District heating - optimal use of primary energy
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Total heating energy turnover declined by 4% to 7.3 billion kWh in the financial year 2010/11. This was mainly the result of developments in the Generation and Infrastructure reporting segment, where a customer of MVV Umwelt procured less steam due to production downtime. Developments in the Sales and Services and Strategic Investments reporting segments were mainly determined by district heating turnover.
We generated volume growth with industrial and commercial customers/secondary distributors; the figures here benefited from the first deliveries of district heating to Stadtwerke Speyer (48 million kWh) following the launch of operations with the new transit pipeline.
The downturn in the private and business customer business was due above all to lower district heating turnover due to weather conditions in the year under report. The increase in heating energy turnover with services customers was primarily due to the positive development in the housing contracting business.