E‑mobility and green power at Wilopark

Now the Dort­mund-based tech­nol­o­gy spe­cial­ist is tak­ing the next step towards sus­tain­abil­i­ty. By the end of July, Wilo will have launched its elec­tro­mo­bil­i­ty con­cept at Wilopark with 108 charg­ing points at a total of 57 e‑charging sta­tions. Green elec­tric­i­ty is used for charg­ing at pur­chase price.

Mobil­i­ty is being rethought. All experts agree that it must be made more envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly in the future. With more cli­mate pro­tec­tion and less depen­dence on fos­sil fuels, elec­tro­mo­bil­i­ty is an impor­tant top­ic for Ger­man indus­try. And the advan­tages of elec­tric dri­ving are clear: the dri­ve is emis­sion-free and makes a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to reduc­ing CO2. At the same time, this requires a change in social think­ing — on the part of every indi­vid­ual, as well as munic­i­pal­i­ties and companies.

In order to reduce the traf­fic-relat­ed bur­den on peo­ple and the envi­ron­ment, the com­pa­ny is pro­vid­ing new impe­tus with a mobil­i­ty con­cept at its Dort­mund head­quar­ters. From Fri­day, July 09, 2021, 20 charg­ing points will ini­tial­ly be avail­able, and from the end of July green elec­tric­i­ty can then be obtained from 57 charg­ing points, each with one or two charg­ing points — and this can be done con­ve­nient­ly for employ­ees and vis­i­tors, for exam­ple via roam­ing or PayPal.

“We have devel­oped an explic­it sus­tain­abil­i­ty strat­e­gy based on our cor­po­rate strat­e­gy in com­bi­na­tion with rel­e­vant top­ics. One of our goals here is to reduce our eco­log­i­cal foot­print, nat­u­ral­ly also at our oth­er sites. Mobil­i­ty has become indis­pens­able for us. It serves our sup­ply needs and brings peo­ple togeth­er. With the help of elec­tro­mo­bil­i­ty, we have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to com­bine this respon­si­bly toward peo­ple and nature in the future.”

- Georg Weber, Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer and Mem­ber of the Board of Management

Refueling with green electricity at purchase price

The charg­ing sta­tions are pow­ered exclu­sive­ly by green elec­tric­i­ty, which is charged on at the pur­chase price. For employ­ees, this price is fixed in 2021 and amounts to 0.24 euros/kWh for the stan­dard AC charg­ing sta­tions. Intel­li­gent load man­age­ment ensures that the green elec­tric­i­ty fed into the grid is used effi­cient­ly, thus avoid­ing expen­sive peak loads. Sus­tain­abil­i­ty is an inte­gral part of the com­pa­ny’s strat­e­gy, and so a ful­ly com­pre­hen­sive sus­tain­abil­i­ty con­cept was already tak­en into account dur­ing the plan­ning of the Wilopark.

For exam­ple, a large part of the pri­ma­ry ener­gy demand can be cov­ered by the 6,000 square meters of solar pan­els: about 10% of the total elec­tric­i­ty con­sump­tion and 70% of the base load in sum­mer are gen­er­at­ed by the pho­to­volta­ic sys­tem. “We attach great impor­tance to cli­mate pro­tec­tion, espe­cial­ly at our own pro­duc­tion sites. The park is the largest invest­ment project in our com­pa­ny his­to­ry and sets new stan­dards in ener­gy effi­cien­cy. Here, we are already pro­duc­ing in a cli­mate-neu­tral man­ner and, inci­den­tal­ly, also using our own inno­v­a­tive solu­tions. By 2025, we will have cli­mate-neu­tral pro­duc­tion at all our main pro­duc­tion sites world­wide,” explains Weber.