Horizontal and vertical integration
EVN divides its operational activities in an energy and an environmental services segment, focusing its efforts on implementing expansion projects in these core areas.
However, both segments are not isolated from each other on an operational level, but enable valuable synergies within the context of a horizontal business model, designed to promote know-how transfer within the context of project implementation, coordinated market penetration and energy procurement.
Cost savings can also be realised by coordinating the timing of pipeline and transmission line construction for electricity, gas, wastewater and drinking water. In the Energy segment, EVN covers all important steps in the value added chain in Lower Austria (vertical integration). This model will be successively extended to the newly entered markets in Southeastern Europe. Initial measures to achieve this goal were carried out in the 2007/08 financial year. In the Environmental Services segment, EVN takes advantage of a joint customer base for water, wastewater and waste incineration projects.