ZEAG energy
| ZEAG Energie AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1888 |
| Seat | Heilbronn , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 120 |
| sales | EUR 180.9 million |
| Branch | power supply |
| Website | zeag-energie.de |
The ZEAG Energie AG , headquartered in Heilbronn is one of the oldest German utility company and is majority owned by EnBW AG .
Company profile
The company was originally a cement plant , the name is the abbreviation of Ze ment factory A ktien g ompany and was the world's first commercial provider of fernübertragenem three-phase . The company's ordinary shares are traded via Valora securities trading ( ISIN : DE0007816001).
The majority shareholder of ZEAG is EnBW . ZEAG, for its part, has shares in the Obrigheim and Neckarwestheim nuclear power plants , is the owner of Gasversorgung Unterland GmbH, sells the energy from the hydropower plants in Heilbronn, Horkheim and Lauffen am Neckar, and operates a wind farm in the Harthäuser Forest .
history
On the initiative of cement researcher Wilhelm Michaëlis , the public limited company was founded on December 9, 1888 by 29 gentlemen in the Harmonie festival hall in Heilbronn under the name of Württemberg Portland Cement Plant in Lauffen a. N. founded. The share capital was 1.5 million gold marks . The original purpose of the company was to manufacture Portland cement in Lauffen am Neckar, which was maintained until 2003 in addition to generating electricity.
In 1890 the company acquired a 50-year concession with the city of Heilbronn for the generation of electrical energy. 1891 was the occasion of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in AC Transmission Lauffen-Frankfurt first transferred km three-phase over a distance of 175th The electricity generated in Lauffen operated 1000 light bulbs and the pump of an artificial waterfall in Frankfurt am Main. After the exhibition, the Lauffen district of Städtle and the nearby Oberamtsstadt Heilbronn were supplied by the power plant in Lauffen.
Since then, the company has installed more power plants and expanded its catchment area in the area. In 1898 a steam power plant was put into operation in Heilbronn. In 1910, ZEAG acquired the concession for Kirchheim am Neckar , and in 1912 for Lauffen am Neckar and Neckarwestheim . In addition to electricity generation, cement production was also expanded.
In 1922 the city of Heilbronn became majority owner. In 1941, a Neckar barrage with a new hydropower plant was opened in Lauffen. During the reconstruction after the Second World War, the Heilbronn hydropower plant was added in 1956 . When the Obrigheim nuclear power plant was commissioned in 1968, ZEAG had a share of 1.7%. In 1976 this was followed by a 3.2% stake in the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant , and later another 2.8% stake in its second unit. In 1980 the company was renamed to Zementwerk Lauffen - Elektrizitätswerk Heilbronn AG . In 1986, Gasversorgung Unterland GmbH was founded together with EVS . In 1994/95 ZEAG acquired the power supply in several districts of Heilbronn from KAWAG .
In 1999, the merged EVS and Badenwerk AG , EnBW acquired a stake in ZEAG, in 2002 then for 159.1 million euros also the 50.1% stake of the city of Heilbronn, with which EnBW was the majority owner of ZEAG, which for its part in 2003 the sole owner of Gasversorgung Unterland GmbH became. Cement production was given up in 2003 when the cement plant in Lauffen was leased to the Märker Group, which is active in southern Germany, and sold to them in 2004. In the same year it changed its name again to ZEAG Energie AG . On July 1, 2007, the power distribution network of ZEAG and the gas distribution network of Gasversorgung Unterland were leased to the subsidiary NHF Netzgesellschaft Heilbronn-Franken mbH.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Status: 2018; Source: ZEAG website
- ↑ VALORA EFFEKTEN HANDEL ZEAG Energie AG. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
- ↑ EnBW press release of August 20, 2002 ( Memento of the original of November 17, 2010 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.
