Stadtwerke Meerbusch

Stadtwerke Meerbusch GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1995
Seat	Meerbusch - Osterath , Germany
management	Albert Lopez (Managing Director); Tafil Pufja (managing director); Werner Damblon (Chairman of the Supervisory Board);
Number of employees	no
sales	50.4 million euros (2017)
Branch	Energy and water suppliers
Website	stadtwerke-meerbusch.de
	Status: July 1, 2020

Headquarters of Stadtwerke Meerbusch in Meerbusch-Osterath

The Stadtwerke GmbH Meerbusch (short stm ; by the end of 2017 wbm farms Meerbusch GmbH ) are the water , gas and electric utilities for Meerbusch .

history

The Stadtwerke Meerbusch are majority (60% share) owned by the city of Meerbusch. The company was founded in 1995 under the name Stadtwerke Meerbusch in cooperation with rhenag (Rheinische Energie AG, Cologne, a subsidiary of RWE and RheinEnergie ), which at the time held a minority stake of 40%.

In 2007, RWE was considering merging Stadtwerke Neuss with SWK Krefeld and also including STM and Stadtwerke Willich in whole or in part. The stm leadership and the city of Meerbusch were skeptical of such plans.

Stadtwerke Meerbusch has been cooperating closely with Stadtwerke Willich since 2008 in the areas of network operation and management, energy billing, customer service and internal central tasks.

In 2016, RWE transferred its indirectly held 40% stake in the municipal utilities to the newly founded Innogy SE .

In December 2017 the name was changed from Wirtschaftsbetriebe Meerbusch GmbH to Stadtwerke Meerbusch GmbH.

On January 1, 2020, the city of Meerbusch took over 7.4% of the shares from the previous co-partner innogy SE.

Services

Gas supply

Stadtwerke Meerbusch maintains the pipeline network for the natural gas supply in all eight Meerbusch districts with a total length of around 200 km. Almost half of all private households in the supply area have a gas connection. There are also industrial and commercial customers; a total of around 350 million kWh of gas are sold annually.

The gas is fed into the medium and low pressure network of stm via four transfer stations from the Europe-wide supply network. In 2009, E.ON Ruhrgas primarily procured type "L" gas from the Netherlands.

Water supply

The drinking water network has a length of 208 km, about 2.2 million m³ of water are given off annually.

The feed takes place

for the Osterath district from the waterworks Franzen Zollhaus and Fellerhöfe of Stadtwerke Willich ,
for the Büderich district of the Büttgen Driesch waterworks in Kaarst of the Grevenbroich district waterworks ,
for the other parts of the city in the northern part of the city from Stadtwerke Meerbusch's own waterworks in Lank-Latum ( 51 ° 17 ′ 51.7 ″ N , 6 ° 41 ′ 20.6 ″ E ) with four shallow wells and two deep wells.51.297685 6.689043

All of the above-mentioned waterworks draw their drinking water from the groundwater and use water softening systems to set the water hardness to 2 ("soft") .

The wastewater is collected in the urban area and fed to the Düsseldorf-Nord sewage treatment plant near Ilverich .

Power supply

RWE - Lank substation

The Meerbusch power supply by Stadtwerke Meerbusch continues to this day in the name and for the account of RWE . This constellation came about through a triangular deal between RWE, stm and the city of Meerbusch: In 1996, the city of Meerbusch bought the power grid in the eight Meerbusch districts from RWE for more than 60 million euros. To finance the city sold the network to a lease -Company that the power to m for lease left. Stadtwerke Meerbusch leased the leased network back to RWE Energy . The leasing contract for the network expired in 2013 when the network finally became the property of STM against payment of a final installment of EUR 3 million. Since the lease contract between RWE and Stadtwerke Meerbusch already expired at the end of 2009, the stm examined the possibility of not extending the lease with RWE in 2009 and instead taking over the future of Meerbusch's electricity supply. However, a decision was made against it and the lease contract was extended until the end of the leasing contract. The stm have been managing the distribution network themselves since the beginning of 2014.

Since Meerbusch does not yet have its own power plants for generating electricity, efforts are being made to create its own capacities in addition to coordinated procurement. Combined heat and power plants are being considered that would also allow local heating , possibly in combination with heat pumps or biogas systems .