Siegen utilities

Siegen Utilities GmbH
legal form	GmbH
Seat	Siegen , Germany
management	Alfred Richter ( managing director ); Joachim Boller (Chairman of the Supervisory Board);
Number of employees	134 (2018)
sales	59.7 million euros (2018)
Branch	power supply
Website	www.svb-siegen.de
	As of December 31, 2018

The Siegen Utilities GmbH is the municipal utilities of the city of Siegen . The company owns and operates the drinking water and gas networks in Siegen as well as the gas network in the center and in the Brauersdorf district of the neighboring town of Netphen . The business activities also include the supply of drinking water in the city of Siegen as well as the supraregional sales of gas and electricity .

structure

The city of Siegen (74.88%), Rheinische Energie AG ( 24.92%) and Bethmann Bank AG ( 0.20%) are shareholders in the Siegen utilities . The managing director is Alfred Richter. The chairman of the supervisory board is council member Joachim Boller.

The Siegen utilities themselves with a share of 16.66% are shareholders of SE SAUBER ENERGIE GmbH & Co. KG , a municipal utility group of six energy suppliers.

numbers

In 2018, the Siegen utilities network operated a network length of 714 kilometers with 18,000 network connections in the gas sector and a network length of 857 km with 25,300 house connections in the drinking water sector. The Siegen utilities sales department delivered 730 million kWh of gas (2013: 964 million kWh; 2012: 1,004 million kWh; 2011: 944 million kWh) and 31.1 million kWh of electricity (2013: 11.2 million kWh ; 2012: 8.2 million kWh; 2011: 5.4 million kWh) and in the Siegen city area 5.23 million m³ of drinking water (2013: 5.04 million m³; 2012: 5.11 million m³; 2011 : 5.13 million m³).

Company history

The Siegen utilities have their roots in the 19th century . In 1862 the "Siegener Gasanstalt von W. Francke und Kompagnie" built the first gas works in the city. Street lighting and gas supply were started in the same year . It replaced the previous street lighting with oil or petroleum candles. The gas was produced from coal in the gas works itself.

In 1887 , the city of Siegen bought the gasworks and merged it with the existing waterworks to form a cross-network sales organization under uniform management - Stadtwerke Siegen. In the following years up to 1892 , over 1 million gold marks were invested in the construction of a new central water distribution network.

In 1930 the company stopped producing its own gas. Stadtwerke Siegen became a partner in Westfälische Ferngas AG and from then on used the blast furnace gas produced by Siegen industry. The remaining demand was covered by the newly built South Westphalia pipeline from Dortmund coke oven gas.

A 10,000 m³ steel spherical gas tank was completed in 1935 . It was intended as a reserve for a possible gas shortage. Today the container is the second oldest spherical gas container in the world. In 1993 it had to be moved to its current location on Friedrich-Friesen-Straße. It is no longer in operation today, but remains an important industrial monument .

At the end of the Second World War , around 80% of the city of Siegen had been destroyed. Due to the concentration of the steel industry in Siegen, the city had become the target of massive bombings . The gas supply in Siegen could not be resumed until 1946.

In 1959 and 1960 there was a water shortage in Siegerland due to extreme drought. A subsequent emergency ordinance envisaged the enrichment of surface water to supply the Siegen city area. As a result, the construction of the Obernautalsperre and the Breitenbachtalsperre was pushed ahead.

In 1965 the district heating plant on Haardter Berg went into operation. It supplied the surrounding area with district heating. Eight years later, the city of Siegen converted its own company Stadtwerke Siegen into Siegener Betriebsbetriebe GmbH. The city of Siegen remained the sole owner . In 1975 the SVB expanded the gas supply to the adjacent large community of Netphen . With the municipal reorganization in 1974 , the Hüttental and Eiserfeld municipal utilities and their staff were already included in the Siegen utilities.

In 1984 Rhenag (Rheinische Energie AG) bought 24.92 percent of the shares in the Siegener supply company and thus became a minority shareholder .

Web links

svb-siegen.de - Internet presence of the Siegen utilities

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Annual Report 2018 (PDF) Siegen Utilities, October 10, 2019, accessed on February 4, 2020 .
↑ http://sauberenergie.de/ueber-uns/ihr-stadtwerke-verbund/
↑ ^a ^b ^c 2013 annual report of Siegen utilities ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c 2012 annual report of Siegen utilities ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b ^c Annual financial statements for the 2011 financial year of Siegener Betriebsbetriebe GmbH In: Bundesanzeiger , December 3, 2012, accessed on February 4, 2020.

50.873059 8.013813Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 23 " N , 8 ° 0 ′ 49.7" E

[GB2018-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Annual Report 2018 (PDF) Siegen Utilities, October 10, 2019, accessed on February 4, 2020 .

[2] ttp://sauberenergie.de/ueber-uns/ihr-stadtwerke-verbund/

[GB2013-3] 2013 annual report of Siegen utilities ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).

[GB2012-4] 2012 annual report of Siegen utilities ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[GB2011-5] Annual financial statements for the 2011 financial year of Siegener Betriebsbetriebe GmbH In: Bundesanzeiger , December 3, 2012, accessed on February 4, 2020.