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Sales of Value-Added Services at the MVV Energie Group
by Target Group Area
Euro Million

 2007/2008 2006/2007

 % change
Municipal solutions
and small projects1		 110 98 +12
Industry parks and large projects1 86 83 +4
Consulting 30 27 +11
MVV Energiedienstleistungen 226 208 +9
Energy-related services at
municipal utility shareholdings		 55 55 –
Energy-related services 281 263 +7
Other value-added services/
consolidation		 -4 – –
  277 263 +5
External sales in Euro million 277 263 +5
EBIT in Euro million 20 19 +5
 
1rellocations – previous year's figures adjusted

Sustainable sales growth

Segment sales rose year-on-year by Euro 14 million to Euro 277 million (+5%). This growth was chiefly attributable to the MVV Energiedienstleistungen subgroup. The market has granted a warm reception to our contracting offerings for the real estate sector, welfare institutions, industrial and commercial companies and municipalities, which are reported in the Municipal Solutions and Small Projects division. The sales growth reported here (+12%) was largely driven by our success on the housing and real estate market. Four major savings contracting projects were implemented within the energy partnership with Berliner Energieagentur (Deutsche Oper, Moabit Prison, Berlin Children’s, Youth and Family Centre (FEZ) in Wuhlheide and 30 schools and childcare facilities in Friedrichshain). Energy savings of up to 36% have been achieved at Deutsche Oper alone. MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH will also be supplying heating energy to the Axel-Springer publishing house in Berlin and taking over the supply of cooling energy to the media company in Hamburg and Berlin until 2013.
A further promising order involves supplying heating energy to a real estate portfolio encompassing 79 properties with around 500,000 square metres. Moreover, a five-year contract to supply and optimise the heating energy at 1,400 properties has been concluded with Deutsche Immobilien Verwaltung (DIV). This success is also due to the e:duo subsidiary jointly founded with ista Deutschland GmbH.

A five-year contract to supply electricity and gas, heating and cooling energy and to assume the overall energy management for 80 hospitals across Germany has also been concluded with Europe’s largest private hospital group.

Operations were launched at a new biomass CHP plant in Pfalzgrafenweiler in May 2008. This plant works with efficient cogeneration powered by wood chips available in the region to supply heating energy and electricity to companies and private households. At a further new biomass heating plant in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, untreated forest and non-recyclable timber is used for the environmentally-friendly generation of bio-heat for Ettal Monastery and a nearby hotel. In Mertingen, MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH is investing in a biomass CHP plant together with the Bavarian State Forestry Commission (investment cost: Euro 9 million). From May 2009, wood chips are to be used in their natural state to generate around 51 GWh of steam for the dairy company Grossmolkerei Zott GmbH & Co. KG and 9.4 GWh of electricity for the public grid.

In the biogas market, MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH is investing across Germany in plants with outputs ranging from 500 kW to 1,000 kW. Operations commenced at the first biogas plant, which generates 4,600 MWh of electricity a year for the public grid, in Mechau, Sachsen-Anhalt, in January 2008. The useful heat thereby generated is supplied to an adjacent commercial company.

MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH took over the planning and project management for three building development areas with a total surface of 33 hectares and handed these over on schedule to the municipalities of Ilvesheim, Kirchheim and Sinsheim-Hilsbach. All in all, the company is managing 25 land improvement and development measures.

We have been able to further expand our activities in the Industry Parks and Large Projects division and are now represented with an extensive range of services on the market.

Of the annual sales of Euro 86 million generated in the Industry Parks and Large Projects division, Euro 59 million was attributable to Industriepark Gersthofen Servicegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG and Euro 18 million to the industrial power plant in Ludwigshafen. In July 2008, MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH launched operations at one of Germany’s largest gas-powered heating plants at Industry Park South in Ludwigshafen. This plant has an output of three times 4.3 MWe and 7 MWt and feeds 40 GWh of electricity a year into the public grid. The simultaneous generation of steam enables around 15 GWh a year of process steam to be supplied to three large industrial customers.

In April 2008, the foundation stone was laid in Gersthofen for a refuse-derived fuel power plant, in which the company is investing around Euro 30 million. From mid-2009, this will supply the twelve companies at Gersthofen Industry Park with 130 GWh a year of process steam resulting from environmentally-friendly production. In May 2008, the first fire was ignited for a refuse-derived fuel power plant at the Korbach location. From December 2009, this plant will provide the automotive supplier Continental with 113 GWh of process steam and 12.3 GWh of electricity a year.

Sales in the consulting division rose by 11% in the year under report. To strengthen its positioning in international markets, MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH has merged the consulting activities of its subsidiaries DECON Deutsche Energie-Consult Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH and MVV Consulting GmbH at MVV decon GmbH. With around 150 employees, the two companies handled more than 240 projects during the year under report and generated annual sales of Euro 25 million. Major consulting contracts were also acquired in the international consulting business in the year under report, including projects in Rumania, Abu Dhabi and the USA (please also see Major Events in the Financial Year). The subsidiary BfE, Institut für Energie und Umwelt GmbH, which operates in the German consulting business, posted sales of Euro 7.5 million.

At Euro 55 million, the sales of the value-added services businesses at the municipal utility shareholdings in Kiel, Offenbach, Ingolstadt and Köthen, including the shared service companies 24/7 United Billing GmbH, Offenbach, 24/7 Metering GmbH, Offenbach, and 24/7 IT-Services GmbH, Kiel, matched the previous year’s level.