Creos Luxembourg

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Creos Luxembourg SA

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legal form Société anonyme
founding 2009
Seat Rue de Bouillon, 59-61

L-1248 Luxembourg

management Mario Grotz (President),

Marc Reiffers (CEO)

Number of employees 712 (as of December 31, 2018)
sales € 263.7 million (2018)
Branch energy
Website www.creos-net.lu creosnews (blog)

Creos Luxembourg SA operates electricity networks and natural gas pipelines in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . The company plans, builds and operates high, medium and low voltage electricity networks as well as high, medium and low pressure gas pipelines that are owned by Creos or have been commissioned to operate by Creos.

history

Creos emerged from the merger of Cegedel SA, Luxembourg's grand ducal electricity company, a concession company founded in 1928, which at the time covered 70% of the country's electricity needs as a supplier, Soteg SA , the largest gas supplier in Luxembourg, and Saar Ferngas AG, which was founded in Saarland in 1929 . On January 23, 2009, all shares of the shareholders of Cegedel SA and Saar Ferngas AG were transferred to Soteg SA. After the successful mandatory takeover offer for all shares not yet in its possession, the company undertook a comprehensive restructuring with retroactive effect from January 1, 2009, from which it emerged as a new energy group. It operates under the name Enovos and consists of the parent company, Enovos International SA, and two large subsidiaries: Creos (formerly Cegedel SA), which is responsible for the network activities, and Enovos Luxembourg SA, which is responsible for the production, sales and marketing activities . Enovos and Creos each have a subsidiary that is positioned on the German market: Enovos Germany and Creos Germany .

In the following two years, Creos consolidated its position on the Luxembourg market. In 2010 the company expanded the natural gas transmission network with a distribution network and took over the natural gas networks of Luxgaz Distribution SA. The management of the commercial activities was transferred to Enovos Luxembourg SA. On January 1, 2011, the City of Luxembourg ceded its electricity and natural gas networks and its staff to Creos in return for a stake in the company's capital. The public participation in Creos' capital increased from 5.71% to 24.57%. In addition to its subsidiary in Germany, Creos also has interests in the following companies: Luxmetering since 2012, Balansys and Ampacimo since 2015 and NEXXTLAB since 2018.

To clearly differentiate between the parent company and its subsidiaries - the energy supplier Enovos and the network operator Creos - Enovos International received a new corporate identity called Encevo in 2016. At the end of July 2018, the Ardian investment group sold its minority stake in Encevo of 24.92% to China Southern Power Grid, the second largest network operator in China and worldwide.

Business activity

Creos Luxembourg SA plans, builds and operates transmission and distribution networks for electricity and natural gas in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Creos is responsible for meter installation and management, customer consumption data processing and billing of network access fees. The company also follows the activities or changes of the suppliers. The subsidiary Creos Deutschland Holding GmbH, which is the sole shareholder of Creos Deutschland GmbH, Creos Deutschland Stromnetz GmbH and Creos Deutschland Services GmbH, supplies customers in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate with its medium and high voltage network and high-pressure gas network .

As a result of the liberalization of the energy markets, an independent authority, the Institut Luxembourgeois de Régulation (ILR), organizes and monitors network access in Luxembourg. The tariffs are subject to their approval and the charges for network use are under their supervision. In this way, the energy suppliers are guaranteed transparent access to the Creos networks.

Shareholders / Investors

Are shareholders of Creos Luxembourg

Shareholders of Encevo are

Ardian's shares are divided into 23.48% for AXA Redilion ManagementCo SCA and 2% for ARDIAN Redilion ManagementCo SCA

SNCI, BCEE and Post are each 100% owned by the Grand Duchy.

Infrastructure

power grid

Most of the electricity in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes from Germany . The two 220 kV double high-voltage lines are connected to the German power grid. An electricity connection to Belgium went into operation with the commissioning of the phase shift transformer (PST) in Schifflange in October 2017, and around 15% of the electricity fed into the grid comes from local production ( biogas , combined heat and power , wind energy , hydropower and photovoltaics ) . The electricity is sent to six substations (Flebour, Roost, Itzig / Blooren, Heisdorf, Bertange and Schifflingen), where the voltage is reduced from 220 kV to 65 kV before the electricity is fed into the downstream networks of industrial customers and large municipal distributors. In more than 60 substations across the country, the voltage will then be lowered again from 65 kV to 20 kV. The electrical energy is then forwarded to SMEs, cities and villages, where transformers reduce the voltage one last time to 0.4 kV. This low voltage electricity is distributed to the end user. An electricity network control center, also known as a dispatching center, is responsible for monitoring and remote control of the high and medium voltage electricity network.

The national power grid operated by Creos is currently around 10,000 kilometers long. Of these, 590 kilometers are high-voltage lines, 3,598 kilometers are medium-voltage lines and 5,737 kilometers are low-voltage lines.

electricity 2018
Transported energy GWh 5,121.9
Peak performance MW 827.6
Length of the power grid km 9,925.6

Natural gas network

Thanks to the entry points with Germany, Belgium and France , Luxembourg is connected to the European gas network. Under the supervision of the dispatching center, the natural gas is transported through the high and medium pressure pipes to around sixty municipalities that are connected to the national network. Pressure regulator stations that supply the communal systems then reduce the gas pressure. Creos ensures the natural gas supply in 45 municipalities in the country.

natural gas 2018
Total natural gas capacity Nm 3 / h 319,000
Peak performance natural gas network Nm 3 / h 220.028
Volume transported GWh 8,834
Net length km 2,109.6

Creos and its Belgian counterpart Fluxys Belgium have merged the two national natural gas markets into a joint Belux gas market in close cooperation with the state supervisory authorities ILR and CREG. This initiative corresponds to the aim of the European Union to create a pan-European natural gas market without internal borders and resulted in the first integration of the gas markets of two EU member states.

Operational centers

Creos has four regional centers for the construction, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of electricity and natural gas networks. The center in Roost is responsible for the regions center and north. The power supply in the areas of high, medium and low voltage, the natural gas supply via the low and medium pressure pipeline network for the central warehouse as well as the mechanical and electrical workshops are combined under its roof. The center in Schifflingen is responsible for the south of the country. The center in Luxembourg City covers the densely populated areas of the capital as well as the neighboring municipalities, streets and Hesperange. The headquarters and the city center will be merged in a new location in 2020.

The center of Contern controls the setting of the meters, especially the smart meters.

At the Heisdorf site, the dispatching systems for electricity and natural gas are installed with control rooms for remote network control. You will move to Bettembourg by 2020.

Intelligent networks, electromobility and energy management

Creos is involved in two major nationwide projects: intelligent networks, electromobility and energy management .

According to the law of August 7, 2012, which converts the EU directive on energy end-use efficiency into Luxembourg law, all gas and electricity meters must be replaced nationwide, regardless of the network operator. By 2020, Creos will install 300,000 communicating meters (smart meters ) that accurately record energy consumption and production in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, including 250,000 electricity meters and 50,000 gas meters. With the installation of the new “Smarty” electricity and gas meters in Luxembourg households, new networks are being set up that are equipped with “real” intelligence. The so-called smart grids make it possible to monitor decentralized electricity generation (e.g. with wind or photovoltaics as energy sources), to control the fluctuating feed into the distribution network or to better manage selective peaks in demand due to the charging of electric cars. The law of August 7, 2012 also states that the meter system should later be able to measure the consumption of other energy sources, such as water and heat.

In addition, Creos is involved in the expansion of electric mobility across the country. Around 800 public charging stations for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles are to be installed across the country by 2020. Each charging station will be equipped with two charging stations. The “Chargy” charging network will ultimately offer 1,600 parking spaces for electromobility. Creos is responsible for setting up, operating and maintaining the public charging infrastructure in its distribution network, i.e. 749 of the 800 charging stations planned by 2020.

The network operator is also preparing for the third industrial revolution desired by the Luxembourg government. This convergence of information technologies, renewable energies and modes of transport will indeed affect the management of the electricity networks. In order to anticipate this development, Creos founded NEXXTLAB together with Powerdale SA, a company that wants to develop innovative solutions in the field of energy management in coordination with the massive introduction of electromobility.

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Creos: Annual Report 2009 . 2010.
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  8. ↑ OECD: Fossil Fuel Country Note - Luxembourg . September 2016.
  9. ↑ NEXXTLAB - the energy to do it. Retrieved March 30, 2018 .
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  11. ↑ Chinese shareholder: A sensitive partner for Encevo. December 12, 2018, accessed June 11, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ Joachim Wollschläger: Creos relies on synergies. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Joachim Wollschläger: Creos buys Steag power grid in Saarland. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Steag leaves the power grid business: ZfK newspaper for local government. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Institut Luxembourgeois de Regulation: Les acteurs du marché - feeder, gestionnaire de réseau ... Qui fait quoi?
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  24. ↑ Merger of the gas market with Belgium: consumers could soon pay less for natural gas . In: Wort.lu . November 10, 2015 ( wort.lu [accessed on February 23, 2017]).
  25. ^ Belgium, Luxembourg announce first link of gas markets . In: Reuters . October 1, 2016 ( reuters.com [accessed February 23, 2017]).
  26. ↑ Creos Luxembourg SA: Integrated Belux Gas Market - Creos Luxembourg SA - operator of electricity networks and natural gas pipelines. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Vers un marché Gazier belgo-luxembourgeois unique et intégré pour le 1er octobre 2015 - gouvernement.lu // L'actualité du gouvernement du Luxembourg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 3, 2017 ; Retrieved on February 23, 2017 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gouvernement.lu
  28. ^ Inauguration du Center régional et ateliers Creos de Roost - ARCHIDUC - Magazine d'Architecture (Luxembourg) . In: Archiduc . November 10, 2014 ( archiduc.lu [accessed February 23, 2017]).
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  33. ↑ Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek - New electricity and gas meters, lower consumption peaks? Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  34. ^ Jorge Cuéllar: Smart Grid Security: Second International Workshop . Ed .: Springer. 2014.
  35. ↑ Smarty, the intelligent electricity and gas meters from Creos Luxembourg SA.Retrieved on February 23, 2017 .
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