Bewag (Berlin)

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BEWAG
(most recently Vattenfall Europe Berlin )

logo
legal form Limited partnership
founding May 8, 1884 as Municipal Electricity Works (AGStEW)
resolution April 9, 2009
Reason for dissolution conversion
Seat Berlin
Number of employees Distribution GmbH: 155 (2011)
Wärme AG: 2330 (2011)
sales Distribution GmbH: 721 million euros (2010)
Wärme AG: 1718 million euros (2010)
Branch power supply
Website www.vattenfall.de

The Bewag (for Berlin Urban Electricity Akt.-Ges. , Natural notation also: BEWAG) was a municipal power company based in Berlin . The company was sold to the Vattenfall Group in several stages . Under the name Vattenfall Europe Berlin , Vattenfall Europe AG continued the operational business of the previous Bewag between 2006 and 2009 before the company was split up and then deleted from the commercial register.

history

The head office in Alt-Treptow in the Silesian Busch

On May 8, 1884, Bewag was founded as Städtische Electricitäts-Werke (AGStEW) by the German Edison Society . AGStEW entered the concession contract of the city of Berlin on August 12th and thus took over the task of supplying power to Berlin. With the Centralstation Markgrafenstrasse , Germany's first public power station was built .

Partial bond for 1000  gold marks from Berliner Elektricitäts-Werke from May 31, 1908
Share of more than 100  Reichsmarks in Berliner Kraft- und Licht (BEWAG) -AG from December 1942

On October 1, 1887, AEG took over management of AGStEW, which has since been called Berliner Elektricitäts-Werke (BEW). On October 1, 1915, the Berlin magistrate took over the BEW systems and large parts of the employees and renamed the company to Städtische Elektrizitätswerke Berlin (StEW). BEW and its holdings were retained. BEW became a holding company and has since operated as Bank Elektrischerwerte . Finally, on November 24, 1923, the newly founded operating company Berliner Städtische Elektrizitätswerke Akt.-Ges. (Bewag) the operation of the StEW systems from the city of Berlin under a lease agreement. The city remained the owner of the facilities.

On January 1, 1934, the Berliner Kraft- und Licht-Aktiengesellschaft (Bekula) and Bewag were merged. The Bewag's assets were then transferred to the Bekula. After the merger, the company was called Berliner Kraft- und Licht (Bewag) -Aktiengesellschaft .

In 1948, the Soviet Central Command banned board members Wissell and Strassmann from working in the city's eastern sector . Witte, also a board member, resigned and was appointed acting head of the East Berlin operations. As a result, Bewag lost control of the parts of the company in the eastern part of the city and thus 40 percent of its customers. The business premises were relocated to the Shell house in the western part of the city . West Berlin Bewag was the company's sole legal successor, although an independent energy supply company with the same name was founded in the eastern part of the city and entered in the local commercial register. The energy supply for East Berlin was taken over by the Treuhandanstalt in 1990 and renamed to EBAG, Energieversorgung Berlin AG, and as a result of the electricity comparison it was merged with West Berlin Bewag.

Until 1993, Bewag operated the power grid of the former West Berlin as an island grid according to UCTE criteria, which required the construction of numerous power plants in the city. In the former Steglitz power station , Bewag operated an accumulator with lead-acid batteries (17 MW, approx. 14 MWh, approx. 12 M €) to bridge load peaks from October 1986 to the end of 1994 .

Until 1997, the State of Berlin held the majority of the shares in Bewag, at last 50.8%. The company was sold to a consortium of Veba and Viag , who previously owned Bewag shares, with the US group Southern Energy Inc. (Atlanta). After the merger of Veba and Viag to form E.ON , the joint stake totaling 49.9% was sold to the Vattenfall subsidiary HEW in January 2001 . In December 2001, Southern Energy finally sold its 44.8% stake in Bewag to Vattenfall, now under the name Mirant.

Bewag was always listed on the stock exchange under its “official” name, Bekula, until it was completely bought by Vattenfall in 2003 and deleted from the stock exchange list.

On December 3, 2002, the state of Berlin agreed with Vattenfall Europe , the former HEW, the merger of the existing Bewag into Vattenfall Europe and the spin-off of the operative business into Bewag Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG . At the same time, Vattenfall gave employment guarantees until 2007 and promised to keep the headquarters of Vattenfall Europe until 2010 and that of Bewag in Berlin until 2018.

Bewag was renamed Vattenfall Europe Berlin AG & Co. KG on January 1, 2006 and then split up. In April 2006, the operation of the electricity network was split off into two companies, the local distribution network to Vattenfall Europe Distribution Berlin, the transmission network to Vattenfall Europe Transmission (today: 50Hertz Transmission ). In 2008, customer service and sales were spun off into two companies based in Hamburg, Vattenfall Europe Business Services and Vattenfall Europe Sales. The network service was also spun off as Vattenfall Europe network service. In 2009 the remaining part of the company was converted into Vattenfall Europe Wärme Aktiengesellschaft and Vattenfall Europe Berlin was deleted from the commercial register.

Heating and power plants

Bewag power plants
Power station Power in MW Type Primary energy
Reuter West 600 Thermal power station coal
Lichterfelde 450 Thermal power station natural gas
Charlottenburg 295 Thermal power station Natural gas / oil
Wilmersdorf 330 Thermal power station oil
Reuter 165 Thermal power station coal
Klingenberg 188 Thermal power station Coal / natural gas / petroleum
Rudow (out of service) 140 Thermal power station coal
Moabit 240 Thermal power station Coal / petroleum
center 630 Thermal power station Natural gas / oil
Marzahn currently 0 Thermal power station Natural gas / oil
Oberhavel (out of service) 2 × 100 Thermal power station coal
book 5 Thermal power station Natural gas / oil
Block Köpenick 50 Block-type thermal power station Natural gas / oil

cables

Most of the Bewag transmission network is underground . Two of the few three-phase overhead lines run from the Reuter substation or the Reuter thermal power station to the city ​​motorway (operating voltage 380 kV and 110 kV). The oldest 380 kV three-phase cable in Germany (laid in 1977) runs from the city motorway to the 380 kV transformer station in Mitte.

literature

  • A. Riedler: Emil Rathenau and the development of large-scale economy . Julius Springer, Berlin 1916.
  • Bewag (Hrsg.) 100 years of electricity for Berlin: a foray through our history in words and Image 1884 - 1984 , Edited by Egbert Steinke, text with the collaboration of Ingo von Dahlern, Berlin: Bewag 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Becker: Rise and Crisis of the German Electricity Corporations - At the same time a contribution to the development of energy law , Verlag Ponte Press, Bochum 2011, 2nd chapter: The electricity dispute .
  2. Klaus Krämer: Frequency power control using battery energy storage in the island network of West Berlin. Energie-Museum Berlin, December 8, 2011, accessed on December 14, 2019 .
  3. Fully involved . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1997 ( online ).
  4. No rapprochement in the dispute over the Bewag sale . In: Handelsblatt , August 16, 2000.
  5. Mirant sells to Vattenfall . In: n-tv online , December 3, 2001.
  6. Vattenfall Europe - Chronology.