Energie AG Upper Austria
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1892 |
| Seat | Linz , Austria |
| management |
Werner Steinecker (Chairman of the Management Board) Andreas Kolar (Member of the Management Board, Finance Department) Stefan Stallinger (Member of the Management Board, Technology Department) |
| Number of employees | 4362 (2015/16) |
| sales | 1.53 billion euros (2015/16) |
| Branch | Energy and infrastructure |
| Website | www.energieag.at |
The Energie AG Upper Austria (formerly Upper Austrian Kraftwerke AG , shortly OKA ) is a regional energy supply and infrastructure companies. With its subsidiaries and holdings, the group is active in the fields of energy, i.e. electricity, natural gas and heat, as well as in the areas of waste disposal and water. Through constant expansion, Energie AG was active in ten countries in Central and Eastern Europe (Austria, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Slovenia) until mid-2013. After the sale of the Eastern European activities of the AVE waste disposal group, the company is again focusing on the core Austrian market.
Since September 2008, the group and all departments have been located in the Power Tower near Linz Central Station.
history
The beginning of the planning of a steam center in St. Wolfgang with 25 HP (18 kW) in 1892 marked the birth of the first public power supply in the Salzkammergut. Ten years later, the first large hydropower plant in Upper Austria, the Traunfall power plant , was built by Stern & Hafferl . In 1905 the Aktiengesellschaft Elektrizitätswerke Stern & Hafferl AG was founded . Four years later, the Upper Austrian Parliament decided that the state should participate in EW Stern & Hafferl AG. The end of the First World War in 1918 and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy resulted in the loss of large parts of Austria's territory and a complete reorganization of the energy supply. The Oberösterreichische Wasserkraft Ges.mbH was founded , which was converted into the Oberösterreichische Wasserkraft- und Elektrizitäts-AG (OWEAG) just two years later . In 1924 construction began on Austria's first 110 kV line from the Partenstein storage power plant to Linz / Wegscheid and Steyr. In 1929 OWEAG and EW Stern & Hafferl AG merged to form Österreichische Kraftwerke AG (ÖKA). The new company owned 12 hydropower plants and two coal-fired power plants with a total output of 85 MW and 3250 kilometers of power lines. In 1941 the ÖKA was renamed Kraftwerke Oberdonau AG (KOA). In 1945 there was a sharp decline in electricity consumption at the end of the war. Emergency measures at the ÖKA after severe war damage to the facilities had become necessary. The KOA was renamed ÖKA. With the Second Nationalization Act in 1947, the OKA became the regional company for Upper Austria. The name changed to Oberösterreichische Kraftwerke AG (OKA).
Development after the Second World War
In 1964 the new office building of the general management in the Böhmerwaldstraße in Linz was completed. Construction of the Riedersbach power plant began three years later. This represented the largest investment in the history of OKA. With its participation in Welser Abfallverwertungsgesellschaft mbH (WAV), OKA entered the field of waste disposal in 1989. In the same year, OKA opened the solar power plant on the Loser and generated green electricity for the first time. In 1991 the waste, recycling and disposal company (AVE) was founded. In 1996, building and living with the sun was presented to a broad public in the model house House of the Future . In 1999 OKA became Energie AG Oberösterreich after a reorganization .
Development from the year 2000
From 2000 the company increasingly entered the fields of waste disposal and water management. In 2001, the liberalization of the electricity market in Austria presented the company with a new challenge. In 2004, Wärme Oberösterreich GmbH was founded to bundle all of the group's district heating activities, and in the following year the decision to build the 400 MW gas and steam power plant in Timelkam was made. In 2006, Energie AG became Upper Austria's largest infrastructure group. The business fields of energy (electricity, heat and gas), disposal and water became the main pillars of the company. The market areas were now in Austria, southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the neighboring Central European countries. In 2008 the new corporate headquarters, the Power Tower in Böhmerwaldstrasse in Linz, could be moved into. In the same year, the 400 MW gas and steam power plant in Timelkam went into operation. With the market entry in Italy (waste disposal) and Slovenia (water) in 2009, the group continued to grow. In 2011 the Supervisory Board of Energie AG Oberösterreich appointed Andreas Kolar as the new CFO on January 1, 2012. In 2013 the waste disposal division's Eastern European activities were sold. In 2015, the implementation of the Power Strategy 2020 began: full integration of Upper Austria. Ferngas AG . On February 28, 2017, Leopold Windtner left the company as General Director and Chief Executive Officer. The previous Chief Technology Officer, Werner Steinecker, was appointed as his successor, and Stefan Stallinger as his successor .
Company profile
Shareholders
The company was 100% owned by the Province of Upper Austria until 2002. 25% plus one share was sold to its member companies when they joined Energie Allianz. In 2006, Energie AG withdrew from Energie Allianz - as the majority owner, the state had to buy back the shares. The Linz AG biehielt her shares and was henceforth holds a 6.25% stake in Energie AG. 93.75% were again owned by the Province of Upper Austria.
The repurchased block of shares was subsequently up for sale. Negotiations with TIWAG followed, but did not lead to any result. The end of the negotiations was clear in spring 2007. On July 5, 2007, the Upper Austrian state parliament decided by a majority of votes to sell part of Energie AG (100% - 6.25% of Linz AG - 51% of the minimum public sector stake in the constitution = 42.75%) via an IPO . The decision was followed by a massive campaign by the SPÖ Upper Austria with its chairman Erich Haider (who was also deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Energie AG) against the IPO.
At the beginning of December, the SPÖ was able to present the necessary signatures for the initiation of a referendum in spring 2008. However, there was no longer a public survey because Governor Josef Pühringer unexpectedly stopped the IPO on January 9, 2008. Instead of going public, he presented “Plan B”, which envisaged a core group of shareholders from Upper Austria with banks, insurance companies and leading companies in the state, as well as employees and strategic partners as shareholders. This plan was implemented in July 2008.
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Within the province of Upper Austria, Energie AG was settled after 2005 under OÖ Landesholding , the central investment administration of the province. 52.45% of the shares are held by the holding company and 0.1% by the state of Upper Austria directly.
Board
- Werner Steinecker , CEO
- Andreas Kolar, Member of the Board of Management, Finance Department
- Stefan Stallinger, Member of the Board of Management, Technology Department
Key figures
| Group sales | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2011/12 * | 2012/13 * | |
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| total | Million EUR | 1,141.8 | 1,520.1 | 1,806.0 | 1,978.8 | 2,219.9 | 2,123.8 | 1,940.0 | 1,812.6 |
| energy | Million EUR | 819.6 | 1,116.1 | 1,369.4 | 1,480.8 | 1,630.6 | 1,578.2 | 1,579.1 | 1,467.1 |
| disposal | Million EUR | 255.2 | 323.8 | 328.7 | 379.7 | 456.2 | 414.9 | 230.1 | 215.1 |
| water | Million EUR | 67.0 | 80.2 | 107.9 | 118.3 | 133.1 | 130.7 | 130.8 | 130.4 |
Due to the sale of the AVE companies in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and Moldova, they were presented as discontinued operations in accordance with IFRS 5. Due to the incorporation of Upper Austria. Ferngas AG, a new segmentation of the Group's reporting will be created from the 2013/2014 financial year:
| Group sales | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | |
| total | Million EUR | 1,722.1 | 1,573.9 |
| energy | Million EUR | 1,087.1 | 936.1 |
| network | Million EUR | 277.0 | 276.5 |
| disposal | Million EUR | 198.7 | 196.2 |
| water | Million EUR | 124.5 | 126.0 |
| Holding & Services | Million EUR | 34.8 | 39.1 |
Headquarters: Power Tower
The corporate headquarters, the Power Tower , is a symbiosis of modern architecture and unique energy use. The new energy concept is based on the three pillars of the building envelope, energy technology and energy generation. The Power Tower is the first high-rise office building with a passive house character and draws most of its energy from earth, sun and water.
Group structure
In 2006 Energie AG decided on a holding structure. Control and corporate functions are located in the holding company. In addition to Energie AG Holding, there are business areas with operational and commercial activities and service areas in the form of individual companies, which means they are responsible for themselves.
In addition to the holding company and the numerous companies, there are four service areas ( Tech, Business, Customer and Personal) that work independently.
Lead companies
- Energie AG Upper Austria Environment Service GmbH
- The entire waste management business of Energie AG Oberösterreich was collected in the company. Following the decision of the Supervisory Board on June 18, 2013, the entire Eastern European business of the AVE Group was sold to the Czech EP Industries, as . The national companies in Austria and South Tyrol remain in the group. On October 1, 2014, the company was renamed from AVE Austria GmbH to Energie AG Oberösterreich Umwelt Service GmbH. The company is the market leader in Austria in the field of disposal services and offers all stages of the value chain in waste treatment.
- Energie AG Oberösterreich Wasser GmbH
- Takes care of the areas of water and wastewater in Austria, the Czech Republic, southern Germany and Slovakia. Austria has its own water service company (WDL) that operates in the areas of water, sewer and sewage treatment plants. Energie AG Wasser GmbH is involved in eight companies on the Czech market (CEVAK in Budweis, VAK BEROUN near Prague, VODOS Kolin, Aqua Service in Rychnov, VS Chrudim, VODOSPOL in Klatovy, VODOS Velkoobchod and VHOS in Moravská Třebová ).
- Energie AG Upper Austria Warmth GmbH
- Responsible in Upper Austria and the Czech Republic for activities in the area of heating. In detail this is the district heating supply of Upper Austria, the supply of industrial customers with process heat as well as biomass and geothermal activities.
Sole proprietorships
- Energie AG Oberösterreich Kraftwerke GmbH
- Responsible for the planning, construction, operation and maintenance of power plants for electricity and heat generation.
- Energie AG Upper Austria Trading GmbH
- Provides energy services. Trading in electrical energy and certificates, planning and optimizing power plant use and fuel procurement.
- Netz Oberösterreich GmbH (since October 1, 2013; previously: Energie AG Oberösterreich Netz GmbH )
- Planning, construction, operation and maintenance of 31,400 km of power lines, 49 substations and 5,423 km of gas lines.
- Energie AG Upper Austria Distribution GmbH & Co KG
- Serves customers in private households, agriculture, trade and industry.
- Energie AG Upper Austria Telekom GmbH
- Telecommunications services within the group and in the private sector. Energie AG Oberösterreich Telekom GmbH maintains a comprehensive fiber optic network in Upper Austria, offers services for measuring energy sources and operates a GPS system.
- Enamo GmbH
- Joint venture sales company between Energie AG Oberösterreich (65%) and Linz AG (35%), has been managing the electricity sales subsidiaries of both groups since entering the market on July 1, 2007.
- Energie AG Upper Austria Power Solutions GmbH
- With the integration in October 2014, the group responded to the changes in the energy market and thus secured the supply of natural gas. In addition, the company also offers services to increase energy efficiency and heating solutions based on all energy sources. In addition, through the integration of Fair Energy GmbH, the company is also developing services based on renewable energies. Alternative forms of drive, such as electromobility and driving with natural gas, round off the company's offering.
- Energie AG Upper Austria Fair Energy GmbH (dissolved)
- Projects, services and know-how in renewable energies, wind and photovoltaics, electromobility and energy efficiency for buildings. The company was integrated into Energie AG Oberösterreich Power Solutions GmbH on March 1, 2015.
Business areas
- Energy (electricity, gas, district heating, telecommunications)
- disposal
- Water supply
Corporate identity
“We think of tomorrow” is the slogan of Energie AG with a website at wir-haben-an-morgen.at.
Power plants
Energie AG operates 74 power plants (hydropower plants, thermal power plants and recycling plants, large photovoltaic power plants and decentralized photovoltaic citizen power plants, wind power plants) in Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria and Lower Austria. This includes 30 mostly smaller hydropower plants, 26 of which are run-of-river power plants on the Traun, Steyr and other rivers, as well as nine storage power plants. In total, these power plants produce 1,100 GWh per year, which corresponds to 11 percent of Upper Austrian electricity consumption. The large Danube power plants in Upper Austria are not operated by Energie AG, but by Verbund . The power plants on Enns and Steyr are partly operated by Ennskraftwerke AG , which is owned equally by Energie AG Oberösterreich and Verbund .
In addition, the company operates two large thermal power plant locations, in Timelkam and Riedersbach , and several waste incineration plants in Wels and Lenzing . In the spring of 2013, it was decided to phase out coal-fired power generation at the Riedersbach site by 2016 because it can no longer be operated economically due to the low income from the electricity price and high transport costs for coal. The last ton of hard coal was burned in the Riedersbach II power plant block on March 23, 2016. Furthermore, power plants are operated with energy generation from photovoltaics and biomass. In the 2014/2015 financial year, the entry into electricity production from wind energy took place through the acquisition of wind farms in eastern Lower Austria and a share in the Munderfing wind farm.
In total, Energie AG produced around 3.1 TWh per year in the 2014/2015 financial year, with which the company produced 35% of the electricity sold to end customers.
Thermal power plants
List of thermal power plants in Upper Austria
Hydropower plants
List of hydropower plants in Upper Austria
List of hydropower plants in the state of Salzburg
Photovoltaics
Energie AG also operates several photovoltaic systems:
- Test facility Seewalchen am Attersee , along the A 1 West motorway
- Photovoltaics on the Loser , with a maximum of 30 kW
- Photovoltaics at the Power Tower , the corporate headquarters in Linz
- Photovoltaic Eberstalzell , commissioning in May 2010, output: 1 megawatt - currently Austria's largest photovoltaic research power plant.
- Photovoltaics with public participation at several locations , with a total of 1.2 megawatts of power (Timelkam, Wels, Rohrbach, St. Florian, Großraming, Ternberg, Waldneukirchen, Ostermiething, Kremsmünster, Großarl).
Wind energy
In 2014, Energie AG started using wind energy and participated in the following wind parks:
- Scharndorf III wind farm : 3 wind turbines, total output 9 MW, Energie AG share: 50%
- Trautmannsdorf Nord wind farm : 4 wind turbines, total output 12 MW, Energie AG share: 50%
- Munderfing wind farm : 5 wind turbines, total output 15 MW, Energie AG share: 14.7%
The company's own wind power projects in the Upper Austrian foothills of the Alps in the municipalities of Ternberg, Molln and Reichraming or Reichraming and Großraming will not be pursued for the time being because they are not economically viable.
communication
With Powerspeed , Energie AG Oberösterreich Telekom GmbH offers the networking of company locations . The network is the approximately 5000 kilometers long fiber optic network through which all municipalities in Upper Austria are connected. FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) connections - based on real fiber optic connections - have also been offered to private customers since the end of 2013.
Innovations
Energie AG positions itself in the development and promotion of heat pump technology, application research in the field of fuel cells, passive house construction and solar power plants.
Sports funding
Energie AG sponsors areas relevant to society such as sport, culture, education and social issues. With the Energie AG Sport Familie, the group supports top and young athletes from Austria, such as the world champion in ski cross Andrea Limbacher or the Olympic runner-up in ski jumping Michael Hayböck.
Web links
- Energie AG Upper Austria
- Energie AG Oberösterreich / Newsportal - Investor Relations
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Energie AG Oberösterreich in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
swell
- Download directory: information material , energieag.at
- Annual report of Energie AG Upper Austria 2011/2012 ( PDF , 3.5 MB, news.energieag.at)
- Annual report of Energie AG Oberösterreich 2012/2013 ( PDF , 2.2 MB, news.energieag.at)
- Annual report of Energie AG Oberösterreich 2013/2014 ( PDF , 1.9 MB, news.energieag.at)
- Annual report of Energie AG Upper Austria 2014/2015 ( PDF , 2.3 MB, news.energieag.at)
- Annual Report of Energie AG Upper Austria 2015/2016 ( PDF , 3.1 MB, news.energieag.at)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2015/16 Retrieved January 11, 2016
- ↑ Courier article from October 1, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2013/14. (PDF; 1.9 MB) Energie AG Oberösterreich, accessed on April 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Press release from February 24th, 2017. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release from December 19, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release from 1.3.2017. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
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↑ cf. for example:
Items to be negotiated: Supplement 647/2005: Submission by the Upper Austrian provincial government regarding the authorization to bring Energie AG Upper Austria into OÖ Landesholding GmbH. In: 21st session of the Upper Austrian Parliament, XXVI. Legislative session, Monday September 12, 2005. Short report. ( pdf , land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).
Upper Austrian State Audit Office (Hrsg.): Initiative audit participation management of the state of Upper Austria . Report, LRH-100025 / 11-2006-Wa, Linz, November 2006, section Assessment of the non-inclusion of Energie AG Oberösterreich , p. 17 ff ( pdf ( memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Lrh-ooe.at). Report of the finance committee regarding the transfer of a majority stake in the share capital of Energie AG Oberösterreich in OÖ Landesholding GmbH , Landtag Directorate: L-460/1-XXVII, Linz, May 20, 2010 ( pdf , land-oberoesterreich.gv.at). all accessed February 9, 2013
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2014/15 Retrieved on January 11, 2016
- ^ Website of Energie AG Oberösterreich Umwelt Service GmbH (formerly AVE Austria GmbH)
- ^ Website of Netz Oberösterreich GmbH
- ↑ website of Enamo GmbH
- ↑ a b Website of Energie AG Oberösterreich Power Solutions GmbH
- ↑ Energie AG news portal from December 19, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Article My District from June 24, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Fair Energy website
- ↑ News portal of Energie AG Oberösterreich: About us
- ^ Website of Energie AG Oberösterreich Kraftwerke GmbH
- ^ News portal of Energie AG Oberösterreich: End of coal-fired power generation at the Riedersbach location
- ↑ News portal of Energie AG Oberösterreich: Energie AG and its partner acquire wind farms southeast of Vienna
- ↑ News portal of Energie AG Oberösterreich: Energie AG takes over a stake in the Munderfing wind farm
- ^ News portal of Energie AG Oberösterreich: Wind energy entry
- ^ News portal of Energie AG Oberösterreich: Wind energy entry
- ↑ News portal of Energie AG Oberösterreich: Energie AG takes over a stake in the Munderfing wind farm
- ↑ News portal of Energie AG Oberösterreich: After detailed wind measurements are available, Energie AG will no longer pursue the projects
- ↑ powerSPEED - the fiber optic network from Energie AG
- ↑ Sports family from January 26, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Article Die Presse from January 25, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Article OÖ Nachrichten of 2.3.2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Sports family. Retrieved June 24, 2015 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 36 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 26 ″ E