Elektra Birseck Münchenstein

The EBM ( Elektra Birseck, München stone ) is a Swiss energy company headquartered in Munich stone, which was founded in 1897 as a privately organized cooperative. The EBM supplies in the north-west Switzerland and in Alsace about 226,000 people with electricity. In the heat supply, the company operates in Switzerland and in Alsace and southern Germany over 170 plants.

• 4.2 Biomass heating plant Fernwärmeverbund Saint -Louis

History

With the intention to introduce the electric lighting and the then new idea of ​​a cooperative form of organization, the engineer Fritz Eckinger and politicians Stephan Gschwind 1897 founded the Elektra Birseck Munich stone. The supply area in the lower part of the canton of Basel-Land and Solothurn part Birseck - Dornach was soon expanded. Between 1906 and 1914, the EBM closed eleven municipalities and the city of Saint- Louis ( Haut Rhin ) to the supply mains. Since 1921 supplies the EBM in the two Swiss cantons Basel-Landschaft and Solothurn and in the Alsace region of France a total of 60 communities with electricity.

As the first company in Switzerland from 1979 promoting economical and rational use of energy. So makes the first EBM provisions to promote renewable energy and sets up an energy and environmental consulting agency for customers. With the decentralized heat supply, the EBM has the beginning of the 1980s developed the concept of " cogeneration and heat pump " and built a first cogeneration plant built in 1982.

Since 1992, builds, and supports the company participates in photovoltaic systems in order to offer solar power priced can. To mark its 100th anniversary in 1997, the EBM opened an electricity museum in Munich stone.

From 2009, the EBM begins with the production of electricity from wind and solar power. To realize large plants in Southern Europe, the company has Aravis the « Aravis Energy I LP " was founded. This is the first "Swiss Limited Partnership" ( limited partnership for collective investment schemes), which was approved by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. The fund projects with a volume of 200 million Swiss francs have been developed. CHF 70 million was drawn as Hauptinvestorin the EBM. With the investment made ​​by the EBM wind farms and photovoltaic plants in Italy and Spain could be realized with an installed capacity of around 64 megawatts.

Corporate form

The EBM is a privately organized cooperative. The cooperative members are legal entities and private persons with property ownership, which is connected to the power grid of the EBM. 2012, the company had over 50,000 cooperative members.

Renewable Energy

The EBM procures electricity from renewable energies from its own facilities, partner systems and from long-term contracts. Ancillary facilities in the region in particular are major projects are implemented at the suitable locations abroad.

About the Company « EBM Green Power AG ", the " Leading Swiss renewables AG » and the minority interest in the " Small Birseck AG » follows the EBM, the medium-term goal to expand in Switzerland and in Europe. Electricity production in foreign investments are not yet ready to meet the demand in Switzerland, but is sold abroad directly to local sponsorship awards or at the local electricity market. The expansion of the power plant of EBM electricity production from renewable energy sources increased to 563'622 MWh (as of 31 December 2012).

Investment company LSR

The " Leading Swiss renewables AG » ( LSR) is a holding company that was founded in January 2012 by the EBM, " Energy Water Bern " and " Aravis ". The company 's mission is medium build production facilities for renewable energy in Europe. It is equipped with an equity of around 100 million euros. It brings together the EBM with 65 million euros and " Energie Wasser Bern " with 35 million euro. The total installed capacity should be in a first phase about 100 megawatts. The emphasis is on the wind, because there is an active market for wind power projects in many European countries.

" Small Birseck AG » ( KKB AG)

The decentralized power generation systems have increased in recent years, especially since the implementation of large-scale power plants in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe has become increasingly difficult. The KKB AG is an independent producer of electricity from renewable energy sources, in which EBM is involved. The Company acquires and operates small power plants in the areas of water, sun and wind power in Switzerland and in certain European countries. The KKB AG, is listed on the Berne Stock Exchange under the International Securities Identification Number ISIN CH0023777235.

Heat production and renewable energy

The EBM heat AG in Switzerland for over 30 years in the heating contracting works. Here, the use of renewable energy has always stood in the foreground. While at the beginning especially heat networks in the Swiss network field of EBM realized that EBM is now represented in almost the whole of Switzerland, by the " EBM Thermique SAS " in the neighboring Alsace and the " EBM heat GmbH» in Baden- Württemberg with attachments. Overall, the number of the 2012 -powered facilities amounts to 170

In the sewage plant Morgental that ensures the wastewater processing in eight municipalities of the cantons of Thurgau and St. Gallen, created one of the first farms in Switzerland. The wastewater treatment plant is from energy consumers to producers of electricity and heat. Under the leadership of EBM in this project, the plant produced from sewage, waste and wood chips heat and electricity and supplies customers in Steinach, Arbon and environment. In addition, the EBM built a wood-fired power plant.

Biomass heating plant Fernwärmeverbund Saint -Louis

The " EBM Thermique SAS » operates in Saint -Louis in France, a new combined cycle power plant that produces biomass heat and electricity for several thousand households. The entire facility was designed, implemented and financed by the French EBM - daughter. It can thus save large amounts of fossil fuels and reduce CO2 emissions annually by 9,000 tons. For the project, the city of Saint- Louis was next to 20 other cities in the award Grand prix national des villes in the category of " management of natural resources and energy ." On the initiative of the city of Saint -Louis, EBM Thermique SAS has taken the urban district heating system since the first of July 2011, and in sections modernized. With a total length of 7.5 kilometers, the project supplies 3,000 homes with heating and water heating. About 34,000 megawatt -hours of heat energy are required per year. The biomass heating plant was officially inaugurated on 18 October 2013.