Mainova
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- Constantin H. Alsheimer, CEO
- Uwe Becker, Chairman of the Board
Mainova AG is one of the largest regional energy supplier in Germany, serving approximately one million people in Hessen and neighboring states with electricity, gas, heat and water. There are also numerous corporate clients throughout the country. Since October 2008, the Frankfurt-based company provides private customers within a radius of 100 km around Frankfurt am Main electricity and natural gas under the brand name " Mainova current direct " and " Mainova natural gas direct " and the green power " Nova Nature " at.
The Mainova went in 1998 from the merger of the Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main and the Main Gas AG forth. The energy and water utility employs 2,943 employees ( December 31, 2012) and achieved a turnover of 1.98 billion euros in 2012. Largest shareholders of Mainova the City of Frankfurt am Main (via the " Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH" ) with 75.2 % and the investment company Thüga AG with 24.4%. The remaining shares (0.4%) are in free float. Board members are Constantin H. Alsheimer (Chairman of the Board), Peter Birkner, Norbert Breidenbach and Lothar autumn. Chairman Mainova AG Frankfurt City Treasurer Uwe Becker ( CDU).
The Mainova generates around 40 % of their electricity sold itself - and only in power plants that operate in combined heat and power (CHP ). Four Mainova heat and power plants (CHP ) and a grid to ensure that Frankfurt is supplied with electricity. The cogeneration West ( in Gutleutviertel ), Niederrad, Allerheiligenstraße and fair produce district heat in addition to electricity through cogeneration. On Müllheizkraftwerk Nordweststadt Mainova has no majority ownership, but accepts the district heat and electricity produced there exclusively from. The biomass power plant Fechenheim generates heat and electricity from the thermal recovery of primarily green waste and waste wood. The basis of the Frankfurter power forms the coal combustion in blocks 2 and 3 of the HKW West, the largest power plant in the city.
Among the most important investments or subsidiaries on the Mainova include the NRM network services Rhein -Main GmbH, the MED Mainova Energy Services GmbH, the MSD Mainova Service Services GmbH and the SRM street lighting Rhein -Main GmbH. The approximately 1,100 employees of the NRM (share Mainova: 90%, Stadtwerke Hanau 10%) supervise, maintain and manage a total of 14,000 km of networks for electricity, natural gas, water and heat. Focus of MED ( Mainova share: 100%) are contracting and technical facility management. The MSD ( Mainova share: 100%) is responsible for metrology, billing and customer care. The SRM takes care of approximately 70,000 street lights in Frankfurt.
End of 2009, took over the Mainova together with Stadtwerke Hannover and N- ERGY just under 21% of the Thüga shares. The remaining approximately 37 % of the municipal utility Stadtwerke Holding Thüga acquired group " KOM9 " in which more than 45 municipal suppliers from all over Germany - have come together - from Aue to Wiesbaden. The Thüga shareholdings in GASAG Berlin gas Werke AG ( 37%), Südhessische in HEAG Energy Ltd ( 40%), in Stadtwerke Duisburg (20 %) and in Stadtwerke Karlsruhe (10%) were not part of the purchase. For the thus reduced Thüga a cash purchase price of approximately EUR 2.9 billion has been agreed. Mainova AG holds 33 % of the car-sharing provider book- n -drive.
The Mainova is like many other utilities in the criticism to exploit their dominant position to demand high prices. The Supreme Court had determined in 2005 that the Mainova has unlawfully denied a complex network operators to connect to their medium-voltage network. In July 2012, the dispute between the Hessian Ministry of Economics and Mainova AG have been resolved to the water prices in Frankfurt with a settlement.