Wesertal power station
| Elektrizitätswerk Wesertal GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1912 (as Electricitätswerk Wesertal ) |
| resolution | 2003 |
| Reason for dissolution | fusion |
| Seat | Hameln , Germany |
| Branch | power supply |
The electricity Wesertal GmbH was a power company headquartered in Hameln . In June 2002 Wesertal was taken over by the E.ON Group together with Elektrizitätswerk Minden-Ravensberg (EMR) and PESAG and merged on October 1, 2003 to form the subsidiary E.ON Westfalen Weser .
The supply area with electricity , natural gas , water and heat included sub-areas of southern Lower Saxony and eastern Westphalia-Lippe .
history
The company was founded as Electricitätswerk Wesertal on June 27, 1912 in Afferde near Hameln by the district of Hameln, the county of Schaumburg and the district of Holzminden, supported by the "Allgemeine Electricitäts-Gesellschaft" ( AEG ) based in Berlin. The first coal-fired power plant in Wesertal was completed in autumn 1913 by the AEG subsidiary "Elektrizitäts-Lieferungs-Gesellschaft" (ELG). From 1919 on, the Principality of Lippe also participated in the now renamed company Elektrizitätswerk Wesertal GmbH. From 1920 Wesertal also took over parts of the gas supply in the districts.
In 1924, Wesertal founded Extertalbahn AG , a connecting line from Barntrup to Rinteln, and the following year the public transport company Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft Hameln mbH (KVG) was founded, whose shares were sold in December 1999.
In 1952 the subsidiary Ferndampfversorgung Hameln GmbH (FVH) was founded, which used combined heat and power . In the same year, an interest group and working group called "INTERARGEM" is founded with the Minden-Ravensberg electricity company (EMR). The joint Weser power station in Veltheim near Vlotho was created from this cooperation between the neighboring municipal electricity suppliers and the Bielefeld municipal utility . It initially had an output of 550 kW and was partially expanded step by step due to political pressure (300 MW decree of the Federal Ministry of Economics from 1964).
In 1977, Wesertal built a waste incineration plant in Hameln, operated by the subsidiary Müllverbrnung Hameln GmbH (MVH) , and also took over a 33.3% share in the Bielefeld-Herford GmbH waste incineration plant , which operated an incineration plant in Heepen .
In January 1978 he took over the management of the Stadtwerke Lage GmbH in Lage .
Commercial operation of the Grohnde nuclear power plant began in February 1985 , in which the Wesertal was involved through the joint power plant Weser GmbH.
From 1987 onwards Wesertal used helicopters for the annual inspection of the masts and the high and medium voltage network in the supply area.
In 1994 the company was also responsible for collecting sewer disposal fees for households in the cities of Hameln , Hessisch-Oldendorf , Lage and in the former municipality of Stadtoldendorf . For the area of the district of Holzminden , waste disposal fees for residual waste and organic waste were also collected from 1995 to 2000 on behalf of the municipal waste management district of Holzminden (AWH) .
From 1996 Wesertal also took over the supply and collection of fees for water and drainage in Salzhemmendorf .
By 1999, the Afferde cogeneration plant with three combustion chambers was converted to wood operation and has a thermal output of 124 MW and enables the production of 60 million kWh of electrical energy and 165 million kWh of district heating annually.
On September 9, 1999, the municipal shareholders sold:
the company for 378 million euros to the Finnish Fortum Group . This resulted in sales proceeds of around 89 million euros for the Holzminden district.
In the same year as a subsidiary of Fortum Energie, optional tariffs were introduced for the first time, which offered lower working prices, but plus flat-rate basic prices of 180 to 210 euros per year (as of 2000). In 2000 around 30,000 customers opted for the new optional “Wesertal extra” tariff, which could be used for households with an annual consumption of 2,000 kWh or more.
In 2001, Wesertal GmbH supplied 190,000 customers with electricity (electricity sales: 3 billion kWh) and gas. The turnover was 236 million euros.
In February 2001, an electricity supply contract was signed with Merz Pharma for six locations in Frankfurt am Main , Groß-Bieberau , Reinheim and Bad Salzuflen with a total of around 8.5 million kWh per year. Only previously did the Fortum subsidiary succeed in concluding power supply contracts with the German armed forces and their locations in Lower Saxony and Bremen, including the naval bases.
In addition to the headquarters in Hameln (Customer Care Center), Wesertal also had 7 so-called Wesertal Service Centers (WSC) in Blomberg , Bodenwerder , Bösingfeld , Hessisch Oldendorf , Holzminden and Rodenberg .
In 2002 Wesertal supplied 170,000 households and 2,000 businesses with electricity, 20,000 customers with gas and 98,000 residents in 86 localities with drinking water.
At the end of January 2002, cartel proceedings were initiated against Wesertal GmbH on suspicion of improperly excessive network usage charges. The investigations concentrated on the area of performance-measured customers in the low and medium voltage. After the fees had been reduced by 20%, the proceedings were discontinued.
On April 8, 2002, Wesertal GmbH with around 520 employees was sold by Fortum Oyj (Finland) together with the German subsidiary Fortum Energie GmbH for EUR 545 million on June 10, 2002 to E.ON Energie AG . Fortum had been looking for a buyer since November 2001. In the same year, a new management contract is signed with Stadtwerke Lage GmbH and 45% of the shares in the Stadtwerke are taken over.
As of October 1st, 2003, Wesertal merged with E.ON Westfalen Weser AG with its headquarters in Paderborn , whose board member was also the former Wesertal managing director Hans-Peter Villis. The headquarters in Hameln became a competence center. The Wesertal high-voltage network (110 kilovolts) was around 560 kilometers long in 2003. The medium-voltage network (30 kilovolts to 10 kilovolts) was over 2,800 kilometers long, around 1,000 kilometers of which were overhead lines.
Subsidiaries and holdings before the takeover in 2002
- 100% Wesertal Service GmbH (founded in 1998)
- 100% Enertec Hameln GmbH (EH) (merger of the Afferde thermal power station, Hameln garbage incineration GmbH and Fernwärmeversorgung GmbH)
- via Enertec: 33.3% waste incineration plant Bielefeld-Herford GmbH
- 33.3% community power plant Weser GmbH (GKW) (hard coal power plant) in Porta Westfalica
- GKW has a 16.66% stake in the Grohnde GmbH (KWG) nuclear power plant
executive Director
- 1994: Walter Spangenberg
- 1995: Walter Spangenberg and Klaus H. Steffens
- 1996: Klaus H. Steffens and Ernst Hoefft
- 1998: Klaus H. Steffens
- 1999: Klaus H. Steffens (Chairman) and Klaus-Dieter Maubach
- 2000–2001: Klaus-Dieter Maubach (CEO of E.ON Energie from 2007 ) and Henning Probst
- 2001–2002: Henning Probst (CEO of E.ON Westfalen Weser AG since July 2006).
- until September 30, 2003: Hans-Peter Villis
The last chairman of the Wesertal works council was: Norbert Kinast (until September 2003)
Price development: net working price for the basic household service tariff
- 1994: 11.862 euro cents (23.20 pfennigs) per kWh
- 1995: 12.629 euro cents (24.70 pfennigs) per kWh
- 1996: 12.271 euro cents (24.00 pfennigs) per kWh
- 1999: 12.271 euro cents (24.00 pfennigs) per kWh
- 2002: 12.880 euro cents (25.19 pfennigs) per kWh
Source: former Wesertal GmbH, general tariff or standard tariff
Price development: net working price including electricity tax for tariffs from 2,000 kWh
- 1999: 9.035 euro cents (17.67 pfennigs) per kWh
- 2000: 9.290 euro cents (18.17 pfennigs) per kWh
- from October 2000: 9.648 euro cents (18.87 pfennigs) per kWh
- 2001: 9.89 euro cents (19.37 pfennigs) per kWh
- from November 2001: 11.89 euro cents (23.28 pfennigs) per kWh
Source: former Wesertal GmbH, Wesertal extra tariff, plus. Base prices
Web links
- Website (forwarding to Westfalen Weser Energie GmbH & Co. KG)
- Official website of E.ON Westfalen Weser
Individual evidence
- ↑ Case No. COMP / M.1720 - Fortum / Elektrizitätswerk Wesertal In: ec.europa.eu , January 5, 2000, accessed on March 17, 2017 (PDF; 20 kB)
- ↑ Bundeskartellamt: Abuse proceedings against Elektrizitätswerk Wesertal (Fortum) discontinued. In: bundeskartellamt.de. March 28, 2002, accessed March 17, 2017 .