EnBW
Encyclopedia
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, or simply EnBW, is a publicly traded electric utilities company headquartered in Karlsruhe
, Germany
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, Badenwerk AG and Energieversorgung Schwaben
AG (EVS). On 16 July 1999 two subsidiaries of the former EVS decided to retroactively merge into EnBW Ostwuerttemberg DonauRies AG (ODR). On 1 October 2003 the merger of EnBW with Neckarwerke Stuttgart AG took place.
EnBW was the main sponsor of football-clubs VfB Stuttgart
(2005-2010) and Karlsruher SC
. Currently it is sponsor of both clubs on a lower level. EnBW is also name- and main sponsor of Volleyball-Bundesliga-club EnBW TV Rottenburg and Beko Basketball-Bundesliga
-club EnBW Ludwigsburg
and main sponsor of Toyota Handball Bundesliga-club Frisch Auf Göppingen
.
(EDF), with a 45% share and Oberschwäbischen Elektrizitätswerke (OEW), with a 45% share. In accordance with a closed consortium agreement between EdF and OEW, EdF will take over the supervision over EnBW until 2012. Furthermore, the two shareholders agreed to keep the share ratios as they are and to vote in mutual agreement on important decisions.
A further special feature is, that on many powerlines of EnBW, which were built by former EVS before 1985 the aerial cable for telecommunication is installed like a garland on the ground conductor or an auxiliary rope.
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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History
On 1 January 1997, EnBW was formed from the merger of two utilities companies from Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
, Badenwerk AG and Energieversorgung Schwaben
Swabia
Swabia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.-Geography:Like many cultural regions of Europe, Swabia's borders are not clearly defined...
AG (EVS). On 16 July 1999 two subsidiaries of the former EVS decided to retroactively merge into EnBW Ostwuerttemberg DonauRies AG (ODR). On 1 October 2003 the merger of EnBW with Neckarwerke Stuttgart AG took place.
EnBW was the main sponsor of football-clubs VfB Stuttgart
VfB Stuttgart
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons...
(2005-2010) and Karlsruher SC
Karlsruher SC
Karlsruher SC is a German association football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. KSC rose out of the consolidation of a number of predecessor clubs. They currently play in the 2...
. Currently it is sponsor of both clubs on a lower level. EnBW is also name- and main sponsor of Volleyball-Bundesliga-club EnBW TV Rottenburg and Beko Basketball-Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...
-club EnBW Ludwigsburg
EnBW Ludwigsburg
EnBW Ludwigsburg is a basketball club based in Ludwigsburg, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga. Their home arena is Arena Ludwigsburg starting in 2009, after moving from Rundsporthalle Ludwigsburg.- Season by season :-Roster 2010–2011:...
and main sponsor of Toyota Handball Bundesliga-club Frisch Auf Göppingen
Frisch Auf Göppingen
Turn- und Polizeisportgemeinschaft Frisch Auf Göppingen e.V. is a sports club from Göppingen, Germany. The club's men's handball team plays under the name FRISCH AUF! Göppingen in TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga...
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Shareholders
The two principal shareholders of EnBW are Électricité de FranceÉlectricité de France
Électricité de France S.A. is the second largest French utility company. Headquartered in Paris, France, with €65.2 billion in revenues in 2010, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of 120,000+ megawatts of generation capacity in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.EDF is one of...
(EDF), with a 45% share and Oberschwäbischen Elektrizitätswerke (OEW), with a 45% share. In accordance with a closed consortium agreement between EdF and OEW, EdF will take over the supervision over EnBW until 2012. Furthermore, the two shareholders agreed to keep the share ratios as they are and to vote in mutual agreement on important decisions.
Figures
About 5.4 million customers make EnBW the third-largest utilities company in Germany. With just under 24,600 employees an annual turnover of approximately 10.6 billion euro was generated in 2003. After the first mid-year 2004 19,500 coworkers remained generating a turnover of approximately €5.8 billion.Carbon intensity
| year | Production (TWh TWH TWH or twh could refer to:*Tennessee Walking Horse, a breed of horse* Toronto Western Hospital, a hospital in Toronto, Canada* TWH Bus & Coach, a bus company in Romford, England* Terrawatt-hour, measure of electrical energy, 1012 watt-hours... ) |
Emission (Gt CO2) | kg CO2/MWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 65 | 16.8 | 488 |
| 2003 | 75 | 20.9 | 277 |
| 2004 | 73 | 19.2 | 263 |
| 2005 | 74 | 17.8 | 242 |
| 2006 | 75 | 18.1 | 241 |
| 2007 | 74 | 17.7 | 241 |
| 2008 | 67 | 17.0 | 254 |
| 2009 | 66 | 15.9 | 241 |
Power plants
- Fossile Altbach Power StationAltbach Power StationAltbach Power Station is a modern power plant of EnBW at Altbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It has an output capacity of 1200 MW electricity and 560 MW heat....
- Steam power plant Heilbronn Power StationHeilbronn Power StationHeilbronn Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Heilbronn, Germany . It is operated by EnBW, until 1997 by EVS, and has seven units. The capacity of the three units is 950 MW, two units with a capacity of approx. 200 MW are in cold reserve...
- Steam power plant Marbach am NeckarMarbach am NeckarMarbach am Neckar is a town on the river Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The nearest larger cities are Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart ....
- Steam power plant WalheimWalheimWalheim is a town in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with a considerable viticulture. Besides the village Walheim there are no other places belonging to the municipal area of Walheim.-Geography and climate:...
- Steam power plant StuttgartStuttgartStuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
-Gaisburg - Steam power plant Stuttgart-Münster
- Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power PlantNeckarwestheim Nuclear Power PlantNeckarwestheim Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany. It is sometimes abbreviated GKN . It is operated by EnBW Kernkraft GmbH.-GKN 1:...
- Obrigheim Nuclear Power PlantObrigheim Nuclear Power PlantThe shut down Nuclear power station Obrigheim lies in Obrigheim in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis . It operated one pressurized water reactor unit.-History:-Planning:...
- Philippsburg Nuclear Power PlantPhilippsburg Nuclear Power PlantThe Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant is located in Philippsburg in Karlsruhe . It is operated by EnBW Kernkraft GmbH.It houses two units, the first a BWR and the second a PWR ....
- Pumped-storagePumped-storage hydroelectricityPumped-storage hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric power generation used by some power plants for load balancing. The method stores energy in the form of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation. Low-cost off-peak electric power is used to run the pumps...
plant GlemsGlemsThe river Glems is a right tributary of the river Enz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany and around long. The spring is located in the south-west of Stuttgart. On the way to the confluence into the Enz next to Unterriexingen it passes the districts of Böblingen and Ludwigsburg....
(MetzingenMetzingenMetzingen is a Swabian city with about 22,000 inhabitants, in the state of Baden-Württemberg in the southwest of Germany, south of Stuttgart.-History:The city is mentioned for the first time in documents from 1075...
) - Pumped storage plant SchluchseeSchluchseeThe Schluchsee is a reservoir lake in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, southeast of the Titisee in the Black Forest near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.- Location :...
- HydroelectricHydroelectricityHydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy...
power plant RheinfeldenRheinfeldenRheinfelden is a municipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, seat of the district of Rheinfelden. It is located 15 kilometres east of Basel. The name means the fields of the Rhine, as the town is located on the Hochrhein. It is home to Feldschlösschen, the most popular beer in... - Baltic 1 Offshore Wind FarmBaltic 1 Offshore Wind FarmBaltic 1 Offshore Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm of Germany in the Baltic Sea. Siemens supplied 21 SWT 2.3-93 wind turbines for the 48.3 megawatt wind farm. Baltic 1 is located about north of the Darss-Zingst Peninsula and covers about seven square kilometers...
Power lines
- Overhead line crossing the Eyachtals (facility 615) (high voltage transmission line with largest span in Germany)
- facility 0704 (disconnected 110kV-three phase AC powerline near Gomaringen)
- facility 9461 (disconnected 110kV-three phase AC powerline near GöppingenGöppingenGöppingen is a town in southern Germany, part of the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the district Göppingen. It is situated at the bottom of the Hohenstaufen mountain, in the valley of the river Fils....
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A further special feature is, that on many powerlines of EnBW, which were built by former EVS before 1985 the aerial cable for telecommunication is installed like a garland on the ground conductor or an auxiliary rope.