Zug waterworks
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1892 |
| Seat | Zug , Switzerland |
| management | Andreas Widmer ( CEO ) Heinz M. Buhofer ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 431 (WWZ Group, December 31, 2018) |
| sales | 251.0 million CHF (2018) |
| Branch | care |
| Website | www.wwz.ch |
The HWC AG (formerly Waterworks train AG) is a regional energy , telecommunications and water distribution companies based in train . WWZ supplies the population and economy in the canton of Zug and surrounding regions (Schwyz, Aargau, Lucerne, Zurich). Founded in 1892 on a private initiative, the group of companies employs 431 people and generated sales of 251.0 million Swiss francs in 2018.
Companies
WWZ has been a stock corporation since it was founded in 1892. Holding WWZ AG is owned by around 4,600 private shareholders, and the public sector holds almost 30 percent of the share capital. WWZ is based in Zug and employs over 430 people (WWZ Group), including 12 apprentices. The company is one of the 100 largest employers in Central Switzerland.
history
The corporation was founded in 1892, but WWZ's origins go back to 1878. The initial purpose of the company was to reliably supply the population and businesses in Zug with water and electricity. In the 1970s, the company began building the television network, which is the basis of today's extensive fiber optic cable network. In 1990 WWZ connected the region to the European natural gas network. The electromobility and heating / cooling business areas have been added in the company's recent history.
Selected milestones:
- 1878 Establishment of water supply in Zug, start of water supply in Zug
- 1892 Founding of the Aktiengesellschaft Wasserwerke Zug, start of the electricity supply in Zug
- 1973 Establishment of cable TV network
- 1990 Introduction of natural gas
- 1998 Internet creation
- 2003 Introduction of digital TV
- 2005 Telephony via cable network launched
- 2007 Start of HDTV
- 2012 Introduction of the Quickline telecom offer and the launch of Swiss hydropower as the standard power supply
- 2013 Introduction of mobile telephony
- 2016 Change of name of the Holding Wasserwerke Zug AG to WWZ AG
- 2017 Start of construction of the Circulago generation project (lake water energy network)
- 2018 Start of bandwidth expansion to 1 Gbit / s across the board
Field of activity
The group's activities include the areas of power supply , telecommunications , water supply , natural gas supply, electromobility and heat supply.
electricity
As an electricity supplier, WWZ supplies over 72,000 customers in ten Zug municipalities and in Hochdorf (LU) with electricity over the 2,200-kilometer power grid. In 2018, a total of 707 GWh of electricity was delivered in the grid area . In the same year, WWZ sold a total of 832 million kWh of electricity in the partially liberalized Swiss electricity market. The company produces around 4 percent of the electricity sold in seven of its own hydropower plants on the Lorze and with 22 photovoltaic systems in the Zug region; the company buys the rest from regional third-party producers, obtains it through investments and from the market.
WWZ offers its customers different power products to choose from. The standard product will be produced in 2012 from 100% renewable energies (Swiss hydropower), WWZ customers can also obtain electricity from regional sources (small hydropower and / or solar power).
Electromobility
WWZ operates 28 public charging points in the canton of Zug and the municipality of Hochdorf in Lucerne, and since 2018 it has also been the first fast charging station in the region (in Rotkreuz). In 2018, almost 68,000 kWh of regional solar power were refueled at the WWZ charging stations. For the simple electrification of underground parking spaces, WWZ launched an intelligent load management system in 2018: ready12 enables the electrification and smart networking of several parking spaces without expensive expansion of the property connection to the public power grid - including personalized (user-based) charging of the charging current.
Telecom
WWZ supplies over 60 communities in the cantons of Zug, Zurich, Aargau, Lucerne, Schwyz and Bern with telecommunications services via its own fiber optic cable network and partner networks and is one of the leading cable network companies in Switzerland. The almost 3,200 km long WWZ networks are constantly being expanded and offer 500 Mbit / s at each connection. The company sells telecommunications products Quickline Quickline . These include digital cable television , interactive television, and broadband internet , landline and mobile telephony. In 2015, WWZ stopped analog television . The basic encryption for digital cable television was lifted in mid-2012. In total, the WWZ Group supplies over 126,000 connections. It is a member of the leading cable network Quickline and the Digital Cable Group .
natural gas
WWZ distributed a total of 512 GWh of natural gas (2018) to 16 municipalities via its 282-kilometer network. The company also operates three natural gas / biogas filling stations in the city of Zug and Affoltern am Albis. By default, the company mixes 5 percent biogas with natural gas; this proportion can also be increased by customers.
warmth
WWZ has been in the heating business since the 1990s. In 2018 the company produced 27.9 GWh of heat. Today, WWZ operates a wood heating network in the Zug community of Menzingen, three district heating networks in the Zug community of Cham and the district heating network in Zug's old town. In 2017, a wood heating network was added to supply the village center of the Zug community of Steinhausen. In mid-2017, WWZ started building the Circulago energy network. The aim of the generation project is to supply the city of Zug and Baar-Süd with renewable heating and cooling energy from Lake Zug. In 2018 WWZ launched the Ennetsee heating network. This will one day supply the region of the same name as well as the planned Zug city quarter "Äussere Lorzenallmend" with CO 2 -free waste heat from the Renergia waste incineration plant.
water
WWZ supplies almost 8,000 distribution points with drinking water in the municipalities of Zug, Cham, Hochdorf and Hünenberg as well as in parts of Baar . In addition, other municipalities and municipality areas are regularly supplied with water . In 2018, the company sold 5.87 million m³ of water over its 450-kilometer network, half of which is composed of spring and groundwater . Water sales are stagnating despite population growth.
As of March 2020, attempts are being made to bring the breakdown products of the pesticide chlorothalonil below the permitted limit value. Some communities in the Lucerne Seetal are affected .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] , on: WWZ website, (PDF, 3.5 MB) accessed on March 29, 2017
- ↑ Zug waterworks: drinking water situation in Hochdorf / LU. In: wwz.ch. March 12, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 .