Steag

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Steag GmbH

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founding September 20, 1937
Seat Essen , Germany
management Joachim Rumstadt , Chairman of the Management Board
Number of employees 6,575
sales EUR 2.9 billion
Branch energy
Website www.steag.com
As of December 31, 2018

The Steag (own spellings also STEAG and steag , the former name bituminous coal electricity AG ), headquartered in Essen is the fifth largest German power generator; its shareholders have been KSBG Kommunale Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG since 2014 .

activities

Steag headquarters 2011

Steag operates eight hard coal and one refinery power plants in Germany and has three locations abroad (in Turkey, Colombia and the Philippines). Steag also produces electricity in industrial power plants and systems for decentralized energy supply . The total installed electrical output nationally and internationally is around 10,000  megawatts . The second pillar of the company is energy services, district heating , renewable energies (wind, biomass, geothermal energy, biogas) and trading in coal and CO 2 certificates . In the 2017 financial year, the Steag Group achieved sales of € 3.6 billion and an EBITDA of € 354.2 million with 6,493 employees .

Power plant locations

Locations of large power plants (various smaller plants are not listed):

power plant Location (country, place) Primary energy source Installed gross power Usable energy output Commissioning /
renewal		 Shutdown
Bergkamen power plant Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bergkamen Hard coal 717 MWel 3,520 GWh / a el 07/02/1981
Bexbach power plant Germany, Saarland, Bexbach Hard coal 726 MWel 1,787 GWh / a el 01/01/1983 April 2020 (planned, but currently cold reserve due to system relevance)
Herne power plant Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Herne - Baukau Hard coal Block 4: 511 MWel 2,501 GWh / a el 1962/1963/1966 and Block 4: July 25, 1989 Block 1: 2010

Block 2: 2013
Block 3: 2017

Leuna power plant Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Leuna Refinery gas and oil, natural gas 162 MW (of which 56 MWel equivalent = 204 MWth) 558 GWh / a el + 282 GWh / a th
Lünen power plant Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lünen Hard coal Block 6: 149 MWel
Block 7: 324 MWel		 1,553 GWh / a el Block 6: March 6th, 1962
Block 7: March 26th, 1970		 Shutdown on December 31, 2018
Voerde power plant Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Voerde (Lower Rhine) Hard coal Block 1: 322 MWel
Block 2: 318 MWel		 1971 Shutdown on March 31, 2017
Völklingen-Fenne power plant Germany, Saarland, Völklingen -Fenne Bituminous coal, mine gas, natural gas 211 MWel plus 42 MWel mine gas engine system 1,720 GWh / a el 11/30/1989
Walsum power plant Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duisburg - Walsum Hard coal Block 9: 370 MWel
Block 10: 725 MWel		 1,331 GWh / a el (without the new block 10) Block 7: 1959
Block 9: June 1st, 1988
Block 10: December 20th, 2013		 Block 7: shut down in 2014
Weiher power plant Germany, Saarland, Quierschied -Weiher Hard coal, mine gas 656 MWel 1,725 ​​GWh / a el 1918/1963/1964 and Block III: 24.09.1976 April 2020 (planned, but currently cold reserve due to system relevance)
Iskenderun power plant Turkey , İskenderun Hard coal 1,320 MWel 9,076 GWh / a el
Mindanao Power Plant Philippines , Mindanao Hard coal 232 MWel 1,456 GWh / a el
Termopaipa power station Colombia , Boyacá , Paipa Hard coal 165 MWel 414 GWh / a el

In addition to these large power plants, Steag operates numerous smaller power and thermal power plants either directly or through contracting, including many based on renewable energies and / or combined heat and power , including:

Large battery systems

Up until the beginning of 2017, Steag invested 100 million euros in six large battery systems at six German locations: Lünen, Herne and Duisburg-Walsum in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bexbach, Völklingen-Fenne and Weiher in Saarland. Each large battery system consists of ten containers and can generate 15 MW of primary control power over 30 minutes, i.e. 7.5 MWh. The total capacity is significantly greater than 45 MWh, more than 120 MWh.

With the LESSY system installed at the Völklingen-Fenne power plant, Steag was one of the very first providers to use a large battery (1 MW output) for primary control power from February 2014 to the end of February 2016.

history

Steag was founded on September 20, 1937 in Lünen as Steinkohlen-Elektrizität AG by the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kohlen-Syndikat , a sales organization for hard coal mining. The aim was to promote electricity generation from hard coal. In addition, the joint venture also served to supply two large power plants that are supposed to cover the energy requirements for the Lippe Plant in Lünen (aluminum) and the chemical plant in Hüls in Marl (Buna, synthetic rubber). Both large companies were part of the Nazi autarky and armaments policy.

After the war, the inclusion of the mining power plants in the public electricity supply was contractually regulated with RWE and VEW . District heating supply has also been part of the business since the 1960s. With the founding of Ruhrkohle AG in 1968, the hard coal sector in the Ruhr area is reorganized: In addition to the mines, the coal-fired power plants are also united under the roof of the new company, as is the majority of Steag shares. As a result, instead of individual smaller coal-mine power plants, more and more large power plants are being built. Around the turn of the millennium, Steag invested in several large foreign power plant projects and founded foreign companies. The integration of the Saarland power plants and district heating systems also begins after RAG took over Saarbergwerke AG in 1998.

Since February 2002 Steag belonged entirely to the RAG group after this the remaining Steag shares of RWE and E.ON had acquired. On January 2, 2007, the AG was converted into a GmbH . The RAG subsidiary RAG Beteiligungs-AG , in which RAG held its industrial holdings ( Degussa , Steag, RAG Immobilien), was renamed Evonik Industries on September 12, 2007 . Under the name Evonik Steag , the former Steag functioned as the Energy Business Area of ​​Evonik Industries.

In the following, however, Evonik focused on the Degussa areas of specialty chemicals and high-performance materials. Therefore u. a. the energy business area will also be sold. On December 19, 2010, the contract for the sale of a majority stake of 51% in Evonik Steag to Kommunale Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH & Co.KG (KSBG based in Essen), a merger of several municipal companies from the Ruhr area ( Dortmunder Stadtwerke , Stadtwerke Duisburg , Stadtwerke Essen , Energieversorgung Oberhausen , Stadtwerke Dinslaken ) signed. The sale took effect on March 2, 2011; the price was 651 million euros. The sale of the remaining 49% by Evonik to the alliance of municipal utilities for around € 600 million should be implemented within five years. This took place in September 2014. On June 8, 2011, the part of the name Evonik was dropped ; since then the company has been operating under the old name STEAG .

In September 2014, this 49 percent was transferred (price: 570 million euros). The responsible district government announced in November 2014 that, as part of the approval process, a. still to be checked whether the takeover of the international business is compatible with § 107 of the municipal code of North Rhine-Westphalia . She later approved the transaction. The economic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament , Dietmar Brockes , describes this as a scandal.

In November 2016, Steag announced that it would shut down five coal-fired power plant blocks in 2017. For this purpose, binding decommissioning applications have been submitted to the Federal Network Agency. This is a block of the Herne power plant , two plants in Voerde and the Bexbach and Weiher power plants . The Voerde location on the Lower Rhine with the Voerde A / B (1,522 MW) and West 1/2 (712 MW) power plants was closed on March 31, 2017. Unit 3 of the Herne power plant was shut down on June 30, 2017. The Saarland power plants Bexbach and Weiher, on the other hand, were classified by Amprion as "systemically relevant" at least until 2019 and are in reserve operation . On March 2, 2018, the end of the two units of the Lünen power plant in 2019 was also announced.

Others

From 2004 to 2007, Steag was the main sponsor of the Rot-Weiss Essen soccer club .

Web links

Commons : Steag  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Power plant list of the Federal Network Agency , as of March 7, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Saarländischer Rundfunk: Weiher and Bexbach power plants secured for the time being. September 17, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ STEAG - Herne power plant. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ http://www.steag-grossbatterie-system.com/
  5. ↑ a b STEAG - History. STEAG homepage. Steag GmbH, accessed June 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ verivox.de
  7. ↑ Evonik Industries press release of December 18, 2010. Accessed December 19, 2010 .
  8. ↑ STEAG is now called STEAG again. Press release. (No longer available online.) Steag GmbH, June 8, 2011, archived from the original on June 17, 2011 ; Retrieved June 9, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steag.com
  9. ↑ admissibility of economic activity; 107a = permissibility of energy industry activity
  10. ↑ Rheinische Post of November 26, 2014, page B1: Municipalities suffer from the Steag (online here )
  11. ↑ a b Rheinische Post February 7, 2015: Country waves Steag deal with stomach ache
  12. ↑ June 23, 2014
  13. ↑ Steag switches off coal-fired power plants . In: n-tv , November 2, 2016. Accessed November 2, 2016.
  14. ↑ End after 47 years: Voerde power plant is shut down. In: steag.de. April 4, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Steag power plant block in Baukau will be shut down at the end of June. In: waz.de. April 7, 2017, accessed March 5, 2018 .
  16. ^ Reserve power plants in Quiigart and Bexbach. In: saarbruecker-zeitung.de. August 9, 2017, accessed March 5, 2018 .
  17. ↑ STEAG will close the Lünen power plant at the end of 2018. In: steag.com. August 31, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .