EBL (Elektra Baselland Cooperative)
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| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | 1898 |
| Seat | Liestal , Switzerland |
| management | Tobias Andrist (CEO) Erich Geiser ( Board Chairman ) |
| Number of employees | 346 (2017) |
| sales | CHF 218 million (2017) |
| Branch | Energy supply / telecommunications / heat |
| Website | www.ebl.ch |
The EBL (Cooperative Elektra Baselland) is an energy supply company based in Liestal BL in Switzerland . The company supplies more than 200,000 people with electricity, heat and telecommunications services . The company headquarters is in Liestal.
Field of activity
The corporate activities of EBL concentrate on the business areas of power supply, heat supply and telecommunications services .
Power supply is the company's core business. The supply area is the upper Basel area between Diegten and Pratteln . This supplies EBL with around 655,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year. EBL obtains 59% of its total electricity from Alpiq Holding AG . 21% come from the Rhine power plants, which include the Birsfelden hydropower plant and the Augst hydropower plant . 19% procurement on the wholesale market. EBL obtains the rest from its own and third-party decentralized systems such as solar systems , wind power plants and thermal power coupling systems .
In the area of heat, EBL offers heat solutions / Contracting lead large-scale systems for apartment buildings or companies and communities. The company records annual heat sales of around 265,000 MWh (megawatt hours).
The cable networks of EBL Telecom are located in the regions of Liestal and Laufen , French- speaking Switzerland and the Mittelland near Bern and Lucerne. The networks are a combination of fiber optic cables and coaxial cables . In addition to its own cable networks, EBL Telecom also works with partner networks. At the end of 2017, EBL Telecom had around 90,000 customers in 248 networks.
history
The EBL was founded on November 27, 1898 as a regional power supply company. In 1992 the company expanded its activities from the pure electricity business to the heating business. In 2001, when EBLCom AG was founded in partnership, the company entered the telecommunications market . In 2008 all telecommunications holdings were 100% integrated into EBL.
Since the turn of the millennium, the company's main commitment has been renewable energies . In 2004, EBL and partners founded Geopower AG, based in Basel , which together with Geothermal Explorers Ltd. planned the deep geothermal pilot project Deep Heat Mining Basel . The project was suspended in 2007. In 2010, the EBL founded Biopower Nordwestschweiz AG together with the IWB , the aim of which is to generate renewable energies from biomass . In 2006, the Energy Future Switzerland association was founded, which sees itself as a competence center for renewable energies. In 2012, EBL in Spain was able to put the world's first solar thermal power plant Puerto Errado 2 based on linear Fresnel technology into operation together with the other project participants.
Corporate form
The EBL is a private law cooperative . The members of the cooperative are legal and private persons with property that is connected to the EBL power grid. In 2017 the company had around 12,000 members.
Corporate structure
The EBL is divided into the following six business areas:
- electricity
- Networks and systems
- Heat contracting
- Warming systems
- Telecom
- Finance and Services
The EBL maintains the following corporate investments:
- EBLD Schweiz Strom GmbH (100%)
- Biopower NWCH AG (33.3%)
- Holzkraftwerk Basel AG (15.0%)
- Geo-Energie Suisse AG (15.8%)
- Kraftwerk Birsfelden AG (10.0%)
- Alpiq Holding AG (7.1%)
Holdings
The EBL promotes the generation of energy through new renewable energies. As a company, EBL has been significantly involved in the following projects since 2010:
Solar power plant Puerto Errado 2 in Calasparra, Spain (2012)
EBL is the main owner of the project company Tubo Sol PE 2, which in October 2012 was able to commission the world's largest solar thermal power plant based on linear Fresnel technology under the name Puerto Errado 2. The power plant produces around 50 gigawatt hours of electricity annually . This corresponds to the average consumption of 12,000 households. Novatec Solar, IWB , EWZ , EKZ and EWB are also involved in the project .
Wind farm in Möthlitz, Germany (2012)
The wind farm in the northern German town of Möthlitz is the first wind farm that is fully owned by EBL. The wind farm consists of five systems and produces around 21 gigawatt hours of electricity annually. This corresponds to the supply of 5,000 average households. The wind farm went into operation in June 2012.
Geo-Energie Suisse AG, Switzerland (2010)
The EBL is one of seven founding members of Geo-Energie Suisse AG. In addition to the EBL, the founding members include AET, EWZ, EOS , EWB, GVM and IWB. The Swiss competence center for deep geothermal energy was founded in November 2010. The aim of the competence center is to help deep geothermal energy achieve a breakthrough with pilot projects in Switzerland.
EBLD Schweiz Strom GmbH, Germany (2010)
Since early 2010, the EBL distributes through its subsidiary EBLD Switzerland Strom GmbH, Rheinfelden (Baden) , green electricity in Germany. The green electricity product "Switzerland Electricity Plus" is obtained 100% from TÜV-certified hydropower .
Future orientation
In April 2011, the EBL Board of Directors decided to phase out nuclear energy .
With “Vision 2020”, the EBL is pursuing the goal of obtaining around 30% of energy sales for electricity and heat by 2020 exclusively from new renewable energy sources (sun, biomass, wind, geothermal energy , small hydropower plants ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2017 (PDF; 12.5 MB) Facts. EBL (Elektra Baselland Cooperative), accessed on December 18, 2018 .
- ^ Daniel Wallimann: Electricity for 12,000 households. Large solar power plant opened in Spain. Trade magazine ET Elektrotechnik, October 12, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Investments. The company investments at a glance. (No longer available online.) EBL (Elektra Baselland Cooperative), archived from the original on August 14, 2013 ; Retrieved May 10, 2013 .
- ^ Martin Läubli: Swiss electricity flows in Spain. Tages-Anzeiger, May 2, 2012, accessed May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ EBL is building a wind farm in Northern Germany. Daily Week, February 21, 2012, accessed May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Energy companies join forces in deep geothermal energy. Founding of Geo-Energie Suisse. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 2, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Swiss electricity. Green electricity from the power of nature. EBLD Schweiz Strom GmbH, accessed on May 10, 2013 .
- ^ Daniel Haller: EBL is investing 160 million francs in phasing out nuclear power. Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, 23 August 2011, accessed on 10 May 2013 .