Vattenfall heat Berlin

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Vattenfall Wärme Berlin Aktiengesellschaft

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legal form Corporation
founding 2009
Seat Berlin GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Board of Directors:
Tanja Wielgoß , Stefan Hadré
Number of employees approx. 1700 (2019)
sales 1,093.9 million euros (2018)
Branch Energy supplier
Website www.wärme.berlin
As of December 31, 2019

The Vattenfall Heat Berlin AG is a German subsidiary of the German subgroup of the Swedish energy company Vattenfall and operates in particular, the heating operations in Berlin . With the Berlin network for district heating , the company has one of the largest district heating networks in Western Europe.

Vattenfall Heat Berlin AG leads within the corporate structure, which is organized into six business areas, activities in the field of heat ( english Heat ) in the fields of heat and electricity from. Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG is the owner and operator of several power plants in Berlin.

The business activities of Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG include:

  •    the generation, procurement and distribution of all types of energy, in particular electrical energy, district heating and steam, in particular the construction and operation of corresponding generation plants
  •    the construction and operation of lines and facilities for the transport and distribution of district heating, cooling and steam
  •    the provision of services for other companies, in particular those operating in the energy sector

The company is included in the consolidated financial statements of the Swedish parent company and is subject to a control and profit transfer agreement with the parent company of the German subgroup, Vattenfall GmbH .

history

Vattenfall Europe Wärme Aktiengesellschaft emerged in 2009 from the conversion of Vattenfall Europe Berlin AG & Co. KG and comprised the operational parts of the former municipal Berlin utility Bewag that remained in the course of the demolition in 2006 .

Bewag was founded in 1884 as the first public electricity supply company in Germany, at that time still under the name "Städtische Elektricitäts-Werke". Later, the company's transformation into an urban Aktiengesellschaft ( "carried B ERLIN Urban E lektrizitäts- W orks A ktien g ompany").

In the years 1952 to 1987, Bewag expanded the generation of heat by means of combined heat and power in the western part of Berlin : The heating power plants Rudow (1963), Lichterfelde (1974), Wilmersdorf (1977) and Reuter West (1987) generate in this way Electricity and heat for the capital. In 1997 Bewag was privatized. The Berlin Senate sold its shares in Southern Energy (later Mirant , now GenOn Energy Holdings) and what later became E.ON SE . In 2001 E.ON sold the Bewag shares to the Vattenfall subsidiary HEW . In the same year, Mirant also gave up its stake and sold its Bewag shares to Vattenfall. In 2005 most parts of Bewag were transferred to Vattenfall Europe Berlin AG.

In a judgment of June 30, 2017, the Berlin Administrative Court ruled that the State of Berlin is not entitled to the surrender of the district heating network operated by Vattenfall Europe Wärme AG in Berlin. The state of Berlin failed with its attempt to bring the district heating network back into municipal operation.

As part of the realignment of the Vattenfall Group, Vattenfall Europe Wärme AG was renamed Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG on January 15, 2018.

Goal of climate neutrality

Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG has set itself the goal of supporting the energy and heating transition in Germany through measures in the areas of decarbonization , digitization and decentralization . A complete switch to an exclusively fossil-free fuel mix is ​​planned. The withdrawal from the use of lignite in the Berlin thermal power stations took place in 2017. By 2030 the company would like to forego the use of hard coal for heat generation. According to the company, the production, use and storage of hydrogen are also planned.

In 2009 Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG signed a climate protection agreement with the Berlin Senate. In this, the company committed itself to reducing CO 2 emissions by 50 percent by 2020 compared to 1990.

As part of the Berlin Energy Transition Act (2016), the state of Berlin stipulated, among other things, by law that it should aim to phase out hard coal by 2030 at the latest. To achieve this, Vattenfall Wärme and the Berlin Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection carried out a feasibility study between November 2017 and October 2019 . The study investigated how the transformation of coal-fired power plants Reuter West and Moabit succeed until 2030 and which technologies a possible CO 2 low-carbon and sustainable supply can be achieved with district heating. The result of the study was that the phase-out of hard coal by 2030 was feasible both technically and “at affordable costs”. The CO 2 saving potential would amount to more than 2 million tons. This would correspond to around 13 percent of the CO 2 emissions in the state of Berlin. According to the Berlin Senate, Vattenfall would thus "make the largest single contribution on Berlin's path to climate neutrality in 2050". Instead of coal, natural gas and renewable energies could increasingly be used for heat generation

Power plants

Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG only operates thermal power stations based on the principle of combined heat and power . Increasingly, there is a conversion to gas and steam turbine combined heat and power plants (CCGT) based on natural gas . In addition, power-to-heat technology is used to make increased use of renewable energy for urban district heating. At the Reuter West location in Berlin-Spandau, Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG currently operates the largest power-to-heat system in Europe

The company operates the following thermal power stations in Berlin ( fuel in brackets; as of July 2020):

The fuel mix for Berlin's district heating in the 2019 financial year was as follows:

  •    73.9% natural gas
  •    15.9% hard coal
  •     7.7% waste heat use (steam)
  •     1.9% biomass (wood)
  •      0.4% heating oil
  •     0.2% biogas

Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG also currently operates around 80 combined heat and power plants.

District heating network Berlin

The Berlin district heating network is operated, maintained and expanded by Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG. With a route length of more than 2,000 km and 1.3 million residential units supplied, the Berlin district heating network is one of the largest in the world.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG: Fact sheet from Wärme Berlin , as of December 31, 2019, accessed on July 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Overview of the annual financial statements for the 2018 financial year of Vattenfall Wärme Berlin Aktiengesellschaft. https://www.northdata.de/Vattenfall+W%C3%A4rme+Berlin+AG,+Berlin/Amtsgericht+Charlottenburg+%28Berlin%29+HRB+119058+B , as of December 31, 2018, accessed on September 11 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG: 130 Years of Energy for Berlin PDF on company history, kD, accessed on July 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ Berlin.de: District heating in the state of Berlin remains with Vattenfall (No. 23/2017) . Administrative Court Berlin, press release, June 30, 2017, accessed on November 12, 2017 (VG Berlin, judgment of June 30, 2017, Az .: VG 4 K 16.15).
  5. ↑ Joachim Fahrun: Berlin loses the battle for district heating . In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 1, 2017, accessed on November 13, 2017.
  6. ↑ Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG: Shaping the energy transition . Brochure, kD, accessed on July 24, 2020
  7. ^ Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG: Exit coal energy , website of Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG, kD, accessed on July 24, 2020
  8. ↑ stadt + werk: New focus topic hydrogen , July 17, 2020, accessed on July 24, 2020
  9. ↑ Daniel Wetzel: The capital is a pioneer in one point , In: welt.de, September 25, 2018, accessed on July 24, 2020
  10. ↑ Berlin.de: Climate Protection Agreement between the State of Berlin and Vattenfall , PDF, 2009, accessed on July 25, 2020
  11. ↑ Berliner Energiewendegesetz, §15 Abs. 1: http://gesetze.berlin.de/jportal/?quelle=jlink&query=EWendG+BE&psml=bsbeprod.psml&max=true&aiz=true , status: March 22, 2016, accessed on 25. July 2020
  12. ↑ Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection: Feasibility study "Coal phase-out and sustainable district heating supply Berlin 2030" , In: berlin.de, kD, accessed on July 25, 2020.
  13. ↑ Joachim Fahrun: Europe's largest kettle delivers clean heat , In: Berliner Morgenpost, September 18, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2020.
  14. ^ Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG: Märkisches Viertel thermal power station , website of Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG, kD, accessed on July 25, 2020