Energie AG is committed to a safe and sustainable energy supply for present and future generations. Security of supply is the fundamental basis for general business growth, job creation and maintaining quality of life. Energie AG’s electricity, gas, heating, telecommunications and water supply services are a major driver of Upper Austria’s international competitiveness as a business location. Our Waste Management Segment offers reliable waste management services in its market areas, covering every link in the value chain at the highest technical level.
Netz OÖ operates an electricity grid consisting of 32,365 km of power lines, in addition to a 5,549 km natural gas grid. These reliable and modern grids ensure the energy supply of end consumers and power plants. The electricity grid’s supply reliability, measured in terms of service-related availability (ASIDI; Average System Interruption Duration Index) and not taking regionally exceptional events into account, was 33.03 min/a in calendar year 2017 (previous year: 37.62 min/a). Customer-related system disruption (SAIDI – System Average Interruption Duration Index) stood at 36.58 min/a (previous year: 45.61 min/a). The availability of the natural gas grid was 100% in calendar year 2017 (previous year: 100%).
For some years, Energie AG Oberösterreich Telekom GmbH (Telekom GmbH) has been working on building a comprehensive fibre-optic network in Netz OÖ’s service area. The fibre-optic network was 5,550 km long as of the end of the 2017/2018 fiscal year.
Water supply availability in the Water Segment is in excess of 99.99% on a constant basis. The number of water supply grid interruptions fluctuates from year to year between 0.2 and 0.3 cases of damage per kilometre per year (predominantly due to winter and frost). Meanwhile, there were around 0.1 cases of damage per kilometre per year in the sewerage system in the 2017/2018 fiscal year.