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Städtische Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel

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legal form Corporation
founding 1929
Seat kassel
management Michael Maxelon
Olaf Hornfeck
Number of employees 897
sales 438.1 million
Branch power supply
Website www.sw-kassel.de

The Städtische Werke AG , based in Kassel , is a local power supply company and provides the residents and businesses in the city of Kassel with gas , electricity and district heating . The company offers tariff customers nationwide gas and electricity supply. Städtische Werke AG is a subsidiary of Kasseler Verkehrs- undversorgung-GmbH , which holds 75.1% of the capital. The remaining 24.9% is held by Thüga , which took over this stake from Vattenfall in December 2010 . Furthermore, on behalf of the city of Kassel, the municipal works operate two indoor and two outdoor pools , which were used by 580,832 visitors in 2017. Almost 70,000 visitors came to the renovated Wilhelmshöhe outdoor pool.

Business figures

In 2017, sales of over 438.1 million euros were generated. The turnover results from the sale of 813.4 GWh electricity and 2,852.2 GWh gas (including redistributors). On January 1, 2011, the company law separation of sales and network was completed. This means that the operation of the swimming pools and the sale of electricity and gas remain with the Mutter Städtische Werke AG, while the founded company Städtische Werke Netz + Service GmbH is responsible for the technical management of the electricity, gas and water networks, water production, street lighting and the Telecommunications is responsible. Kasseler Fernwärme GmbH (KFW) has been operating under the name Städtische Werke Energie + Wärme GmbH since January 1, 2013. She thus represents another daughter.

The company's stated goal is to produce 80 percent of the electricity required in Kassel using its own systems. The focus is on generation from renewable sources.

Holdings
Companies Participation [%]
Biogas Homberg GmbH & Co. KG 50.0
Biogas Homberg Verwaltungs GmbH 50.0
Biogas Müritz GmbH & Co. KG 62.5
Biogas Müritz Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH 50.0
EAM Energie GmbH 50.0
Fulda-Eder-Energie GmbH & Co. KG 40.0
Gas-Union GmbH, Frankfurt / Main 9.2
Municipal Works Kaufungen GmbH & Co. KG 74.9
Karbener Biogas GmbH & Co. KG 32.8
Karbener Biogas Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH 33.3
Kellerwald Biogas GmbH & Co. KG 29.4
Schwälmer Biogas Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH 50.0
Schwälmer Biogas GmbH & Co. KG 40.0
Stadtwerke Großalmerode GmbH & Co. KG 74.9
Stadtwerke Sangerhausen GmbH 25.1
Städtische Werke Energie + Wärme GmbH 94.9
Municipal works Netz + Service GmbH 100.0
SUN - Stadtwerke Union Nordhessen GmbH & Co. KG 67.0
SUN - Stadtwerke Union Nordhessen Verwaltungs GmbH 67.0
SUN Windpark Kreuzstein GmbH & Co. KG 37.0
SUN Windpark Kreuzstein Verwaltungs-GmbH 37.0
Thüga Erneuerbare Energien GmbH 5.0
Windenergie Kassel Verwaltungs-GmbH 100.0
Wind farm Rohrberg GmbH & Co. KG 25.1
Söhrewald / Niestetal GmbH & Co. KG wind farm 25.2
Wind farm Stiftswald GmbH & Co. KG 33.0

Products

electricity

Städtische Werke AG supplies all tariff customers in Kassel and nationwide with the product “natural electricity”, which is obtained from Scandinavian hydropower. The purchased electricity contingents are secured by GoO certificates. The customer does not incur any additional costs. According to the company, it is supplied by electricity producers in Norway via physical delivery. In 2012, the product natural electricity was certified as green electricity by TÜV Nord Cert GmbH. TÜV Rheinland has been a certifier since 2015. The standard of the VdTÜV, which includes the upstream chain, serves as the basis for certification. The emissions from the upstream chain were neutralized in an Indian project.

gas

In addition to the climate-neutral electricity product, the company has been supplying all tariff customers with climate-friendly natural gas since January 1, 2010. The combustion of the product “natural gas” is made CO 2 -neutral by investing in UNFCCC -certified climate protection projects . Here, too, the investment costs were not passed on to the customers. Investments were made in the following projects:

  • Hydropower North India
  • Hydropower Brazil - BAESA Project (UHE Barra Grande)

The climate-neutral gas combustion of the product natural gas was confirmed by TÜV Nord Cert GmbH from 2012. As with electricity, there was a change to TÜV Rheinland as a certifier in 2015. The green gas certification is deposited with TÜV Rheinland.

Biogas

Until 2012, the company's investment focus was on expanding biogas plants. Biogas plants in Homberg (Efze) and Willingshausen are operated together with agricultural partners . Sufficient energy is generated in both systems to supply around 4,000 households with electricity and around 1,000 households with heat. Legal framework conditions have been forcing the operators of biogas plants since 2014 to optimize raw materials and use alternative biomass. For the coming years, the focus will now be on the development of local regenerative supply concepts and the marketing of decentralized, needs-based electricity generation from gaseous biomass and the use of biological residues.

Wind power

Städtische Werke AG focuses on the planning, construction and operation of wind energy plants (WEA) in cooperation with municipalities , municipalities, citizens' energy cooperatives and other municipal utilities. Since 2012 the company has been striving to accelerate the expansion of renewable energies. In 2014, two wind farms in Niestetal and Söhrewald went into operation with a nominal output of 16.1 MW. Before the wind farms went into operation, a 100 m high wind measurement mast was installed in the “Warpel” wind farm, which records data with the help of six measuring devices in 24-hour operation. The wind farms in Niestetal and Söhrewald generate 43,000 megawatt hours per year with the help of seven wind turbines of the 2.3 megawatt class. In total, the seven systems with a total output of 21 MW supply 17,000 households with electricity. On February 28, 2014, STW transferred the wind farm project to WSN. The new shareholders are the three citizens' energy cooperatives Kassel & Söhre, Niestetal and Kaufunger Wald, the municipal utilities Eschwege, Witzenhausen and Bad Sooden-Allendorf and the municipality of Lohfelden. The five wind turbines at the Söhrewald site feed directly into the Kassel network, while the two systems at the Sandershäuser Berg site feed into the Niestetal network. As of September 2015, 74.8 percent of the company's shares have been owned by 10 different shareholders.

In 2015, construction work began in the Stiftswald near Kaufungen. Nine wind turbines with an installed capacity of 27 MW will supply around 26,000 households with an annual requirement of 80 million kWh of electricity. The wind farm was put into operation at the end of 2015. North Hessian shareholders now hold 67 percent of the company's shares.

Also in 2015, the Rohrberg wind farm with five turbines with a total of 15 MW of installed capacity fed into the specially built Stiftswald substation. Annual generation of 41 million kWh for approx. 14,000 households is planned. Since 2016, new shareholders (four citizens' energy cooperatives, three municipal utilities and one municipal utility hold 74.9 percent of the company shares).

In the third quarter, the "Kreustein" wind farm planned with SUN went online. The commissioning of the SUN "Steinberg" wind farm is planned for the coming years. It will be equipped with four wind turbines.

An overview of the company's activities in cooperation with other municipal utilities can be found on the SUN website. As far as possible, all wind farms feed into the Kassel network. The management remains with the Städtische Werke AG.

The Stiftswald, Rohrberg and Kreuzstein wind farms feed electricity into the Kassel network via the Stiftswald substation, which is connected to the Bergshausen substation. Both substations are operated by the subsidiary Netz + Service GmbH.

District heating

The district heating network with a route length of 175.3 km supplies 2,145 connection points in Kassel. District heating is generated at several locations in the Kassel urban area. The Kassel district heating power plant and the combined heat and power plant are located on Dennhäuser Straße, the Mittelfeld combined heat and power plant, which is operated with waste wood, is located on Holländische Straße. They all feed the district heating there into the closed network. Due to its low CO 2 content and the good primary energy factor, district heating plays a major role in the climate protection efforts of the city of Kassel. Due to the strategic orientation, targeted new connections by district heating customers are planned.

A sewage sludge incineration trial has been in operation at the Kassel district heating power plant since the beginning of 2015. Permanent approval was granted in January 2016.

Electromobility

In the last few years, a comprehensive charging infrastructure has been consistently built up in North Hesse. In the meantime 51 loading bays have been realized, 25 of them in Kassel alone. The company has meanwhile procured 9 e-mobiles . The establishment of e-mobile points in Kassel and the surrounding area is planned for the coming years. The charging cards, which enable the e-mobiles to be “refueled” at the charging stations, are to be converted into multifunctional cards. Since 2012 the company has been participating in the "FREE" research project to integrate e-car sharing into local public transport. For the next few years, product developments and implementations for fleet / mobility management for companies including e-cars and e-bikes are planned.

Energy transition North Hesse - concepts / studies

Since 2012, studies have been carried out on how the energy transition targets set by the federal government could be implemented regionally. This resulted in three studies with different focal points, which the company carried out in cooperation with various partners (University of Kassel, Fraunhofer IWES and SUN). The quintessence of the studies is that it is possible, with appropriate investments, to achieve a surplus of the electricity demand by means of decentralized, renewable generation technologies in the SUN region by utilizing all available space potential. If the regional electricity and heating markets are technically and economically linked, the SUN region has an annual heat generation potential of around 120 percent, provided that the final energy consumption for heat generation has been reduced by around 50 percent compared to 2011 by 2050 . The regional transport sector in the SUN region was examined based on the two studies "Energy transition North Hesse - scenarios for converting the power supply to a decentralized and renewable generation structure" and "Energy transition North Hesse - technical and economic linkage of the regional electricity and heating market", in order to crystallize possibilities that in addition to the electricity and heating market, the transport market can also be supplied with regional, renewable energies.

A study carried out in 2016 on regional value creation in the wind industry came to the conclusion that a wind farm developed by regional actors with the participation of community energy cooperatives and municipal partners increases regional value creation eight and a half times compared to external project developers.

Statutory electricity labeling

According to § 42 EnWG on electricity labeling , all energy supply companies in Germany are obliged to indicate the origin of the electricity they supply. For the municipal works, the following values ​​result for the year 2015 for customers who purchase the product "natural electricity" as well as commercial customers:

Electricity labeling
nationwide
average [%]
Städtische Werke AG, Kassel
(total) [%]
Natural power [%]
Nuclear energy 15.4 3.1 0.0
coal 43.8 13.2 0.0
natural gas 6.5 0.9 0.0
Other fossil fuels 2.5 0.3 0.0
Renewable energies ( EEG subsidized ) 28.7 40.6 45.5
other renewable energies 3.1 41.9 54.5
Radioactive waste [mg / kWh] 0.4 0.1 0.0
CO 2 emissions [g / kWh] 476 143 0.0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f KVV balance sheet 2017: Realignment of the municipal group on the right track
  2. Thüga (Ed.): Thüga on course for growth: Städtische Werke Kassel new in the Thüga Group . Vattenfall sells shares in Stadtwerke Kassel. December 20, 2010 ( thuega.de [PDF; 160 kB ; accessed on November 14, 2011]).
  3. Kasseler Verkehrs- undversorgung-GmbH (Ed.): Annual Report 2012 . Kassel 2012, p. 19 ( kvvks.de [PDF; accessed on November 21, 2016]).
  4. Kasseler Verkehrs- undversorgung-GmbH (Ed.): Annual Report 2012 . Kassel 2012, p. 31 ( kvvks.de [PDF; accessed on November 21, 2016]).
  5. Kasseler Verkehrs- undversorgung-GmbH (Ed.): Annual Report 2012 . Kassel 2012, p. 41 ( kvvks.de [PDF; accessed on November 21, 2016]).
  6. a b Städtische Werke-Bilanz 2013: More turnover and higher profit. Städtische Werke AG website, accessed on October 9, 2014 .
  7. KVV GmbH (Ed.): KVV Overview 2015 . ( kvvks.de [PDF; accessed on October 20, 2016]). kvvks.de ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.kvvks.de
  8. Städtische Werke AG (Ed.): 100% Naturstrom - Info letter 1 . S. 2 ( sw-kassel.de [PDF; accessed on February 10, 2012]).
  9. ^ Website Städtische Werke AG (publisher): TÜV Certificate Naturstrom . ( TÜV Certificate Naturstrom [PDF; accessed on July 19, 2016]).
  10. ^ Website Städtische Werke AG (publisher): Vishnuprayag run-of-river power plant . ( Vishnuprayag run-of-river power plant [PDF; accessed on August 21, 2017]).
  11. Jump up , website Städtische Werke AG, accessed on October 20, 2016.
  12. ^ Hydropower North India , website Städtische Werke AG, accessed on September 19, 2018.
  13. Hydropower Brazil - BAESA project (UHE Barra Grande) , website Städtische Werke AG, accessed on September 19, 2018.
  14. Certified product "Natural gas" , website of TÜV Rheinland, accessed on September 19, 2018
  15. a b c Website Städtische Werke AG (ed.): Klimaroadmap der Städtische Werke AG . ( sw-kassel.de [PDF; accessed on October 21, 2015]).
  16. ^ Website of the Städtische Werke AG (Ed.): Measured: Wind conditions in the Söhre . ( sw-kassel.de [accessed on July 19, 2016]).
  17. KVV GmbH (Ed.): KVV Annual Report 2014 . ( kvvks.de [PDF; accessed on October 22, 2015]).
  18. KVV GmbH (Ed.): KVV Annual Report 2015 . ( kvvks.de [PDF; accessed on November 23, 2016]).
  19. Söhrewald / Niestetal wind farm: Another three shareholders , accessed on October 10, 2017.
  20. a b c KVV GmbH (Ed.): KVV Annual Report 2015 . ( kvvks.de [PDF; accessed on November 23, 2016]).
  21. Stiftswald wind farm owned by citizens , accessed on October 10, 2017.
  22. North Hesse promotes wind power , accessed on October 10, 2017.
  23. ^ SUN Stadtwerke Union Nordhessen GmbH, Städtische Werke AG (Hrsg.): Wind energy for North Hesse . ( sun-stadtwerke.de [PDF; accessed on October 21, 2015]).
  24. KVV at a glance. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Website of KVV GmbH, archived from the original on October 17, 2017 ; accessed on October 17, 2017 . 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.kvvks.de
  25. ^ Website of the Städtische Werke Energie + Wärme GmbH . ( ew-kassel.de [accessed on September 19, 2018]).
  26. KVV GmbH (Ed.): Annual Report 2014 . S. 9, 14 ( kvvks.de [PDF; accessed on October 26, 2015]).
  27. FREE? FREE! (No longer available online.) In: Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft. KVG AG website, archived from the original on August 19, 2016 ; Retrieved December 7, 2016 . 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 / kvg.de
  28. ^ A b SUN Stadtwerke Union Nordhessen GmbH (ed.): SUN website . ( sun-stadtwerke.de [accessed on October 21, 2015]).
  29. ^ SUN Stadtwerke Union Nordhessen GmbH & Co. KG (Ed.): Regional added value in the wind industry using the example of North Hesse . ( [1] [PDF; accessed July 19, 2016]).
  30. ^ Website Städtische Werke AG (Ed.): Product information electricity from Städtische Werke AG . ( [2] [PDF; accessed on October 20, 2016]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 45.7 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 15.4 ″  E