Trianel
| Trianel GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1999 |
| Seat | Aachen , Germany |
| management | Sven Becker |
| Number of employees | 347 |
| sales | EUR 2.136 billion |
| Branch | Energy trading and supply |
| Website | www.trianel.com |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
Trianel (since December 2008 Trianel GmbH, previously Trianel European Energy Trading GmbH ) is a European energy supply company with a focus on energy trading , energy generation and consulting for public utilities .
Trianel was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between municipal utilities, municipal and regional supply companies in order to organize joint procurement on the liberalized German and European energy markets and to develop synergies. In the meantime (as of July 2012) more than 100 utilities belong to the Trianel network as partners or shareholders. These supply a total of more than six million people.
When Trianel GmbH was founded, Energie- und Wasserversorgung Mittleres Ruhrgebiet GmbH (ewmr) held the largest share of shareholders with 24.69 percent and thus the cities of Bochum , Herne and Witten .
Trianel has its headquarters on Krefelder Straße ( B57 ) in Aachen next to Tivoli . The majority of the companies involved originally came from northwest Germany and the Netherlands. Today (as of 2018) Trianel is active in Germany, the Netherlands , Austria and Switzerland .
Trianel Energie BV in Maastricht with a turnover of 70.5 million euros and around 40 employees had to file for bankruptcy on December 22, 2012.
Business areas
Energy trading
The company's main activity is trading in electricity and natural gas . Trianel bundles procurement for the supply companies involved.
Power generation
In addition to trading, Trianel is also active in energy generation as an operator of power plants and other energy systems. The municipal utility network is in charge of the construction and operation of the 850 MW combined cycle power plant in Hamm-Uentrop .
Since spring 2008, Trianel has been building a 750 MW coal-fired power plant at the Stummhafen in Lünen , which went online in 2013. Around 30 municipal utilities are involved in the power plant. It is the first large-scale coal-fired power plant in Germany to be operated jointly by municipal utilities. There are also plans to build another combined cycle power plant with an output of up to 1200 MW in Krefeld-Uerdingen .
With the Trianel wind park Borkum , the company was responsible for the construction of an offshore wind park in the North Sea, which went online on July 17, 2015. In addition, the company bought an onshore wind farm in Eisleben in April 2012 and in Rabenau (Hessen) in July 2015 .
Trianel also planned the construction of two pumped storage power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia . The water storage power plant Nethe should in Weserbergland lie. In addition, Trianel intention together with the Thuringian Fernwasserversorgung the dam Schmalwasser build a pumped storage power plant. Both projects were abandoned in 2018.
Trianel has been operating an underground gas storage facility in Epe since October 2008 . The stored gas enables the municipal utilities involved to temporarily store gas that has been purchased cheaply and thus absorb price peaks.
new technologies
In addition to energy procurement and generation, Trianel is looking for new solutions in the areas of e-mobility , smart metering , decentralized electricity generation and energy efficiency in another business area . The products developed there in a network with project partners are then offered to the municipal utilities involved for sale when they are ready for the market.
Services
Trianel also offers its shareholders and customers services such as advice and know-how transfer, emissions trading , financial services, network and load management, and energy billing. In 2012, a profit participation will be paid out to the shareholders for the first time.
owner
The two largest owners are Stadtwerke Bochum Holding GmbH (14.07%) and Stadtwerke Aachen AG (11.97%). A total of 58 companies are involved in Trianel GmbH, four of which are based in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria. Most of the owners came from North Rhine-Westphalia.
Managing directors
Sven Becker has been the management spokesman since 2005 .
criticism
Trianel has come under fire on various occasions with its power plant projects. Particularly in connection with the coal-fired power plant in Lünen , the company has been in the focus of environmental and nature conservation associations as well as citizens' initiatives since 2007.
The BUND has successfully sued in 2011 against the immissionsrechtlichen preliminary for the Trianel coal-fired power plant in Luenen. The Münster Higher Administrative Court overturned the preliminary ruling on December 1, 2011 because the environmental compatibility of the power plant had not yet been adequately proven. Trianel wants to close the gaps in the proof of environmental compatibility and assumes that a new preliminary decision can then be issued.
The fact that Trianel is now planning to build a gas and steam power plant in Krefeld-Uerdingen is not least due to a protest campaign on the Campact online platform . Originally, the company wanted to build a 750 MW coal-fired power plant in Krefeld, which was to go online at the end of 2012 and be fired with imported hard coal. In response to the federal government's changed energy policy, however, the municipal utilities involved voted in July 2011 to switch from coal to gas as a climate-damaging energy source for further planning.
With its plans to build pumped storage power plants, the company sometimes meets with resistance. The plans for the Trianel water reservoir in Thuringia are polarizing, especially because the facility is to be built near the Rennsteig , one of the oldest and most traditional hiking trails in Germany.
Also in the Eifel, where Trianel wanted to use the Rursee as a lower basin for a pumped storage power plant, the plans met with some fierce criticism. The opponents of the project feared damage to nature as well as near-natural tourism, which is the economic mainstay of the structurally weak region. The storage facility was to be built in the immediate vicinity of the Eifel National Park .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Trianel GmbH Aachen annual financial statements for the business year from January 1 to December 31, 2016, in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ↑ a b Presentation of the Trianel Group
- ↑ a b Trianel continues growth course in all areas . Article about the presentation of Trianel's 2011 annual report in the Aachener Zeitung on July 3, 2012
- ^ The economic activity of the city of Bochum, Participation Report 2011, page 133 (PDF; 12.5 MB) (accessed on November 5, 2012).
- ↑ The shareholders of Trianel . Entry in the commercial register, status: 09.2012 (accessed on November 5, 2012).
- ↑ The West - Dutch Trianel subsidiary files for bankruptcy on December 28, 2012
- ^ Website of the Trianel combined cycle power plant Hamm
- ^ Website of the Trianel coal-fired power station in Lünen
- ↑ a b Trianel plans combined cycle power plant in CHEMPARK Krefeld-Uerdingen. Trianel, July 7, 2011, accessed July 20, 2011 .
- ^ Website of the Trianel Windpark Borkum project
- ↑ Press release from Trianel on the start of construction of an onshore wind farm in Eisleben (Saxony-Anhalt)
- ↑ Trianel water storage power plant projects in North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia reach milestone . Trianel press release of December 16, 2011, accessed December 17, 2011
- ^ Website of the Trianel water storage project Nethe
- ^ Website of the Trianel Water Reservoir Thuringia project
- ↑ Information on the Epe gas storage location ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ^ Website of the Trianel gas storage facility in Epe
- ^ Website of the New Technologies division of Trianel
- ↑ Overview of services offered by Trianel for shareholders
- ↑ http://www.trianel.com/trianel/gesellschafter Status: November 2018
- ↑ BUND page on the Trianel coal power plant in Lünen
- ↑ Website of the BI - Kontra Kohlen Kraftwerk eV
- ^ Lawsuit successful: BUND overturns approval for coal-fired power plant in Lünen
- ↑ Trianel coal power plant is about to be completed. Trianel press release on the current status of the construction of the coal-fired power plant in Lünen from March 8, 2012
- ↑ No coal for coal: stop the climate killers in Krefeld! ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2012 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. Protest campaign Stadtwerke out of the coal at Campact
- ↑ Trianel plans to build a coal-fired power plant in the Krefeld-Uerdingen Chemical Park. Press release Trianel, December 11, 2006. Accessed September 29, 2014.
- ↑ Hard coal imports from Colombia: Cheap energy at the expense of people and the environment. Factsheet of the klima-allianz Deutschland, May 2011. Retrieved on October 15, 2014.
- ↑ Controversial mega-project on the Rennsteig. Article on the Trianel water storage project in Thuringia in the Südthüringer Zeitung on March 13, 2012
- ↑ Power plant plans: Criticism of the Trianel project is growing. Article in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger from January 3, 2013
- ↑ Who would be liable for damage? Article in the Kölnische Rundschau on May 17, 2013
