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Market study waste water disposal

in Germany Investments – Privatisation – Strategies – Trends

Cologne/Germany, April 2009

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ecoprog GmbH

The market for waste water disposal in Germany

During the last years, the situation in waste water disposal changed remarkably: So far, legal

regulations (EEC Directive for Urban Waste Water Treatment) determined the sector. In the future,

waste water disposers have to face up to new tasks – especially to the replacement needs of the

waste water infrastructure, the demographic change and the manners of private households.

Investments in this field will amount to 4 billion Euros a year from 2009 to 2015.

Furthermore, the trend of privatising sewage networks and/or waste water treatment plants does

not stop. Since 1990, private companies were integrated in the waste water disposal of more than

40 German cities and municipalities, which affects more than 9 million inhabitants. This situation

will apply to a further 3 million people until 2015.

In the light of these developments the company ecoprog GmbH analysed the market for waste

water disposal in detail. We collected and evaluated data on the operators of sewerage systems

and waste water treatment plants. Additionally, we interviewed the operators concerning their

investment behaviour and their attitude towards privatisation.

The up to date market study includes this in-depth survey as well as our market knowledge and

offers figures, facts, estimations and trends in the German market for waste water disposal. This

market study is of interest for disposers, suppliers, operators, business associations, research

institutes and consultants.

The market study on waste water disposal in Germany 2009/2010 includes the following

specific information:

A detailed analysis of the most important political, economical and managerial trends in

waste water disposal.

A precise profile of the current and future investment volume up to and including 2015,

based on a transparent and comprehensible methodology.

The presentation of more than 500 operators of sewerage systems for all cities and

municipalities with more than 25,000 inhabitants, including essential operational data and

contact addresses.

The description of almost 600 waste water treatment plants with a capacity of at least

50,000 population equivalents, including operators, operational data and contact

addresses.

The presentation of essential characteristics in the segment of waste water disposal on

federal states level.

The study is only available in German from € 3,000 plus V.A.T.

Contact:

Mathias Zuber

ecoprog GmbH

Tel. +49 221 788 03 88 - 13

Fax +49 221 788 03 88 - 10

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Content

Foreword 9

Management Summary 11

1 Scope 15

2 Organisational form of waste water disposers 19

2.1. Organisational forms of municipal service provision 19

2.2. Public Private Partnerships (PPP) 21

3 General framework / market factors 25

3.1. Legislation: Higher requests and more self-monitoring 25

3.2. Declining amount of waste water causes damages and expenses 26

3.3. Out of date waste water infrastructure increasingly in need of rehabilitation 30

3.4. Waste water fees: Investments hold steady 31

3.5. Financial difficulties of municipalities advantage PPPs 34

3.6. Ambiguous public procurement law continues to produce insecurity 36

4 Stock 39

5 The market for waste water disposal in Germany 47

6 Regional markets 53

6.1. Baden-Württemberg 53

6.2. Bavaria 89

6.3. Berlin 119

6.4. Brandenburg 123

6.5. Bremen 132

6.6. Hamburg 136

6.7. Hesse 139

6.8. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 158

6.9. Lower Saxony 165



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6.10. North Rhine-Westphalia 195

6.11. Rhineland-Palatinate 267

6.12. Saarland 278

6.13. Saxony 284

6.14. Saxony-Anhalt 296

6.15. Schleswig-Holstein 306

6.16. Thuringia 317

7 Competition 327

7.1. E.ON AG 327

7.2. Remondis AG & Co KG 328

7.3. RWE AG 329

7.4. GDF Suez S.A. 331

7.5. Veolia Environment S.A. 333

7.6. Gelsenwasser AG 334

8 Trends 337

8.1. New sludge incineration capacities needed 337

8.2. Cross-border leasing deals negatively affect municipal budgets 341

Methodology / Data 345

Glossary 347

Register: Operators of canalisations 349

Register: Waste water treatment plants 359



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Table of figures

Figure 1: Organisational forms of municipal waste water disposal 20

Figure 2: Cooperation model 22

Figure 3: Operator model 22

Figure 4: Operational management model 23

Figure 5: Concession model 24

Figure 6: Time frame for the most important EU directives in the segment of waste water 25

Figure 7: Population development in Germany 1991-2010 27

Figure 8: Regional population development in Germany 28

Figure 9: Annual water consumption per capita in Germany 1991-2006 29

Figure 10: Index-based development of household sizes in Germany 29

Figure 11: Age of sewerage systems in Germany 30

Figure 12: Implementation of waste water fees according to size of settlement 32

Figure 13: Average cost structure of waste water disposal 33

Figure 14: Development of municipal ways and means advance 34

Figure 15: Debt level of municipalities in Germany 35

Figure 16: Organisational forms of waste water disposal companies 39

Figure 17: The ten largest PPPs in the field of waste water disposal 40

Figure 18: PPPs among the largest waste water disposal companies 40

Figure 19: Populations' level of connection to the public canalisation 41

Figure 20: Type of existing sewers in Germany 42

Figure 21: Age of sewerage systems according to type of canal 43

Figure 22: Number of waste water treatment plants in Germany 43

Figure 23: Treatment capacity in the federal states 44

Figure 24: The 20 largest waste water treatment plants in Germany 44

Figure 25: Sludge disposition in Germany 45

Figure 26: Sludge disposal in the federal states 46

Figure 27: Development of investments in public waste water disposal 47

Figure 28: Interview of waste water disposal appointees concerning investment behaviour 48

Figure 29: Interview of waste water disposal appointees concerning economic stimulus packages 49

Figure 30: Investment needs of the municipal waste water disposal until 2020 50



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Figure 31: Interview of waste water disposal appointees concerning investment behaviour 50

Figure 32: Privatisation of public waste water companies in population equivalents 51

Figure 33: Age of sewerage system in Baden-Württemberg 54

Figure 34: Age of sewerage system in Bavaria 90

Figure 35: Age of sewerage system in Berlin 120

Figure 36: Age of sewerage system in Brandenburg 124

Figure 37: Age of sewerage system in Bremen 133

Figure 38: Age of sewerage system in Hamburg 137

Figure 39: Age of sewerage system in Hesse 140

Figure 40: Age of sewerage system in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 159

Figure 41: Age of sewerage system in Lower Saxony 166

Figure 42: Age of sewerage system in North Rhine-Westfalia 196

Figure 43: Age of sewerage system in Rhineland-Palatinate 268

Figure 44: Age of canalisation in Saarland 279

Figure 45: Age of sewerage system in Saxony 285

Figure 46: Age of sewerage system in Saxony-Anhalt 297

Figure 47: Age of sewerage system in Schleswig-Holstein 307

Figure 48: Age of sewerage system in Thuringia 318

Figure 49: Subsidiaries of E.ON AG with holdings in waste water disposers 328

Figure 50: PPPs of Remondis Aqua GmbH in the segment of waste water disposal 329

Figure 51: PPPs of RWE AG in the segment of waste water disposal 330

Figure 52: PPPs of GDF Suez S.A. in the segment of waste water disposal 332

Figure 53: PPPs of Veolia Wasser GmbH in the waste water segment 333

Figure 54: PPPs of Gelsenwasser AG in the waste water segment 335

Figure 55: Development of sludge disposal 2001-2007 337

Figure 56: Incineration plants for municipal sludge 338

Figure 57: Exemplary system of Cross-border leasing 342

Figure 58: CBL projects in the fields of water and waste water in Germany 342

Extract: Chapter 3, General framework / market factors

The market for waste water disposal in Germany 25


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3.1 Legislation: Higher requests and more self-monitoring

The most important environmental legislation for the disposal of waste water are the EEC Directive

for Urban Waste Water Treatment (91/271/EWG) and the EU Water Framework Directive

(2000/60/EG).

The EEC Directive for Urban Waste Water Treatment was passed in 1991 and ascertained

specific minimum requirements for the collection, conduction and purification of municipal waste

water. According to the directive, settlement areas with a volume of waste water of more than

2,000 population equivalents should be equipped with a canalisation. In areas with more than

10,000 population equivalents, the treatment of waste water is supposed to be at least two-staged.

Further special rules were introduced for especially sensitive regions. The directive regulated the

disposal of sludge as well.

These minimum requirements were supposed to be fulfilled completely up to 31 December 2005.

Germany reached them almost nationwide. Consequently, the EU did not admonish Germany

because of a noncompliance of these legal regulations, as was the case for several other

countries. Hence, there is no backlog demand in the federal states in connection with this directive.

Figure 6: Time frame for the most important EU directives in the segment of waste water

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

1991: Verabschiedung der Kommunalabwasserrichtlinie

2005: Erfüllung der Vorgaben aus der Kommunalabwasserrichtlinie

2015: Vorgaben der WRRL müssen erreicht sein

2000: Verabschiedung der WRRL

2009: Aufstellung von Maßnahmenprogrammen zur Umsetzung der WRRL

2012: Umsetzung der Maßnahmenprogramme für WRRL

Kommunalabwasserrichtlinie

Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (WRRL)

Illustration: ecoprog

The EU Water Framework Directive was passed in 2000 and established pollutant limits in order

to bring, with the implementation of an integrated water protection, Europe's watercourses into a

proper condition until 2015. In contrast to the Directive for Urban Waste Water Treatment, this one

did not specify concrete measures for the realisation. The Directive rather determined concrete

targets, which have to be observed in respect of condition and usage of bodies of water.

Extract: Chapter 6, Regional markets, Saxony



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6.13 Saxony

Inhabitants [Million] 4.27 Area [km2] 18,416

Number of municipalities 505 Population density [inhabitant/km2] 232

Amount of waste water per year

[Million m3]

167.3 Length of sewerage system [km] 23,260

Level of connection to

- public canalisation [%]

- public waste water treatment plants [%]

88 82

Waste water treatment:

Number of waste water treatment plants

Population equivalents [Million]

791

4.5

Number of operators of canalisations 265 Amount of sludge [t TS] 92,904

We expect an investment of around two billion Euros in the waste water disposal in Saxony for the

period of 2009-2015.

In Saxony, there is not only the oldest canalisation in the East German federal states, but also one

of the lowest levels of connection to the public sewerage system and waste water treatment plants.

Consequently, the bigger part of this investment will go to the reconstruction and new building of

the canalisation. For an increase of the currently around 82 per cent (level of connection to waste

water treatment plants), around 2,000 km of additional sewer pipes would have to be built.

However, one often abandons the option of connection and relies on more cost-effective,

peripheral solutions.

The decline of population in the course of the demographic chance will lead to the need of

modifying the sewerage system in many places (diminution of sewer bores etc.). The abrasion of

the constructions is a lot higher when the flow is too low. Consequently, the sewers have a period

of use that is averagely much shorter.

Since the German reunification, private companies undertake waste water disposal in several

Saxon cities. Gelsenwasser AG1 supplies the most inhabitants: In Dresden, the company operates

the drainage for almost 500,000 inhabitants and a waste water treatment plant with a population

equivalent of 650,000.

1 Gelsenwasser AG is in municipal possession, however, it can be considered as belonging to the sphere of privatisation because of its reflationary business policy with a private legal structure.

Extract: Chapter 6, Regional markets, North Rhine Westphalia



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Operators of canalisations in municipalities with more than 25,000 inhabitants:

Köln

Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln

Mr. Otto Schaaf

Ostmerheimer Straße 555

51109 Köln

Tel.: +49 221 22125850

Fax: +49 221 22124600

[email protected]

http://www.steb-koeln.de

Company data

Type of business: AöR

Category of operators: municipal

Shareholder: 100% city of Köln

Inhabitants supplied with disposal: 983,347

Length of sewerage system (km): 2,385

Level of fees

Split fees

Fee for waste water (€/m3): 1.32

Fee for rainwater (€/m2): 1.18

Dortmund

Tiefbauamt Dortmund -Stadtentwässerung

Mr. Dr. Christian Falk (Head of the department for

urban drainage)

Königswall 14

44173 Dortmund

Tel.: +49 231 50 22 663

Fax: +49 231 5026481

[email protected]

http://tiefbauamt.dortmund.de

Company data

Type of business: municipal undertaking

Category of operators: municipal

Shareholder: 100% city of Dortmund



Level of fees

Split fees



Essen

Stadtwerke Essen

Rüttenscheider Str. 27-37

45128 Essen

Tel.: +49 201 8001219

Fax: +49 201 8000

[email protected]

http://www.stadtwerke-essen.de

Company data

Type of business: AG

Category of operators: PPP

Shareholders: 51% Essener Versorgungs- und

Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (EVV) (100% subsidiary of

the city of Essen); 29% RWE Rhein-Ruhr AG; 20%

Thüga AG



Level of fees

Split fees



Extract: Chapter 6, Regional markets, Thuringia



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Waste water treatment plants with more than 50,000 population equivalents:

Entwässerungsbetrieb der

Landeshauptstadt Erfurt

Löberwallgraben 16

99096 Erfurt

Tel.: +49 361 6553101

Fax: +49 361 6553109

Location of plant: Erfurt

Mr. Pasemann

Tel.: +49 361 6553700

Size in population equivalents (inhabitants): 375.000

Treatment: Activation, nitrification, denitrification,

elimination of phosphor, heated digestor, centrifugal

OTWA Ostthüringer Wasser und

Abwasser GmbH

Gaswerkstraße 10

07546 Gera

Tel.: +49 365 48700

Fax: +49 365 4870814

Location of plant: Gera

Herr Brückmann Gera

Tel.: +49 365 4870561



elimination of phosphor, heated digestor, centrifugal

Kommunalunternehmen Coburger

Entsorgungs- u. Baubetrieb (CEB)

Uferstraße 5

96540 Coburg

Tel.: +49 9561 89 2703

Fax: +49 9561 89 1739

[email protected]

http://www.stadt.coburg.de/ceb

Location of plant: Coburg-Scheuerfeld

Mr. Grübel

Schustersdamm

96450 Coburg-Scheuerfeld

Tel.: +49 9561 891740


Treatment: Activation, elimination of phosphor

Wasser- und Abwasserzweckverband

Gotha und Landkreisgemeinden

Kindleber Straße 188

99867 Gotha

Tel.: +49 3621 387 – 30

Fax: +49 3621 387 435

Location of plant: Gotha

Heutalsweg

99867 Gotha

Tel.: +49 3621 853615



elimination of phosphor, heated digestor, chamber filter

press

JenaWasser - Zweckverband der Städte

Jena, Camburg und Umlandgemeinden

Rudolstädter Straße 39

07745 Jena

Tel.: +49 3641 688 480

Fax: +49 3641 688 485

Location of plant: Jena

Mr. Stubenrauch

Tel.: +49 3641 688656



elimination of phosphor, heated digestor, sludge silo

Extract: Chapter 7, Competition, Veolia Environment S.A.



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7.5 Veolia Environment S.A.

The environmental service provider Veolia Environment S.A. operates internationally and is based

in Paris. The corporate group employs around 320,000 people world-wide and generates an

annual turnover of ca 32.6 billion Euros. Major business areas are the segments of water/waste

water, disposal, energy and transport.

In the German field of waste water Veolia Environment S.A. is represented by Veolia Wasser

GmbH. With 7,850 employees, the company generates an annual turnover of 1.23 billion Euros.

However, only a fractional amount of this turnover is generated in the segment of waste water. All

in all, Veolia Wasser disposes the waste water of around 4.6 million people, whereas the stake in

the Berliner Wasserbetriebe account for 3.4 million of this number. In 1999, Veolia purchased

24,95 per cent of the company's share.

Figure 53: PPPs of Veolia Wasser GmbH in the segment of waste water

Veolia Wasser GmbH

Bad Münder

Abwasserentsorgungs-GmbH

MIDEWA

Wasserversorgungs-gesellschaft in

Mitteldeutschland mbH

Berlinwasser Holding

AG

OTWA

Ostthüringer Wasser und Abwasser GmbH

Stadtentwässerung

Braunschweig GmbH

OEWA Wasser und

Abwasser GmbH

74,9% Stadtwerke Weißwasser

GmbH

Stadtwerke Görlitz AG74,9%

25,1%

50% 50%

49%AZV Westliche Mulde

AZV Elbaue/Heiderand

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24,95%74,95%100%

Abwasserentsorgung

Schönebeck GmbH

49%

MHWA

Mittelhessische Wasser und Abwasser GmbH

100%

Kommunale

Wasserwerke Grimma-Geithain GmbH

49%

Source: Veolia Wasser GmbH, Illustration: ecoprog

Extract: Register: Canalisation operators

The market for waste water treatment plants 349


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Register: Canalisation operators

Aachen 175

Aalen 43

Achim 154

Ahaus 198

Ahlen 190

Ahrensburg 282

Albstadt 45

Alsdorf 194

Altenburg 292

Amberg 78

Andernach 247

Ansbach 79

Arnsberg 184

Arnstadt 293

Aschaffenburg 76

Aschersleben 275

Augsburg 74

Aurich 150

Backnang 49

Bad Hersfeld 125

Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe 121

Bad Honnef 213

Bad Kreuznach 246

Bad Nauheim 125

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 247

Bad Oeynhausen 192

Bad Salzuflen 190

Bad Vilbel 124

Bad Zwischenahn 156

Baden-Baden 44

Baesweiler 208

Balingen 50

Bamberg 76

Barsinghausen 151

Baunatal 125

Bautzen 262

Bayreuth 76

Beckum 199

Bensheim 122

Bergheim 187

Bergisch Gladbach 180

Bergkamen 191

Berliner Wasserbetriebe 102

Bernau bei Berlin 107

Bernburg (Saale) 274

Biberach an der Riß 50

Bielefeld 174

Bietigheim-Bissingen 47

Böblingen 45

Bocholt 185

Bochum 173

Bonn 174

Borken 197

Bornheim 193

Bottrop 179

Bramsche 153

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