WSW Energy & Water
| WSW Energie & Wasser AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG |
| Seat | Wuppertal |
The WSW Energie & Wasser AG is part of Wuppertal Stadtwerke (short WSW ). In 2010, the Stadtwerke sold 2,305 GWh electricity, 620 GWh heating and district heating, 2,583 GWh natural gas and 22.4 million m³ water.
Gas supply
As early as November 2, 1825, the council of the then independent city of Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ) decided to introduce gas street lighting . However, this project could only be carried out on October 4, 1838, when the Belgian company Doignon, Blaton-Doignon & Como. a contract for gas lighting was concluded. A first gas works was built at Brausenwerth , which was followed by a second in the Nützenberg district . Gas lighting systems and gas works passed into the ownership of the city of Elberfeld on September 1, 1868. The gas works in Varresbeck , opened on January 13, 1883, replaced the two older ones at Brausenwerth and on Nützenberg.
As one of the first cities in Germany, the city of Barmen (now part of Wuppertal) founded its own (urban) gas lighting company in 1846 . In the same year, she started up her first gasworks in Unterbarmen, in 1862 another in Oberbarmen . In 1911, Barmen signed a contract with August-Thyssen-Hütte for the delivery of so-called long - distance gas , which was obtained from Hamborn (now part of Duisburg ) via a 52 km long pipeline . The two gas works were shut down. The cities of Ronsdorf , Langerfeld and Cronenberg , which had built their own gas works between 1863 and 1896, and switched to long-distance gas from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk RWE and E.ON Ruhrgas in 1915, 1917 and 1928, did the same. The city of Elberfeld went two ways. ThyssenKrupp's long-distance gas supply supplemented own generation in the Westende gasworks (Varresbeck) from 1919.
When the formerly independent towns of Barmen, Elberfeld, Cronenberg, Ronsdorf and Vohwinkel were merged to form the town of Elberfeld-Barmen (later Wuppertal) in 1929 , a joint Wuppertal gasworks was also created as part of the municipal works, which supply gas , electricity and water ensured.
After Wuppertaler Stadtwerke AG was founded by the merger of municipal works and Wuppertaler Bahnen AG in 1948, the previous low-pressure network was supplemented by a high-pressure network due to the increasing demand for gas. In 1952 a 60,000 cubic meter disk gas tank was built in Oberbarmen , which was in operation until 1997. The Westende gasworks was shut down in June . At the same time, in the Sonnborn district, with a diameter of 47.3 meters and a capacity of 250,000 normal cubic meters, the world's largest spherical gas container at the time was built. In the years 1968 to 1970, the gas supply in all of Wuppertal was switched to natural gas .
Drinking water supply
Power supply
Together with GDF Suez Energie Deutschland AG, Wuppertaler Stadtwerke operates a coal-fired power station in Wilhelmshaven and combined heat and power stations in Elberfeld (coal-fired power station with combined heat and power , electrical output 100 MW , thermal output 201 MW) and Barmen (gas and steam turbine power station; electrical output 84 MW, thermal output 110 MW).
General
Shares in WSW Energie & Wasser AG were sold to Electrabel Deutschland AG with effect from January 1, 2009 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ WSW Energie & Wasser AG - Key figures ( 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. As of June 27, 2012
- ↑ Hard coal power plant in Wilhelmshaven ( 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.
- ↑ Heizkraftwerke Wuppertal in figures ( 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 38 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 15 ″ E