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 and transporter of electricity, one of the largest in

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having over three million customers in 14 countries. The company also operates in

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supply and

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business areas. It is the second-largest

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in Austria.

Activities

In 2006, EVN Group produced around 3.45 billion kWh mainly from

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plants (68%) and renewable energy ( hydro and

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) power plants (32%). EVN Group also distributed 19.2 billion kWh of electricity in

(37.9%),

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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

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

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on the

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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 in the Vienna Woods, ...

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 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. Pölte ...

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

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Vienna Stock Exchange: Market Data EVN AG
{{DEFAULTSORT:Evn Group Electric power companies of Austria Economy of Lower Austria