Association of municipal companies

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Association of municipal companies V.
(VKU)
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purpose Representation of the interests of the local economy in Germany
Chair: Michael Ebling , President
Ingbert Liebing , Chief Executive Officer
Establishment date: 1949
Number of members: 1458
Number of employees: approx. 120
Seat : Berlin , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Website: www.vku.de

The Association of Municipal Enterprises e. V. ( VKU ) is a German interest group that represents the interests of municipal companies vis-à-vis legislative bodies at state, federal and European level and is therefore considered a lobby association . The VKU member companies come from the fields of energy and water supply , sewage disposal, telecommunications, waste management and city cleaning.

history

It was founded in 1949 in Rüdesheim am Rhein . After the Second World War , the VKU guaranteed efficient lobbying and at the same time strengthened the efficiency of municipal companies. After the collapse of the GDR in 1989, the VKU supported many cities and municipalities in East Germany in setting up municipal companies for energy and water supply. The formerly independent association of municipal waste management and city cleaning VKS has been a department of the VKU since 2011 .

The association today

Nationwide, around 1,500 member companies with a total turnover of around 119 billion euros and more than 275,000 employees are organized in the VKU (source: VKU, as of 2020). In the end customer segment, the member companies have a market share of 61.5 percent in electricity, 66.6 percent in natural gas, 90.2 percent in drinking water, 73.7 percent in heating and 44.1 percent in Sanitation. They also dispose of 31,500 tonnes of waste every day and make a decisive contribution to Germany's 67 percent recycling rate among the member states of the European Union. They also provide broadband infrastructures to more than six million customers.

The association organizes technical and political work in the fields of energy, water and wastewater, telecommunications, as well as waste management and urban cleanliness. It takes a stand in the preparation of laws and regulations and formulates the common political positions of the VKU members and explains them to politicians and the public.

In 2007 the association moved its headquarters from Cologne to Berlin. The association has an office in Brussels and regional offices at the federal state level. The Lord Mayor of Mainz, Michael Ebling , has been President of the VKU since January 2016 . Ingbert Liebing has been the association's chief executive officer since April 2020 .

management

Michael Ebling, acting President

President

Chief Executive Officer / Executive Members of the Presidential Board

Ingbert Liebing, Acting Chief Executive Officer

statistics

Economic key figures of the 1474 member companies:

Revenue: € 116.2 billion
Number of employees: 268.123
Investments annually: € 9.9 billion

(As of 2018)

Contribution of the VKU member companies to energy and water supply and wastewater disposal:

Electricity /
million kWh		 Gas /
million kWh		 Heat /
million kWh		 Water /
million m³		 Wastewater /
million m³
Submission of VKU companies 270.172 583,566 60,099 3,928 3,273
Germany as a whole 447,986 1 898,225 1 83,703 2 4,468 3 7,590 3
of which VKU 60.3% 65.0% 71.8% 87.9% 43.1%

1 Source: StatBA, status 2016
2 Source: AGFW, status 2016
3 Source: StatBA, status 2013

Sub-organizations

The VKU has the following two sub-organizations:

Waste management and city cleaning division VKS

ASEW

The working group for economical use of energy and water (ASEW) was founded on September 14, 1989 from the VKU with the aim of promoting the expansion of renewable energies and better energy efficiency. With more than 270 member municipal utilities , ASEW is the largest German municipal utility network for energy efficiency and renewable energies.

The ASEW organizes around 40 events per year, the focus is on the exchange of experiences and further training in the field of the energy industry. In addition, ASEW acts as a service provider, observing and analyzing market developments and developing products and services for member companies.

ASEW offers various white label brands that are sold by member companies:

  • With the energreen brand , a green electricity product based on a surcharge model has been offered since 1999, which ensures the expansion of renewable energies on site through the earmarked surcharge. The brand is certified by the TÜV-Nord group.
  • The watergreen brand, which has been available since 2006, is also a green electricity product . In contrast to energreen , this is a dealer model with RECS proof of origin, which is sometimes controversial among consumer advocates. To u. a. To respond to this criticism, the watergreen + brand was introduced in 2012 , which is certified by the ok-power label .
  • Since 2010, ASEW has been offering its member companies a biogas product with ten percent biogas admixture under the gasgreen brand . Certification is carried out by the TÜV Nord Group.
  • The ASEW BLUE brand , which contains a climate-neutral natural gas, was last launched on the market at the beginning of 2013 . In order to achieve this goal, emissions resulting from gas consumption are offset through international climate protection projects. TÜV Rheinland is the certifier here .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Us - www.vku.de , accessed on July 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Association of municipal companies V. (VKU): Figures, data, facts 2018. In: Municipal supply and disposal companies in figures. VKU, accessed on February 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Carsten Wagner; Stefan Luig: Press release 94/2015 . In: vku.de . Association of municipal companies V .. November 10, 2015. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  4. ^ Ingbert Liebing is the new general manager of the VKU from April 1st. VKU, press release, March 10, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b ASEW - About us Website of the working group for economical use of energy and water, accessed on August 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ energreen homepage ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2012 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 January 7, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.energreen.de
  7. ↑ watergreen homepage ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2013 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 January 7, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / watergreen.de
  8. ↑ gasgreen homepage ( memento of the original from January 21, 2013 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 January 7, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gasgreen.de
  9. ↑ ASEW website  ( 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. , accessed January 7, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / asew.de