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Declaration of accessibility
Declaration on accessibility
GKS-Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Schweinfurt GmbH endeavors to make its website accessible in accordance with the Bavarian E-Government Ordinance (BayEGovV).
This declaration on accessibility applies to www.gks-sw.de.
Status of compliance with the requirements
This website is partially compatible with BayBITV, BITV2.0, EN 301549 and WCAG 2.2 due to the following incompatibilities.
Non-accessible content
The content listed below does not currently fully comply with the current state of accessibility according to the exception of disproportionate burden under Article 5 of EU Directive 2016/2102:
- Content in sign language
- Content in plain language
- Accessible documents in pdf
Creation of this accessibility statement
This declaration was drawn up on 24.07.2024 in accordance with Article 3(1) of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1523 - OP: a, Self-assessment.
Feedback and contact details
You can notify us of any deficiencies with regard to compliance with the accessibility requirements at the e-mail address
Responsible for accessibility and the processing of notifications received via the feedback mechanism is
GKS-Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Schweinfurt GmbH
Public Relations
Dr. Marcel Strätz
Hafenstraße 30
97424 Schweinfurt
E-mail:
Enforcement procedure
As part of an enforcement procedure, you have the option of submitting an online application to the enforcement body to check compliance with accessibility requirements.
Contact details of the enforcement body
State Office for Digitization, Broadband and Surveying
IT Service Center of the Free State of Bavaria
Enforcement and monitoring body for barrier-free information technology
St.-Martin-Straße 47
81541 Munich
E-mail:
Internet: www.ldbv.bayern.de/digitalisierung/bitv.html
Sustainability
Sustainability is important to GKS. In order to provide the public, and therefore you, with an overview and objective review of our sustainability strategy, GKS voluntarily meets a high reporting standard.
GKS has been reporting in accordance with the criteria of the German Sustainability Code (DNK) since 2017.
Our current DNK declaration of conformity
Our DNK sustainability business card
In addition, the economic, environmental and social dimensions are considered equally and simultaneously within the company in accordance with the sustainability principle. This is also reflected in our reporting. In addition to an annual report, GKS publishes an environmental statement and a social report every year.
Our reports
Annual report:
Environmental statement (incl. emissions report according to § 23 of the 17th BImSchV):
Umwelterklärung-2024 (Daten von 2024).pdf
Social report:
Sozialbericht-2024 (Daten von 2023).pdf
Energy Section
In the beginning of the 1980s increasing environmental requirements imposes by German environmental legislation forced our industrial shareholders to take actions with respect to their energy production. There were two alternatives: to revamp the old, small plants that each shareholder owned by himself or to join together and to build a new, bigger central plant.
For ecological and economical reasons a central plant had more advantages. Because the shareholders (a public-private-partnership of local industry and local authorities) were experienced in the combustion of domestic coal they decided to erect a coal combustion facility. In 1990 the combined heat and power plant was commissioned with a high efficient flue-gas cleaning system.
Waste Section
The national and regional planning bodies made the decision of erecting a waste-to-energy plant for the region Main-Rhön in the area of Schweinfurt. The main emphasis was put on the reliability of the waste recycling. Therefore three lines of incineration were installed with a throughput capacity of 8 tones per hour each.
Within the scope of the legislation other local authorities in the region associated as company shareholders. Today about 1.1 million people are connected to the environmentally-friendly thermal recycling system and provide their waste for the production of high-efficiency energy by GKS - Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Schweinfurt GmbH.
Emission values for the plant can be found on the website of the official Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt (LfU) (Bavarian State Office for Environment).