Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen
| Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1947 |
| Seat | Oerlinghausen |
| management | Peter Synowski, managing director |
| Number of employees | 44 (as of 2012) |
| sales | 19.2 million euros (as of 2012) |
| Branch | Energy industry |
| Website | Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen |
The Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen is the municipal utilities of Lippe City Oerlinghausen and after the liberalization of electricity markets a complete supplier of energy , water and transport . They are also responsible for running the city's swimming pools.
Company history
In 1900, 23 citizens of Oerlinghausen founded a plant for power generation on their own initiative . With start-up capital of 66,000 marks , they had a suction gas engine installed on the site of today's Stadtwerke . On New Year's Eve 1901, 34 electric street lamps were lit for the first time in Oerlinghausen. It is reported that the villagers were especially proud of their electric light because many cities did not have an electricity supply at that time.
A big problem for a village on the mountain was the supply of water. As the population grew in the 19th century, this question became more pressing. Most of the villagers got their water from several private wells in the village or from the Schopke , a stream in the valley. Wooden pipelines, so-called pipes , were laid, but they could not meet the demand. Especially in the hot, dry summer of 1911, the water shortage was so great that consumption per family had to be limited to two buckets a day. The local council, headed by Liekefett , decided to immediately build a modern water supply. The pipeline network was completed in the following year, even though the laying of the pipes almost everywhere hit hard, stony ground. A pumping station was built on the Schopke , from which water was pumped into an elevated tank on the Tönsberg with a capacity of 125 cubic meters. A second container with twice the capacity followed in the early 1930s.
In contrast to the electricity company , the waterworks was owned by the village community from the start, while the electric company owned by the private Oerlinghauser Elektrizitätsgesellschaft was initially independent. By 1939 Oerlinghausen, now a town since 1926, had bought up all the shares in the electrical works and in 1947 it was converted into an independent operation. That was the hour of birth of Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen with 12 employees and the areas of water and electricity supply.
With the construction of the southern part of the city in the 1960s, the municipal utilities expanded, and since 1963 a newly built district heating plant in the southern part of the city was responsible for the heat supply. In 1968, the Oerlinghausen-Senne water catchment plant went into operation. In the course of the municipal reform of 1969 Helpup and Währentrup were incorporated and had to be supplied with electricity and water by the municipal utilities. Helpup got its water from the two water extraction systems at Am Kopphof and in Mackenbruch , while Lipperreihe continued to get its water from Bielefeld municipal utilities . Electricity output increased from 700,000 kilowatt hours in 1946 to around 19 million kilowatt hours at the end of the 1960s. Stadtwerke has been operating as a GmbH since 1977 with the city of Oerlinghausen as the sole partner .
In 1989 the heating plant was converted into a combined heat and power plant and generated around 50 percent of the electrical and 90 percent of the thermal energy with a combined heat and power unit . In 1994 the municipal utilities took over the supply of natural gas for part of the city area and in 1996 local public transport was added. In 2011 Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen celebrated its 100th anniversary. In 2005 a wood-fired thermal power station went into operation, which should save around 50,000 tons of CO2 within five years . It was the first ORC system in all of Northern Germany. In 2012, a new gas turbine with 5.3 megawatts of electrical output was installed in the thermal power station. A total of seven decentralized combined heat and power plants are now in operation in the various districts. The municipal utilities are currently exploring the opportunities for expanding further climate-friendly energy generation and use in an energy concept 2020 .
Operating areas
energy
Since the use of the gas engine module in the thermal power station in 1998, the municipal utilities have had a modern and environmentally friendly system for generating energy. The generation of energy in cogeneration using natural gas is currently the most effective method of fuel utilization. So-called combined heat and power units (BHKW) are an increasingly popular variant . These are smaller CHP systems based on combustion engines or gas turbines . While the heat supply in these systems is limited to a specific property or the immediate vicinity, the larger thermal power stations are used to provide extensive district heating . In 2013 there were a total of seven decentralized block heating plants in the urban area of Oerlinghausen.
The municipal utilities are able to generate around 100 percent of the required electricity with the combined heat and power system in winter. In 2012, a total of 23.9 million kWh of electricity and 58 million kWh of heat were generated in the existing systems.
natural gas
The natural gas high-pressure line between the transfer station and the pressure regulator at the heating power plant on the one hand and the high-pressure network of Westfälische Ferngas AG on the other was completed in December 1989. From this point on, natural gas could be obtained in Oerlinghausen from Stadtwerke Bielefeld . In December 1994 the Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen took over the supply of natural gas in a cross-network for large parts of the city area.
water
The water for the citizens of Oerlinghauser is fed into the pipes from a total of four waterworks, namely the Schopke, Senne, Wistinghauser Senne and Helpup waterworks . In 2012, 4,589 house connections consumed around 897,000 cubic meters of water, which was supplied via a pipe network 127 km in length. Since 1994, that has sewage plant Stadtwerke taken on the task of wastewater disposal according to the resolution of the City Council. The public sewer network is well over 100 km long. There are two smaller sewage treatment plants in the Oerlinghauser urban area. In addition, the Oerlinghauser wastewater is clarified in Lage and Verl .
traffic
In 1996, Stadtwerke also took over local public transport , for which a new concept was developed. On May 24, 1998, the Oerlinghausen city bus (line 738) went into operation. In addition, the routing of two more bus routes has been modified and all bus routes have been networked with the train and the Bielefeld Stadtbahn . There is a public transport cooperation agreement between Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen and Stadtwerke Bielefeld ( moBiel ). The city bus was replaced by a new bus line in June 2011, which now continues to Sennestadt and also replaces the previous line 38 (line 39). At the same time, the network was expanded with a new bus line from Bielefeld-Sieker via the glider airfield to Stukenbrock .
Baths
In 2006, the Stadtwerke took over the management of the Oerlinghauser outdoor pool and the indoor pool in Helpup.
literature
- Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen GmbH (Ed.): 2001 - Hundred Years of Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen GmbH . Self-published, Oerlinghausen 2001.
- City of Oerlinghausen (ed.): Oerlinghausen - history and stories . Oerlinghausen 1984.
- Katharina Korell: leaps in time-Oerlinghausen . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-928-4 .
Web links
- Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen
- Energy concept Blome ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF 5.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katharina Korell: Time leaps-Oerlinghausen . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-928-4 , p. 92-93 .
- ^ Christian Kuhnke: Lippe Lexikon . Detmold 2000, ISBN 3-935454-00-7 , p. 293 .
- ↑ Founding of the Stadtwerke ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 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. , accessed May 27, 2014
- ↑ a b Chronology of the Stadtwerke ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 27, 2014
- ↑ Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen GmbH (Ed.): 2001 - Hundred Years of Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen GmbH . Self-published, Oerlinghausen 2001, p. 46-47 .
- ↑ Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen GmbH (Ed.): 2001 - Hundred Years of Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen GmbH . Self-published, Oerlinghausen 2001, p. 20-21 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 41 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 56.9 ″ E