21.03.2019 - The Annual General Meeting of Kraftwerke Sarganserland AG (KSL) approved the annual financial statement for 2017/18 and the payment of a statuary dividend in the amount of 1.5% on the sharecapital of CHF 50 million. As compared to the previous year, the financial year was marked by higher precipitation and increased power production.
In financial year 2017/18, multi-year average precipitation was higher than in the previous year and reached 155% (1 650.9 mm) in the Tamina Valley and 159% (2 331.8 mm) in the Weisstannen Valley. Natural inflows from the Calfeisen and Weisstannen valleys to the Gigerwald reservoir were in line with the previous year and amounted to 143.7 million m³ (previous year 143.4 million m3), which corresponds to 4.8 times the reservoir capacity. Of these inflows, 48.1% originated from the Weisstannen Valley and 51.9% from the Calfeisen Valley.
A total of 147.2 million m³ of water were pumped from the Mapragg compensating reservoir to the Gigerwald reservoir. This corresponds to 4.9 times the reservoir capacity. In accordance to concession provisions, water had to be released into the Seez River on 29 days and into the Tamina River on 148 days.
KSL's total generation increased by 9.7% as compared to the previous year and amounted to 491.5 millionkWh – 108.9% of the 10-year average of 451.1 million kWh. After deducting transformation losses and energy for own consumption, Axpo Power AG had 488.9 million kWh available. Kraftwerke Sarganserland AG drew 218.4 million kWh from the 400-kV grid to operate the storage pumps, which corresponds to 123.3% of the 10-year average. In lieu of pump operation, KSL often used the machine groupin Mapragg to deliver ancillary services for the extra-high voltage grid (voltage stability, reserve capacity).
Annual costs at the expense of partners (energy deliveries to partners) increased by CHF 2.025 million to CHF 25.618 million as compared to the previous year. Although annual costs increased, the kilowatt-hourprice for delivered energy dropped by 0.05 cents from 5.29 cents to 5.24 cents/kWh owing to the higher production of 9.7% as compared to the previous year.
Shareholders at the 57th Annual General Meeting on 21 March 2019 appointed Jörg Huwyler, Ferdinand Riederer, Yvonne Walser Georgy, Hans-Peter Zehnder, and Michael Schärli (new) as members of the Board of Directors for a one-year term.
Kraftwerke Sarganserland AG (KSL) is a partner company of Axpo and the Canton of St. Gallen. Axpo holds 98.5% of the share capital and the Canton of St. Gallen the remaining 1.5%.
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