VKG Elektrivõrgud is an electricity distribution company in Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

. It is a subsidiary of Viru Keemia Grupp

Viru Keemia Grupp

Viru Keemia Grupp is an Estonian holding group of oil shale industry, power generation, and public utility companies.-Operations:VKG's two main areas of operations are shale oil extraction, and electricity and heat production and distribution....

. VKG Elektrivõrgud is the second largest power distribution company in Estonia after Eesti Energia Jaotusvõrk.

History

History of the company reaches back to 1952. It was established on 1 January 1993 as Narva Elektrivõrk, a subsidiary of Eesti Energia

Eesti Energia

Eesti Energia AS is a state-owned energy company in Estonia with its headquarters in Tallinn. The company operates in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Jordan. In Estonia the company operates under the name Eesti Energia, while using the brand name Enefit for international operations...

. It was separated from Eesti Energia in 1997 and in 1998–1999 it was sold to Startekor, a company controlled by Cinergy Corporation. In 2002–2003, the company was acquired by Sthenos Group and ECE European City Estates AG. In July 2006, Narva Elektrivõrk became a subsidiary of Viru Keemia Grupp and was renamed VKG Elektrivõrgud.

Operations

VKG Elektrivõrgud distributes and sells electricity, and also provides operational management services for company power systems. In addition, the company also provides the service of designing, building, repairing, using, checking and maintaining electrical installations through VKG Elektriehitus.

The company's service area is in Ida-Viru County

Ida-Viru County

Ida-Viru County , or Ida-Virumaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is the most north-eastern part of the country. The county contains large deposits of oil shale - the main mineral mined in Estonia. As oil shale is used in thermal power plants, the earth in Ida-Viru literally holds the largest...

, including Narva

Narva

Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, by the Russian border, on the Narva River which drains Lake Peipus.-Early history:...

, Narva-Jõesuu

Narva-Jõesuu

Narva-Jõesuu is a town in Ida-Viru County, Estonia, located on the country's northern Baltic Sea coast near the Russian border. The name of the town in Estonian and Russian means "mouth of the Narva River"....

, Sillamäe

Sillamäe

Sillamäe is a town in Ida-Viru County in the northern part of Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. It has a population of 16,183 and covers an area of 10.54 km²...

, Vaivara Parish

Vaivara Parish

Vaivara Parish is a municipality of Ida-Viru County in northern Estonia. It has a population of 1,800 and an area of 397.97 km².-Settlements:Small boroughs:Olgina , Sinimäe Villages:...

 and Viivikonna district of Kohtla-Järve

Kohtla-Järve

Kohtla-Järve is a city and municipality in north-eastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946. The city is highly industrial, and is both a processor of oil shales and is a large producer of various petroleum products. The city is also very diverse ethnically: it contains...

. It has 35,000 customers and an annual sales of 262 GWh of electricity.