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BKW Energie AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN CH0021607004
founding 1909
Seat Bern , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Urs Gasche
( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Suzanne Thoma
(Chief Executive Officer)
Number of employees 10,000 (2020)
sales 2.71 billion CHF (2019)
Branch power supply
Website www.bkw.ch

Share for CHF 500 in Bernische Kraftwerke AG on April 5, 1909
BKW headquarters, Viktoriaplatz (Bern)

The BKW Energie AG (BKW, formerly Bernese Kraftwerke AG and FMB, Forces Motrices bernoises SA ) is an international energy - and infrastructure company based in Bern , Switzerland. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and on the Berne eXchange listed . BKW supplies one million people in around 400 communities with electricity. In 2010 it supplied private customers and sales partners with over 8,153 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy.

history

BKW's roots as “Aktiengesellschaft Elektrizitätswerk Hagneck” go back to 1898. Eduard Will (1854–1927), a trader from Nidau, was the driving force behind the construction of the Hagneck factory. He is considered the actual founder of BKW and becomes its general director in 1919. The name "Bernische Kraftwerke" (BKW) has been used since 1909. The official French translation of the company's name is “Forces Motrices Bernoises” (FMB). Since 2013 the company has been operating under the name “BKW Energie AG”.

With an energy turnover of 26.68 terawatt hours (TWh), the company is one of the large energy companies in Switzerland that is integrated into the European network and employs around 2,800 people in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland as well as in neighboring countries. Most of the share capital of CHF 132 million is owned by the Canton of Bern ; he is the majority shareholder with 52.54 percent. 10 percent belong to Groupe E AG, 7.03 percent to the German energy group E.ON , 9.99 percent are owned by BKW; the rest (20.44 percent) are public shares (as of 2011).

In September 2019, BKW announced the takeover of the Swisspro Group, which has yet to be approved by the Competition Commission . Swisspro is active in the field of building technology ( information and communication technology , building automation and electrical installation ).

Transmission and distribution network

The company is responsible for the electricity supply of the Canton of Bern (with the exception of the cities of Bern, Biel and Thun), the Canton of Jura and the surrounding areas. It supplies around 400 communities. BKW operates around 22,000 kilometers on all seven voltage levels: at local, regional, supraregional and national level; The majority of the 14,790 kilometers of line kilometers are accounted for by the regional network with a voltage of 0.4 kV. BKW Transmission Netz AG owns around 12% of the Swiss transmission network ( maximum voltage ), consisting of lines and transformers with a voltage of 380 kV and 220 kV. BKW supplies the city ​​and agglomeration of Bern via two 220 kV feed lines. Together with the power company Laufenburg (EGL), it operates with the Gemmileitung the longest 380-kV line in Switzerland of Creux de Chippis in the canton of Valais to Laufenburg . Between Innertkirchen , Littau and Mettlen near Inwil there is a 220 kV joint line run by BKW and the Zurich City Electricity Company (EWZ).

The Gemmileitung at the frozen Daubensee

Power plants

Nuclear power plants

Mühleberg nuclear power plant

The company is the sole owner and operator of the Mühleberg nuclear power plant . The power plant went online in 1972 as the second commercial Swiss nuclear power plant. Since the start of production, the nuclear power plant has generated a total of more than 105,733 million kWh of electricity (as of January 2012). On December 4, 2008, it submitted a general license application for the replacement of this nuclear power plant. After the serious nuclear disaster in Fukushima , the Federal Council suspended the general license application. At the end of 2013, BKW decided to take the Mühleberg nuclear power plant off the grid in 2019, which actually took place on December 20, 2019. The lost amount of electricity can be obtained on the international electricity market .

The company has subscription rights from the French nuclear power plants Cattenom and Fessenheim in order to cover bottlenecks in domestic production in winter. BKW has a 14.7 percent stake in the Swiss Leibstadt nuclear power plant .

Hydropower plants

Around 40 percent of BKW's electricity production comes from hydropower. The company produces and purchases more than 4,000 GWh annually from its own power plants and from around 20 holdings. All of our own power plants are certified in accordance with the ISO 14001 environmental management standard. Electricity from the Aarberg hydropower plant has been certified with the “nature made star” seal of approval . In addition to the run-of-river power plants along the Aare, BKW also has stakes in storage power plants, e.g. B. at the Oberhasli power plants or the Sanetsch power plant ; BKW has a 50 percent stake in each of these two plants.

Gas power plants

The company operates an 800 MW gas power plant in Livorno Ferraris (Italy) together with E.ON Italia . BKW has a 25 percent stake in this power plant. A 104 MW gas power plant is under construction in Ortona (Italy) together with Tamarete Energie SA. In Switzerland there are plans for a 400 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant with heat recovery in Utzenstorf , but these plans are not being pursued at the moment. BKW is involved in the 400 MW gas power plant project in Cornaux (Switzerland).

Coal power plants

Because of the planned construction of a 900 MW hard coal power plant in Dörpen, Lower Saxony, together with the German EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG and the associated CO 2 emissions , BKW received the negative Public Eye Award in the “Swiss” category. The planning for the construction was stopped in December 2009.

However, the company holds a 33 percent stake in the 731 MW hard coal-fired power station Wilhelmshaven in Lower Saxony , which went into operation in 2015.

New renewable energies

BKW subsidiary sol-E Suisse AG has greatly expanded its activities in order to exceed its share of the legally prescribed target of 5,400 GWh of electricity production from new renewable energy sources. In 2008 she had around 200 projects in progress in Switzerland. In January 2011, BKW corrected its expansion targets by 40% down to 0.6 TWh due to increasing resistance and slow procedures. The BKW subsidiary sol-E Suisse AG, which specializes in renewable energies, operates the largest Swiss wind farm with 16 turbines (23.66 MW) in the Bernese Jura . In 2010, BKW put 80 new renewable energies into operation; four out of five of these plants are located abroad. 90 projects were planned at sol-E Suisse AG in 2011. In 2010, BKW operated a total of 198 plants for new renewable energies (wind, water, biomass and solar power plants) in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. In Germany and Italy, BKW operates six wind farms each with an output of 129 MW and 168 MW. In 2010, BKW and Energie Wasser Bern (ewb) founded the joint venture HelveticWind, which has set itself the goal of realizing projects with at least 100 MW. In January 2012, EKZ Renewables AG (EKZ), Cooperative Elektra Baselland (EBL), SN Erneuerbare Energie AG (SNEE) joined as additional partners and the goals were expanded to 170 MW. The activities focus primarily on Germany and Italy. With the two German wind farms in Sendenhorst (North Rhine-Westphalia) and in Lüdersdorf-Parstein (Brandenburg), HelveticWind already has a total output of 37 MW. The parks produce a total of 82 gigawatt hours of electricity during around 2,000 full load hours. This corresponds to the annual electricity consumption of around 22,000 households. With the Nordic Wind Power DA consortium , BKW and Credit Suisse own 40% of the Fosen Vind wind farm in Norway ; a joint venture with Statkraft . The handling of the indigenous seeds is criticized . In this context, the Society for Threatened Peoples filed a complaint against BKW in January 2020.

environment

In 2018, BKW generated an average of 156 grams of CO 2 equivalents and 24 cubic millimeters of nuclear waste per kilowatt hour. Among the four largest energy groups in Switzerland - in addition to BKW, these are Alpiq , Axpo and Repower - BKW came out in the middle with an average of 312 environmental impact points (EAP).

literature

  • Rudolf von Tavel : Of great work. The creation of the Mühleberg power plant and reservoir , Bern 1921.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BKW: Board of Directors , accessed on January 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ BKW website, Group Management ( memo of July 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 11, 2013.
  3. ^ BKW AG: The BKW Group. In: bkw.ch. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Consolidated income statement 2019 website BKW. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  5. ^ BKW website, About Us ( Memento of July 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 7, 2012.
  6. ↑ Memreg, article Eduard Will , accessed on February 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ Schlossmuseum Nidau, Eduard Will ( Memento from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 63 kB), accessed on February 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ Entry of “BKW FMB Energie AG”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) in the commercial register of the Canton of Bern, accessed on July 21, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / be.powernet.ch
  9. ↑ BKW Facts and Figures 2010, page 5  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 4.0 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  10. ↑ BKW Group, Financial Report 2010, page 8  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  11. ↑ Shareholdings in BKW FMB Energie AG (as of 2011)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  12. ↑ Stefan Häberli: BKW swallows the next company - criticism of the semi-public company is likely to increase. In: nzz.ch . September 19, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ BKW network infrastructure, as of February 2012 ( Memento from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ BKW Stromnetz, as of February 2012 ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ a b BKW facts and figures 2010, page 17  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 4.0 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  16. ^ BKW, media release of January 4, 2012 ( Memento of February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ BKW, media release of March 14, 2011 ( Memento of December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ BKW AG : Decommissioning in 2019. In: bkw.ch. October 30, 2013, accessed March 19, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Swiss nuclear power plant Mühleberg finally shut down orf.at, December 20, 2019, accessed December 20, 2019.
  20. ↑ Adrian Hopf Sulc: BKW is to Muhlenberg on foreign electricity. In: derbund.ch . August 24, 2019, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  21. ↑ a b BKW facts and figures 2010, page 12  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) (PDF; 4.0 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  22. ↑ The Aarberg hydropower plant, page 1  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 891 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  23. ↑ BKW storage power plants, as of February 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  24. ↑ BKW, media release of September 19, 2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  25. ↑ BKW, media release of December 17, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  26. ↑ BKW, media release of June 6, 2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  27. ↑ BKW, media release of June 28, 2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  28. ↑ Handelszeitung: Planning work on the coal power plant in Dörpen is discontinued. ( Memento from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) December 9, 2009
  29. ↑ a b c BKW, media release of January 10, 2011 ( memo of January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  30. ↑ a b BKW, balance sheet for new renewable energies from January 10, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 222 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  31. ↑ a b BKW, expansion of Sol-E Suisse AG from January 10, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 303 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bkw-fmb.ch
  32. ↑ Juvent wind power plant, as of February 2012
  33. ^ BKW, media release of March 23, 2010 ( Memento of January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  34. ↑ a b BKW, media release of January 30, 2012 ( Memento of February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  35. ↑ Swiss investment displaces indigenous people. In: srf.ch . December 11, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 .
  36. ↑ Society for Threatened Peoples files a complaint against BKW. In: bernerzeitung.ch . January 16, 2020, accessed January 16, 2020 .
  37. ↑ Simon Banholzer, Tonja Iten: Short study: Strommix 2018. (PDF; 3 MB) Swiss Energy Foundation , July 17, 2019, accessed on July 25, 2019 .


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