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Secure Networks, Smart Infrastructure

SWK Electricity Network

Together, we ensure a safe and reliable electricity supply. We are your trusted partner for the planning, implementation and long-term value retention of your installations.

Everything you need to know about our electricity network

We provide you with all the information you need to know about SWK’s electricity network.

Grid operator (VNB): SWK Stadtwerke Kaiserslautern Versorgungs-AG
Grid operator number: 990032100005

Network services

Your point of contact from planning through to construction and maintenance.

Network Infrastructure & Plant Engineering

The foundation of your electricity supply

We deliver energy safely to its destination – whether to transformer stations, local distribution networks or complex low-

and medium-voltage installations.

From the initial planning phase through to professional construction and long-term maintenance, you receive all services from a single source – for a network you can rely on completely.

  • Substations & Local Networks
  • Low- & Medium-Voltage Networks
  • Local network operations management

Data and Communications Technology

High-speed infrastructure for tomorrow

The future is digital – and we’re laying the foundations for it.
We install high-performance fibre-optic connections
and bespoke control cabling.
From precise installation right through to the final acceptance test, we ensure you achieve maximum data throughput.
Should you encounter problems with connections or signal weaknesses, we offer long-term solutions with a guarantee of success.
We support you from planning right through to implementation and ensure long-term customer satisfaction.

  • Fibre-optic & control
    cables

Measurement Technology, Protection Technology & Diagnostics

Detecting faults before breakdowns occur

Maximum network stability through high-tech analysis.

Using our state-of-the-art cable testing vehicle, we locate faults

with millimetre precision, whilst our protection and measurement technology

protects your medium-voltage systems from overload.

We calculate, test and monitor – to ensure absolute security of supply.

Measurement technology in utility networks:
  • Power quality measurements
  • Load flow measurements
  • Grid compatibility calculations
Cable testing van service:
  • Fault location (low and medium voltage)
  • Testing for installation and insulation faults
  • Determination of cable depth, position and length
  • Cable scanning & cable identification
Protection technology (medium voltage):
  • Parameterisation
  • Commissioning
  • Testing
  • Relay maintenance
  • Protection concepts (including short-circuit and load-flow calculations)

Mains connection

Would you like to have a new mains connection installed for your home, business or property, or would you like to change your existing mains connection?

Consumption facilities & decentralised generation facilities

You can find all the information on consumption facilities and decentralised generation facilities that are subject to notification or require authorisation on a separate page.

Construction Cost Subsidy (BKZ)

In accordance with Section 11 of the NAV, a construction cost subsidy is charged to the connection holder to partially cover the costs necessary for the construction and reinforcement of local distribution systems in accordance with economically efficient operational management.

Technical specifications and connection requirements for grid connection

You can find all the technical information relating to grid connection on a separate page.

General and Contractual Terms and Conditions for Grid Connection

You can find all the information on the general and contractual terms and conditions for grid connection on a separate page.

Electricity Grid Access: In accordance with Section 20 of the Energy Supply Act (EnWG), electricity network operators must grant everyone objectively justified, non-discriminatory access to the grid and publish the terms and conditions – including model contracts – for such access on the internet.

Network access is
administered in accordance with the Electricity Network Access Regulation and the associated network access contracts.

Appendix A – You can find the SWK price list here
Appendix A – You can find the Gemeindewerke Weidenthal price list here

Appendix b – The contact details sheet for network users and network operators can be found here

Access to metering points

You can find everything you need to know about access to metering points in the metering points section of our website.

Universal electricity supplier

Under Section 36 of the Energy Supply Act (EnWG), operators of general supply energy networks are obliged to determine the basic supplier for the next three calendar years every three years, with effect from 1 July, commencing on 1 July 2006. The basic supplier is the company that supplies the largest number of domestic customers within a general supply network area.

Contact

Team SWK Netzbetreiber