During its existence, it was the electric utility for Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, and parts of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse.
[1] During World War II, the German electricity industry was targeted by Allied bombers.
[1] In 1957 PreussenElektra and NWK, together with other electricity utilities, founded a nuclear energy research company Studiengesellschaft für Kernkrafte GmbH.
In 1961–1962, NWK together with the Danish utility Det Jyskfynske Elsamarbedje (ELSAM; now part of Energinet) completed the 220 kV link from Flensburg to Aabenraa in Denmark.
At the same time VEAG was sold to Hamburgische Elektricitäts-Werke AG (HEW), now 50Hertz Transmission GmbH.