Working group of regional energy supply companies
| Association of regional energy supply companies (ARE) |
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| purpose | Industry association of regional energy supply companies in Germany |
| Establishment date: | 1971 |
| Seat : | Hanover |
The consortium of regional energy supply companies (ARE) was an amalgamation of regional energy supply companies ( regional suppliers ) in Germany .
The ARE worked as an industry association , carried out lobbying, public relations and information work, served the exchange of experience and the coordination of member companies for a uniform, safe and economical energy supply for large economic areas.
history
The association came into being in 1950, initially informally as a working group under the umbrella of the Association of German Electricity Works (VDEW). In 1971 the ARE received the status of an independent organization as an association based in Hanover.
At the end of the 1980s, the association had around 40 member companies. With German reunification , the number of members briefly rose to 55, but then fell to only 34 in the course of the 1990s due to mergers.
In September 2002, the ARE merged with the Association of German Verbundwirtschaft (VdV) to form the Association of Network Companies and Regional Energy Suppliers in Germany (VRE), which in turn merged five years later, in 2007, into the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management (BDEW).
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonhard Müller: Handbook of the electricity industry: Technical, economic and legal bases . 2nd Edition. Springer, 2001, ISBN 3-540-67637-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ Martin Schacht: Local and regional energy supply concepts (= contributions to applied economic research . Volume 17 ). Duncker & Humblot, 1988, ISBN 3-428-06379-1 .
- ^ A b Udo Leuschner : Corporations merge regional subsidiaries. Retrieved January 25, 2012 .