the municipal utilities. The dissolution of VSM was followed by numerous lawsuits by VSM employees against Stadtwerke Münster GmbH. This concerned an inadmissible leasing of workers from Stadtwerke Münster GmbH to VSM. In order to continue using VSM as a personnel service provider for Stadtwerke Münster GmbH, z. B. had to set up a separate control center. Since this was viewed as unprofitable, the known dissolution took place. To date there has been no judicial decision at a labor court.
- The network company münsterNETZ is the network operator for electricity, gas, water and district heating in the concession areas of Stadtwerke Münster. It was founded in 2005 to comply with the politically desired separation of network and sales (so-called unbundling ). This also gives competitors non-discriminatory and transparent access to the network under the same conditions.
- Bürgerwindpark Löningen GmbH & Co. KG operates seven wind turbines with a capacity of 14 MW in Löningen . Stadtwerke Münster took over this by acquiring the company.
The municipal utilities are also involved in:
- Westfälische Fernwärmeversorgung GmbH: Together with Stadtwerke Dinslaken , the company takes over part of the district heating supply in Münster. Both companies hold 50% of the company.
- Windkraft Nordseeheilbad Borkum GmbH: Together with Stadtwerke Borkum , the company operates a wind power plant on Borkum. Stadtwerke Münster hold 49.9%.
- smart Optimo GmbH & Co: All counting and measuring activities (electricity, gas, water, district heating) have been outsourced to this company. This happened as part of the KOSMOS2020 project (for: Kommunale Stadtwerke Münster Osnabrück ), in which the Stadtwerke Osnabrück and Münster cooperate. Stadtwerke Münster hold 38%.
- items GmbH: items was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the former IT unit of Stadtwerke Münster and is the IT service provider. In the meantime, other companies from the energy and local transport sectors are involved in the company. Stadtwerke Münster holds the largest share with 31%.
- Westfälische Bauindustrie GmbH: Operator of multi-storey car parks in Münster: 99%. Remaining 1%: City of Münster.
- NDIX BV: Nederlands-Duitse Internet Exchange, 50%
In addition, Stadtwerke Münster maintains pure capital investments :
- FMO Flughafen Münster-Osnabrück GmbH: The City of Münster's share in Münster / Osnabrück Airport is held by the municipal utilities, 35%
- Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn GmbH, 14%
- Local radio Münster Betriebsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG: operator of Antenne Münster , 25%
- Green GECCO: Operation of power plants based on renewable energies, together with 25 municipal utilities and RWE Innogy : 8%
Key figures
Results of the last two financial years (figures in million euros):
| 2018 | 2017 | |
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| Sales | 547 | 547 |
| Annual surplus | 26.8 | 14.1 |
Key figures of the supply areas 2018:
| Submission | Self-generation | Net length | |
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| electricity | 1,242 million kWh | 423 million kWh | 3,638 km |
| natural gas | 2,078 million kWh | - | 966 km |
| District heating | 574 million kWh | 580 million kWh | 121 km |
| Drinking water | 17.1 million m³ | 13.3 million m³ | 1,108 km |
Key figures of the transport company 2018:
| 2012 | |
|---|---|
| Passengers | 46.3 million people |
| vehicles | approx. 120 own buses |
| Operating performance | approx. 10 million wagon-km |
literature
- Stadtmuseum Münster (Ed.): Energy & Movement. 100 years of Stadtwerke Münster. Munster 2001.
- Stadtwerke Münster (ed.): Mobile in Münster. 120 years of local transport. Münster 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The management of Stadtwerke Münster In: stadtwerke-muenster.de, accessed on November 29, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e f Annual Report 2018 (PDF) on the website of Stadtwerke Münster.
- ↑ a b Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, p. 39.
- ↑ Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, p. 39 f.
- ↑ a b Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, p. 41.
- ↑ Forced labor for the city administration on the pages of the Münster City Archives
- ↑ a b Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, p. 32.
- ↑ Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, p. 43.
- ^ Annual report of Stadtwerke Münster 1998, p. 50 f.
- ^ Annual report of Stadtwerke Münster 1999, p. 50.
- ↑ Stadtwerke Münster's blog: "Broadband is coming to Münster!"
- ↑ a b referendum on the website of the electoral office of the city of Münster
- ↑ Public draft resolution V / 0806/2005 (PDF; 25 kB) on the website of the City of Münster
- ↑ Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, pp. 14-16.
- ↑ a b Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, pp. 31–34.
- ↑ a b Stadtwerke Münster: Sign at the entrance to the site of the water tower. Read on August 9, 2010.
- ↑ Stadtmuseum 2001, pp. 17–22.
- ↑ Flyer "Alles Klar" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.5 MB) on the website of Stadtwerke Münster
- ↑ Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, pp. 22–25.
- ↑ VDI Wissensforum: Equipment in flue gas cleaning (PDF), p. 14.
- ↑ Norbert Ohlms: DESONOX Process for Flue Gas Cleaning, in: Catalysis Today , Volume 16, Edition 2.doi: 10.1016 / 0920-5861 (93) 85022-R
- ↑ GuD system ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Stadtwerke Münster
- ↑ Electricity labeling 2018 on the website of Stadtwerke Münster.
- ↑ In Westphalia, too, heat from wind power ( memento of the original dated February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: newspaper for local economy , February 2, 2016. Accessed February 2, 2016.
- ↑ Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, p. 27.
- ↑ Stadtwerke Münster 2008, p. 6.
- ↑ Stadtmuseum Münster 2001, p. 28.
- ↑ Stadtwerke Münster 2008, p. 13.
- ↑ Stadtwerke Münster 2008, p. 16 f.
- ↑ Archive 2001: Bus-News from Münster on the website of the Munster Omnibus Association.
- ↑ Results of the "Münster Barometer" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 163 kB) on the website of the University of Münster.
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten of September 21, 2001: No stress with the strike ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ↑ Database liner concession of the Münster district government ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten of January 14, 2011: No shuttle buses in the city .
- ↑ Stadtwerke back in first place , press release by Stadtwerke Münster from 23 August 2012
- ↑ Project “Talking Stops” ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the initiative Germany - Land of Ideas
- ↑ Two hybrid buses commence regular service in Münster , according to the OmbinusRevue on 23 August 2012
- ↑ The E-Bus: on the move quietly , blog article by Stadtwerke Münster from April 23, 2015
- ↑ The depot will be electric for new e-buses. In: Stadtwerke-Münster-Blog. August 28, 2018, accessed December 13, 2018 (German).
- ↑ CDU flyer “We're not yesterday in Münster” (PDF; 1.6 MB) on the Attac website.
- ↑ Flyer of the citizens' initiative “Pro Stadtwerke = Pro Münster” (PDF; 93 kB) on the website of Attac Münster.
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten of June 16, 2002: Disappointment and joy after the ride on the razor blade .
- ↑ Our holdings ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Stadtwerke Münster
- ↑ The participation management of the city ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the city of Münster.
- ↑ Klaus Baumeister: Stadtwerke bus driver back to mother. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Klaus Baumeister: Bus travel as a form of temporary work? Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Münster: In the future, bus drivers will return to the municipal utilities. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Strom Magazin: Unbundling: Stadtwerke Münster found network company on November 24, 2005.
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