Energie Wasser Bern
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| legal form | Public law institution |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Bern , Switzerland |
| management | Daniel Schafer ( CEO ) Franz Stampfli ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 628 (585.7 FTE) (2016) |
| sales | 413.3 million CHF (2016) |
| Branch | care |
| Website | https://www.ewb.ch |
Energie Wasser Bern ( EWB , proper spelling "ewb") is the current -, water -, gas -, waste recycling - and heat distribution companies of the city of Bern in Switzerland . As an independent public law institution , the company is owned by the City of Bern, which also oversees the company. Energie Wasser Bern emerged in 2002 through the merger of the city of Bern's electricity company and the city's gas, water and district heating supply. The company employs a little more than 600 people and generated sales of CHF 413.3 million in 2016 and total assets of CHF 1.85 billion.
Field of activity
The activities of Energie Wasser Bern essentially include the areas of power supply , water supply , natural gas supply, district heating supply, mobility offers (natural gas and electric mobility ), the construction of the Bern fiber optic network and waste recycling .
Power supply
As an electricity supplier, Energie Wasser Bern supplies 70,000 private households, 8,000 small and medium-sized enterprises and 100 major customers in the city of Bern with a total of 1,125 GWh of electricity per year; In addition, 120 GWh of electricity from renewable energy were sold to third parties / abroad. This is largely obtained from power plants in which EWB is involved. A smaller part is bought from third-party suppliers or produced in-house.
In order for electric cars a unified network of charging stations set up, EWB has in June 2017 together with the energy service companies Alpiq , EBM and Groupe E , the MOVE Mobility AG founded. In Switzerland, MOVE has more than 800 of its own charging stations, and thousands more can be used throughout Europe.
EWB's electricity mix consists of 24.5% nuclear power , 58.8% hydropower and 3.2% waste. (As of 2016) As of 2020, the product “ewb.Basis.Strom” will consist of 100% Swiss hydropower. From this moment on, nuclear power will no longer be included in any EWB product. With regard to nuclear energy, EWB has a 7.5% stake in the Gösgen nuclear power plant . In the hydropower sector, EWB holds, among other things, a 16.66% stake in the Oberhasli power plants .
Water supply
EWB supplies the city of Berne on his 388 km long grid with around 14 million cubic meters of drinking water . A further eight neighboring communities are also supplied. EWB (or Wasserverbund Region Bern AG) gained a total of 19.3 million m³ of water in 2011, the majority of which comes from groundwater , and thus supplied over 200,000 people. Due to increased pesticide residues , various sources and sockets that had insufficiently large protection zones or were exposed to other hazards have been shut down in recent years. At the same time, in the catchment area of the remaining versions in Aeschau , Kiesen and Belpau, agricultural use was severely restricted or prohibited entirely.
Energie Wasser Bern's drinking water network also supplies the vast majority of public wells in Bern with drinking water, the quality of which is regularly checked.
natural gas
Energie Wasser Bern supplies customers in Bern and around a dozen municipalities in the area with a total of 1,258 GWh of natural gas via its 336-kilometer network.
Waste management
Waste from the city and agglomeration of Bern is incinerated in the municipal waste incineration plant . The resulting energy is used as electricity and district heating. In 2012, a total of 116,256 tons of waste were disposed of, producing 29.9 GWh of electricity and 241.2 GWh of district heating. Locally produced and CO 2 -neutral biogas has been available since the end of 2010 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.move.ch/
- ↑ www.stromkennzeichnung.ch , accessed on October 7, 2017
- ↑ No more nuclear power in Bernese ewb products. In: bernerzeitung.ch . August 15, 2019, accessed August 16, 2019 .
- ↑ EWB and Wasserverbund Region Bern: Joint media release In: wvrb.ch, July 3, 2017; accessed on December 14, 2017.
- ↑ Drinking water quality. The quality of drinking water in the city of Bern is checked regularly. In: bern.ch. Information service of the City of Bern, November 17, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2018 .