Allgäu overland plant
| Allgäuer Überlandwerk GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | January 1, 1920 |
| Seat | Kempten (Allgäu) |
| management | Michael Lucke ( Managing Director ) Thomas Kiechle ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 300 (2009) |
| sales | EUR 183.8 million (2009) |
| Branch | power supply |
| Website | www.auew.de |
The Allgäu Überlandwerk ( AÜW ) is a regional German utility companies whose coverage area on the southern Schwaben (in particular, most of the Allgäu ), as well as the investment in energy supply Kleinwalsertal in the adjacent Austrian Kleinwalsertal extends. The company's headquarters are in Kempten . The AÜW is the largest regional electricity provider in the Allgäu with around 94,000 private and business customers. In 2009 the AÜW sold 1,055 million kWh of electricity. Most of the electricity is bought on the European exchanges; physically, most of the energy comes into the network area via adjacent upstream network operators using lines. In 2009, the AÜW generated around 73 million kilowatt hours from renewable energies in its own run-of-river power plants without external procurement .
history
The company was founded on January 1, 1920. The founding shareholders were Karl Böhm (also the first managing director) and the city of Kempten, represented by Mayor Otto Merkt . On June 11, 1929, the city of Kempten brought its electricity company into the company, and on January 1, 1938, the city gas works. When the demand for energy continued to rise rapidly in the years after the Second World War, the Allgäu overland plant took up earlier considerations for the construction of a Rottach dam and planned a reservoir about 100 hectares in size for a peak load power plant . Resistance arose from affected property owners and the neighboring communities of Moosbach and Petersthal , and a protection association for those affected was founded. Despite the somewhat uncoordinated resistance, the AÜW oriented itself differently and gave up the reservoir project (it was taken up again by the Free State of Bavaria in the 1970s and completed by 1992). In 1970 the Wertach power station, which had existed since 1920, was taken over, which had built the power station at Grüntensee in 1960 and put it into operation in 1961.
Shareholder
Hold shares in the GmbH (direct and indirect holdings combined):
- City of Kempten : 82.60%
- City of Immenstadt : 9.31%
- City of Lindau : 5.04%
- Community Mittelberg , Kleinwalsertal / Vorarlberg: 3.00%
- Community of Schwangau : 0.05%
Holdings
The AÜW is involved in:
- Energieversorgung Kleinwalsertal GesmbH (EVK), Riezlern (Kleinwalsertal): there has been a mutual electricity supply contract with the AÜW since 1933, the AÜW has been involved since the mid-1950s, and at the same time the Mittelberg community acquired its share in the AÜW
- Allgäuer Elektrohaus GmbH (AEH), Kempten, with branches in Kaufbeuren and Nesselwang: Founded in 1949 by the AÜW, today's area of responsibility is the planning and execution of installation work
- Kleinwalsertaler Bergbahn AG (KBB), Riezlern: with 51% as the main shareholder, in addition to the 45% share of Raiffeisen Holding Kleinwalsertal eGen . KBB was founded in 1954 and operates the Kanzelwandbahn built in 1955 under the umbrella brand “Das Höchst”, has been the sole owner of Oberstdorfer Fellhornbahn GmbH since 2005and since then has also held a 26% stake in Nebelhornbahn AG , owner of Walmendingerhornbahn , soleownersince July 1, 2009 Owner of Ifen Bergbahn GmbH u. Co (by taking over the 82% share of the industrial family Merckle and the 18% share of the family of the Kleinwalsertal tourism pioneer Alfons Herz), as well as the operator / partner of almost 20 ski lifts and several snow-making systems in the Fellhorn, Kanzelwand, Nebelhorn and Walmendingerhorn ski areas in the Allgäu Alps
- Allgäuer Kraftwerke GmbH , Sonthofen: Operator of three hydropower plants and with 12.4% one of the four shareholders of BioEnergie Oberallgäu GmbH , the operator of the Sonthofen wood-fired thermal power station completed in 2004
- Erdgas Kempten-Oberallgäu GmbH (EKO), Kempten: AÜW and Erdgas Schwaben each hold half. (The majority of Erdgas Schwaben belongs to the Thüga Group)
- Sozialbau Kempten Wohnungsbau GmbH , Kempten: AÜW has a 34.49% stake in the municipal housing company
- M-net Telekommunikation GmbH , Munich: minority stake (main shareholder: Stadtwerke München )
- RIWA GmbH Gesellschaft für Geoinformationen , Kempten: Provider of software system solutions in the areas of surveying, geoinformation , water management, facility management , citizen information
- AllgäuNetz GmbH & Co. KG , Kempten: founded on October 21, 2005 in accordance with the Energy Industry Act . The AÜW distribution network is leased to AllgäuNetz GmbH & Co. KG. The AÜW is the main shareholder, other shareholders are: Allgäuer Kraftwerke GmbH, Energieversorgung Oberstdorf GmbH, Energieversorgung Oy-Kressen eG, Energiegenossenschaft Mittelberg eG.
- Trianel GmbH : since 2008 one of over 40 municipal shareholders (as of May 2009)
- BioEnergie Allgäu GmbH & Co. KG , Kempten: one of the three shareholders, operator of the wood heating plant in Scheidegg, which was completed at the end of October 2009.
- egrid applications & consulting GmbH, Kempten; founded by AÜW in 2013, Siemens became a second partner in May 2017
In the early days of the company there were also smaller holdings in Elektroschmelzwerk Kempten AG (founded in 1922), in the mechanical weaving mill Fischen in Sonthofen-Berghofen and in Kieswerk Kempten GmbH.
Power plants
The company operates several of its own hydropower plants in the region. In addition, the AÜW has an indirect stake in the operating company of the Sonthofen wood-fired thermal power station, which was completed in 2004, through Allgäuer Kraftwerke GmbH . In 2005, the AÜW took part in the Trianel project for the combined cycle natural gas power plant in Schmehausen , which went into operation in 2007, with a 25 megawatt share worth over 5 million euros ; As one of the shareholders of Trianel GmbH, the AÜW has also been involved in the Lünen-Stummhafen hard coal power plant , which is currently under construction, and in other planned projects (Krefeld-Uerdingen coal power plant, Borkum-West II offshore wind farm ).
literature
- Otto Merkt: Ten years of the Allgäu overland plant. Kösel-Verlag , Kempten 1930.
Web links
- Website Allgäuer Überlandwerke
- Literature from and about the Allgäu Überlandwerk in the catalog of the German National Library
- The former mayor of Kempten Otto Merkt looking back on the intentions to found the AÜW ( memento from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (excerpt from the Merkt will, written at the end of 1942 after his dismissal by the National Socialists)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.auew.de/index.php?plink=mitarbeiter-des-auew . Retrieved January 12, 2011.
- ↑ Allgäu-Rundschau of October 6, 2010 ( 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. . Retrieved January 12, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.auew.de/index.php?plink=stromabgabe . Retrieved January 12, 2011.
- ↑ Allgäuer Zeitung of September 1, 2007 ( 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. . Retrieved January 19, 2011.
- ↑ Allgäuer Zeitung of July 31, 2007 ( 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. . Retrieved January 19, 2011.
- ↑ Allgäuer Zeitung of May 19, 2008 ( 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. . Retrieved January 19, 2011.
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 37.8 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 9.6 ″ E