Stadtwerke Soltau
| Stadtwerke Soltau GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | KG |
| Seat | Soltau , Germany |
| management | Claus-Jürgen Bruhn |
| Number of employees | 107 (2011) |
| sales | EUR 47.3 million (2011) |
| Branch | power supply |
| Website | www.sw-soltau.de |
The Stadtwerke Soltau GmbH & Co. KG is the energy provider for the Lower Saxony town of Soltau and the surrounding area.
The city of Soltau has a 50.5% stake in the company, the remaining 49.5% are owned by swb AG , Bremen .
Areas of activity
As a predominantly municipal commercial enterprise, the company supplies households, businesses and industrial companies in Soltau and the surrounding areas
- electrical energy
- natural gas
- District heating
- Drinking water
- Sewage disposal
and is also the operator of the Soltau thermal baths .
Scope of supply
- 6,366 house connections with electricity, network length 505 km
- 4,990 house connections with natural gas, network length 251 km
- 6,281 house connections with water, network length 285 km
- 111 house connections with district heating, network length 7 km
history
In 1896 the Soltau GmbH gas station was founded. In a contract it was decided that the city of Soltau had to let each of the 126 gas lamps burn for around 900 hours per year. From October 1, 1896, 86 private customers were also connected to the gas supply. By March 1919, the number of customers rose to 1039, so that in the same year a gas tank with a capacity of 2000 m³ was built, which was a symbol of Soltau until it was demolished in 1971. Due to the plans to introduce the electricity supply, Soltau businessmen sold all of their company shares to the city in 1919. In May 1921, the first electricity supply was agreed by means of a contract between the Stade Electricity Association and the City of Soltau's magistrate. The Soltau gas works took over responsibility for electricity matters.
On September 25, 1936, the Gasanstalt Soltau GmbH was dissolved and the assets transferred to the city of Soltau. From then on, the company operated as a municipal company under the name Städtische Betriebswerke . During the Second World War there were frequent supply bottlenecks, so that gas savings and disconnection of the power supplies had to be carried out.
In 1956 a vertical chamber furnace system was built. The supply area and the business areas grew over time. The foundation stone for a central water supply was laid in 1958 with the acquisition of a piece of land on Schüttenbusch . Drinking water was sold for the first time in May 1959, and by 1962 459 households were among its customers. In 1963 the new liquefied gas cracking plant was put into operation, in 1965 the municipal utilities built the waterworks and began expanding the water supply network. After the completion of the waterworks, around 80 percent of households were connected to the central water supply in 1967. On May 28, 1970 the Stadtwerke were converted into a GmbH. In 1971 the company switched to natural gas , and in 1983 a combined heat and power plant for the use of district heating was put into operation.
In 1971, the Stadtwerke took part in the previously founded Bäder- und Tourismusgesellschaft mbH . Then an indoor swimming pool opened in Soltau on December 19, 1973, and an artificial ice rink was inaugurated on December 6, 1975. In 1974, during test drilling on the site of the outdoor swimming pool, Sole was discovered; In 1985 this spring was recognized as a healing spring, and the Soltau-Therme brine bath opened on September 17, 1990 . Since then, the city of Soltau has been a state-approved place with a brine spa .
On January 1, 1999, the municipal utilities took over the management of the wastewater disposal, for which the travel and traffic office was outsourced. Stadtwerke Soltau has been offering its private and commercial customers exclusively 100% natural electricity since 2008. In the 04/2010 and 05/2011 editions, the consumer magazine Öko-Test awarded the municipal utilities 2nd place.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.sw-soltau.de/unternehmen/ansprechpartner/geschaeftsfuehrung.html
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2011 of SW Soltau ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 562 kB)
- ↑ Annual Report 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.6 MB)
- ↑ SW Soltau's business figures ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2010 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.
- ↑ History of the SW Soltau ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2010 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 5.2 ″ N , 9 ° 49 ′ 32.1 ″ E