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AVU AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1905
Seat Gevelsberg
management Board of Directors: Uwe Träris
Number of employees 471
sales 424 million euros
Branch Energy-and water supply
Website www.avu.de
Last updated 2012

AVU headquarters in Gevelsberg

The public limited company for supply companies ( AVU ) is a regional energy and water supply company based in Gevelsberg . The traditional supply area is the Ennepe-Ruhr district with the exception of the cities of Witten and Herdecke.

Surname

The entry in the commercial register is: AVU Aktiengesellschaft für utilities company. In public and in the press, the company is usually only called AVU for short.

Business area

AVU supplies private, business and industrial customers primarily in the southern Ennepe-Ruhr district with electricity , natural gas , water and heat .

Important holdings are AVU Netz GmbH, AVU Serviceplus GmbH (energy efficiency), Stadtwerke Hattingen GmbH (natural gas, water), AHE GmbH (disposal) and Verbund-Wasserwerk Witten GmbH.

history

The energy supplier (Kreiswerke) was founded on May 27, 1905. The occasion was the opening of the Ennepetalsperre and the district waterworks on the Ahlenbecke in Ennepetal . The power plant at Nirgena in Gevelsberg , which started operations in 1890, was sold by the city of Gevelsberg to the district works in 1906. The administrative headquarters of the Kreiswerke were moved from Schwelm to Gevelsberg in 1923 .

In 1940 the Kreiswerke bought the Neu-Wülfingsburg colliery in Esborn-Albringhausen, which was shut down in 1967.

The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis , newly founded in 1929, released the Kreiswerke into independence on October 1, 1943 and founded the Agfu "Aktiengesellschaft für Wirtschaftsunternehmen des Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis", into which the Gevelsberg and Schwelm municipal utilities were simultaneously incorporated .

The Agfa Photo AG saw in Agfu an infringement of its trademark. This was especially true because both companies used the same font for their signum. As a result of an out-of-court settlement with Agfa Foto AG, Agfu changed its name from January 1, 1963 to Aktiengesellschaft für Vertriebs -Unternehmen (AVU) .

The United Electricity Works Westphalia (VEW) in Dortmund in 1966 brought the supply systems operated by it in the Ennepe-Ruhr district into the AVU and took a 50 percent stake in the AVU.

In 1974 the conversion from coking to natural gas was completed in the entire supply area.

On March 31, 1976, the power station at Nirgena in Gevelsberg stopped producing electricity. It was demolished until 1984.

The first AVU customer center was opened in Augustastraße in Hattingen in 1978. Today there are customer centers in the cities of Breckerfeld , Ennepetal , Gevelsberg , Hattingen, Schwelm , Sprockhövel and Wetter (Ruhr) .

1979 to 1983: Operation of a district heating plant on Nirgena.

In 1979 the Rohland waterworks at the Ennepetalsperre was inaugurated.

Since 1982, the Volmarstein waterworks in Wetter has been fully owned by AVU, previously 50% AVU and 50% Wuppertaler Stadtwerke.

January 1, 2007: Foundation of AVU Netz GmbH, which implements the legal unbundling regulations for the liberalized energy market.

Shareholder structure

Shareholders million Euro proportion of
innogy SE, Essen 18.4 050.0
Ennepe-Ruhr district 10.7 029.1
City of Gevelsberg 04.7 012.8
City of Schwelm 02.5 006.9
City of Ennepetal 00.5 001.2
total 36.8 100.0

business development

Annual report 2016.

Web links

Commons : Public company for utilities  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annual Report 2016, (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  2. ↑ Hanno Trurnit: The Overhoff Diaries - Hundred Years of Energy in Ennepe and Ruhr . Ed .: AVU Aktiengesellschaft for utility companies. Herdecke 2005.
  3. ^ Karl Hebecker: Hiking in weather. Freiherr-vom-und-zum-Stein-Weg. ed. from the city of Wetter (Ruhr), 2012.

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 5.9 ″  E