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Tallinna Vesi
Tallinna Vesi is an Estonian company which offers water supply, wastewater collection and treatment services. This company is the largest water utility company in Estonia. The company is serving over 460,000 people in Tallinn and Harju County. The company is established in 1967 as ''Tallinn Water Works & Sewerage Management''. Since 1997, the company bears the name AS Tallinna Vesi. The privatization of Tallinn Water was finally approved (at the third discussion) by the Tallinn City Council on June 15, 2000, when Rein Voog was the chairman of the Tallinn City Council. International Water UU (owned by International Water and United Utilities International) became the owner of 50.4% of the shares, and the rest remained with the city of Tallinn. Since 2005, the company is listed in Nasdaq Tallinn The Nasdaq Tallinn AS, formerly known as the Tallinn Stock Exchange, is a stock exchange operating in Tallinn, Estonia. Nasdaq Tallinn is the only regulated secondary securities market i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Supply
Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes. Public water supply systems are crucial to properly functioning societies. These systems are what supply drinking water to populations around the globe. Aspects of service quality include continuity of supply, water quality and water pressure. The institutional responsibility for water supply is arranged differently in different countries and regions (urban versus rural). It usually includes issues surrounding policy and regulation, service provision and standardization. The cost of supplying water consists, to a very large extent, of fixed costs (capital costs and personnel costs) and only to a small extent of variable costs that depend on the amount of water consumed (mainly energy and chemicals). Almost all service providers in the world charge tariffs to recover part of their costs. Water supply is a separate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harju County
Harju County ( et, Harju maakond or ''Harjumaa''), is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in Northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the southeast, Rapla County to the south, and Lääne County to the southwest. The capital and largest city of Estonia, Tallinn, is situated in Harju County. Harju County is the largest county in Estonia in terms of population, as almost half (45%) of the Estonia's population lives in Harju County. History Ancient history The territory of modern Harju County consists mostly of two ancient Estonian counties: Revala, around what is now Tallinn, and Harjumaa, which was situated south of Revala and presently rests mostly in Rapla County. Lindanise, then a small trading post at the Gulf of Finland, served as the capital of Revala. It eventually grew into the mostly German-populated Hanseatic town of ''Reval'' and later into the Estonian cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasdaq Tallinn
The Nasdaq Tallinn AS, formerly known as the Tallinn Stock Exchange, is a stock exchange operating in Tallinn, Estonia. Nasdaq Tallinn is the only regulated secondary securities market in Estonia. The major stock market index is Nasdaq Tallinn, formerly known as TALSE. History The foundation of Estonian Central Securities Depository in 1994 created the basis for the development of the secondary market based on electronic trading system. This was realized with the founding of the Tallinn Stock Exchange in April 1995 by 10 commercial banks, 9 brokerage firms and state players (Hüvitusfond, Bank of Estonia, and Ministry of Finance), equal holding of each of them. Licensed by the Ministry of Finance, Tallinn Stock Exchange opened for trading on May 31, 1996 with 11 securities listed. June 3 was the first calculation day for the TALSE index. In 1999 September 24, The alliance of Nordic Exchanges (NOREX) formally invited Tallinn Stock Exchange, alongside Riga Stock Exchange and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utilitas (company)
OÜ Utilitas (former name: OÜ Elekter ja Küte) is a utility and energy company located in Tallinn, Estonia. It generates thermal energy and electricity and provides district heating services. Utilitas is supplying heat in eight Estonian cities: Tallinn, Maardu, Haapsalu, Jõgeva, Keila, Kärdla, Rapla and Valga. In addition to three cogeneration plants, Utilitas has a total of 26 boiler houses and nine solar power plants. Utilitas’ first district cooling system is located in Tallinn, Fahle quarter. Utilitas operates about of district heating networks, and heat and power plants in eight cities in Estonia, including Tallinn. In 1998, Estonian businessman Kristjan Rahu acquired a newly established company AS Eraküte, which started to acquire local heat producers and district heating sets. In 1999, French Dalkia bought 80% stake in Eraküte. In 2001, Eraküte established a subsidiary AS Tallinna Küte for leasing assets of the Tallinn's municipal heating company AS Tallinn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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