Menden municipal utilities
| Menden municipal utilities | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1861 |
| Seat | Menden (Sauerland) |
| management | Bernd Reichelt, managing director |
| Number of employees | 142 |
| sales | € 76.2 million |
| Branch | primary care |
| Website | www.stadtwerke-menden.de |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
The Stadtwerke Menden GmbH is a municipal utility support of public utilities in Menden (Sauerland) and is 100 percent owned by the City Menden. The company's services include electricity, natural gas, drinking water, heating and energy-related services. The supply area extends over the urban area of Menden (Sauerland).
history
Prehistory and foundation
Gas supply / natural gas supply
With the establishment of the first city of Menden gas station for the production of coke oven gas , which began operations on October 27, 1861 (March 30, 1861 according to the map) on Bodelschwinghstrasse / Märkische Strasse, the later Stadtwerke Menden emerged. The coking gas obtained from hard coal was mainly used as fuel for street lamps. Under the name of town gas, it was later used in households for heating and cooking. In 1934 self-generation was stopped and Menden was connected to the long-distance gas network of Westfälische Ferngas AG. The conversion from coke oven gas to the environmentally friendly natural gas took place in 1968. One year later, the natural gas supply in Lendringsen started. In 2002 the municipal utilities started a systematic modernization and expansion of the natural gas network in Menden and the surrounding area.
Drinking water supply
In 1897, planning began for the construction of a central waterworks in the Horlecke. Until then, the drinking water requirement in Menden was covered by the so-called bell pond pipeline and wooden pumps from 19 wells distributed throughout the city. You had to go to the nearest public pump with buckets and get the daily requirement. On April 1, 1901, the Horlecke waterworks pumped for the first time and the elevated tank on Kapellenberg (built in 1900) was filled with the extracted groundwater. Due to the increasing demand for drinking water in the first decades of the 20th century, a plot of land on the Ruhr in Schwitten was purchased and the second waterworks (Ruhrtal pumping station) built on it, which went into operation in 1926. The Kapellenberg elevated tank was therefore filled via the Ruhrtal pumping station and the Horlecke waterworks. In order to meet the increasing demand for drinking water of the meanwhile 17,000 inhabitants of Menden, the Kapellenberg elevated tank was enlarged in 1936 from the original 700 m³ to a capacity of 2400 m³. After an environmental scandal, the Horlecke waterworks were shut down in 1974. In 2008 the Lendringsen waterworks was given up and the Ruhrtal pumping station enlarged. Stadtwerke Fröndenberg and Stadtwerke Menden founded "Wasserwerk Fröndenberg-Menden GmbH" in 2011 with the aim of building and operating a drinking water system as well as controlling the supply of drinking water to the networks of both municipal utilities. The new waterworks (WFM = Fröndenberg Menden waterworks) was officially opened on November 16, 2012.
Power supply
In 1910, the Westphalian Association Electricity Works supplied the first households in Menden with electricity. On February 16, 1924, the city of Menden took over its low-voltage network and acted as an electricity supplier itself. In 1925, the transfer of electricity from the Westphalian Electricity Works Association to RWE took place. The last household in Menden (on Heimkerweg) could be connected to the power supply in 1940. The city of Menden acquired parts of the medium-voltage network from RWE (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk) in 1951 and its operation in 1974. In 2002, Stadtwerke Menden was one of the first energy suppliers in Germany to offer its customers the option of covering their entire electricity needs from renewable energy sources.
For 40 years, the administration building of the Menden municipal utilities was on Märkische Strasse. In 1998 the company moved to the current Stadtwerke headquarters in Am Papenbusch.
In 2011, Stadtwerke Menden celebrated its 150th birthday with an extensive anniversary program throughout the year together with the citizens of Menden. In this anniversary year, Stadtwerke helped among other things that Menden landmark, the Poenigeturm could be restored.
activities
Stadtwerke Menden have started to reorganize in recent years due to the changing energy industry.
The company supplies around 54,500 residents (as of January 1, 2016) in Menden on an area of 86 km². On July 1, 2013, Stadtwerke Menden took over the management of the street lighting from the city of Menden. This includes the servicing, maintenance and renewal of the lighting systems with their separate power grid. By the end of 2015, around 2100 of the around 6650 light points had been converted to modern LED technology. In 2015, two major district heating projects were implemented. Stadtwerke Menden also took on individual facility management tasks for existing heat supply contracts with the city of Menden. Stadtwerke offers interested parties the photovoltaic lease model “My roof. My solar power ”. Stadtwerke offers manufacturing companies to carry out energy audits based on DIN EN 16247.
The company uses its subsidiary Telemark GmbH for broadband availability for telephony and data usage in rural areas.
Stadtwerke presents the momend APP (momend = mobile Menden) for free download on a smartphone. The APP provides news from Menden and the region and information from the Menden municipal utility. (Local news, events, city information, offers, club news, ticker, weather, garbage collection calendar, etc.).
Stadtwerke Menden provides public HotSpots at two central locations in the city center . Furthermore, there is commercial marketing of HotSpots.
Stadtwerke Menden see themselves in a pioneering role in establishing and promoting electric mobility in Menden. Every electric vehicle user should have access to the charging infrastructure - both for two-wheelers and four-wheelers. In connection with the idea of car sharing, a larger charging station was created near the Menden train station in the Upper Promenade. The citizens of the city of Menden have the opportunity to borrow the StadtwerkeE-Mobil. An electric charging station for two electric vehicles and the associated parking spaces are available on site, as is a bicycle battery charging cabinet in which six e-bicycle batteries can be charged quickly at the same time. Another bicycle battery charging cabinet is on Unnaer Straße.
Company data
| Employee | 142 |
| 2016 sales | € 76.2 million |
| power grid | around 933 km |
| Natural gas network | around 207 km |
| Drinking water network | around 285 km |
| As of December 31, 2016 |
Corporate management
Bernd Reichelt is the managing director. The chairman of the supervisory board is Sebastian Schmidt.
Affiliated companies and associated companies
Stadtwerke Menden is directly involved in several companies.
- 75%: Wasserwerk Fröndenberg Menden GmbH, Menden headquarters
- less than 20%: TeleMark Telekommunikationsgesellschaft Mark mbH
- EHG Energiehandelsgesellschaft märkischer Stadtwerke GmbH
- TOBI Management GmbH
- TOBI Gaskraftwerksbeteiligungs GmbH & Co.KG
- TOBI Windenergie GmbH & Co.KG
- AOV GbR
- smartOPTIMO GmbH & Co.KG
literature
- 150 years of Stadtwerke Menden. The better supplier. 1861–2011 energy history (s)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Report 2016. (PDF) Stadtwerke Menden GmbH, accessed on December 31, 2015 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Menden: Stadtwerke Menden - Chronicle for the anniversary. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Menden: Stadtwerke Menden - Chronicle for the anniversary. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Menden: Stadtwerke Menden - Chronicle for the anniversary. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Menden: Stadtwerke Menden - Chronicle for the anniversary. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
- ^ The Fröndenberg-Menden GmbH waterworks. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Menden: Stadtwerke Menden - Chronicle for the anniversary. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Menden: Stadtwerke Menden - Chronicle for the anniversary. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Annual Report 2016 (PDF) Accessed November 29, 2017 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Menden: Stadtwerke Menden - Supervisory Board. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Menden: Stadtwerke Menden - participations of the Stadtwerke Menden GmbH. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
- ^ The Fröndenberg-Menden GmbH waterworks. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 24.8 ″ N , 7 ° 46 ′ 7 ″ E