Aktiengesellschaft | |
Traded as | WBAG: EVN |
Industry | Utilities |
Founded | 1922 |
Headquarters | Maria Enzersdorf, Austria |
Key people
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Peter Layr (CEO), Burkhard Hofer (Chairman of the supervisory board) |
Products | Electricity generation and distribution, electricity and gas trading and wholesale, water treatment, waste management, renewable energy |
Revenue | €2.752 billion (2009/10) |
€187.3 million (2009/10) | |
Profit | €207.0 million (2009/10) |
Total assets | €6.731 billion (September 2010) |
Total equity | €3.025 billion (September 2010) |
Number of employees
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8,540 (September 2010) |
Website | www.evn.at |
EVN Group is an Austrian-based producer and transporter of electricity, one of the largest in Europe having over three million customers in 14 countries. The company also operates in water treatment, natural gas supply and waste management business areas. It is the second-largest utility in Austria.
The company produced in 2006 around 3.45 billion kWh mainly from thermal power plants (68%) and renewable energy (hydro and wind) power plants (32%). EVN Group also distributed 19.2 billion kWh of electricity in Austria (37.9%), Bulgaria (37.95%) and Macedonia (24.15%).
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 sector having a total network length of 10,100 km.
Less than 14% of EVN Group shares are free float, with the state of Lower Austria holding 51% and German utility EnBW owning over 35% of the firm. EVN itself owns 12.5% of Austrian peer Verbund.
District heating plant Mödling erected 1960, gasfired
Biomass power and district heating plant Mödling, erected 2006
Europes biggest District Heating Accumulator with 50.000 cubic meter
View from the biomasse heating plant Maria Gugging
District heating transportation pipeline with a length of 31 km from Dürnrohr Power Station to Sankt Pölten