Pfalzwerke

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Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft

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legal form Corporation
founding 1912
Seat Ludwigshafen am Rhein GermanyGermanyGermany 
management
  • Werner Hitschler (board member)
  • René Chassein (board member)
Number of employees 1,232 (Group 2019)
sales 1.395 billion euros (Group 2019)
Branch power supply
Website www.pfalzwerke.de
As of December 31, 2019

The Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft (proper spelling PFALZWERKE Aktiengesellschaft ) is a German power company based in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Various operating subsidiaries belong to the group , the majority of which are in municipal hands.

Companies

Corporate headquarters in Ludwigshafen

Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft is a Germany-wide and internationally active energy supplier and a service company in the Palatinate and Saarpfalz district. Electricity sales and distribution represent the company's core business. Since July 2007, Pfalzwerke has also been offering electricity and gas nationwide under the brand name 123energie. Pfalzwerke and its subsidiaries and partner companies in the region offer solutions for everything to do with electricity , heat and natural gas . The range of services also includes offers for IT infrastructure, telecommunications , commercial services and building management . In addition, the company is increasingly relying on resource-saving energy sources such as photovoltaic systems , biomass , geothermal energy and wind power and is working on contracting projects to promote modern energy sources such as wood-fired thermal power stations .

history

On December 17, 1912, the Palatinate district, the cities of Ludwigshafen, Homburg and Frankenthal as well as the Rheinische Schuckert-Gesellschaft founded the Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft. A prominent co-initiator was the technology pioneer and founder of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Oskar von Miller . The founders made Ludwigshafen am Rhein the headquarters of the new company with a share capital of around 7.25 million marks. The shareholders brought their power plants in Ludwigshafen (3,500 kilowatts), Edenkoben (1,200 kilowatts) and Homburg (370 kilowatts) into the company.

By June 30, 1913, 36 communities with 210,000 inhabitants were connected to the Pfalzwerke network. In 1927, twenty years earlier than expected, electricity output reached 100 million kilowatt hours and doubled until the outbreak of the Second World War. Considerable war damage to the facilities made it necessary to start over. In order to improve the transport and transformer activities, the company started an extensive reconstruction and optimization program. As a result, electricity consumption in the region climbed back to 230 million kilowatt hours as early as 1951. In 1960, the Pfalzwerke exceeded the billion mark for electricity supply for the first time, and at the end of the 1960s consumption was almost three billion kilowatt hours. Today this value moves at seven billion kilowatt hours for 1.6 million people in the 6,000 square kilometer area of ​​the Palatinate and the Saarpfalz district.

Pfalzwerke Group

Shareholders

Almost three quarters of the share capital of Pfalzwerke is in the hands of local authorities in the supply area. The District Association of the Palatinate , a local authority, is the largest shareholder.

  • District Association Palatinate: 52.1%
  • innogy SE : 26.7%
  • City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: 10.3%
  • Municipal free float: 9.5% (including Stadtwerke Homburg 0.1%)
  • Employee shares: 1.4%

Board

The board consists of two full-time members: Werner Hitschler (since 2004) and René Chassein (since 2011).

Holdings

The following companies belong to the Pfalzwerke Group:

  • FFR Fernwärmeversorgung Flugplatz Ramstein GmbH: The company provides the heat supply for Ramstein Air Base and also offers services related to installation and heating construction.
  • Pfalzgas GmbH: As a natural gas provider in Rhineland-Palatinate, the company supplies around 187 municipalities and more than 59,000 customers with heat from natural gas.
  • PFALZKOM GmbH: The ICT service provider operates several data centers , maintains its own fiber-optic network with 1,400 route kilometers and is an infrastructure partner for network operators and carriers in the Rhine-Neckar and Rhine-Main metropolitan regions, southern parts of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Karlsruhe technology region and parts of the Saarland. In addition to cloud - and managed services offered. The approximately 800 customers include business customers, institutions, authorities and carriers. The Ludwigshafen-based company was created through the merger of PfalzKom, Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH, and MAnet GmbH, a former subsidiary of MVV Energie AG. PFALZKOM currently employs around 90 people.
  • The core business of Pfalzsolar GmbH is the planning, construction, financing and operation of photovoltaic systems.
  • Pfalzwerke Geofuture GmbH: This subsidiary, founded in 2008, has set itself the task of using environmentally friendly, CO 2 -free, domestic energy for generating electricity and heat in Germany. The first geothermal power plant of Geofuture GmbH went into operation at the end of 2012.
  • Pfalzwerke Netz AG: Due to the unbundling requirements in the Energy Industry Act, Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft transferred its distribution network operation to an independent company with effect from July 1, 2007. This path was continued and in 2012 the Pfalzwerke Netzgesellschaft mbH was renamed the Pfalzwerke Netz AG. Pfalzwerke Netz AG is responsible for the management of the regional electricity distribution network in the Palatinate and the Saarpfalz district.
  • Pfalzwerke Infrastrukturgesellschaft mbH : The object of the infrastructure company is the planning and implementation of development measures under private law for building areas.
  • Pfalzwind GmbH : Your goal is to plan, build and finance wind turbines primarily in Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • prego services GmbH : It offers services in the areas of accounting, financial accounting, controlling, human resources, procurement, customer information and accounting systems as well as in the IT spectrum for the energy sector, municipalities and industry.
  • Repa GmbH Elektrotechnik : The company is responsible for local network construction, electrical installation, network / data technology, telecommunications, lighting systems, photovoltaics and climbing protection devices.
  • Voltaris GmbH: The technical service company Voltaris supports energy, gas and water suppliers as well as large industrial companies with offers and services in metering and metering as well as energy data management.

In addition, Pfalzwerke AG operates systems for the generation of electricity and heat from renewable energies in a large number of project companies together with mostly municipal partners.

Brands

  • Pfalzwerke öko: Pfalzwerke's electricity and heating products are sold under the Pfalzwerke öko brand.
  • 123energie: Pfalzwerke distributes electricity and gas nationwide under the name 123energie (123strom and 123gas). 123energie is advertised as a pure online brand and, in addition to a website, relies primarily on social media activities and the 123energie blog for communication.

Key figures

With over 400,000 private and 20,000 commercial customers, around 1,500 business and industrial customers as well as electricity supplies to over 60 municipal and municipal utilities, the Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft is, according to its own information, one of the most important energy supply companies in Germany and the market leader in the Palatinate and Saarpfalz district.

In the 2018 financial year, the group employed 1,199 people and trained 102 apprentices. There were sales revenues (excluding electricity and natural gas taxes) in the amount of 1.321 billion euros and an operating profit generated 70.7 million euros.

Electricity labeling

According to Section 42 of the Energy Industry Act (EnWG) of May 7, 2005, all energy supply companies in Germany have been obliged since December 15, 2005 to publish the origin of their electricity. For the Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft the following values ​​result for the year 2019:

Power source Pfalzwerke Germany
Nuclear power 12% 13%
Fossil and other energy sources
(e.g. hard coal, lignite, natural gas) 		46% 49%
Renewable energies (e.g. hydropower,
wind power, solar energy) 		42% 38%
Associated environmental impact
Radioactive waste (g / kWh) 0.0003 0.0003
CO 2 emissions (g / kWh) 383 421

The energy source mix for the rest of the delivery corresponds to the aforementioned total energy source mix of Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft.

Regenerative energy concepts

Insheim geothermal power plant

Pfalzwerke Geofuture GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft, has been operating the Insheim geothermal power plant since November 2012 . With an electrical output of 4.8 MW and a thermal output of 6–10 MWth (megawatt thermal), the system can supply around 8,000 households with electricity and 600–800 households with heat.

Solar power from the highway

A noise protection wall on the A6 motorway is equipped with one of the first photovoltaic systems of its kind in Germany. There the Pfalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft generates the energy required to supply 20 households.

Biomass local heating supply Wörth

The two biomass heating plants in Wörth, which use renewable raw materials from the region for sustainable energy generation, are the core of the ecological local heat supply. Wörth I , which opened in 2003, and Wörth II , which went into operation in 2014, have a total thermal output of 6900 kWth (kilowatts thermal). Integrated combined heat and power plants with combined heat and power supply the entire local heating system with electricity. Numerous building complexes and residential buildings in Wörth are already connected to the local heating supply - including the bathing park, the special needs and vocational school, the indoor swimming pool and two apartment buildings. With the two systems, the company has now created a pipeline network totaling 5.9 kilometers in length.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annual Report 2018. (pdf) Pfalzwerke, February 28, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Who we are. Pfalzwerke, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Pfalzwerke Group ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Company profile . Pfalzwerke website, accessed February 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ http://blog.123energie.de/
  6. ↑ The energy source mix of the Pfalzwerke. Pfalzwerke, accessed on January 31, 2020 .