E-Werke Frastanz
| Elektrizitätswerke Frastanz Gesellschaft mbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1910 (legal form: 1989) |
| Seat | Frastanz , Austria |
| management | Tiefenthaler Helmut, Gort Hansjörg, Hartmann Rainer |
| Number of employees | 70 (2010) |
| Branch | Energy supply, trade, heat supply, television, Internet, telephone providers, fiber optic cables, plant construction, property management |
| Website | www.ewerke.at |
The e-works Frastanz (EW) is a licensed energy supply company in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg and the only one in Vorarlberg, which is entirely privately owned and basic services as part of an electricity company provides.
The E-Werke Frastanz has been supplying the market town of Frastanz and parts of Nenzing with electrical energy since 1910 . The company operates hydropower and block-type thermal power stations as well as photovoltaic systems. In addition, the E-Werke Frastanz is active in energy plant construction, electrical installation and electrical retail. Over 70 people are employed in total.
history
The history of E-Werke Frastanz is based on company information.
Electric power plants
In 1908, Kaspar Hartmann, Josef Wieser and Johann Georg Reisch received official approval to build an electric hydropower plant on the Saminabach. In the same year a cooperative was founded to finance the project. Construction work began in 1909 and the power plant trial operation could already commence at the end of July 1910. 1956 to 1957 a free-surface tunnel (renovated in 2005) and a hydroelectric power station (machine I) with weir system (renewed in 2002) were built in the Samina valley , which was expanded in 1963 (machine II) and modernized from 1980 to 1985. In 1988 the hydropower plant of the former textile works Ganahl in Frastanz was acquired (now Plant 2) and in 1991 the hydropower plant "lower factory" (Plant 3) was built.
Energy supply network
In parallel to the construction of the power plants, a supply network for the distribution of electrical energy was set up. At the beginning of December 1910, the parish church Frastanz could be illuminated electrically for the first time. Since 1960, the focus of expansion has been on the establishment of an underground cable distribution network. In 2008 the concession area was extended to Alpe Gamp (Nenzing, 1564 m above sea level ).
Due to the liberalization of the energy market in the European Union , a sales cooperation was entered into with the Vorarlberger Kraftwerke (VKW), which in 2006 resulted in a management contract for energy trading with the VKW.
other activities
Electrical installation activities have also been offered by the Frastanz electrical works since 1933 and a specialist market for electrical appliances has been operating in Frastanz since 1970.
In 1988 the block-type thermal power station at the Hauptschule Frastanz and in 1991 the block-type thermal power station at the primary school was built. In 2009, the heating plant and local heating network for the town center in Frastanz was built ( Biowärme Frastanz ).
In 1997, the E-Werke Frastanz museum association, which operates the Vorarlberg electrical museum , was founded.
A separate plant engineering department has been operated since 1998. The cable TV network of Elektro Gassner was acquired in 2005 and the regional TV broadcaster Walgau TV was founded in 2008 with Lampert from Feldkirch .
EW power plants
The power plant park of the E-Werke Frastanz consists of three plants for electrical energy conversion with a total of four turbines:
- Plant 1, Saminatal, two Francis turbines with 840 and 1130 kW respectively ,
- Plant 2, energy factory (formerly Textilwerke Ganahl), Ossberg cross-flow turbine with 500 kW,
- Plant 3, Bradafos, Ossberg Cross- flow turbine with 195 kW,
as well as the
- Biothermal power plant, energy factory, 1.6 MW (90% biomass),
- Cogeneration unit at the Frastanz secondary school,
- Frastanz elementary school cogeneration unit.
Apprenticeship training
The EW train apprentices at the Frastanz location. In 1998, the E-Werke were given the title: Excellent teaching company .
As of 2017, five apprenticeships are being trained:
- Information technologist
- Electrical engineer
- Electronics technician - applied electronics
- Office clerk
- Retail clerk
The training lasts 3.5 to 4 years depending on the apprenticeship.
literature
- E-Werke Frastanz: 100 years of E-Werke Frastanz , Frastanz 2010, E-Werke Frastanz (self-published).
- Klaus Plitzner: The way south! Or is it to the north? From the beginnings of the electricity industry in Vorarlberg to the establishment of the “Vorarlberger Illwerke” until the 1930s. In: Helmut Maier (ed.): Electricity industry between environment, technology and politics: Aspects from 100 years of RWE history 1898–1998. Freiberg 1999, ISBN 3-86012-087-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commercial register number: FN 68623 t.
- ↑ Around 50 shareholders from Frastanz.
- ↑ Information below according to: E-Werke Frastanz: 100 years E-Werke Frastanz , p. 7.
- ↑ Vorarlberger Volksblatt of October 18, 1908, p. 6.
- ↑ Vorarlberger Volksblatt of December 4, 1910, p. 5.
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 10.4 ″ E