Kasseler Verkehrs- und Versorgungs-GmbH

Kasseler Verkehrs- und Versorgungs-GmbH (KVV) is the municipal holding company through which the City of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany, has bundled its utility and transport businesses since 1987. Its registered office is at Königstor 3–13 in Kassel. As a holding, KVV does not itself operate most services directly; instead it coordinates a group of subsidiaries that supply the people of Kassel with gas, electricity, water and district heating, provide public transport (ÖPNV), offer telecommunications services, and operate the city's public swimming pools on behalf of the municipality. Through the operation of the Kassel waste-to-energy plant (Müllheizkraftwerk Kassel), the holding is also active in waste disposal. The company is wholly owned by the City of Kassel and is therefore a municipally owned entity rather than a listed corporation. Its managing director (Geschäftsführer) is Carsten Harkner, and it is registered at the Amtsgericht Kassel under HRB 4681. The group's balance sheet total in 2016 was 937.9 million euros, reflecting the substantial infrastructure assets held across its subsidiaries. KVV's role is essentially that of a Stadtwerke holding: it sets strategy and holds participations in operating companies that deliver essential services to households and businesses in Kassel. Its portfolio spans the classic municipal utility fields — energy, water, heat — alongside transport and leisure services, making it a central piece of local public infrastructure in northern Hesse.

Kasseler Verkehrs- und Versorgungs-GmbH was established in 1987 as a holding company by the City of Kassel, which consolidated its municipal supply and transport undertakings under a single corporate roof. The group's seat is Kassel in Hesse, Germany. The creation of such a holding was a common pattern in German municipal governance, allowing a city to bundle energy, water, transport and related services into one management structure while keeping individual operating companies focused on their respective fields. Over the following decades KVV's subsidiaries came to supply the people of Kassel with gas, electricity, water and district heating, operate public transport (ÖPNV), provide telecommunications services, and run the city's swimming pools on behalf of the municipality. The group also became active in waste disposal through the operation of the Kassel waste-to-energy plant (Müllheizkraftwerk Kassel). By 2016 the group's balance sheet total stood at 937.9 million euros, indicating the scale of the infrastructure and participations held under the holding. The company has published periodic overviews of its activities, such as "KVV im Überblick 2012" and "KVV im Überblick 2016". It remains a municipally owned holding, with Carsten Harkner serving as managing director and the company registered at the Amtsgericht Kassel under HRB 4681.

• 2016

  Group balance sheet total reaches 937.9 million euros.

• 1987

  City of Kassel consolidates its municipal supply and transport undertakings into Kasseler Verkehrs- und Versorgungs-GmbH as a holding company.

Municipal holding company providing essential utility, transport and leisure services to the City of Kassel.

• Gas supply

• Electricity supply

• Water supply

• District heating

• Public transport (ÖPNV)

• Telecommunications services

• Public swimming pools

• Waste disposal / waste-to-energy

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