WEVG Salzgitter

What WEVG Salzgitter does

WEVG Salzgitter is a privately held municipal multi-utility headquartered in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany, founded in 1940 and operating as a GmbH & Co. KG with between 11 and 50 employees. The company supplies electricity, natural gas, drinking water, and district, local, and cold local heating to residential and business customers exclusively within the Salzgitter region. As of October 2023, the entire electricity portfolio has been transitioned to 100% renewable supply (Ökostrom). Network infrastructure is operated by Avacon Netz GmbH, a separate entity, meaning WEVG Salzgitter functions as an energy and water retailer and heat supplier rather than a network operator.

Name

WEVG Salzgitter

Legal name

WEVG Salzgitter GmbH & Co. KG

Website

https://wevg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1940

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WEVG Salzgitter is a privately held multi-utility serving residential and business customers in Salzgitter, Germany, providing electricity (100% renewable since 2023), natural gas, drinking water, and district heating, plus supplementary e-mobility and photovoltaic services. Founded 1940.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Salzgitter

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Electricity Supply: Supply of electricity to residential and business customers in Salzgitter. Since October 2023, all electricity is renewable (Ökostrom). Revenue generated through consumption-based tariffs.
2. Natural Gas Supply: Supply of natural gas for heating and cooking to households and businesses in the Salzgitter region.
3. Drinking Water Supply: Supply of drinking water to all districts of Salzgitter. Water is described as soft and meeting German drinking water regulations.
4. Heating Energy Supply: Supply of heating energy through district heating (Fernwärme), local heating (Nahwärme), and cold local heating (Kalte Nahwärme) systems.
5. E-Mobility and Photovoltaic Services: Services including wallbox installation, e-charging, and photovoltaic systems for customers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

WEVG Salzgitter GmbH & Co. KG is a regional multi-utility company supplying electricity, natural gas, drinking water, and heating energy to households and businesses in the city of Salzgitter, Germany. Since October 2023, all electricity supplied is renewable (Ökostrom). The company complements these four core products with e-mobility solutions, wallbox installations, photovoltaic systems, and emergency power services, and provides energy consulting and a 24-hour emergency service.

Product overview

WEVG Salzgitter GmbH & Co. KG is a regional energy utility company providing essential utility services to the city of Salzgitter, Germany. The company operates as a multi-utility provider offering a portfolio of four core energy products: electricity (Strom), natural gas (Erdgas), drinking water (Wasser), and heating/thermal energy (Wärme). Since October 2023, all electricity supply has transitioned to pure eco-friendly renewable energy (Ökostrom). The product portfolio is complemented by supplementary services including e-mobility solutions (charging stations and wallboxes), photovoltaics with storage, emergency power, and lighting solutions. A digital customer portal enables online contract management, meter reading submission, and service requests. The company also publishes a quarterly customer magazine 'tag und nacht' and issues annual ESG reports documenting sustainability performance. WEVG Salzgitter positions itself as a locally rooted partner for economic energy solutions, serving both private and business customers in the Salzgitter region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• tag und nacht: Quarterly customer magazine published by WEVG Salzgitter, distributed to customers.

Products and services

• Strom (Electricity) Electricity supply service for residential and business customers in Salzgitter. Since October 1, 2023, all electricity products consist of pure eco-friendly electricity (Ökostrom), with tariffs and an individual price calculator available online.
• Dynamischer Stromtarif (Dynamic Electricity Tariff)

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SALWE (Wärmeprojekt)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022The SALWE heating project is a key strategic initiative launched in 2022 focused on sustainable heating solutions for Salzgitter. This project represents a fundamental transformation of the company's heating energy supply toward sustainability.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• EWE AG: Regional German energy and telecommunications utility serving parts of northern and eastern Lower Saxony; directly comparable in multi-utility supply (electricity, gas, heat) and customer-base structure.
• N-ERGIE AG: Nuremberg municipal multi-utility with electricity, gas, heat, and water supply; comparable German Stadtwerk model with similar sustainability and district heating transformation focus.
• Mainova AG: Frankfurt municipal multi-utility offering electricity, gas, water, and heating; same Stadtwerk product portfolio structure with strong local-monopoly franchise model and district heating operations.
• Stadtwerke Braunschweig GmbH: Closest geographic municipal utility to WEVG, also headquartered in Lower Saxony ~25 km from Salzgitter; offers electricity, gas, water, and heating with comparable multi-utility structure and customer scale, directly comparable in operating model.
• Stadtwerke Wolfsburg AG: Another nearby Lower Saxony municipal utility serving a comparable industrial city; multi-utility supply model (electricity, gas, heat, water) with similar scale and sustainability positioning.
• enercity (Stadtwerke Hannover AG): Major Lower Saxony municipal multi-utility offering electricity, gas, heat, and e-mobility — same Stadtwerk operating model, same regulatory framework, larger scale (~1 million customers) but directly comparable product portfolio.

Broad incumbents

• E.ON SE: One of Europe's largest utilities with deep retail and municipal-utility operations across Germany; competes broadly in supply and energy services, and operates many former municipal utility concessions, setting the competitive landscape WEVG operates within.
• Stadtwerke München (SWM): Largest German municipal utility (Munich), with the same city-concessioned multi-utility operating model — illustrates the scaled version of WEVG's business, including renewable electricity, district heating, and e-mobility at much larger scale.

Others

• Avacon AG: Network operator serving the Salzgitter region (explicitly mentioned as WEVG's grid/network partner in contact records); they own and run the distribution grids that WEVG supplies over, making them an essential ecosystem counterpart rather than a retail competitor.
• Thüga Holding GmbH: German holding company that consolidates independent municipal utilities under a shared platform; relevant as a potential partnership/aggregation counterpart that smaller Stadtwerke like WEVG often participate in for procurement, IT, and energy services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WEVG_Salzgitter
• Facebookfacebook.com/WEVGSZ

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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