enercity
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | December 21, 1970 |
| Seat | Hanover |
| management | Susanna Zapreva-Hennerbichler (Chair), Marc Hansmann , Kai-Uwe Weitz |
| Number of employees | 2,922 in the entire group (as of 2019) |
| sales | 3.1 billion euros. (Status: 2019) |
| Branch | Energy industry |
| Website | www.enercity.de |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
The enercity Aktiengesellschaft (formerly Stadtwerke Hannover Aktiengesellschaft ) in Hannover is a municipal utility and service companies. enercity supplies around one million people with electricity, heat, natural gas and drinking water. With a turnover of 3.1 billion euros and around 2,922 employees across the Group, it is one of the ten largest energy supply companies in Germany. Since spring 2018 enercity has been offering private customers throughout Germany electricity products that supply them with 100% green electricity. Enercity has been supplying corporate customers throughout Germany since 1998. The “enercity” brand was established in 1996 for special efficiency programs and products. "Enercity - positive energy" has been the company's umbrella brand since 2000. In March 2018 the brand name also became the official company name: the “Stadtwerke Hannover Aktiengesellschaft” became the “enercity Aktiengesellschaft”. The owners are the supply and transport company Hanover (75.09%), Thüga AG (24%) and the Hanover region (0.91%).
Companies
With an annual turnover of around 3.1 billion euros, enercity AG is one of the top 10 energy service providers among German municipal companies. It offers electricity, natural gas, district heating, drinking water and services under the umbrella brand “enercity - positive energy”.
The share capital of enercity belongs to 75.09 percent of the utilities and transport company Hannover (ICA). Another 24 percent are owned by Thüga AG, based in Munich, in which enercity AG has a stake. The remaining 0.91 percent belong to the Hanover region .
enercity holds several stakes in energy companies in the Hanover region and manages the operational business for the two large power plants in the Stöcken and Linden districts and for the gas storage facility in Empelde .
The company has been committed to the use of biomass for climate-friendly heat and power generation since the early 1990s . The largest project in this context is the takeover of shares in Danpower GmbH in 2006.
Every year enercity trains 31 people in a technical or commercial profession or offers a dual course of study. In addition, enercity supports former trainees with a scholarship for full-time study and supports the “Deutschlandstipendium” initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. enercity was awarded the berufundfamilie audit certificate in 2010 and recertified in 2016.
In addition to offers to reconcile work and family, it also offers health-promoting measures such as nutritional advice and back training as well as a company sports club.
The enercity customer center is located at Ständehausstrasse 6 in Hanover on the Kröpcke . There, customers receive price, product and billing information as well as advice on household technology and energy saving. The outside of the building was embellished by enercity with a light art facade.
Business areas / products
In the Hanover region, the company supplies over 700,000 people with electricity, natural gas, district heating, drinking water and energy services.
electricity
Since January 1st, 2018 enercity has been supplying all private customers nationwide with 100% green electricity from sun, wind, biomass and water. This makes enercity one of the five largest green electricity providers in Germany. enercity operates several power plants for the production of electricity and district heating in Hanover: the Linden thermal power station in Linden-Nord , the Herrenhausen power station in Leinhausen and, together with VW, the Hanover joint power station in Stöcken (powered by hard coal). 70 percent of the self-generated electricity is generated in three thermal power stations .
wind
Enercity generates 628,000 megawatt hours of wind power per year , which corresponds to the consumption of 251,000 households. With 182 wind turbines in 23 wind parks, enercity is one of the largest onshore wind energy producers in Germany.
Solar
With enercity Solar, enercity offers solar systems for sale or rent across Germany. In addition to components and installation, customers receive services such as remote monitoring, maintenance and insurance cover.
warmth
Enercity offers climate-neutral natural gas , district heating , heat pumps and CO 2 -neutral heating with wood energy. District heating was introduced in Hanover in 1962. According to the principle of combined heat and power , the waste heat from power generation is delivered to the customer as room or process heat .
As a further energy source, enercity offers gas that comes directly into the house via the lines and z. B. can be used to heat the apartment and for cooking. Most of the gas is obtained from natural gas storage facilities, such as Gasspeicher Hannover GmbH, or it is produced in biogas plants. Natural gas is also made available via natural gas filling stations as an alternative fuel for vehicles.
For the history see also: Gasworks Administration (Hanover) .
Wood energy
The enercity HolzenergieCenter Hanover in Hanover-Stöcken is a part of the company that was opened in 2007, where customers can purchase various types of firewood in the form of wood chips, logs or wood pellets in direct sales. The enercity HolzenergieCenter is part of the EU program CONCERTO coordinated by Hanover, which supports the energy-optimized renovation of more than 300 apartments and the use of renewable energies as a climate protection model project. Large parts of the wood come from forests in the Hanover region and the 1,800 hectare enercity forests in the north of the Fuhrberger Feld water catchment area.
water
Three waterworks, in Elze-Berkhof, Fuhrberg and Grasdorf , supply more than 700,000 people in Hanover and the region with high-quality drinking water. In total, enercity feeds around 43 million cubic meters of water into the network every year. That roughly corresponds to the content of the Steinhuder Meer .
Electromobility
Enercity supports private customers who want to switch to electric vehicles throughout Germany in applying for subsidies. Enercity also provides charging options for your home. In addition, mobility solutions for companies that offer their customers a charging station for charging their electric cars or that want to convert their fleet to electric vehicles. The energy supplier provides charging stations for e-cars, e-bikes and e-scooters in Hanover and the region. Enercity has been expanding the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Hanover since 2010. Around 600 new public and semi-public charging points are to be built by 2020 . 480 of them will be built in the urban area. Enercity and ÜSTRA are working together to implement DC fast charging stations (Direct Current, DC for short) . In addition, enercity rents electric cars from different manufacturers in cooperation with the car agency nextmove .
Intelligent Technologies
Among other things, smart door locks, leak detectors for water damage and sensor-based building monitoring are offered.
Services
enercity takes over the direct marketing of surplus electricity from photovoltaic, biomass, wind power, hydropower or CHP systems, optimizes the energy efficiency of its business customers within the legal framework and provides knowledge for skilled workers via its training center.
glass fiber
Around 20,000 households in Hanover and the region can already use fiber optic technology thanks to enercity. 6,000 households were newly connected in 2019
Participations (excerpt)
Clevergy GmbH & Co. KG
In October 2013, with effect from November 1, 2013, the shares in Clevergy GmbH & Co. KG were sold to LichtBlick SE . Enercity and N-ERGIE Aktiengesellschaft from Nuremberg each held a 50 percent stake in Clevergy GmbH & Co. KG . The energy company was founded at the beginning of 2008 and offered individually configurable electricity tariffs for private customers via the Internet using a modular system.
Danpower GmbH
Danpower GmbH is a nationwide heat supply and contracting company based in Potsdam . It specializes in the field of decentralized energy supply and renewable energies using combined heat and power and for the use of biomass . Enercity has been involved in Danpower since 2006. Enercity has been the sole shareholder of Danpower GmbH since 2018.
enercity Contracting GmbH
In January 2009 enercity founded the wholly-owned subsidiary enercity Contracting GmbH, which takes over enercity's sales activities in the contracting business area (creation and operation of decentralized energy systems on behalf of customers).
enercity Netz GmbH
Enercity Netz GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of enercity AG. The object of the company is the operation of energy supply networks for the purpose of line-bound electricity and gas supply as well as the operation and maintenance of measuring devices and the recording of consumption data for electricity and gas. It is therefore a distribution network operator and metering point service provider . In addition, their tasks include all directly related services for water, data transmission and heating networks.
enercity-Fonds proKlima GbR
The proKlima climate protection fund, which was founded in June 1998 and is still unique in Europe, is financed by the cities of Hanover, Hemmingen, Laatzen, Langenhagen, Ronnenberg and Seelze (together the proKlima funding area) and by enercity. With a share of approx. 75%, enercity carries the majority of the annual fund volume of around 4.4 million euros. proKlima approved funding of around 52 million euros from 1998 to 2012. The money is awarded according to defined criteria: the CO 2 efficiency, the absolute CO 2 reduction, the multiplier effect and the degree of innovation of the measures are decisive.
Energie-Projektgesellschaft Langenhagen mbH
The city of Langenhagen and enercity each have a 50 percent stake in Energie-Projektgesellschaft Langenhagen mbH . The company was founded in 1994. Its main goals are to achieve an economical, resource- and climate-friendly energy supply at the municipal level and to reduce consumption-related emissions. The company's business areas include the planning, construction and operation of efficient electricity and heat production plants as well as ecological energy distribution. One focus is the local heating supply of residential houses and other buildings through the use of modern combined heat and power plants .
Gas storage facility Hannover GmbH
Together with Erdgas Münster GmbH, enercity maintains a natural gas storage facility with a share of 68.35% with four caverns near Hanover in Ronnenberg- Empelde , Gasspeicher Hannover GmbH (GHG), whose capacities are currently being expanded. The GHG is responsible for the construction and operation of these underground gas storage facilities.
Joint power plant Hannover GmbH
The joint power plant in Hanover was created in cooperation with the Volkswagen plant in Hanover and Continental AG in Hanover-Stöcken. The cogeneration plant covers the entire process and space heating requirements of VW commercial vehicles as well as the base load of district heating and electricity for the enercity supply area. With a purchase agreement dated June 23, 2010 enercity acquired from Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH, Hanover, their 10.2 percent stake in Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Hannover GmbH. enercity thus holds a stake of 84.7%.
Joint power plant Hannover-Linden GmbH
On cogeneration Linden in Hannover-Linden holds enercity a share of 90%.
htp GmbH
From 1996 the then Stadtwerke Hannover AG marketed its own telecommunication network for the control of its systems via a specially founded company. Today, htp GmbH is a telecommunications company established in the Hanover, Hildesheim, Braunschweig, Peine, Wolfenbüttel and Hameln-Pyrmont area with over 100,000 private and business customers (as of 2020). enercity holds 50 percent of the shares in htp, the other 50 percent are held by EWE AG , based in Oldenburg.
Kraftwerk Mehrum GmbH
Enercity had an 83.3% share in the hard coal- fired power plant Mehrum , which was taken over by the Czech energy supplier EPH . The Braunschweiger supply AG gave their share from 16.7% to EHP.
Stadtwerke Wunstorf GmbH & Co. KG
Stadtwerke Wunstorf GmbH & Co. KG supply around 10,000 households and businesses with electricity, natural gas and heat in the Wunstorf region. The majority of the shares in the communal company are held by the city of Wunstorf - via the public baths. In addition to E.ON Avacon AG , enercity has a stake of 34%.
Thüga Holding GmbH & Co. KG aA
In December 2009, a group of municipal companies in which enercity participated, acquired all of the shares in Thüga AG through Thüga Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA from E.ON Ruhrgas AG , a wholly owned subsidiary of E.ON AG . enercity expects this to have positive earnings and growth effects as well as cooperation options to strengthen competitiveness. enercity holds a share of 20.53%
Gamesa Energie Deutschland GmbH
Gamesa Energie Deutschland GmbH, founded in 2005 and based in Oldenburg, develops wind farms in Germany. The subsidiary of Siemens Gamesa was taken over by enercity in 2019.
engagement
enercity is committed to various projects in the cultural, social and sporting fields. The company is a founding partner and main sponsor of the Hanover Young Drama and annually supports a youth theater project in which young people from Hanover can participate.
Since 2005 enercity has been the main sponsor of the music festival “ enercity swinging hannover ” organized by the Hanover Jazz Club . The traditional open-air festival with well-known artists has been taking place on Ascension Day for over 40 years on Trammplatz in Hanover. The jazz band ball held the day before is also funded.
Since November 1st, 2012 enercity has been supporting the Hannover 96 club in the Bundesliga as a co-sponsor. In addition, enercity has been sponsoring TSV Hannover-Burgdorf in the handball Bundesliga since summer 2010 as a jersey sponsor.
history
Already in the middle of the 16th century there was a water distribution in Hanover via a well system and water pipes, which could be maintained for over 300 years by means of constant extensions and maintenance. In 1875, however, the magistrate made the decision to build a groundwater works in Ricklingen . Hanover's population of more than 100,000 made this decision necessary because the simple wells could no longer meet the city's water needs.
In 1878 the new plant in Ricklingen started operations. However, it was not the first major energy supplier from which the city of Hanover profited: as early as 1825, a contract had been signed with the London Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA), which entrusted the British company with the task of operating the old, still operated with tallow Replacing street lamps with new gas lamps, operating and maintaining them. For this purpose, the Glocksee gasworks was built in the same year the contract was signed.
In 1883, the Ricklingen waterworks and the Glocksee gasworks were followed by a block system for generating electrical energy . In 1891, the first power station in Osterstrasse went online. In 1922, all the individual plants were combined to form a single management company: the municipal depots.
The post-war period was marked by reconstruction measures and the economic miracle , from which the municipal depots also benefited. New systems were set up and the expansion of the networks in previously undeveloped areas promoted. From 1952 the utility company was officially called Städtische Betriebswerke .
After the economic miracle of the post-war period and in particular the upswing of the late 1960s, the Stadtwerke (until the end of 1952: Städtische Betriebswerke ) had achieved double-digit growth rates, the City Council of Hanover decided in November 1970 to convert the supply facilities into a stock corporation ; The state capital Hanover became the sole shareholder of Stadtwerke Hannover AG on December 21, 1970. The conversion of the Stadtwerke into a stock corporation was necessary in order to be able to combine Stadtwerke and Üstra in the Holding Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft Hannover mbH (VVG).
The production of natural gas began in the early 1970s, in 1982 the first cavern storage facility in Empelde went into operation, and in 1989 the joint power plant in Hanover in Stöcken began to operate .
The head office has been located in the Ihme-Zentrum in the Hanover district of Linden-Mitte since 1975 .
On April 8, 2011, the enercity hardship fund eV was founded with the support of the state capital Hanover . The association aims to help avoid social hardship in the event of electricity, gas and water closures. The association is endowed with 150,000 € annually. It is the result of a long-term consultation process with societal and official actors from the social sector.
literature
- Theo Walter, Herbert Mundhenke : The street lighting of the city of Hanover from 1815-1835. A contribution to the 125th anniversary of the Hanover gas works , Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1953
- Olaf Grohmann: History of the water and energy supply of the city of Hanover. From the beginning to the present , ed. from Stadtwerke Hannover AG, Hannover, 1999, pp. 148–155, 202–207, 240–244
- Rainer Ertel : Stadtwerke Hannover AG , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 587f.
Web links
- enercity
- enercity history
- enercity network
- enercity contracting
- enercity swinging hannover
- enercity fund proKlima
Individual evidence
- ↑ waterclick.de: The water production in the Fuhrberger field
- ↑ Czechs buy Enercity power plant Mehrum. Retrieved on August 1, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Enercity takes over Siemens Gamesa's wind power subsidiary. In: Süddeutsche.de . Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 14.8 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 58" E