2005 - 2006 - Pinsent Masons Water Yearbook 2012

AUSTRIA PART 3 (ii): COMPANY ANALYSIS: LOCAL/REGIONAL PLAYERS
Austria
Energie Ag
Energie Oberösterreich AG is the regional power utility serving Upper Austria. It is 75% held by the
regional government, with EVN holding 9.3%. In December 2003, Energie’s Energie AG Bohemia
acquired AWG’s remaining water interests in the Czech Republic for €115 million. Energie is
concentrating on developing its water activities in Austria and the Czech Republic, but may also seek
to expand into Poland and Hungary.
Energie, profit and loss account
Y/E 30/09 (€ million) 2002 2003 2004
Revenues 544.6 601.3 566.7
Operating profits 45.3 48.6 79.6
Net profits 24.2 59.4 80.5
Water – potable (million m 3 ) N/A N/A 45.4
Water – waste (million m 3 ) N/A N/A 34.6
Water – sales N/A N/A 32.2
Water – operating profit N/A N/A 1.2
In Austria, Energie holds two companies: OOE Landeswasserversorgungsunternehmen AG (LWU,
98% share) and WDL Wasserdienstleistung GmbH (WDL, 35% share). LWU serves 29 municipalities
with 130,000 inhabitants. The total amount of drinking water supplied during the 2003 business year
was about 6.2 million m 3 . From 2007, a water transfer project to Burghausen in Bavaria (Germany)
will supply a total of up to 1.5 million m 3 of drinking water per year.
Energie, populations served
Country Water Sewerage Total
Austria 130,000 0 130,000
Czech Republic 395,000 395,000 395,000
Grand Total 525,000 395,000 525,000
Czech Republic
1995 South Bohemia 15 year concession 340,000 water & sewerage
Vodovy a Kanalizace Jizni Cechy (VAKJC), is based in Ceske Budejovice and serves 340
municipalities. VAKJC was privatised in 1994 and AWG of the UK built up a 95.2% stake over the
next five years. VAKJC had revenues of €40.5 million in 2002, providing 36 million m 3 of water. A
further 120,000 are served through bulk water supplies.
2000 Beroun Asset ownership 55,000 water & sewerage
AWG acquired 58.3% of Severomoravske Berounske Vodovy in 2000. SBV owns 30% of the asset
owning entity. Beroun is adjacent to Prague. The company had revenues of €4.8 million in 2002,
providing 3.1 million m 3 of drinking water and treating 4.2 million m 3 of wastewater.
Contact Details
Name: Energie AG
Address: PO Box 298, Boehmerwaldstrasse 3, A-4021 Linz, Austria.
Web: www.energieag.at
Leo Windtner (Chairman, Board of Management)
Werner Steinecker (Board of Management)
Roland Plumberger (Board of Management)
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