Mainova
| Mainova AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | DE0006553464 |
| founding | January 1, 1998 |
| Seat |
Frankfurt am Main , Germany
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| Number of employees | 2,698 (2018) |
| sales | 2.05 billion euros (2018) |
| Branch | power supply |
| Website | www.mainova.de |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Mainova AG is one of the largest regional utilities in Germany, supplying around one million people in Hesse and the neighboring federal states with electricity , natural gas , heat and water . There are also numerous corporate customers throughout Germany. Since October 2008, the Frankfurt-based company has been offering electricity and natural gas to private customers under the brand names "Mainova Strom Direkt", "Mainova Erdgas Direkt", "Mainova Strom Extra", "Mainova Erdgas Extra" and the green electricity tariff "Novanatur".
history
Mainova AG emerged in 1998 from the merger of Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main and Maingas AG. The energy and water supplier employed 2,698 people at the end of 2018 and achieved sales of 2.05 billion euros in 2018. The largest shareholders of Mainova AG are the city of Frankfurt am Main (via “Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH”) with 75.2% and the investment company Thüga AG with 24.5%. The remaining shares (0.3%) are in free float. Board members are Constantin H. Alsheimer (Chairman of the Board of Management), Peter Arnold, Norbert Breidenbach and Diana Rauhut. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Mainova AG is Frankfurt's Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann ( SPD ).
Mainova AG generates its electricity primarily by burning hard coal and natural gas in power plants that work in combined heat and power (CHP) and, to a much lesser extent, in numerous wind parks and photovoltaic systems. Four Mainova thermal power stations (HKW) and an interconnected network ensure that Frankfurt is supplied with electricity. The combined heat and power plants West , Niederrad, Allerheiligenstrasse and Messe generate district heating in addition to electricity through CHP . On Müllheizkraftwerk Nordweststadt Mainova AG has no majority ownership, but takes the district heating and electricity generated there from exclusively. The Fechenheim biomass power plant generates heat and electricity from the thermal utilization of primarily green waste and waste wood. The basis of the Frankfurt power supply is the coal combustion in blocks 2 and 3 of the heating power plant West , the largest power plant in the city. The two run-of-river power plants at the Griesheim barrage and the Eddersheim am Main barrage also feed their power into the Mainova network.
The most important holdings or subsidiaries of Mainova AG include the NRM-Netzdienste Rhein-Main-GmbH, the MSD-Mainova-ServiceDienste-GmbH and the SRM-StraßenBeluchter Rhein-Main-GmbH. The around 800 employees of NRM (Mainova share: 100%) look after, maintain and manage the around 14,000 km long networks for electricity, natural gas, water and heating. MSD (Mainova share: 100%) is responsible for metrology, billing and customer service. SRM takes care of around 70,000 street lights in Frankfurt. Mainova has a 36.4 percent stake in the Hessenwasser water supplier .
At the end of 2009, Mainova, together with Stadtwerke Hannover and N-ERGIE, each took over 21% of the Thüga shares. The remaining 37% of Stadtwerke-Holding Thüga was acquired by the KOM9 municipal utility group, in which more than 45 municipal utilities from all over Germany - from Aue to Wiesbaden - have come together. The Thüga holdings in GASAG Berliner Gaswerke AG (37%), HEAG Südhessische Energie AG (40%), Stadtwerke Duisburg (20%) and Stadtwerke Karlsruhe (10%) were not part of the purchase. A cash purchase price of around 2.9 billion euros was agreed for the reduced Thüga. Mainova AG has a 33% stake in the car sharing provider book-n-drive.
In 2012 Mainova acquired ten percent of the shares in ABO Wind AG , a globally active project developer for renewable energies based in Wiesbaden. At the beginning of 2016, Mainova began to connect the two district heating networks north and south of the Main with a tunnel tube under the river. This is intended to enable more environmentally friendly and cheaper operation of the respective heating power plants. The construction costs amounted to approx. 10 million euros. The connection was completed in July 2016.
criticism
Mainova AG has been criticized for using its dominant position in the market to demand excessive prices. In 2005, the Federal Court of Justice ruled that Mainova had inadmissibly denied an area network operator a connection to its medium-voltage network. In July 2012, the legal dispute between the Hessian Ministry of Economics and Mainova AG over water prices in Frankfurt was settled with a settlement.
literature
- Thomas Bauer, Tilo Maier: Impulses for Frankfurt and the region. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-942921-98-5 .
Web links
- Mainova AG website
- Business reports
- BGH, judgment of June 28, 2005 , Az. KVR 27/04, full text and BGH, press release 94/2005 of June 28, 2005, on the obligation of Mainova to connect area networks to its medium-voltage network.
- Information about Mainova at energieanbieterinformation.de
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Mainova in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2018. (pdf) In: mainova.de. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Press release ABO Wind , June 12, 2012. Accessed November 30, 2017.
- ^ A district heating tunnel under the Main . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 4, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
- ↑ Hot water under the water . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 11, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
- ↑ Underfloor heating for the St. Paul's Church Assembly. In: FAZ . December 18, 2012, p. 34.
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 59.5 ″ E