EVN Group is an
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
n-based
producer
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*Producer (agriculture), a farm operator
*A stakeholder of economic production
*Film producer, supervises the making of films
**Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...
and transporter of electricity, one of the largest in
Europe
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having over three million customers in 14 countries. The company also operates in
water treatment
Water treatment is any process that improves the Water quality, quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking water, drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recrea ...
,
natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...
supply and
waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...
business areas. It is the second-largest
utility
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in Austria.
Activities
In 2006, EVN Group produced around 3.45 billion kWh mainly from
thermal power
A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy
In thermodynamics, heat is defined as the form of energy crossing the boundary of a thermodynamic system by virtue of a temperature difference across the boundary ...
plants (68%) and
renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...
(
hydro
Hydro from Ancient Greek word ὕδωρ (húdōr), meaning ''water''.
Hydro may also refer to:
Energy technologies
* Water-derived power or energy:
** Hydropower, derived from water
** Hydroelectricity, in electrical form
* "Hydro", AC mains ...
and
wind
Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hou ...
) power plants (32%). EVN Group also distributed 19.2 billion kWh of electricity in
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
(37.9%),
Bulgaria
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(37.95%, through subsidiary ) and
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...
(24.15%, through
EVN AD Skopje
EVN AD Skopje ( mk, ЕВН АД Скопје) is a power distribution and supply company in North Macedonia. It was split in 2005 from former state integrated power company ESM and bought in 2006 by Austrian-based EVN Group.EVN originally stands ...
).
The company also has power generation capacities of 1,450
MW, a transmission network of 1,370 km and a distribution network of 45,000 km. EVN Group is also involved in the
natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...
sector having a total network length of 10,100 km. EVN itself owns 12.5% of Austrian peer
Verbund
Verbund AG, formerly known as Verbundgesellschaft or Österreichische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG, is Austria's largest electricity provider. Verbund covers around 40 percent of electricity demands in Austria and generates 90 percent thereof fro ...
.
Ownership
Less than 14% of EVN Group shares are
free float
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on the
Vienna Stock Exchange
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, with the state of
Lower Austria
Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...
holding 51 percent.
From 2002 until 2020, German utility
EnBW
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, or simply EnBW, is a publicly-traded energy company headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany. As its name indicates, EnBW is based in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
History Foundation and development
EnB ...
owned around 35 percent of EVN Group. From 2015 on, EnBW reduced its share. In 2020, Wiener Stadtwerke became EVN’s second-largest shareholder after it bought EnBW’s remaining 28.35% stake, worth around 800 million euros ($894 million).
File:Altes Fernheizwerk Mödling von West.jpg, District heating plant Mödling
Mödling () is the capital of the Austrian Mödling (district), district of the same name located approximately 14 km south of Vienna.
Mödling lies in Lower Austria's industrial zone (Industrieviertel). The Mödlingbach, a brook which rises ...
erected 1960, gasfired
File:Fernheizwerk Mödling von West.jpg, Biomass power and district heating plant Mödling, erected 2006
File:Theiß - Fernwärmespeicher.JPG, Europes biggest District Heating Accumulator with 50.000 cubic meter
File:Biomasseheizwerk Maria Gugging Aussenansicht.jpg, View from the biomasse heating plant Maria Gugging
File:Fernwärmeleitung Dü StPö mit Kraftwerk Dürnrohr.jpg , District heating transportation pipeline with a length of 31 km from Dürnrohr Power Station
The Dürnrohr power station is a thermal power station in Lower Austria.
The power station was built as a replacement for the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Station, a plant that was finished but due to a 1978 referendum never started up. The Dürnrohr ...
to Sankt Pölten
Sankt Pölten (; Central Bavarian: ''St. Pödn''), mostly abbreviated to the official name St. Pölten, is the capital and largest city of the State of Lower Austria in northeast Austria, with 55,538 inhabitants as of 1 January 2020. St. Pölten ...
File:Biomasse Hackgut Modulanlage.jpg, Biomass heating plant Modul for a village, from EVN Wärme,Naturwärme...
retrieved 21 January 2011 in the winter.
File:Biomasseheizwerk Spillern Nordansicht.jpg, Biomass heating plant. The total heat power is about 1000 kW, in the summer.
References
External links
*
Vienna Stock Exchange: Market Data EVN AG
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Electric power companies of Austria
Economy of Lower Austria