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2008 I 2009 Sustainability Report 

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2008 I 2009 Sustainability Report 

Photo story 

Our photographer Volker Dautzenberg spent time with representatives 

of important interest groups - and took his camera along. The selected 

pictures are designed to symbolise typical everyday situations of 

the people he talked to and are therefore not always related to the 

adjacent texts. The following agreed to be profiled in this way: Jürgen 

Koß, EnBW employee, works council member and elected local official; 

the Schacht family, who tested the "intelligent electricity meter" 

as an EnBW trial customer; Steffen Wörner, who has succeeded in 

reconciling the varying demands of his role of father and his work 

duties at EnBW, and Jörg Papenheim, the passion-driven Managing 

Director of EnBW TV Rottenburg Volleyball GmbH.

Contents 

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Foreword 

Our motivation – 

our values and objectives 

› EnBW – brief profile 

› What does EnBW stand for? 

› Ecological and social commitment 

› Successful business operations 

› Market compatibility and competitiveness 

› Changing climate 

› Political framework 

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Political seismograph 

and partner 

Hands-on team spirit – 

adhering to rules, 

assuming responsibility 

› Corporate governance 

› Comprehensive "Corporate Compliance" 

rules 

› Leadership with responsibility 

Front-to-end commitment – 

environmental management 

and sustainability 

› ISO 14001 Group certification 

› Extended environmental principles 

› Corporate environmental protection 

targets – 2008 to 2010 

› International cooperation 

Constructive and controversial – 

dialogue with the public at large 

› Forums for industry, science and politics 


Of power pioneers 

and energy detectives 

Fit for future – 

new projects and 

intelligent products 

› Generating strategy and renewable 

forms of energy 

› International climate protection projects 

› Research and innovation 

› The MeRegio model project – 

the intelligent network 

› Innovative cars for MeRegio mobility 

› Stuttgart – a model region for 

"electromobility" 

› Microalgae for CO 2 fixation 

› Wind energy from offshore 

and onshore installations 

› Hydroelectric power 

› Energy from renewable raw materials 

› Efficient conventional power generation 

› Promoting photovoltaics 

› Trading of energy generated from 

renewable sources 

› Energy Efficiency Networks – 

a platform for energy savers 

› Clean diesel – particulate filter system 

› Measurement vehicle 

checks light intensity 

› Environmentally sound lighting 

technology 

› Carefree holidays with "Pro Climate" 

› Local citizens as energy entrepreneurs 

› Decontamination of the Gaisburg site

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Positive for the family through 

and through 

Pulling in the same direction – 

employer and employees 

› Employee headcount 

› Personnel structure 

› Apprenticeships with real prospects 

› Incentives for graduate entrants 

› International personnel development 

programmes for young employees 

› Further training and development 

› Process and idea management 

› Reconciling the demands of career 

and private life 

› Diversity – a strategic goal 

› Equal opportunity and the protection 

of rights 

› Award – winning employer 

› Feedback – employee survey 

Responsible and prevention-oriented – 

work safety and occupational medicine 

› More than just meeting our obligations 

› Demographic change 

› Raising awareness levels among 

management executives 

› Current campaigns 

› In-house survey 

› Improving quality through qualification 

› Put to the test 

› From fire protection to protective clothing 

› Learning about safety in a playful way 

› Accident rates continue to fall 

› Protection thanks to safety standards 


Passionate heart, 

cool head 

Our commitments 

in our social environment 

› Elite sports and major events 

› Culture and the arts 

› Research and educational activities 

› Information and communication 

› Recognition for outstanding volunteer work 

› International projects and 

climate protection 

Glossary 

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Foreword 

Foreword 

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Dear Reader, 

The Dear actions Reader, and strategies of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG are guided by the idea 

of sustainability and the principle of energy efficiency. We make a conscious attempt to 

utilise resources in a way that spares the environment, we invest in modern power plants 

with The actions high efficiency and strategies rates, we of EnBW gear our Energie activities Baden-Württemberg towards a balanced AG and are guided climate-friendly by the idea 

generating of sustainability mix and we the systematically principle of energy expand efficiency. the share We of make renewable a conscious forms of attempt energy to in 

our utilise portfolio. resources in a way that spares the environment, we invest in modern power plants 

with high efficiency rates, we gear our activities towards a balanced and climate-friendly 

The generating 2008/2009 mix and Sustainability we systematically Report shows expand how the the share principles of renewable of sustainability forms of energy and energy in 

efficiency our portfolio. are embedded ever deeper in the business processes at EnBW. Sustainable and responsible 

action is part and parcel of our corporate strategy and generates benefits for both 

the The company 2008/2009 itself Sustainability and for society Report as a shows whole. how the principles of sustainability and energy 

efficiency are embedded ever deeper in the business processes at EnBW. Sustainable and re- 

For sponsible a pure action energy is supplier, part and responsible parcel of our action corporate means strategy above all and that generates we make benefits sparing for use both of 

resources the company and itself do everything and for society we can as to a minimise whole. the burden on environment and climate. 

The expansion of renewable forms of energy plays a central role in this endeavour. This is 

why For a the pure goal energy of the supplier, Baden-Württemberg responsible action government means above to increase all that the we share make of sparing renewables use of 

to resources 20% by and 2020 do is everything also our goal. we Our can to strategy minimise is geared the burden towards on increasing environment the and share climate. of 

renewables The expansion in the of renewable total volume forms of EnBW-generated of energy plays a power central from role the in this current endeavour. figure of This 13% isto 

around why the 20% goal in of the year Baden-Württemberg 2020. This strategy government is based on to a increase broad energy the share mix of and renewables therefore on 

a to reliable 20% by and 2020 efficient is also our energy goal. supply Our strategy concept is that geared spares towards our climate increasing – both the today share and of in 

the renewables future. in the total volume of EnBW-generated power from the current figure of 13% to 

around 20% in the year 2020. This strategy is based on a broad energy mix and therefore on 

Our a reliable strategy and for efficient growth energy is driven supply by a concept wide-ranging that spares investment our climate programme – both totalling today and 7.7 inbil 

lion the future. € in the period from 2009 to 2011. The first, promising investments have already been 

made: having acquired the rights to four offshore wind farms, for example, we can now successively 

Our strategy build for up growth around is 1,200 driven megawatts by a wide-ranging of installed investment wind energy programme capacity totalling in the coming 7.7 bil- 

years. lion € in the period from 2009 to 2011. The first, promising investments have already been 

made: having acquired the rights to four offshore wind farms, for example, we can now successively 

build up around 1,200 megawatts of installed wind energy capacity in the coming 

years.

The efficient use of energy is another focal point of our activities. This is not just about 

improving the efficiency of our own generating facilities but also aimed at maximising 

energy efficiency in the operations of our partners and customers. We are active across a 

broad The efficient front through use of energy our sales is another companies focal and point offer of a our wide activities. range of This progressive is not just solutions. about 

improving the efficiency of our own generating facilities but also aimed at maximising 

We energy are proud efficiency that in EnBW the operations is still the only of our energy partners supplier and customers. in Germany We that are operates active across an a 

ISO broad 14001-certified front through environmental our sales companies management and offer system. a wide In range order of to progressive improve our solutions. environmental 

performance even further, we have adopted Group-wide environmental goals to 

which We are each proud Group that EnBW company is still makes the only a specific energy contribution. 

supplier in Germany that operates an 

ISO 14001-certified environmental management system. In order to improve our environ- 

Moreover, mental performance EnBW published even further, a new code we have of conduct adopted at Group-wide the beginning environmental of 2009, outlining goals to basic 

principles which each and Group regulations company for makes the company a specific as contribution. 

well as its executive bodies, management 

personnel and employees. The aim is to avoid damage to the company as well as to third 

parties. Moreover, In order EnBW to published do justice a to new these code expectations, of conduct at we the have beginning taken comprehensive of 2009, outlining measures basic 

that principles enable and us to regulations identify and for analyse the company developments as well as that its executive are detrimental bodies, to management 

the company at 

the personnel earliest and possible employees. stage and The then aim is take to avoid the corresponding damage to the countermeasures company as well to as minimise to third 

any parties. damaging In order effects. to do justice to these expectations, we have taken comprehensive measures 

that enable us to identify and analyse developments that are detrimental to the company at 

Transparency the earliest possible is a key stage success and factor then take for EnBW. the corresponding That is why our countermeasures reporting activities to minimise are based 

on any the damaging globally effects. valid criteria outlined in the "Global Reporting Initiative" (GRI). Both the 

Report and the Booklet were prepared in accordance with the 2006 GRI guidelines. This means 

that Transparency our economic, is a key ecological, success factor social for and EnBW. societal That performance is why our reporting is portrayed activities in a balanced are based 

and on the appropriate globally valid way. criteria The Global outlined Reporting in the Initiative "Global Reporting has awarded Initiative" us the relevant (GRI). Both certificate the 

confirming Report and the that Booklet our reporting were prepared complies in accordance with these with guidelines. the 2006 GRI guidelines. This means 

that our economic, ecological, social and societal performance is portrayed in a balanced 

Hans-Peter and appropriate Villisway. 

The Global Reporting Initiative has awarded us the relevant certificate 

confirming that our reporting complies with these guidelines. 

Hans-Peter Villis 

Vorsitzender des Vorstands 

CEO of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG 

Vorsitzender des Vorstands 

CEO of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG 

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Our motivation – 

our values and objectives 

EnBW – brief profile 

EnBW is one of the leading integrated energy 

supply companies in Europe and pursues 

a strategy of sustainable profitable growth. 

In 2008, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg 

AG posted annual sales revenues of over 16 

billion € through the efforts of its 20,000 

employees serving around 6 million customers. 

We are committed to the location of Baden- 

Württemberg in particular and Germany in 

general – both of which are the geographic 

focus of our operations. We are also active in 

the markets of Central and Eastern Europe. 

Our mindset and actions are shaped by the 

knowledge of our responsibility towards our 

employees, the environment and society as 

a whole. Whether it be private households, 

municipal utilities, the municipalities 

themselves or medium-sized and large 

industrial customers – our efforts are 

always geared towards satisfying customer 

needs and requirements better than the 

competition. 

At EnBW, we work together to develop progressive 

ideas to ensure the reliable, efficient 

and future-oriented supply of energy 

in a way that also spares our climate. We see 

ourselves as the partner of our customers, 

and we are convinced that the long-term 

growth of the corporate value of EnBW requires 

us above all to gear our activities to 

the needs of our customers and to demonstrate 

both innovative drive and a willingness 

to accept and promote change. 

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2008 Booklet, p. 2 et seq. 

Just under two thirds of all our electricity 

generating operations are CO 2-free. As a result, 

we achieve a specific CO 2 emission level 

of 235 g/kWh, a figure that is well below the 

German average of 541 g/kWh. Our goal is to 

continue to stay below the German average 

for CO 2 emissions in future. EnBW intends 

to increase the share of CO 2-free renewables 

in its generating portfolio, but it is still the 

case that renewables will not be able to fully 

cover overall energy requirements. What is 

needed is an energy mix combining both 

conventional and renewable forms of energy. 

By 2020, we hope to generate around 20% 

of our electricity from renewable sources. 

At the same time, we will make use of 

state-of-the-art conventional power plants 

in order to reduce pollutant emissions. 


What does EnBW stand for? 

Our mission: EnBW stands for progress and 

competition in the energy market in the interests 

of our customers. 

Our vision: building on our strong roots in 

Baden-Württemberg, our outstanding 

achievements and a balanced business portfolio, 

we are one of the leading energy suppliers 

in Europe. 

The mission and vision form the "umbrella" 

for the values of EnBW, expressed in the 

brand image and our corporate identity as 

well as in our basic convictions with regard 

to the energy business. This forms the basis 

for our strategy. 

EnBW firmly believes in 

› the benefits of a competitive market in the 

interests of our customers, 

› the advantages of owning front-to-end 

responsibility for the full value added 

chain in the electricity and gas segments, 

› the necessity of a broad energy mix on the 

generating front, 

› the business opportunities that will be 

created by an increasingly integrated 

European energy market.

Ecological and social commitment 

Our corporate strategy is geared towards 

securing the long-term success of our business 

operations and the exploitation of opportunities 

for growth. We want to be economically 

successful while acting in an 

ecologically and socially responsible manner. 

Our strategy focuses on the reliable 

supply of energy to our customers at affordable 

prices and on the challenges of climate 

protection. As an integrated company, we 

are active both on the network side (transport, 

distribution) and on the market side 

(generation, trading, sales), and we can 

therefore ensure the reliable supply and 

provision of electricity, gas and heat as well 

as energy-related and environmental services 

to our customers. Our strategy for 

growth is driven by a wide-ranging investment 

programme totalling 7.7 billion € in 

the period from 2009 to 2011. 

In order to achieve our goals, we are concentrating 

on five strategic fields of action: 

› Development of our generating capacity, 

in particular the expansion of renewables, 

› Expansion of our gas business, 

› Concentration on the core German market, 

accompanied by selective growth in foreign 

markets, 

› Establishment of new business areas, 

› Process improvement and exploitation of 

synergies. 

As an energy supply company, EnBW is fully 

aware of its special responsibility for climate 

and environmental protection. Back in 

2006, EnBW was the first big energy supplier 

to begin arranging for the certification of 

its environmental management system in 

line with the international DIN ISO 14001 

standard. At the current point in time, 

around 90% of the employees in the EnBW 

Group already work in companies with certified 

environmental management systems. 


In order to achieve our corporate goals, we 

need motivated and qualified employees – 

and that is why we require and promote 

flexibility, creativity and commitment. Our 

personnel policy focuses on further training 

and development, the health of our employees 

and the reconcilability of career and 

private life. EnBW was once again named 

among the "Top Employers" in Germany in 

2008 and 2009. 

Also see p. 40 et seq. 

EnBW is an active and responsible member 

of society. Our social commitment extends 

to the areas of sport, education, the arts, culture 

and volunteer activities. We attach importance 

to ongoing dialogue with our 

stakeholders. We discuss the potential impact 

of political decisions and are on hand 

to advise them if they need our specialist 

expertise. We particularly value the dialogue 

with our employees, customers, business 

partners and shareholders. Our efforts 

in the social sphere are focused in our home 

region of Baden-Württemberg. 

Successful business operations 

As part of the strategy to develop our generating 

capacity, EnBW will make major investments 

in replacing power plants and 

modernising and expanding our networks 

in the coming years. This concept is based 

on a balanced, climate-compatible generating 

mix made up of fossil fuels, nuclear 

power and renewables. To secure baseload 

supplies, we will also need modern coalfired 

power plants in combination with 

heat-and-power cogeneration models in future. 

At the Rheinfelden location in Karlsruhe, 

we are currently building an ultramodern 

coal-fired power plant (RDK 8) with 

district heat decoupling system. The new 

construction of the Rheinfelden hydroelectric 

power plant is the biggest construction 

project in the field of renewables anywhere 

in Germany. Altogether, the EnBW hydroelectric 

power plants generate just under 9 

billion kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity 

– enough to supply power for more than 

5.5 million people. 

When EnBW Erneuerbare Energien GmbH 

was founded in 2008, we began to pool our 

wide-ranging activities and expansion 

strategies in the field of renewables. Alongside 

its traditionally high-level commitment 

to hydroelectric power, EnBW is also 

increasingly involved in the areas of biomass, 

photovoltaics and, in particular, the 

significant expansion of wind energy capacity. 

During the next few years, we intend to 

successively build four offshore wind farms 

in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea with 

a total volume of 1,200 MW. 

Also see p. 24 

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In the gas business area, we are stepping up 

our activities in the midstream segment - in 

other words, our efforts are aimed at achieving 

direct access to the procurement market 

and to gas storage and gas trading. The creation 

of EnBW Gas Midstream GmbH in December 

2008 is a first important step in this 

direction. 

EnBW has strong roots in the German state 

of Baden-Württemberg, where the overwhelming 

majority of our 6 million or so 

customers live. The acquisition of a 26-percent 

stake in EWE AG in 2009 strengthens 

EnBW's position in the German energy market. 

The strategic partnership with Borusan 

Holding in Turkey we entered into in 2009 

will allow us to work together to build up 

generating capacity for wind energy and hydroelectric 

power in the coming years. During 

the second half of 2009, Borusan and 

EnBW built and started up wind energy towers 

with an installed capacity of 21 MW. They 

are part of the "Banchirma" wind energy 

farm, which will be expanded to produce a 

total output of 60 MW in the coming 

months. 

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Market compatibility 

and competitiveness 

Our goals are to make the energy debate 

more "factual" and to promote the equal 

weighting of supply reliability, cost efficiency 

and environmental compatibility in the 

field of energy policy. 

As a result of the far-reaching changes in 

the context within which the energy industry 

operates, competition is becoming increasingly 

fierce in all segments, while customer 

expectations in the area of products, 

advisory services and service standards are 

growing all the time. However, all these factors 

together also spell major opportunities 

for the creation of new, high-value business 

fields. We offer our customers more than 

"just" energy. The introduction of the intelligent 

electricity meter is an excellent example 

of this. We are the first German energy 

supply company to offer its customers 

this service in the form of a series-manufactured 

product. EnBW's "Intelligenter 

Stromzähler®" renders electricity consumption 

transparent and turns the customer 

into his or her own personal "energy 

manager". In this way, EnBW provides its 

customers with a tool to increase the efficiency 

with which they use energy, helping 

them to save costs and to "do their bit" for 

climate protection. 

The growing share of renewable forms of 

energy makes the management of the electricity 

networks more complex and more 

expensive. We service, modernise and optimise 

our networks and generating facilities 

on an ongoing basis to ensure the reliable 

supply of energy to our customers. At the 

same time, we also actively promote the in- 

tegration of energy technology with information 

and communication technologies, 

creating new solutions for the optimisation 

of the cost efficiency, environmental compatibility 

and supply reliability of electricity. 

The intelligent electricity meter plays a 

key role in the intelligent network control 

concept. EnBW is already testing this intelligent 

integration of electricity generation, 

distribution and consumption today in a 

model region in Baden-Württemberg (Minimum 

Emission Region - MeRegio). 

Also see p. 27 et seq. 

All over Germany, we work with our industrial 

customers to optimise energy processes, 

sometimes achieving savings of up to 

20%. We support the efforts of the municipalities 

with electricity products as well as a 

wide range of services – and the high-level 

expertise of EnBW in the implementation of 

energy efficiency measures is proving to be 

an increasingly important competitive advantage. 

Each of the various EnBW brands possesses 

its own clearly defined performance profile 

– which means we can provide tailored 

products and tailored services to suit the 

needs of every customer. 

EnBW also makes a constant effort to organise 

its own processes in a more sustainable 

and efficient way and to generate potential 

for synergy. The in-house "!mpuls" programme, 

for example, promotes the ongoing 

and systematic development of improvements 

in all areas of the company. Our 

partnership with EDF within the EDF Group 

also enables us to achieve synergies 

throughout the entire value added chain.

Changing climate 

Ever since the publication of the 4th report 

of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 

Change (IPCC) in 2007, our view of the 

world and its vulnerability has changed dramatically: 

this concerns the way we use energy, 

the role of companies in society, the 

expectations of industry with regard to a 

global political framework and, last but not 

least, also our expectations of international 

political cooperation. The fight against climate 

change is one of the most pressing 

challenges facing humankind today and 

calls for a new global mindset and new 

courses of action. This is why in-depth engagement 

with the issue of climate change 

is not only part of EnBW's responsibility 

towards society but is also in line with the 

company's core economic interests. "We 

must not allow climate protection to become 

a passing fad", is how EnBW CEO 

Hans-Peter Villis describes his approach to 

this topic. 

For a number of years now, EnBW has actively 

engaged the issues of climate change and 

climate protection. As long ago as 2006, we 

were the first German industrial company 

to stage a climate conference, bringing the 

worlds of business, science and politics together 

around the same table. The final document, 

the "Berlin Declaration", calls for 

compliance with the two-degree target and 

therefore a 50% reduction in worldwide 

emissions by the middle of the current century. 

The Berlin Declaration also serves as a 

catalyst for the creation of groups of entrepreneurs 

who are pushing for a climatefriendly 

political framework. Today, EnBW 

plays an active role in the initiative "2 Degrees 

– German Entrepreneurs for Climate 

Protection", in the "Industry for Climate Protection" 

initiative of the Federation of German 

Industries (BDI) and in the climate 

group" 3C – Combat Climate Change". 

The IPCC and broad sections of the climate 

science community as well as the European 

Union are urgently calling on countries 

around the world to ensure that global 

warming does not exceed a level that would 

represent an increase of approximately two 

percent compared to pre-industrial times. 

They believe that only within this corridor 

will we be able to master the consequences 

of global warming to an acceptable degree 

and avoid extremely dangerous climate 

change. This challenge is made even more 

formidable by the – in some cases rapid – 

growth of national economies around the 

globe. The world's hunger for energy is 

enormous. According to the International 

Energy Agency (IEA), the world uses almost 

twice as much energy today as it did at the 

beginning of the seventies, and the figure is 

set to increase by at least a further 50% by 

the year 2030. If we carry on with "business 

as usual", the energy-related CO 2 emissions 

would increase by an additional 55%. 

The next important milestone in the field 

of international climate policy is the Copenhagen 

summit in December 2009, when 

agreements must be reached to ensure that 

the Kyoto Protocol in place until 2012 is replaced 

by a comprehensive climate protection 

treaty. The key issues in the international 

negotiations are emission reductions 

in the industrialised nations and NICs, the 

need to adjust to climate change, technology 

transfer and the financing of climate 

protection measures in the developing 

world and the NICs. 

EnBW is in favour of an effective global climate 

protection treaty encompassing all 

the most important nations. Worldwide 

greenhouse gas emissions need to be halved 

by 2050 if the global temperature increase 

is to be limited to two degrees Celsius. The 

most effective and above all most cost-efficient 

road to climate protection is via a 

global market system for emission certificate 

trading. In the coming years, the central 

challenge will be to integrate the established 

and functioning emissions trading 

systems with the aim of creating a standardised 

worldwide price for greenhouse 

gas emissions in the medium to long term 

in order to prevent distortion of competition. 

This would also improve the predictability 

of planning and investment 

costs. 

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Political framework 

Despite the financial and economic crisis, 

climate protection remained one of the core 

areas of German and European legislation 

during the period under review. This culminated 

in the adoption of the Integrated Climate 

and Energy Package/"Green Package" in 

Brussels in December 2008. The aim of the 

measures outlined therein is to reduce 

greenhouse gas emissions in the European 

Union by 20% compared to 1990 reference 

levels by the year 2020. If the other major 

economic regions commit to targets of a 

similar magnitude in an international agreement, 

the reduction target is to be upgraded 

to 30%. Trading with CO 2 emission certificates 

is the central instrument in the endeavour 

to achieve these goals. The primary 

addressees of this policy are energy producers 

and industrial companies, who have to 

acquire certificates for their CO 2 emissions. 

The volume of certificates is limited and decreases 

over time. Companies can trade the 

certificates with each other to balance out 

increased or reduced emission needs. The 

key effect of emissions trading is the creation 

of a market price for CO 2 emissions. 

This provides companies with a marketbased 

incentive to cut greenhouse gas emissions. 

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The system of emissions trading was introduced 

back in 2005. The Emissions Trading 

Period in the "Green Package" governs the 

third trading period from 2013 to 2020. It 

will lead to a "Europeanisation" of emissions 

trading, as the certificates will no longer be 

allocated nationally but by the European 

Commission. The reduction in emission limits 

is not the only regulatory factor that imposes 

stricter conditions on the electricity 

industry; in future, energy companies will 

also have to purchase the emission certificates 

they need. This is expected to make the certificates 

more expensive and therefore to also 

result in higher electricity prices. In contrast, 

the certificate auction process for industrial 

companies will be introduced step by step. 

Industrial sectors competing on the international 

stage will still be able to acquire up to 

100% of the certificates they need free of 

charge, although under the new rules allocation 

will be based on the 10% of most efficient 

companies in the sector in question. 

The EU Commission intends to stipulate the 

affected sectors and the exact procedures by 

2010. At least 50% of the proceeds from 

emissions trading are to be spent on climate 

protection measures. 

A further key element in the European 

"Green Package" is the Directive on Renewables 

– which stipulates that renewables 

must account for 20% of all energy consumed 

in the EU by 2020. This applies not 

only to electricity consumption but also to 

heating and transport. The member states 

must draw up national plans of action outlining 

how they intend to meet this target. 

The EU states can choose the instruments 

they employ to meet the target, which 

means the provisions do not impact the 

German Renewables Act (EEG). In 2007, the 

share of renewables in overall energy consumption 

was just 8.6%, and this gives some 

indication of the significant growth that will 

be necessary on this front. The German 

government has the power to decide how to 

split the target between the various sectors – 

like electricity, heating or transport. 

A further EU Directive deals with the capture 

of CO 2 from the waste gases of coal-fired 

power plants as well as the subsequent underground 

storage of this gas (CCS – carbon 

capture and storage). It lays down a framework 

for the technology to be developed for 

this purpose and requires that new coal-fired 

power plants be designed in such away that 

suitable technology can be retrofitted. To 

promote this goal, it is making funding available 

from emissions trading for 12 demonstration 

projects. At the present time, 

however, the formulation of German CCS 

legislation is being held up by differences of 

opinion between the parties that form the 

national government as well as between the 

national government on one side and the regional 

state governments on the other. 

The final, voluntary target concerns energy 

efficiency in Europe, which is to increase by 

20% by the year 2020 compared to a reference 

scenario. Meanwhile, the European 

Ecodesign Directive already in force is paving 

the way for the first successes on the energy 

efficiency front. The regulations on the replacement 

of conventional light bulbs by energy-saving 

bulbs made waves throughout 

the EU. This year, the sale of 100-watt standard 

and opaque light bulbs will be prohibited, 

and this ban will be extended to cover all 

bulb wattages step by step. In Germany in 

particular, the ban unleashed fierce debates 

about lighting quality and lamp design, underlining 

the lack of general faith in the ongoing 

technical development of illumination 

alternatives. Other regulations – such as those 

governing the energy consumption of refrigerators 

and freezers, television sets and television 

reception devices, street lighting and 

external power packs as well as new provisions 

to reduce the power consumption of 

appliances in standby mode – managed to 

generally avoid the headlines. The regulations 

on the energy consumption of electric 

motors in industry are expected to be particularly 

effective. 

The German government and the Bundestag 

parliament also devoted a great deal of time 

to climate protection policy and to address-

ing the various items in Germany's "integrated 

energy and climate programme". The 

binding climate protection target is minus 

30% compared to 1990 levels – or minus 40 % 

if the EU targets are upgraded. Germany's 

political decision-makers have long since 

agreed to aim for the higher target anyway, 

however, and have adopted a whole package 

of measures to meet this target. To date, 

Germany has succeeded in achieving a 

reduction of 18%. 

The amended EEG renewables legislation 

came into force in Germany at the beginning 

of 2009. It confirms the priority feed of electricity 

from renewable sources into the network, 

and this electricity will continue to be 

financed by the network operators based on 

predefined remuneration rates varying 

according to size of facility and source of 

energy (wind, water, solar, geothermal or 

biomass). The remuneration rates are to be 

adjusted; the rates for offshore wind energy, 

for example, will be considerably higher in 

future in order to promote the construction 

of new installations at sea. The share of renewables 

in total German energy consumption 

is to be increased to 30% by the year 

2020 (compared to the current figure of 

15%). The amendment of the compensation 

mechanism for the added cost of renewables 

is extremely welcome. It has been greatly 

simplified – and this limits financial risks 

while reducing costs. 

As the expansion of the electricity networks 

has not matched the rapid pace of growth of 

renewable sources of energy, there is a growing 

risk of bottlenecks and instability. The 

German Electricity Grid Expansion Act is designed 

to address the potential problems in 

the transport networks. 

The share of electricity generated in highly 

efficient power plants – using heat-and-power 

cogeneration concepts – is also to increase. 

The amended German Cogeneration Act also 

came into force at the beginning of 2009. 

Now, industrial cogeneration activities are 

being subsidised for the first time, even 

when no power is fed into the public net- 

work, as is the construction of heating networks. 

At the same time, however, annual 

support is still capped at 750 million €. The 

aim is to grow the share of electricity from 

combined heat-and-power plants to 25% 

by 2020. This would be double the current 

figure. 

The German Renewables Act stipulates a pro 

rata consumption of heating energy from 

renewable sources for new buildings. If the 

homeowner decides in favour of geothermal 

energy, environmental heating or biomass, 

these must account for at least half of all 

heating energy consumption. The minimum 

figure for solar heating is 15%. The German 

Energy Efficiency Ordinance governing maximum 

energy consumption in new buildings 

now also contains stricter provisions. Reduced 

energy consumption in old buildings 

is promoted by schemes like the "market incentive 

programme" or the "CO 2 building 

modernisation programme". The proceeds 

from emissions trading have been used to 

significantly up the overall funding volume. 

These measures are designed to reduce primary 

energy consumption in Germany by 

17% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. In order 

to meet this target, primary energy productivity 

needs to be doubled – or, put another 

way – to improve by 3% a year. Between 

1990 and 2005, however, the increase was 

just 1.7%, despite the collapse of the inefficient 

structures in East Germany. The target 

is certainly ambitious; this also applies, if 

not even more so, to the secondary target – 

an 11% reduction in energy consumption, a 

variable that has increased modestly yet regularly, 

at least in the years prior to the onset 

of the economic crisis. While it is true that 

energy-consuming appliances are doubtless 

becoming more and more efficient, there are 

also significant countertrends: the increasing 

presence of computers and Internet connections 

in modern households, for example, 

the ever-increasing size of refrigerators 

and TV screens, and the growing spread of 

consumer electronics. Quite apart from this, 

electricity is also often used in the form of 

"efficient energy". Electrically driven thermal 

energy pumps help to save primary energy, 

for example. The same applies to the soonto-be-launched 

electromobiles in the transport 

sector. As a result, there are serious 

doubts as to whether we will be able to 

achieve the 11% target. Moreover, at the end 

of the last legislative term, political differences 

prevented the adoption of new energy 

efficiency legislation by the coalition 

government. 

There are also well-founded doubts regarding 

the targeted growth in the share of electricity 

generated in combined heat-andpower 

plants. If subsidies remain at the 

current level, it is unlikely that the target will 

be met. A further problem is the exceedingly 

slow pace at which existing buildings are being 

modernised. In contrast, the prospects 

for meeting the targets for electricity from 

renewables are favourable. The precondition 

for this, however, is that the construction of 

new wind energy installations at sea picks up 

pace following a delay of several years and 

that the industry succeeds in replacing old 

and small wind turbines with new, highpowered 

wind energy installations throughout 

Germany. 

All in all, the measures planned to date will 

not be sufficient to meet the 40% target laid 

down by the German government. This is 

the conclusion reached by nearly all the 

studies conducted to date. The German Environment 

Agency recently predicted a reduction 

in greenhouse gas emissions of 35% at 

most. A study conducted by the EUtech institute 

in Aachen and commissioned by 

Greenpeace arrived at a figure of less than 

30%. On climate protection grounds and in 

order to avoid uncontrolled price rises as 

well as to ensure supply reliability, it is 

therefore both expedient and necessary to 

reach agreement on the significant extension 

of the operational life of the nuclear 

power plants in Germany beyond the exit 

date that is currently planned. 

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"Particularly on local level, the 

interests of the population must take 

precedence over party political and 

other interests." 

Jürgen Koß, EnBW employee and 

local councillor in Gundelsheim 

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Political seismograph and partner 

June 16, 2009, 9 .a.m on the dot: Jürgen Koß 

drives into the multi-storey carpark of 

EnBW-City, collects his ID from reception 

and walks to the Supervisory Board conference 

hall, where the 9th "Municipal Forum" 

is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. This is an 

event for EnBW employees who either hold 

political office in their home town or work 

as municipal consultants at the Regional AG 

or Vertriebs- und Servicegesellschaft mbh 

subsidiary. This information and contact 

forum is an event of the highest calibre. Today, 

for example, two members of the Holding 

Management Board are on the list of participants: 

Christian Buchel, in charge of operations, 

and Dr. Hans-Josef Zimmer, the number 

one on the technical side, will hold 

presentations and take part in a Q&A session. 

Jürgen Koß is an elected politician; he is a 

"political person" in the very best sense of 

the word, someone whose heart beats "left 

of centre". He first stood as a candidate for 

office 20 years ago and has meanwhile been 

a member of the Gundelsheim local council 

for eleven years now. He joined EnBW – or 

Energie-Versorgung Schwaben as it was 

then – in 1989. The trained glazier started 

off as a janitor at the power plant in Heilbronn; 

he has been working shifts there in 

the coaling section since the mid-90s. The 

father of two also gets involved at work and 

represents the interests of others – in his 

capacity as a member of the works council, 

a post he has held for seven years now.

The "Municipal Forum" was created in 

January 2005 and is based at the Holding 

company. The duties – synchronising the 

campaigns of the EnBW companies in the 

municipalities, networking all the involved 

parties and raising awareness for important 

topics – have not changed. Jürgen Koß, a 

man of the first hour, particularly values the 

"up-to-date nature of all the activities, the 

newsletter specially prepared for local elected 

officials and the hands-on information 

on energy services covering topics like modernising 

the energy profile of buildings or 

street lighting. These are areas in which 

EnBW has an opportunity to raise its profile 

as a partner of the municipalities". 

The number of members has more than 

doubled since the kick-off event in April 

2005, and around 200 "EnBWers" now work 

together on a voluntary basis. Some 150 of 

these employees are politically active as 

members of regional, civic, municipal or 

local councils. In other words, they are men 

and women who make decisions on issues 

like supply agreements for electricity and 

gas, service connections for designated 

building land or street lighting. 

For Christian Buchel, the local officials are 

the "natural ambassadors of EnBW in the 

municipalities, acting as a kind of political 

seismograph and as partners on the 

ground". This is certainly something we 

should try to make the most of, although 

Jürgen Koß is keen to make one thing perfectly 

clear: "Regardless of the issue, all the 

decisions I make on the local council are for 

the good of the town and the voters; otherwise 

I wouldn't stand for political office in 

the first place." 

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Hands-on team spirit – 

adhering to rules, assuming responsibility 

Corporate governance 

As is underlined in our mission statement, 

our vision and our corporate identity, responsible, 

transparent action geared towards 

long-term success is a core element of 

the corporate culture at EnBW. 

In order to ensure that these values are 

firmly rooted in our corporate culture, we 

have developed and implemented an internal 

Group-wide monitoring system called 

"IKS" to help us to promote the sustainable 

development of our company. The key 

elements are: 

› A system of objectives including minimum 

requirements for sustainable value 

added, the way we handle key corporate 

risks, our adherance to compliance guidelines 

and the prevention of illegal business 

dealings. 

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› The "IKS" system defining all responsible 

employees, roles and duties throughout 

the Group; this system is closely tied in 

with the risk and compliance management 

systems in terms of both organisational 

structure and processes. 

› A monitoring system that is integrated in 

the value added phases as well as in the 

management and support processes; this 

system is designed to ensure the permanent 

presence of key success factors 

geared towards sustainable management 

practices. 

› Regular reports to the Management Board 

on findings, new goals and necessary improvements. 

The IKS system puts the management in a 

long-term position to identify and evaluate 

the full range of key issues for all the companies 

in the EnBW Group and its stakeholders 

and then to implement appropriate 

measures. The integration of areas of responsibility 

and topic areas in the organisational 

structure and in key processes in this 

way paves the way for an ongoing dialogue 

on target achievement and system improvement. 

The EnBW management optimises our IKS 

system on an ongoing basis and adapts it 

where necessary to new conditions or requirements. 

The flexibility of the system 

enables us to integrate existing and new 

(legal) initiatives and corporate goals. It is 

controlled and updated by a unit in the 

Group Controlling department set up 

specifically for this purpose and which 

reports direct to the Management Board. 

Every year, the efficacy of the IKS system is 

reviewed by the Management Board, and 

the findings of this review are presented to 

the Supervisory Board as part of the annual 

reporting process. This enables us to also 

comprehensively address the current Corporate 

Governance requirements laid out 

in the German Accounting Law Reform Act 

(BilMoG). 

We also fully support the values expressed 

in the German Corporate Governance Code 

and follow all its recommendations. They 

serve as a yardstick and as guiding principles 

in our efforts to underpin and maintain 

the confidence of shareholders, customers, 

employees and the public at large 

in the long term. 

2008 Annual Report, p. 200 et seq.

Comprehensive "Corporate 

Compliance" rules 

The issue of compliance with legal regulations 

and internal company guidelines has 

gained considerably in importance in recent 

years. The reason that this is so is the everincreasing 

complexity of the legal and regulatory 

framework as well as the growing interest 

among the public at large. The EnBW 

Management Board responded to this by 

taking various measures at the beginning of 

2009: firstly, the new "Corporate Compliance" 

unit was set up, pooling all the existing 

activities in this area in a central function 

at the Holding company: these 

activities include all measures to avoid 

corruption, antitrust violations and breaches 

of trust as well as measures to coordinate 

these activities with the "Unbundling Compliance" 

unit. In addition, there are now interfaces 

to the risk management and crisis 

management functions. The compliance 

system also addresses the protection of employees, 

our customers and the public at 

large as well as the protection and conservation 

of nature and the environment. A further 

compliance issue is how we conduct 

our dealings with foreign business partners. 

Among other things, this area also supplements 

our supplier assessment system, 

which has been in place since 2007 with the 

aim of performing "supplier prequalification" 

at national level – in particular with 

regard to environmentally relevant issues. 

2008 Annual Report, p. 81 et seq. 

The compliance organisation at EnBW 

basically comprises the following elements: 

› The Management Board of EnBW bears 

overall responsibility for compliance and 

is the top-level body for questions and 

decisions. 

› The "Corporate Compliance" unit is responsible 

for the implementation and 

ongoing development of the tools and 

methods that make up the compliance 

management system. This unit reports 

directly to the member of Holding Man 

agement Board in charge of personnel, legal 

affairs and IT. 

› The "Compliance Committee" is an internal 

advisory body; its members are the heads of 

the 15 most important compliance functions 

within the Group – such as legal 

affairs, auditing, environmental protection, 

work safety or data protection. 

› In the Group companies, there are compliance 

officers who act as decentral contacts 

and who contribute their expert knowledge 

in the specialist areas of the companies. 

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We Weiterhin have also wurde adopted ein Verhaltenskodex 

a code of conduct designed 

verabschiedet, to provide der each jedem employee Mitarbeiter with als a basic 

Grundlage set of rules und and Orientierungshilfe serve as a source bei of der orientation 

täglichen in Arbeit their dienen daily work und – ein and regelkon- to ensure 

that formes, conduct integres is in Verhalten compliance sicherstellen with thesoll. 

rules Der umfassende and characterised Verhaltenskodex by integrity. ist ver- The 

comprehensive pflichtend für die code Mitarbeiter of conduct und is Führungs- binding 

for kräfte employees aller Konzernunternehmen, and management personnel an denen 

in die all EnBW Group unmittelbar companies oder in which mittelbar EnBWmehr 

holds heitlich a direct beteiligt or indirect ist oder majority beherrschenden stake or 

exercises Einfluss ausübt. a controlling Der Verhaltenskodex influence. The wurde 

code konzernweit of conduct kommuniziert has been communicated 

und wird durch 

throughout entsprechende the Trainingsmaßnahmen Group and is backed up zur by 

suitable Sensibilisierung training der measures Mitarbeiter to raise begleitet. awareness 

levels among employees. 

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Alongside Neben der the Compliance-Organisation compliance organisation und and 

code dem Verhaltenskodex of conduct, EnBW hat has die taken EnBW further weitere 

measures Maßnahmen to establish ergriffen, a um comprehensive ein umfassendes and 

effective und wirksames system Compliance-Management- 

of compliance managementsystem 

within im EnBW-Konzern the EnBW Group. zu etablieren. Within theIm 

framework Rahmen dieses of this Systems system, werden work is unter regularly ande- 

performed rem regelmäßig to identify die für compliance-specific 

Compliance spezifi- 

risks schen and Risiken to make erhoben decisions und entsprechende 

on appropriate 

responses Maßnahmen – which abgeleitet take the – etwa form in of Form suchvon 

things Kontrollen as internal durch unser audits internes by our internal Kontroll- IKS 

monitoring system IKS. Außerdem system. We definieren also define und and optimise 

verbessern compliance-related wir kontinuierlich processes die für on Com- a continuouspliancerelevanten 

basis. The constant Prozesse. flow Ein umfangrei- 

of informationches 

and Beratungsangebot communication für is unsere assured Mitarbei- by a 

wide-ranging ter, Präsenzschulungen package of und advisory E-Learning- services 

for Programme our employees zu allgemeinen as well as Compliance- 

face-to-face and 

e-learning Fragen sowie programmes zu spezifischen focusing Themenstellungen 

on general 

compliance gewährleisten questions permanente and more Information specific issues. 

und Kommunikation. In addition, reports Zudem are regularly werden Holsubmittedding-Vorstand, to the Management Aufsichtsrat Board und Prüfungs- of the 

Holding ausschuss company, durch regelmäßige the Supervisory Berichte Board über 

and aktuelle the Audit Compliance-Themen Committee to keep informiert. them informed 

about topical compliance issues. 

Ziel der genannten Maßnahmen ist es, die 

The Einhaltung aim of the von above externen measures und internen is to ensure 

compliance Regeln im EnBW-Konzern with external sicherzustellen, 

and internal rules 

in um the auch EnBW künftig Group, als underpinning vertrauenswürdiger our reputation 

Partner as wahrgenommen a trustworthy partner zu werden and there- und 

fore somit securing den Unternehmenserfolg the long-term success langfristig of the 

company. zu sichern. 

www.enbw.com 

› Corporate Governance ‹ 

Leadership Führen mit Verantwortung 

with responsibility 

Our Unsere management Führungsgrundsätze principles outline beschreiben and 

structure und normieren the basic die relationships grundsätzlichen between Bezie- 

management hungen zwischen personnel Führungskräften and employees, und 

laying Mitarbeitern down ground und geben rules eine for Grundorien- 

dealings with 

one tierung another. für den They Umgang address miteinander. leadership issues Sie 

in gehen detail detailliert and supplement auf Führungsthemen the corporate ein 

philosophy und ergänzen of das EnBW. Unternehmensleitbild 

der EnBW. 

The guidelines are based on the idea of 

partnership-oriented Die Leitlinien gründen and auf cooperation- 

dem Gedanken 

based eines partnerschaftlichen dealings and relate to und the kooperativen 

following 

topics: Miteinanders und betreffen die Themenfelder: 

› Respectful interaction, 

› Willingness respektvoller to Umgang, exercise criticism and 

› self-criticism, 

Bereitschaft zu Kritik und Selbstkritik, 

› Teamwork Teamarbeit and und "own Freiräume, space", 

› Information Information and und communication, 

Kommunikation, 

› Goal-oriented Führen mit Zielen, leadership, 

› Entrepreneurial unternehmerisches mindset Denken and und actions, Handeln, 

› Systematic gezielte Mitarbeiterförderung advancement of employees, sowie 

› Our unser commitment Bekenntnis zum to the Leistungsprinzip. 

achievement 

› principle.

Front-to-end commitment – 

environmental management and sustainability 

ISO 14001 Group certification 

EnBW was the first – and is still the only – 

German energy company with a certified 

environmental management system at 

Group level. Further ISO 14001 certification 

was ongoing within the Group during 2008 

and 2009. In total, 15 companies have 

meanwhile been awarded certification. This 

is equivalent to around 90% of all employees 

in the EnBW Group – compared to 

slightly more than 70% of employees at the 

end of 2007. We are confident that all EnBW 

companies with environmentally relevant 

facilities and activities will be integrated in 

the Group-wide environmental management 

system by 2010. 

Extended environmental principles 

Our activities are focused not only on the 

implementation of the environmental management 

system throughout the Group but 

naturally also on the ongoing optimisation 

of this environmental management system 

and the improvement of EnBW's environmental 

performance. The topics of "Climate 

Change/Climate Protection" and "Biodiversity" 

have been explicitly included in our environmental 

principles, for example. In this 

way, EnBW clearly expresses its awareness of 

its responsibility in these areas, creating a 

platform for future and more extensive 

activities. These include the stipulation of 

climate protection as a core element of our 

corporate objectives in the field of environmental 

protection. 


www.enbw.com 

› Environmental principles ‹ 

Corporate environmental protection 

targets – 2008 to 2010 

For the period from 2008 to 2010, Groupwide 

environmental goals incorporating 

practically all the Group companies have now 

been defined and approved by the Management 

Board for the first time. 

Climate protection, sparing resources, energy efficiency 

› Specific CO 2 emissions below the German average 

› Increase in EnBW's generating volume from renewables to a share of 20% by 2020 

› Ongoing improvement of the climate, energy and resource efficiency of our existing 

plants and operating facilities 

› Efficient use of energy by our customers 

Long-term responsibility towards society 

› Dialogue with society and the worlds of politics and science 

› Ongoing improvement and implementation of the environmental management system 

› Maintaining Group certification in line with ISO 14001 

Communication/Raising awareness levels 

› Identification of employees with EnBW's environmental principles 

› Strengthening ecologically responsible actions in the business environment 

Protection of humankind and the environment 

› Increasing waste recycling rates 

› Increasing the number of gas-operated vehicles in our fleet 

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20 

International Internationale cooperation Kooperationen 

EDF Neben is the den second Oberschwäbischen major shareholder Elektrizitäts- of 

EnBW werken alongside (OEW) ist Oberschwäbische die EDF unser zweiter Elektrigrozitätswerke.ßer Anteilseigner. EnBW Die is a EnBW permanent ist ständiges member 

of Mitglied the EDF im Committee Komitee zur for nachhaltigen Sustainable DeEntvelopment.wicklung der As EDF. part In of diesem this body, Rahmen we have haben 

played wir aktiv an bei active der role Erarbeitung in the development einer gruppen- of 

Group-wide weiten Nachhaltigkeitspolitik sustainability policy mitgewirkt and sustainability 

und wertvolle strategy Impulse by generating und Ideen valuable einge- 

stimuli bracht. and contributing goal-oriented 

ideas. 

Zur Kommunikation der Nachhaltigkeits- 

To strategie ensure wurde effective eine communication Erklärung verfasst, of our die 

sustainability alle Vorstände strategy, der EDF-Gruppe we prepared unterschrie- a declarationben 

haben. signed So by auch all Management Hans-Peter Villis Board für 

members die EnBW. of Unter the EDF anderem Group, sind including drei Heraus- Hans- 

Peter forderungen Villis on aufgeführt: 

behalf of EnBW. Three of the 

challenges outlined in the declaration are: 

› Kampf gegen den Klimawandel und für 

› The den fight Erhalt against der Artenvielfalt, 

climate change and the 

› endeavour Zugang zu Energie to preserve und biodiversity, 

regionale Nähe, 

› Access Beteiligung to energy an der and Debatte regional über proximity, nachhal- 

› Involvement tige Entwicklung in the mit debate Dialog, over Information sustainable 

und development Kommunikation. in the form of dialogue, 

information and communication. 

Moreover, Des Weiteren EnBW arbeitet plays die an EnBW active aktiv role in in the 

following den folgenden EDF working EDF-Arbeitsgruppen groups that report mit, to 

the die dem EDF Sustainability Nachhaltigkeitskomittee Committee: der EDF 

› nachgeordnet Ethics, sind: 

› Biodiversity, 

Ethik, 

› Adaptation Biodiversität, Strategy to Climate Change, 

› Incorporation Anpassungsstrategie of CO2 in an Decision-Making 

den Klimawandel, 

› Processes. 

Berücksichtigung von CO2-Emissionen bei 

Entscheidungsprozessen. 

We also make an important contribution to 

these Einen goals weiteren by taking wichtigen advantage Beitrag of leisten our involvement 

wir dadurch, in dass these wir bodies die internationale 

to promote our 

own Gremienarbeit sustainability-focused nutzen, um die ideas eigenen and initiatives 

Vorstellungen within the und context Initiativen of a globally zum Thema active 

group Nachhaltigkeit of companies, in ein and global this agierendes enables us to 

multiply Unternehmen the positive mit einzubringen outcomes of und our hier- own 

activities. durch die positiven Ergebnisse eigener 

Aktivitäten zu multiplizieren.

Constructive Konstruktiv und and kontrovers controversial – – 

dialogue Dialog mit with der the Öffentlichkeit public at large 

As Als an Energieversorgungsunternehmen energy supply company, we bear sehen a 

very wir uns special in einer responsibility besonderen towards Verantwortung our natural 

für Umwelt environment und Gesellschaft. as well as towards Wir verstehen society 

as uns a whole. als einen We anerkannten endeavour to und be an verantwort- accepted 

partner lich handelnden and a good Teil corporate der Gesellschaft. citizen. Frank Der 

and offene open Dialog dialogue mit unseren with our Kunden customers und and der 

the breiten public Öffentlichkeit at large plays spielt an important für uns eine role 

for wichtige EnBW. Rolle. The "Municipal Eines unserer Energy zentralen Day" is Dis- 

one kussionsforen of our key ist municipal der „Kommunale discussion Energieforums.tag“. Damit With bietet this event, die EnBW Entscheidungs- 

provides electedträgern 

municipal aus Städten officials und from Gemeinden Baden-Würt- in 

temberg Baden-Württemberg with the opportunity die Chance, to sich find über out 

about aktuelle current Ereignisse trends und and Entwicklungen developments rund in 

the um energy den Energiesektor sector and the und potential die damit benefits ver- 

for bundenen their communities. Chancen für In Kommunen 2008, around zu in- 

1,200 formieren. elected 2008 municipal folgten officials 1.200 kommunale 

accepted 

our Mandatsträger invitation to unserer talk about Einladung, climate um protecgetionmeinsam and energy mit verschiedenen efficiency. As Experten one of Ger- über 

many's Klimaschutz leading und business Energieeffizienz regions, Baden- zu disku- 

Württemberg tieren. Gerade is Baden-Württemberg particularly dependent ist als on a 

future-oriented führender Wirtschaftsstandort and highly efficient in Deutsch- energy 

supply land auf system. eine zukunftsgerichtete This is something und we aim leis- to 

achieve tungsfähige in cooperation Energieversorgung with the municipalities. 

angewiesen. 

Dies wollen wir in Zusammenarbeit mit den 

Our Kommunen employees erreichen. who hold political office in 

their municipalities and municipal support 

specialists in the Group companies have 

been meeting on a regular basis since 2005 

at the "Municipal Forum" events. The 200 or 

so members attend joint further training 

seminars and discuss topical municipal policy 

issues. 

A Unsere further Mitarbeiter, cornerstone die of politische our municipal Mandate activities 

in ihren is Kommunen the nonprofit innehaben EnBW Energiege- oder als 

meinschaft Kommunalberater energy in community, unseren Konzernge- which has 

been sellschaften supporting tätig the sind, interests treffen of sich the seit trades, 2005 

planners, regelmäßig architects im Rahmen and des manufacturers „Kommunal for 

a Forum“. number Die of rund years 200 now. Mitglieder It acts as bilden a source sich of 

updated gemeinsam expert fort knowledge, und tauschen provides sich zu supaktuportellen in kommunalpolitischen the area of customer Themen acquisition aus. and 

helps us to work better and more effectively. 

The Eine 2,200-plus weitere wichtige members Stütze of the unserer EnBW komEnergiegemeinschaftmunalen Aktivitäten profit ist die from EnBW this Energieprofessionalgemeinschaft. exchange Seit of vielen ideas and Jahren experience macht sich 

with der eingetragene numerous different Verein für specialist die Interessen companies, 

des Handwerks, associations, der training Planer, centres der Architekten and independent 

und der Hersteller experts. stark. Er vermittelt aktuelles 

Expertenwissen, unterstützt tatkräftig 

Forums bei der Kundengewinnung for industry, und hilft dabei, 

science noch besser and und politics effizienter zu arbeiten. Die 

über 2.200 Mitglieder der EnBW Energiege- 

In meinschaft 2006, EnBW profitieren was the first von German diesem industrial profes- 

company sionellen to Austausch stage an international mit einer Vielzahl climate von 

conference, unterschiedlichen bringing Fachbetrieben, the worlds of business, Verbän- 

science den, Schulungszentren and politics together und around unabhängigen the same 

table Experten. at this event in Berlin. The EnBW Climate 

Conference, which will take place for the 

fourth Foren time für in Wirtschaft, 

2009, underlines the pioneering 

Wissenschaft role of EnBW in und the energy Politikpolicy 

debate 

on climate change. Moreover, EnBW was a 

founding Im Jahr 2006 member hat die of important EnBW als erstes business deutinitiativessches Wirtschaftsunternehmen in the area of climate protection einen inter- – the 

group nationalen "2° – German Klimakongress Entrepreneurs in Berlin for veran- Climate 

Protection", staltet, der the Wirtschaft, "Industry Wissenschaft for Climate Protection" und 

climate Politik an group einen of Tisch the Federation brachte. Mit of German dem 

Industries EnBW-Klimakongress, (BDI) and "3C der – Combat 2009 zum Climate vierten 

Change" Mal stattfindet, – and we nimmt play an die active EnBW role eine in these Vor- 

initiatives. reiterrolle In in addition, der energiepolitischen EnBW is a member Diskus- of 

econsense, sion über den the Klimawandel forum for sustainable ein. Darüber business 

operations set up by the Federation of German 

Industries (BDI). 

The hinaus EnBW waren representative wir an der Gründung offices in Stuttwichtigart,ger Wirtschaftsinitiativen Berlin and Brussels also zum perform Klimaschutz an 

important beteiligt – das bridge sind function. „2°– Deutsche Their proximity 

Unter- 

to nehmer the political für Klimaschutz“, decision-makers die BDI-Initiative 

facilitates 

an „Wirtschaft ongoing dialogue für Klimaschutz“ on current und energy „3C – policy Com- 

challenges bat Climate and Change“ issues. – und One wir example bringen ofuns 

this nach is wie EnBW's vor aktiv "Energy in diese and Business ein. Überdies Club", ist 

a die regular EnBW forum Mitglied attended von econsense, by decision- dem 

makers Forum Nachhaltiges from the worlds Wirtschaften of politics, des compaBunniesdesverbands and federations. der Deutschen Industrie (BDI). 

Moreover, Eine wichtige in 2007 Brückenfunktion EnBW set up üben the Baden- auch 

Württemberg die Repräsentanzen Energy der & Climate EnBW in Protection Stuttgart, 

Foundation. Berlin und Brüssel The mission aus. Die of Nähe this organisa- zu polititionschen 

is Entscheidungsträgern to promote a better understanding ermöglicht of 

the einen interplay kontinuierlichen between the Dialog energy über industry aktuelle 

and energiepolitische climate protection Herausforderungen and to secure the und 

future Fragestellungen. of Baden-Württemberg Ein Beispiel hierfür as a research ist der 

location. Energie- und In addition, WirtschaftsClub the Foundation der EnBW, began 

supporting der regelmäßig schools stattfindet in Baden-Württemberg 

und sich an Ent- 

in scheidungsträger the development aus of Politik, core value Unternehmen 

concepts 

in und mid-2009. Verbänden These richtet. efforts are designed to 

firmly establish the topic of energy efficiency 

as Im an Jahr interdisciplinary 2007 hat die EnBW subject zudem in the die curStifriculumtung Energie or as & a theme Klimaschutz for school Baden-Würt- project 

groups. temberg gegründet. Die Stiftung möchte 

einen Beitrag zu einem besseren Verständnis 

der Zusammenhänge von Energiewirtschaft 

und Klimaschutz sowie zur Sicherung des 

Forschungsstandorts Baden-Württemberg 

leisten. Darüber hinaus bietet die Stiftung seit 

Mitte 2009 Schulen in Baden-Württemberg 

ihre Unterstützung bei der Leitbildentwicklung 

an. Dieses Angebot soll helfen, das Thema 

Energieeffizienz im fächerübergreifenden 

Unterricht oder in schulischen Arbeitsgemeinschaften 

zu verankern. 

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"The intelligent electricity meter has 

helped us as a family to reduce our 

energy consumption by up to 25%!" 

22 

Julia Schacht, test customer

Of power pioneers and energy detectives 

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The aroma of coffee wafts through the 

house, to the accompaniment of a hissing 

espresso machine in the kitchen and the 

hum of a hairdryer in the bathroom. The 

Schacht family, living nearby Stuttgart, 

start the new day just like other families. 

But unlike many other households, the 

Schachts always know exactly how much 

electricity they're using at any point in 

time. All they have to do is pop into the 

study and take a glance at the PC monitor, 

on which a curve rises and falls, showing the 

power being used by all the electrical appliances 

that are currently switched on or in 

standby mode. This is made possible by the 

"intelligent EnBW electricity meter", a unit 

that is easily and quickly installed in the cellar 

of a house in place of the conventional 

black dial-type meter. It is about the size of 

a shoe box and supplies updated consumption 

data to the PC two floors up by the second. 

A special software program then creates 

the corresponding diagram in real 

time. Moreover, a built-in transmission 

module sends a mean power consumption 

value to an EnBW server via DSL every fifteen 

minutes. All the stored long-term data 

can be processed, retrieved and analysed in 

easy-to-read graphic form at any time via 

the secure "EnBW Cockpit" Internet portal. 

This renders the electricity consumption 

habits of the family totally transparent. 

"It's really surprising to see how the curve 

changes every time a single household appliance 

is switched on or off", says Attikus 

Schacht, who works as a business consultant. 

This enabled the family to pinpoint a 

lot of energy guzzlers, appliances that appear 

to be switched off in standby mode but 

still use a lot of valuable energy. The entire 

family inspected every room in their new 

home "from the cellar to the roof", as Julia 

Schacht says, and disconnected the electrical 

appliances that were not in use. This was 

also a kind of energy-saving detective game 

for the children, who found the whole 

process quite exciting.

In 2007, the Schachts were one of around 

1,000 selected "power pioneers" who tested 

the new electricity meter during a one-year 

trial phase aimed at determining its practicality. 

"We were able to cut our electricity 

costs by around 20 to 25%", Julia Schacht 

estimates. This new transparency on the 

energy consumption front prompted the 

Schachts to start using energy-saving bulbs 

in the house and to generally only turn the 

washing machine and clothes dryer on after 

8 p.m. Alongside the intelligent electricity 

meter, EnBW namely also supplies a comprehensive 

package containing not only the 

software for real-time data and the Internet 

portal but also a monthly bill complete with 

energy efficiency tips and a special electricity 

tariff. People who systematically resched- 

ule their energy consumption to the 

evening and night-time hours can save 

money. A further service is designed to improve 

safety: the customer can ask to be 

sent a text message warning if electricity 

consumption exceeds a predefined level. 

This is particularly practical when customers 

go on holiday. "The classic case is 

when I ask myself whether I unplugged the 

iron when we're already 50 miles down the 

motorway", says Julia Schacht. 

The intelligent electricity meter has been 

available to all EnBW customers since October 

2008, and the demand is huge. But this 

is only the beginning for EnBW; in the coming 

years, the new meter is to become the 

centrepiece of a new energy management 

platform which will allow regulation of intelligent 

end-user appliances, energy storage 

and decentral generation. 

www.enbw.com 

› Intelligent electricity meter ‹ 

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Fit for future – 

new projects and intelligent products 

Generating strategy and 

renewable forms of energy 

The expansion of electricity generation 

from renewables is a core element in EnBW's 

growth strategy. We have set ourselves the 

target of increasing the share of renewable 

energy in our assured long-term electricity 

generation volume from the current figure 

of 13% to 20% by the year 2020. The volume 

of electricity generated from renewable 

sources will then be around 8 TWh higher 

than it is today, meaning that renewable will 

further solidify their position as a third key 

element in the EnBW energy mix alongside 

nuclear power and conventional energy. 

We already generate just under 9 TWh of 

electricity from renewable sources in our 

own and part-owned facilities as well as via 

secure long-term procurement agreements. 

The power in question comes almost exclusively 

from run-of-river power plants or 

from the natural inflow from storage power 

plants in Baden-Württemberg, Switzerland 

and Austria. 

We will expand our generating portfolio in 

the area of renewables in order to achieve 

these targets. In regional terms, our growth 

strategy in this area is focused on Baden- 

Württemberg, Germany, Turkey and selected 

countries in Eastern Europe. It is based 

on proven and cost-efficient technologies 

like onshore and offshore wind energy, the 

ongoing expansion of hydroelectric power, 

photovoltaics and power generation from 

biomass and biogas. 

We are conducting intensive research and 

development work into technologies like 

geothermal energy that are currently on the 

threshold to cost efficiency; these technologies 

will be brought to market maturity, 

then integrated in the growth process. One 

topical example of this strategy is the startup 

of the geothermal power plant in Bruchsal 

in 2009. 

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Our growth will mostly take place in a dynamic 

market environment. This is why we 

acquire, develop, build and operate our expansion 

projects as a fair partner and competitor, 

backed up by the flexibility, commitment 

and decision-making speed that is 

needed in the market for renewable forms 

of energy. Moreover, we are systematically 

extending our commitments along the 

project value added chain and looking at expansion 

options in areas like project development. 

We are creating investment opportunities 

for our customers and partners 

within the context of our cooperation model 

or via contracting projects like our current 

biomass contracting project with the 

Klenk company. 

We are confident that the growth strategy 

we are pursuing will strengthen our already 

excellent position in the field of renewables 

in Baden-Württemberg and Germany – and 

will also enable us to establish EnBW as an 

industry leader on the European stage. 

International climate 

protection projects 

The Kyoto Protocol contains three "flexible" 

instruments that enable countries to meet 

part of their CO 2 reduction commitments 

outside their own borders. By using these 

instruments, emissions can be avoided 

where this is possible at the lowest cost. Via 

the flexible Joint Implementation (JI) and 

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) instruments, 

the European Union permits 

German companies to offset the emission 

reductions from avoidance investments in 

other countries against their operations in 

Germany. EnBW is focusing in particular on 

CDM projects in developing countries and 

NICs. These activities help to integrate developing 

nations in international climate 

protection efforts and also promote the sustainable 

creation and expansion of the energy 

infrastructure in these countries. For several 

years now, EnBW has been active in the 

market as a buyer of certificates from existing 

CDM projects. In 2008, we decided to 

vertically extend the value added chain and 

to become directly involved in the development 

of CDM projects. Our future aim is to 

generate up to 2.5 million certificates a year 

from our own projects through the use of 

renewables and by implementing energy efficiency 

measures. Within the framework of 

this strategy, EnBW acts as a technology and 

funding partner in developing countries 

and NICs in order to bring the weight of its 

expertise in the field of renewables to bear 

in a way that generates benefits for the society 

in question as a whole. To this end, we 

are currently putting together a project 

portfolio made up of around 20 individual 

investments. The projects themselves are 

primarily focused on Latin America, Southeast 

Asia and South and East Africa. We are 

also making the necessary preparations for 

the creation of local "country offices" to enable 

us to control the various activities effectively 

and to build and maintain contacts 

with the host countries as well as with local 

partners. We plan to implement the first 

concrete reference projects by the end of 

2009. 

Our R&D experts have already had the opportunity 

to gain their first experiences 

with the CDM mechanisms in a pilot project 

for the cultivation of the jatropha plant in 

cooperation with partners associated with 

the University of Hohenheim. 

Also see p. 55

Research and innovation 

The Research and Innovation unit is busy 

developing new techniques and processes 

along our entire value added chain – complete 

with the corresponding application options 

at the customer end. The topics range 

from more efficient power plants with lower 

CO 2 emissions, international climate protection 

projects and the development of new 

sources of energy to intelligent electricity 

networks (smart grids) and options for the 

optimisation and use of geothermal heating 

and fuel cells. At EnBW, research and development 

are based on a holistic approach designed 

to encompass all options on the road 

to sustainable energy supply. 

In 2008, four of our research projects were 

presented with awards. In the same year, we 

also registered over ten patents – all of them 

relating to inventions in the field of renewables 

and intelligent electricity networks. 

The strategic core function of research and 

innovation is based at the Holding company. 

At the end of 2008, the unit comprised 19 

employees, mainly engineers, natural scientists 

and economists. Alongside this core 

unit, there were also numerous undergraduates 

and placement students who were 

writing their thesis in this field. The core 

team also comprises around 130 additional 

employees at the EnBW subsidiaries who 

develop and pursue innovative projects and 

products in their respective fields. Overall, 

we spent 28.9 million € on research during 

the year under review ; the figure for 2007 

was 32.4 million €, also due to the start-up 

costs of various projects and activities. 

We are still adhering to our decision not to 

operate our own laboratories but to concentrate 

on our own innovations during the phase 

from development to application. Within 

the area of fundamental research, we cooperate 

with renowned scientific institutes; 

when it comes to newly developed products, 

we implement our ideas in a hands-on environment 

in cooperation with the industry 

and our suppliers either in-house or on the 

premises of our customers and partners. 

Our most important external research and 

innovation partners are the scientific institutes 

in Baden-Württemberg, in particular in 

Hohenheim, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Close 

ties also exist with universities and research 

institutions in Aachen, Berlin, Cottbus, 

Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Munich. 

EnBW has also stepped up its cooperation 

with the European Institute for Energy 

Research (EIfER) founded in 2001 by EDF and 

the University of Karlsruhe: in 2008, there 

were a total of 29 joint projects, most of 

them focusing on decentral energy supply, 

energy technology for urban conurbations 

and the effects of climate change in the region. 

2008 Annual Report, p. 76 et seq. 

and the 2008 Innovation Report, 

p. 70 et seq. 

The MeRegio model project – 

the intelligent network 

Picture a plug socket that recognises when 

electricity is particularly cheap and then 

switches on the washing machine. Vision or 

reality? EnBW launched a pilot project with 

the name MeRegio (Minimum Emission Region) 

in 2009 to make this vision a reality. 

The aim is to show, together with various 

partners in industry and research, that the 

intelligent combination of technical energy 

management and innovative information 

and communication technologies (ICT) can 

pave the way for significantly increased energy 

efficiency – in all areas along the energy 

value added chain. The key elements in this 

endeavour are the sustainable choice of 

technology in the area of generation, customer-focused 

and legally compliant energy 

markets and an overriding ICT infrastructure 

that allows optimum integration of 

existing and new energy supply units while 

directly integrating customers in the energy 

markets in years to come. 

The MeRegio project supported to the tune 

of around 10 million € by the German Ministry 

of Economic Affairs under the "E-Energy" 

programme focuses on three aspects: 

cost efficiency, supply reliability and environmental 

soundness. In the first phase, an 

infrastructure system is being created in the 

form of a model region as the necessary basis 

for the further activities of all the partners 

involved in the process. During the subsequent 

phases, the participants will be 

integrated through the step-by-step creation 

of the regional energy marketplace. Alongside 

EnBW, the other equal partners in the 

project are the companies ABB, IBM, SAP and 

systemplan GmbH as well as the Karlsruhe 

Institute for Technology (KIT). 

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The jointly developed concepts will be tested 

and evaluated under real-world conditions 

during the next four years in the model regions 

Göppingen and Freiamt/Ettenheim. 

For this purpose, a total of 1,000 commercial 

and private customers will be hooked up to a 

"Network of the Future". Based on this network, 

it will be possible to analyse various 

technical solutions and market models for 

the intelligent networking of electricity consumers, 

decentral electricity storage units 

and generators. The centrepiece of this project 

is the development of a marketplace for 

the coordination of decentral energy supply, 

energy demand and new services – an approach 

that creates benefits for all parties: 

consumers can "choose" their electricity 

price. Customers who have unit-type heatand-power 

systems can, for example, operate 

them when the remuneration fees are at 

their highest. Energy companies can operate 

their networks and power plants more efficiently 

and in a more environment-friendly 

way. But that is not all. This process of intelligent 

integration will continue in the households 

of our customers, where the electrical 

appliances will communicate with the central 

system and will be coupled to a dynamic 

tariff, which means they will be able to 

"recognise" the times during which electricity 

is cheapest. 

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A further goal of the MeRegio project is the 

development of an environmental compatibility 

certificate. All the project partners are 

working together to prepare a corresponding 

document and to perform sample certification 

processes using the model regions as 

examples. Moreover, a catalogue of measures 

is being drawn up to inform other interested 

regions about the options for improving 

their energy efficiency. In future, the 

idea is that this certificate will permit easy 

comparability between different regions in 

terms of the greenhouse gas emissions from 

their energy supply facilities. 

The overall findings of the MeRegio project, 

which will remain in operation until 2012, 

will provide valuable insights and information 

on the requirements for the energy industry 

of the future and pave the way for the 

first practical steps in the development of an 

intelligent network ("smart grid"). 

www.enbw.com 

› MeRegio ‹ 

Innovative cars for MeRegio mobility 

The MeRegioMobil research project is an extension 

of the MeRegio model trial and integrates 

electromobiles as mobile storage 

units in the overall process of decentral generation, 

storage and consumption of electrical 

energy. This project, which is being promoted 

by the German Ministry of Economic 

Affairs as part of the "E-Energy" competition, 

will investigate various options for hooking 

up batteries by connecting charging stations 

to building energy management systems. 

This process involves intelligent charging 

stations that are compatible with the household 

network and that can be used both for 

charging and for feeding electricity back into 

the system. The car would then charge its 

batteries at night when the demand for electricity 

is low. The next morning, the driver 

will have a fully charged vehicle at his disposal; 

alternatively, the vehicle can feed electricity 

back into the household network in 

the event of power shortages. What is especially 

innovative about this process is the 

way it interconnects intelligent household 

appliances and electric vehicles in common 

networks in order to balance out load fluctuations. 

In a new demonstration lab, the researchers 

will be able to simulate the complex 

interrelationships associated with the 

integration of electric vehicles in an energy 

system and to visualise these processes for 

customers. 

Alongside the development of intelligent 

charging stations, other focal points of the 

project, which is scheduled to run until 2011, 

include the creation and testing of public 

infrastructures as well as the preparation of 

suitable billing systems which will be tested 

in a regional field trial. The use of intelligent 

charging stations and "charging pumps" is 

also part of the "Model Region Stuttgart" research 

project. This will allow the generation 

of synergies between the two projects, as it 

will be possible to directly implement the 

results of the development process and test 

the concepts in practice.

Stuttgart – a model region 

for "electromobility" 

As part of the German government's "Economic 

Stimulus Package II", Stuttgart was 

chosen as a model region for electromobility 

together with 7 other regions. The focus is on 

the testing and timely market launch of electric 

vehicles. The key themes of the Stuttgart 

project, which is scheduled to run until 2011, 

are intermodal mobility and public awareness. 

Mobility is only sustainable if it can be 

provided cost-efficiently, is environmentfriendly 

and suitable for widespread use. 

Various measures are being taken within the 

framework of the project to ensure that as 

many people as possible profit from "electromobility". 

They include the provision of a 

large number of the different available vehicle 

types, a wide range of charging options 

within the city boundaries and a common 

communication portal. 

EnBW will make a total of 500 electrically 

driven two-wheelers (so-called "e-scooters") 

from different manufacturers available to 

the local people. A further 200 e-rollers are 

to be used in municipal mobility projects 

within the model region. All in all, 700 intelligent 

charging points are planned for the 

project and will be located on public roads, 

in multi-storey carparks and parking lots as 

well as on company premises and in private 

areas. The charging points, most of which are 

produced by project partner Bosch, will be 

technically equipped by EnBW and installed 

in a close-knit network. 

In order to set the public mood for this innovative 

topic as early as possible, EnBW will 

launch an "advance trial" comprising the 

first 50 scooters and 20 charging stations. 

These test scooters will be equipped to serve 

as "labs on wheels", providing insights into 

the mobility habits of users during the trial 

phase. 

The charging pumps will be installed at underground 

stations, "Call a Bike" points or 

railway stations. At these central e-hubs, people 

will be able to "fill up" not just cars but also 

e-scooters and pedelecs (electrically driven 

bicycles). These network hubs will be a key 

element in the spread of electromobility. 

A further module in the system is the development 

and testing of an "intermodal e-mobility 

portal", via which interested parties 

and users can obtain information on all issues 

relating to electro-mobility. 

Today, with the "Model Region Stuttgart" and 

the related "MeRegio" and "MeRegioMobil" 

sister projects, EnBW is already taking the 

first targeted steps on the road to sustainable 

mobility. 

Microalgae for CO 2-fixation 

Reducing CO 2 emissions is one way of containing 

global warming. Another option is 

to store CO 2 that has already been produced 

or to bind it using plants. In March 2008, 

EnBW and Subitec GmbH in Stuttgart 

launched a multi-year project to investigate 

the potential for the fixation of CO 2 from 

flue gases using microalgae. Around 1.8 kg 

of CO 2 are bound in 1 kg of microalgae. 

Moreover, microalgae can produce up to 

ten times the area-based yield of conventional 

terrestrial plants. 

Algae growth is being researched in highperformance 

new-generation algae bioreactors 

developed by Subitec in cooperation 

with the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial 

Engineering and Biotechnology in Stuttgart. 

The pilot facility in Eutingen im Gäu in the 

Freudenstadt district processes the CO 2 

from a unit-type heat-and-power plant used 

in an agricultural biogas plant. The aim of 

EnBW is to investigate the energy profile 

and economic efficiency of algae production 

in order to determine the feasibility of 

the method for the fixation of CO 2 from 

power plants. 

The produced algae biomass is in great demand 

in industry for the extraction of basic 

substances used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals 

and foodstuffs. The remaining biomass 

can be used to generate energy or as animal 

feed. The wide range of potential applications 

means that algae production could 

well be a financially lucrative activity – particularly 

in view of the fact that it does not 

take up any of the farmland needed for food 

production. 

Moreover, the project won an award in the 

2009 "Germany – Land of Ideas" competition 

organised by the German government. 

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Wind energy from offshore 

and onshore installations 

Wind power plays a key role in the energy 

mix of the future – both on land and on the 

high seas. EnBW is active in both areas: since 

2008, we have been developing four major 

offshore projects in the North Sea and the 

Baltic that, once completed, will supply a total 

electrical capacity of around 1,200 MW 

and generate roughly 4.3 billion kWh of 

electricity every year. The total investment 

volume for the four wind energy projects is 

in the order of 3 billion €. In 2010, "Baltic 1" 

will be the first – and probably the first commercial 

offshore wind project in Germany – 

of the four projects to go into operation with 

an electrical capacity of 48.3 MW. 

Capacities in the onshore segment are also 

being expanded on a continuous basis, 

backed up by the necessary investment. In 

February 2009, for example, EnBW acquired 

three onshore wind farms in Lower Saxony 

and Brandenburg comprising a total of 26 

wind energy installations with a total installed 

capacity of 52 MW. 

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Hydroelectric power 

Hydroelectric power is currently the most 

important source of electricity from renewables 

worldwide. The power of water is 

a lasting resource; it does not use any primary 

energy sources like coal, oil or gas and 

therefore does not emit any carbon dioxide. 

EnBW has long been involved in this reliable 

and climate-friendly form of energy generation. 

The share of hydroelectric power in our 

generation volume is above the German 

average, and this enables us to make an 

effective contribution to environmental 

and climate protection. 

EnBW operates 66 run-of-river power plants 

and 12 pumped-storage power plants with a 

total installed capacity of around 3,300 MW. 

A 67th run-of-river plant is currently being 

built at the Neckar barrage in Esslingen and 

is scheduled to go into service in 2011. The 

construction of the new run-of-river power 

plant in Rheinfelden is currently the biggest 

new hydroelectric power project in Europe 

with a total electrical capacity of around 

100 MW. The facility will go into operation 

step by step in 2010 and will have the capacity 

to generate around 600 million kWh of 

electricity a year – enough to provide electricity 

to a medium-sized city with 170,000 

households. This represents more than 

three times the annual volume of electricity 

currently produced in Rheinfelden. 

We are implementing another large-scale 

hydroelectric power project in Iffezheim on 

the Upper Rhine. Since the summer of 

2009, work has been ongoing on turning 

the existing power plant into one of the 

biggest run-of-river power plants in Europe 

by adding a fifth machine. The new turbine 

has an output capacity of 38 MW, taking the 

overall capacity of the facility to 148 MW. 

From 2012, the Rheinkraftwerk Iffezheim 

(RKI) power plant will be running on all five 

turbines, supplying around 540,000 people 

with CO 2-free electricity. The operator is 

Rheinkraftwerk Iffezheim GmbH, in which 

both EnBW Kraftwerke AG and EDF hold a 

50% stake. The construction of the fifth 

machine is a joint project of the power plant 

owners. 

Following a construction time of four years, 

the Kops II pumped-storage plant in Vorarlberg 

went on stream in November 2008 and 

has since been supplying EnBW with valuable 

peak-load and control energy. Kops II is one 

of Europe's most spectacular hydroelectric 

power plants and can provide an output of 

450 MW for the EnBW energy control centre 

at the push of a button. One of the things 

that makes the power plant facility so special 

is that it is "invisible" from the outside. 

The three machine assemblies comprising 

Pelton turbine, generator, coupling and 

pump are located inside the mountain – as 

is the power plant, which is housed in a cavern 

61 metres high, 80 metres long and 30 

metres wide. 

Energy from renewable 

raw materials 

Wood and other "energy plants" are renewable 

raw materials, and the combustion of 

these materials is CO 2-neutral, as their incineration 

releases only as much CO 2 as the 

plants took from the atmosphere during 

their growth phase. For EnBW, biomass power 

plants represent a further step towards 

effective climate protection. Alongside the 

already high share of emission-free generation 

from the power of water and wind, biomass 

plays an increasingly important role 

in our renewable energy mix: we produce 

electricity and heat in biomass heat-andpower 

plants, and we are involved in researching 

options for the upgrading of biogas 

to achieve natural gas quality. 

In 2008, EnBW installed one of the first continuous-duty 

biogas feed plants in Baden- 

Württemberg in the town of Burgrieden 

near Laupheim. The pilot project is a cooperative 

venture of EnBW subsidiary Erdgas 

Südwest and Bioenergie Laupheim GmbH & 

Co. KG, in which 21 farmers from the region 

and the community of Burgrieden have

joined forces. At the pilot plant, Erdgas Südwest 

is employing a trendsetting concept to 

demonstrate how bio natural gas can be 

produced and used cost-effectively and sustainably 

along the entire value added chain 

from biogas production and gas processing 

to distribution and consumption. Moreover, 

a novel method is being used to capture the 

harmful methane gases escaping during gas 

cleaning and to save energy by using this 

gas to heat the fermenter. 

To date, biogas has generally been used to 

generate heat and electricity in a unit-type 

heat-and-power plant directly at the production 

location. In many cases, however, it 

is difficult or impossible to make use of the 

occurring heat. This is where the idea of bio 

natural gas comes in: after it has been upgraded 

to form natural gas, biogas can be 

transported via the existing natural gas network 

and effectively used at locations with 

high-level heating requirements. This decouples 

generation and consumption in 

terms of both location and time, making it 

possible to significantly increase the percentage 

of heating energy that is used and 

therefore the overall efficiency of biogas 

utilisation. 

The bio natural gas plant in Burgrieden was 

presented with an award in the nationwide 

"Germany – Land of Ideas" competition. An 

independent jury chose the EnBW biogas 

feed system from around 1,500 entries. 

A total of 5.1 million m 3 of biogas are 

produced every year – enough to supply 

around 1,000 households. 

A further project is located in Emmertsbühl 

(in the Schwäbisch Hall district). EnBW Gas 

GmbH (GAS) plans to build and operate a 

system for the processing of biogas to produce 

natural gas quality in the immediate 

vicinity of this biogas generating plant, in 

operation since 2005. In cooperation with 

the operator of this generating facility, GAS 

is pursuing an innovative connection strategy 

for the feed of the processed bio natural 

gas into an existing supply network. 

The new idea behind this concept is that the 

bio natural gas is fed not into a high-pressure 

network but into a nearby mediumpressure 

network. This means it is no longer 

necessary to operate a compressor yearround 

to raise the pressure of the gas to 

make it suitable for the high-pressure line. 

This approach allows a huge reduction in 

the overall amount of energy needed for the 

facility. In addition, it was possible to reduce 

the length of the connecting line from the 

original 5,000 m to around 700 m. The fedin 

gas volume is equivalent to the annual 

consumption of almost 1,000 households. 

Efficient conventional 

power generation 

Coal, oil and gas are sources of energy that 

are of central significance for the reliable 

and baseload-capable supply of energy, and 

they will continue to play a key role in a balanced 

generating mix in years to come. One 

of the primary goals of EnBW is therefore to 

boost the efficiency of its plants to reduce 

the energy input volume while simultaneously 

cutting emission levels. 

EnBW's new power plant in the Rheinhafen 

port district of Karlsruhe sets new standards 

in the field of conventional energy generation. 

Moreover, the use of the very latest 

technology achieves maximum efficiency 

as well as the lowest possible specific CO 2 

emission levels for a coal-fired power plant. 

By employing a variety of innovative measures 

– in particular thanks to especially 

high-level steam parameters – RDK 8 

achieves a net efficiency of over 46%, a figure 

that has never previously been achieved 

by a coal-fired power plant; the average efficiency 

rate for German coal-fired power 

plants is around 38%. The efficiency of 

RDK 8 is additionally boosted by the use of 

heat-and-power cogeneration to produce 

district heat. In addition, the choice of a 

design for the flue gas purification systems 

that exceeds the statutory requirements 

halves the mean annual values at RDK that 

are of relevance for emissions – those of 

dust and nitrogen oxide, for example. 

The POWER optimisation programme 

geared towards optimising efficiency while 

reducing emissions was launched in 2007 

and was once again a great success during 

the year under review. Individual projects 

like the installation of an auxiliary steam 

cross-connector at the Altbach/Deizisau 

location or the front-to-end optimisation of 

Block 7 in Heilbronn have been successfully 

initiated or completed. Plans are currently 

being drawn up for the implementation of 

follow-on projects in the coming years. 

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Promoting photovoltaics 

The number of photovoltaic systems has 

increased dramatically in recent years. In 

Baden-Württemberg, more than 16,000 solar 

collectors are meanwhile hooked up to 

the EnBW network, and this number is increasing 

every day. EnBW will in future step 

up its investment in high-yield installations 

in southern Germany. 

Through our "SolarBürgerAktiv" programme, 

we promote the funding and installation 

of photovoltaic systems together 

with the municipalities: since August 2008, 

for example, over a dozen families in the 

community of Mulfingen have joined forces 

to generate electricity from the power of the 

sun. They set up a "citizens' investment 

company" to install 170 modules with an 

output of around 29.5 KW and a total annual 

generating capacity of around 27,000 

KWh on the flat roof of the secondary 

school. The power produced in this way is 

fed into the network of EnBW. This electricity 

volume is equivalent to the power consumption 

of around 8 four-person households 

with an average energy requirement 

of 3,500 kWh. With this project, the "citizens' 

investment company" avoids the emission 

of over 14 tons of CO 2 a year. 

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Trading of energy generated 

from renewable sources 

In the summer of 2008, EnBW set up the 

EnBW Erneuerbare Energien GmbH company. 

This decision underlines the importance 

of renewables in both the energy mix and 

the growth strategy of EnBW. EnBW Trading 

GmbH (ETG) then launched the "Value 

Added Chain Renewables" project. During 

this process, the foundations for the marketing 

of this new product were laid in cooperation 

with EnBW Kraftwerke GmbH 

(KWG) and EnBW Vertriebs- und Servicegesellschaft 

mbH (VSG). 

The TÜV NORD company has meanwhile 

granted certification to 14 run-of-river power 

plants operated by KWG, paving the way 

for the marketing of electricity from renewable 

energy with its "green" value added. 

ETG conducted the first electricity trading 

transaction of this kind on July 30, 2009. 

This makes EnBW one of the first energy 

supply companies in Germany to offer certified 

electricity from one hundred percent 

hydroelectric power to their trading partners. 

In the next step, VSG intends to use this 

certification to add a number of "green" 

electricity products to its portfolio. 

Energy Efficiency Networks – 

a platform for energy savers 

Efficiency is currently right at the top of the 

agenda in the field of energy policy and is 

also more important than ever before as a 

competitive factor for modern companies. 

The pressure to cut costs is growing daily. 

The potential for economy is particularly 

great when it comes to energy consumption, 

but many companies simply lack the 

time to engage this issue to the necessary 

degree. EnBW has recognised this problem 

and offers a targeted solution in the regional 

platforms provided by the EnBW Energy 

Efficiency Networks. 

In this way, EnBW also establishes a new 

kind of relationship with its customers, as in 

years to come it will not only be the supply 

of energy that is key but also the quality 

and depth of the partnership. As a partner, 

our aim is to provide a form of sustainable 

value added that our customers also notice 

and benefit from in their day-to-day business 

operations: in other words, our intention 

is to create a specific cooperation-based 

relationship that extends beyond advisory 

and other services and also addresses all the 

energy topics that are central to the core 

business activities of the company in question. 

There are meanwhile twelve such EnBW Energy 

Efficiency Networks spread across Germany: 

Ravensburg, Mitteldeutschland, 

Weser-Ems, Franken-Oberpfalz, Donau-Alb, 

Süd-West, Stuttgart-Voralb-Schwarzwald, 

Heilbronn-Franken, Hannover-Harz, Hanse, 

Rhein-Main and Bayern-Südost. They have 

been existent for varying lengths of time: 

Ravensburg was the first one to go into operation 

in May 2006. There are plans to set 

up further platforms in the coming years.

Anywhere up to 15 companies are active in 

the individual networks, and they come 

from sectors as diverse as plastics processing, 

metal working technology, the paper industry 

or the food industry. Following a first 

working meeting of the network participants, 

EnBW experts prepare a tailored energy 

efficiency diagnosis for each company 

which serves as the basis for the definition 

of a specific saving target and for the resulting 

technical recommendations aimed at 

increasing efficiency levels. These measures 

can extend to different areas, like compressed 

air supply, heat insulation, motor 

efficiency, heat recovery or lighting. All network 

participants meet regularly during the 

three-year duration of the scheme to exchange 

experiences, to learn from each other 

and to motivate one another. The events 

are chaired by energy experts from EnBW. 

Today, a total of 156 companies are active in 

these networks, and the initial results show 

that it is certainly a worthwhile institution. 

Within the last three years, for example, the 

Ravensburg network members have improved 

their energy efficiency by an average 

8.3%, a figure well above the projected 

network target of 7.6% which was the aim of 

the surveyed companies. This means that 

each company has been able to cut its annual 

energy costs by around 180,000 € on average. 

Alongside the Ravensburg network, 

there are also other networks that have been 

working with great success for some time 

now. The Mitteldeutschland network, for 

example, has also been operating for three 

years, while the Weser-Ems, Franken-Oberpfalz 

and Donau-Alb networks can look back 

on one year of joint energy saving. All in all, 

these five networks have implemented a total 

of 318 energy efficiency measures and 

saved around 44 million kWh of energy a 

year, equivalent to the annual energy consumption 

of 2,200 households. The 41 companies 

who have implemented measures 

in-house save around 3 million € in energy 

costs – every year. In addition to the purely 

monetary savings, this also means a reduction 

in annual CO 2 emissions of around 

13 million kg. 

Thomas Wagner, the responsible product 

manager at EnBW, therefore sees three 

winners: "The companies achieve a lasting 

reduction in their energy costs, the environment 

benefits from the reduced CO 2 

burden and we as an energy supplier naturally 

also profit from satisfied customers – 

even if they consume less electricity." 

EnBW is currently developing a number of 

models in order to further step up its activities 

in the area of energy efficiency. This 

developmental process will culminate in a 

front-to-end range of services from initial 

advisory services all the way through to the 

implementation of energy-saving measures 

in the companies. 

Clean Diesel – 

particulate filter system 

The new EU Directive stipulating stricter 

limits for particulate matter was introduced 

on January 1, 2005. In its capacity of service 

provider to the municipalities, EnBW Regional 

AG (REG) was asked at the beginning 

of 2007 whether particulate filter systems 

were also available for commercial vehicles. 

In-depth market research showed that no 

reliable and environmentally efficient systems 

were available at the time. This 

prompted EnBW to develop a suitable particulate 

filter system for commercial vehicles 

with the support of the TÜV Hessen 

technical inspection agency, cooperation 

partner H. Daugbjerg (filter production) and 

Clean Diesel Technologies (the patent owner 

for the regeneration additive). 

EnBW's aim is to play a technological pioneering 

role in reducing harmful particulate 

emissions and exhaust gas components 

from commercial vehicles. This means that, 

acting as a partner of the municipalities, we 

can make a key contribution to environmental 

protection and towards improving 

the quality of the air we breathe. 

The product was first developed to series 

production standard, and all the necessary 

approvals were granted at the end of August 

2009. The system is now to be sold, as EnBW 

does not intend to become involved in the 

nationwide marketing of the product. 

In in-depth testing series, some of them carried 

out by the TÜV Hessen company, the 

system has been shown to reduce particulate 

emissions by over 99% without increasing 

harmful NO 2 emissions (which can occur 

as an undesired side effect in particulate 

reduction systems). Thanks to the EnBW 

clean diesel particulate reduction system 

(ECDPF 1), commercial vehicles that meet 

only the exhaust standards in line with 

EURO 1, 2 and 3 can be converted to satisfy 

PMK2 (PM EURO 4). In terms of particulate 

emissions, the system even complies with 

the EURO 6 standard. Around 170,000 commercial 

vehicles suitable for ECDPF1 retrofitting 

are currently registered nationwide. 

This adds up to a potential avoidance volume 

of around 400 t of particulate emissions 

each year. We recently retrofitted the 

team coach of Bundesliga soccer club Karlsruher 

SC, and the coach now bears the green 

eco-badge and is allowed to drive through 

all the environmental zones in Germany. 

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Measurement vehicle 

checks light intensity 

In 2008, the Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG municipal 

utility – in which EnBW holds a stake 

– developed a lighting measurement vehicle 

in cooperation with the Südwestfalen 

University of Applied Sciences to record illumination 

intensity and light density while 

it drives along the road. Based on the measurement 

data from "Autolux", the street 

lighting can then be evaluated and the status 

documented. The results are visualised 

in the form of "illumination intensity 

maps". This makes it possible to identify 

and remedy weak points – and also allows 

the pinpointing of excessively lit areas in 

the street lighting system, paving the way 

for the exploitation of economy potentials. 

This technique allows the measurement of 

large areas within a short space of time. It 

would not be financially feasible for a city or 

possible in terms of personnel to arrive at 

comparable findings based on individual 

measurements. This method provides the 

responsible street lighting planners with 

detailed information on which to base decisions 

that can also be provably documented 

vis-à-vis third parties. This in turn is of importance 

throughout Germany within the 

context of the Municipal Charges Act (KAG), 

as it enables the municipal authorities to 

provide evidence of illumination improvements 

and/or to pass on the associated 

costs to the local residents on a pro rata basis. 

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Environmentally sound 

lighting technology 

The use of artificial lighting in outdoor areas 

is part and parcel of our day-to-day living 

environment, and the use of this kind of 

lighting is set to increase further as residential 

zones are extended further and further 

out of the town centres. Many municipalities 

have been aware of this problem for a 

number of years and are trying to convert 

their street lighting systems to energy-saving 

lamp technology, primarily with the aim 

of reducing energy consumption. In the 

past, the fact has been generally overlooked 

that the optimisation of street lighting can 

also make an important contribution to nature 

conservation and biodiversity. It was 

with this in mind that the Stadtwerke Düsseldorf 

AG municipal utility decided to conduct 

a study on "Street Lighting and the Environment" 

together with the Institute of 

Zoology at the University of Mainz and the 

Düsseldorf Environmental Agency. This 

study investigated the insect-friendliness of 

the various different types of lamps used in 

outdoor areas. The study showed that LED 

lighting, and warm white light in particular, 

is extremely insect-friendly and therefore 

environmentally sound. In future, this 

scientific study will play a key role in 

approvals within the framework of FFH 

projects (flora-fauna-habitat guideline) and 

gives us even more incentive to continue 

promoting the use of LEDs in street lighting 

systems. 

Carefree holidays with "Pro Climate" 

Together with EnBW Regional AG, the communities 

of Illmensee, Ostrach, Pfullendorf, 

Wald and Wilhelmsdorf which make up the 

Northern Lake Constance holiday region 

have created what they call the "climateneutral 

vacation", a package that is unique 

anywhere in Germany. The EnBW subsidiary 

developed a scheme that allows holidaymakers 

to offset all their vacation-related 

CO 2 emissions by helping to reduce greenhouse 

emissions in other locations. 

The partner of EnBW in this scheme is a 

highly reputed organisation: Global-woods 

AG, a company that has been pursuing 

reforestation for more than ten years now 

in the interests of worldwide climate protection. 

Global-woods provides proof that it 

has planted as many trees in Argentina, 

Paraguay and Uganda as is necessary to offset 

the CO 2 caused by the holiday-makers. 

Global-woods is voluntarily committed to 

complying with the strict regulations of the 

nonprofit CarbonFixStandards, an organisation 

that is recognised by both political 

decision-makers and environmental protection 

organisations. 25 cents per holiday 

guest and overnight stay are invested in the 

projects. 

During the first few years, EnBW and the 

Northen Lake Constance holiday region 

each pay half of the cost of the reforestation 

projects, equivalent to up to 30,000 € per 

season. Following the start-up phase, the 

holiday-makers will be able to voluntarily 

pay the relevant charge themselves, enabling 

them to compensate for their "CO 2footprint". 

The emissions caused by the 

vacations in question can be precisely 

determined using a CO 2 calculator. Accompanying 

holiday season events for adults 

and children and a dedicated climate protection 

portal are designed to additionally 

raise awareness levels among holiday guests 

and the local people.

Local citizens as energy entrepreneurs 

When it founded the first "people's energy 

cooperative" in Baden-Württemberg, the 

town of Aichstetten in the Ravensburg district 

launched an innovative concept for the 

promotion of regional energy projects. This 

model concept was put into operation in July 

2008 by the council and the local people. 

EnBW Regional AG advises and supports interested 

municipalities from the original 

idea all the way through to implementation. 

The basic idea is that the "people's energy 

cooperatives" implement concrete projects 

on local level to support climate-friendly 

energy policy in Baden-Württemberg. Solutions 

are tailored to local conditions to ensure 

that the use of renewables is promoted 

efficiently and in the most meaningful way. 

Anyone can join the cooperative for an initial 

stake of 100 €. The "shareholders" can 

expect a reasonable return on their investment, 

as the German Renewables Act guarantees 

fixed prices for electricity fed in 

from renewable sources. These "people's energy 

cooperatives" are based on the cooperative 

principle and the tenets of self-help, 

self-administration and self-responsibility. 

No matter how many shares they hold, for 

example, each member has just one vote. 

To date, 16 cooperatives have been founded 

with around 2,000 members holding well 

over 14,000 shares in total. The first intermunicipal 

"people's energy cooperative" 

was started up in December 2008: the 

"BürgerEnergiegenossenschaft Wangen" 

in the Allgäu region, a partnership-based 

venture of the municipalities of Achberg, 

Amtzell, Argenbühl, Kißlegg and Wangen. 

Decontamination of the Gaisburg site 

A gasworks has been in operation in the district 

of Gaisburg since 1875, and the typical 

contamination of the soil found in such locations 

is also present at the Gaisburg site. 

The first substrate surveys were commissioned 

back in 1987 by the company who 

operated the facility at the time. As the successor 

company at this location, EnBW continued 

the investigations and, following numerous 

analysis surveys, completed these 

investigations in May 2007. In order to adequately 

address the complexity of the damage 

profile and meet the ambitious decontamination 

goals, we conducted several 

concept studies and a research project to 

develop the optimum concept for this job. 

In April 2009, the implementation phase 

began with the start-up of the trial plant for 

groundwater decontamination. The decontamination 

measures should be completed 

by the end of 2011, and a groundwater monitoring 

project will then be put in place. 

In addition to planning the necessary 

decontamination measures, EnBW aims to 

pursue a more holistic strategy and is trying 

to integrate these measures in the construction 

work soon to be performed on the company 

site. We are looking into the possibility 

of a natural plant-based sewage system 

extending the length of the planned new 

building as an alternative solution to 

groundwater cleaning. The aim is to meaningfully 

integrate the external areas and the 

required decontamination measures from 

the point of view of both technical and 

landscaping considerations. We are also 

looking into the options for using this 

groundwater for cooling and heating purposes 

in the planned new facility. 

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"Flexible working time models, the 

option of working part-time and the 

child office are a great advantage for 

anyone who wants to reconcile the 

varying needs of career and family." 

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Steffen Wörner, EnBW employee

Positive for the family through and through 

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"Bye, see you later", says Dr. Uta Wörner, 

hugs her family and sets off for work. The 

35 year-old doctor can go to work with an 

easy conscience, because she knows her 

husband can handle the demands of their 

two sons. Lukas, the older brother, is already 

rising from the breakfast table; he 

grabs his lunch package and heads for 

school. Meanwhile, four year-old Maximilian 

continues to take his time enjoying the 

first meal of the day until his dad makes a 

move, finishes dressing him and takes him 

to the nursery. By this time, it's normally 

between 8:30 and 9 a.m., and Steffen Wörner 

finally arrives at his workplace in the 

Durlacher Allee in Karlsruhe at half past 

nine at the latest. 

The Wörners decided right at the outset that 

they wanted to share the challenges presented 

by "project family". "It's not right if 

one of the partners figuratively climbs 

Mount Everest while the other one has to 

stay dejectedly at base camp", is how the 41 

year-old holder of a degree in business administration 

describes his viewpoint. Even 

back in 1999, when his oldest son Lukas was

orn, the personnel controller took advantage 

of the services provided by the "pme 

Familienservice" when he was looking for 

suitable childcare. This service for employees 

is financed by EnBW. Grandparents are, 

however, still one of the cornerstones of the 

Wörner family model, and they regularly 

help the working parents out by looking after 

the children. The other cornerstone is 

the flexible working time concept that has 

been in place at EnBW since the late 1990s. 

It was this model that enabled the young 

mother to complete her studies and her 

PhD and to then take up employment in a 

hospital as an assistant physician until her 

second son was born in 2005. 

Now Maximilian, the "baby" of the family, is 

also profiting from the options that EnBW 

provides for not just female employees: 

Dr. Uta Wörner meanwhile works part-time, 

but when she has more time-consuming 

appointments two to three times a month, 

then she counts on the flexibility of her 

husband. In other words, Steffen Wörner 

leaves his workplace at midday on these 

days, picks up his sons from the school and 

nursery, and takes them back to work with 

him. After lunch in the company restaurant, 

they head to the "child office": Steffen 

Wörner logs on at the PC, Lukas does his 

homework, and the youngest son has fun 

playing with the toys or drawing pictures – 

or getting to know other "EnBW kids" who 

happen to be there too. "The child office is 

perfect for our needs" says the personnel 

controller. "I can keep my eye on the boys 

and still concentrate on my work and take 

care of urgent tasks." 

Uta Wörner then arrives around 4 p.m. to 

collect the children, and Steffen Wörner, a 

self-confessed night-owl, can return to his 

proper workplace to deal with the rest of his 

work and take care of anything else that 

needs to be done before the end of the day. 

"The child office, the option of working 

part-time and flexible working time models 

hugely simplify matters for me", the EnBW 

employee says. "They lay the foundation for 

a new and extremely positive family experience: 

taking us away from the traditional 

solution that generally puts women at a disadvantage 

and providing well thought-out 

alternatives that are ultimately to the benefit 

of all parties." 

The reactions of his work colleagues and of 

the people he mixes with in the private 

sphere are generally positive and provide 

additional confirmation that he made the 

right decision. His boss, Tilo Haas, also a 

father-of-two, echoes these reactions: "The 

services on offer are simply terrific. If they'd 

have been in place when my kids were 

young, I'd certainly have taken advantage 

of them." 

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Pulling in the same direction – 

employer and employees 

Employee headcount 

At the end of 2008, the EnBW Group employed 

20,501 people, which means the 

number of employees was almost the same 

as in the previous year (20,265). More than 

one in two employees worked in the Electricity 

business area, while Energy and Environmental 

Services accounted for just over 

35% and Gas for around 5% of EnBW employees. 

95.8% of our employees were working 

on unlimited employment contracts as 

of the end of 2008. 69.8% of our employees 

were based on Baden-Württemberg, 26.1% 

in other German states and 4.1% worked 

abroad. 

Personnel structure 

The percentage of women in the overall workforce 

was 24.8%, compared to 24.1% for the 

previous year. Year on year, the share of parttime 

employees – which also includes our 

employees in the partial retirement phase – 

rose slightly by 0.9% to 10.8%, equivalent to 

2,208 employees. Women accounted for 1,321 

(59.8%) of all part-time employees. In 2008, 

the share of women in management positions 

within the EnBW Group showed a modest increase 

from 6.9% to 7.2%. 

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At the end of the year under review, the 

EnBW Group had 986 handicapped and severely 

handicapped employees (previous 

year: 944), 4.8% of the total headcount. As of 

December 31, 2008, the percentage of non- 

German employees in the Group was at 

6.6 %. On data protection grounds, no data 

are collected on minorities at EnBW. 

The average age of the EnBW workforce was 

only slightly higher than the 2007 figure 

(43.1) at 43.4. The average duration of company 

service showed a modest increase 

from 16.1 to 16.7 years. The breakdown of 

employees by age was more or less unchanged 

compared to 2007. The fluctuation 

rate stood at 5.4% and includes all departures 

including retirement – but without 

internal moves and moves between companies. 

21.4% of the employees in the EnBW Group 

hold academic degrees (previous year: 

20.2%). The number of employees who have 

technical college diplomas or who have 

completed an apprenticeship is almost unchanged 

at 72.8% (after 72.7%), while 5.8% 

possess school leaving diplomas but have 

no vocational qualifications (compared to 

7.1% in the previous year). 

2008 Booklet, p. 23 

Apprenticeships with real prospects 

The apprenticeship training rate in the 

EnBW core companies in Baden-Württemberg 

is traditionally extremely high and 

stood at 7.9% at the end of 2008; as in past 

years, we once again provided 334 apprenticeship 

places in 2009. 

School-leavers from all types of school can 

apply for a suitable apprenticeship place 

with EnBW at 14 locations in Baden-Württemberg. 

The spectrum of training occupations 

ranges from industrial commercial 

assistant and business assistant for office 

communication all the way to electrical 

engineer and industrial mechanic. We also 

give young people the option of combining 

career start and degree studies. The 13 study 

courses offered by EnBW lead to a Bachelor's 

degree awarded by a traditional university 

or a cooperative state university. 

For twelve years now, our apprentices and 

students have had the chance to voluntarily 

take part in the "Social Learning" project 

during their training. Every year, around 

180 apprentices take this opportunity to 

help out in hostels and work projects for the 

handicapped, in childcare nurseries, child or 

youth assistance centres and care homes for 

the elderly. The project is organised in cooperation 

with the "mehrwert" agency, who 

arrange placements for young people in social 

projects in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. In 

addition, EnBW has been working together 

successfully with the "Arbeiterwohlfahrt" 

German workers' welfare organisation in 

Karlsruhe and Tuttlingen for the last five 

years. The project comprises three phases: 

the introductory and "raising awareness" 

phase is followed by an internship lasting 

one to two weeks which is turn followed by 

an evaluation and presentation phase. 

EnBW hopes that this part of the training 

phase will promote a social understanding 

as well as social skills and responsible attitudes.

Incentives for graduate entrants 

Our corporate trainee programme provides 

internal and external graduates with wideranging 

insights into the core business 

operations of EnBW over a period of twelve 

months as well as an opportunity to establish 

contacts with colleagues so that they 

can build up their own personal network. 

Participants pass through several theory 

and six hands-on phases in different business 

areas and companies, also including a 

period abroad and an "overalls" phase. The 

programme starts in April each year and 

can take up to a maximum of 16 participants. 

EnBW generally provides a wide range of options 

for students to gain insights into the 

activities of a large energy company: either 

as a placement student, in internships lasting 

several months or during the course of 

their final degree thesis over a period of 

three to six months. In 2008, around 850 

students took advantage of this opportunity 

to spend time at EnBW core companies. 

Students who show a high level of commitment 

or record above-average achievements 

can be accepted into the Energy Career Programme 

(ECP). This student advancement 

programme offers around 50 undergraduates 

the opportunity to take part in events 

and seminars and to benefit from internships 

in Germany and abroad as well as continuous 

mentoring and support for career 

starters. 

In 2008, we launched the programme 

"KompetenzKompass – Finde Deinen Weg" 

(competence compass – finding your way). 

In this programme, organised in cooperation 

with the Centre for Cultural and General 

Studies (ZAK) at the University of Karlsruhe 

and a further cooperation partner, 

EnBW helps to prepare 20 graduates for 

their career start. The programme comprises 

26 training days focusing on personality 

and team development as well as one-onone 

coaching. During a paid internship 

lasting at least eight weeks as well as trips 

to different companies and facilities, the 

participants have the opportunity to find 

out about our day-to-day business and the 

structures at EnBW first-hand. Another programme, 

"Network²", was started up in 2007. 

Launched in cooperation with ten German 

university departments specialising in 

high-voltage technology and energy supply, 

"Network²" is geared towards two main 

goals: cooperation with the world of science 

and developing the skills of undergraduates. 

This enables EnBW to pique the interest of 

up-and-coming specialists in disciplines 

that are related to the operations of the 

Group and to create a "network for network 

topics". 

International personnel 

development programmes 

for young employees 

EnBW promotes the attitudes and actions of 

its employees on international level. Since 

2005, for example, we have been organising 

the "We offer a future" (WOAF) personnel development 

programme for young employees 

together with EDF. The bilingual training 

programme comprises training and 

foreign internship phases designed to familiarise 

young engineers and natural 

scientists with German and French nuclear 

technology. 21 employees have completed 

the two to three-year programme to date, 

and the latest programme began in January 

2009 with eleven participants. 

EnBW and EDF have transferred this successful 

co-recruitment model to other areas, 

culminating, for example, in the launch of 

two joint programmes in 2008: "Top Finance" 

offers young economics students 

specialising in finance the opportunity to 

join EnBW direct from university. And within 

the framework of the German-French 

"connExion" development programme, 

EnBW helps young engineers to acquire specialised 

in-depth knowledge in the fields of 

conventional energy generation and hydroelectric 

power. This programme also promotes 

intercultural skills: for example, the 

high potentials learn about the differences 

between work and communication processes 

at EnBW and EDF. 

Further training and development 

The four departments at EnBW Akademie – 

qualification, consulting, management 

development and corporate programmes – 

support both individual and organisational 

development processes. In the year under 

review, a total of 11,665 EnBW employees 

and management executives took part – 

sometimes more than once – in courses 

staged by EnBW Akademie as well as in other 

in-house further development seminars. 

In addition, numerous employees participated 

in workshops focusing on organisational 

development processes and attended 

events within the framework of corporate 

programmes as well as seminars held by 

external providers. 

In 2008, we also introduced the "Knowledge 

Relay" process throughout the Group. This 

is an instrument to help make the knowledge 

and wealth of experience of a person 

leaving the company available to their successor 

in a systematic way. This is a process 

that will become increasingly important 

against the backdrop of demographic 

change. 

Our "Communities of Practice" are Groupwide 

networks each focusing on a specific 

core topic. Employees with similar duties or 

interests meet regularly in these forums in 

order to share their expert knowledge. This 

helps to mobilise the knowledge potential 

within EnBW and ensures that the Group 

can exploit this know-how over the long 

term. 

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Moreover, knowledge management tools 

and methods like the "wheel of competencies" 

or the "intellectual capital statement" 

help us to analyse the existing specialist, 

methodological and social skills of our 

employees throughout the Group and to 

identify developmental needs. 

2008 Annual report, p. 74 

Process and idea management 

"Better together" is the motto of the corporate 

"!mpuls" programme launched in 2008. 

The goal is to actively involve all employees 

and management personnel in the ongoing 

efficiency improvement process at EnBW, 

to achieving lasting cost reduction and to 

underpin the growth strategy of the Group 

"from within". 

Alongside the "!mpuls" scheme, the idea 

management programme also promotes 

the development and implementation of 

good ideas. In the year under review, EnBW 

employees submitted a total of 3,327 suggestions 

to improve and optimise work 

processes; 2,394 of these ideas concerned 

the working sphere of the person submitting 

the idea, while the remainder related to 

supraordinate routines and processes within 

the Group overall. 

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Reconciling the demands 

of career and private life 

We attach particular importance to promoting 

part-time working concepts and flexible 

working time models, providing more childcare 

places for the children of our employees 

and raising awareness among management 

personnel for the "work-life balance" 

issue. By the summer of 2010, we will have 

increased the number of places in childcare 

nurseries and daycare centres from the figure 

of 14 in the year under review (2008) to 

80 in all. Following the success of the "child 

office" launched as a pilot project in Karlsruhe 

in 2008, a similar room with all the 

necessary equipment and facilities was set 

up for EnBW employees and their children 

in Stuttgart in the summer of 2009. 

Our "pme Familienservice" partner company 

also helps employees to find suitable 

childcare – whether it be a nanny, an au-pair 

or a babysitter for their home, childminders, 

babycare, crêche or after-school care 

places, playgroups or childcare during the 

holidays. All employees of the core companies 

can take advantage of these services. 

EnBW pays the advisory costs, while the employees 

themselves pay for the actual cost 

of these care services. The company also has 

back-up places in reserve at child nurseries 

in the event that carers for the children of 

employees cancel at short notice. This service 

is free of charge for employees. 

The "pme Familienservice" also advises employees 

whose relatives are in need of care. 

The topics covered include such things as legal 

rights in the area of care and supervision 

– such as defined care levels, the services 

provided by the long-term care insurance 

system and related issues like power of attorney, 

living wills or preventive patient 

care. EnBW also bears the cost of counselling 

in these areas. These services are designed 

to supplement the new German Nursing 

Leave Act, which gives caregivers the right 

to request limited or short-notice leave as 

well as a changeover to part-time employment. 

EnBW supports these efforts by 

paying four days out of a maximum of ten 

working days leave for this purpose. 

Back in 2007, the Hertie Foundation awarded 

us "berufundfamilie" (career and family) 

certification in recognition of our efforts on 

this front. The re-auditing process which we 

hope will lead to the granting of permanent 

certification is scheduled to begin at the end 

of 2009. 

Diversity – a strategic goal 

For EnBW, diversity is about respecting the 

different living environments and life phases 

of our employees and about understanding 

and promoting these differences as 

things that enrich our company. This policy 

is also of strategic relevance and is firmly 

rooted in the cross-company personnel 

goals within the EnBW Group. We attach 

particular emphasis to furthering the career 

prospects of women, who are underrepresented 

in specialist positions and within the 

management in general. Accordingly, our 

aim is to significantly increase the percentage 

of female employees at specialist and 

management level – through such measures 

as the creation of an in-house women's 

network, which stages regular meetings and 

special-topic events and serves as a forum 

for the exchange of ideas and experience 

among female employees in the higher echelons 

of the company.

We further the development of female 

"MINT" students (undergraduates in the 

disciplines of mathematics, information science, 

natural sciences and technology) and 

female school students in order to generate 

interest among young women in a future 

career at EnBW at the earliest possible stage. 

We also stage assessment centre training 

courses and take part in "Girls Day", when 

girls who are still at school can find out 

about the technical apprenticeship occupations 

at EnBW. 

Equal opportunity and 

the protection of rights 

In Germany, the observance of human 

rights and compliance with employment 

law and environmental regulations are 

statutory obligations. EnBW also aims to 

fulfil these obligations in its supply chain. 

We act in accordance with the valid laws 

and in compliance with the basic rules of 

fair and free competition, and we observe 

all the relevant regulations. 

All employees in the core companies are 

covered by negotiated collective wage and 

company-level agreements. The interests of 

management personnel are represented by 

the spokespersons' committees. EnBW complies 

with the regulations governing the 

participation of employee representative 

bodies as well as the statutory, collective 

agreement-based and company-level information 

obligations and deadlines. Employees 

have the unrestricted right to organise 

themselves and participate in trade unions 

and employee representative bodies. 

Remuneration is based exclusively on the 

requirements of the job in question and the 

skills of the employee. Gender, origin and 

other non-material considerations are of no 

relevance either for remuneration levels or 

for the recruitment and development of 

employees. 

No discrimination incidents were recorded 

in the year under review; as a result, it was 

not necessary to take any measures relating 

to the German Anti-Discrimination Act. 

2008 Annual report, p. 73 

Award-winning employer 

In spring 2009, we achieved good to excellent 

scores in all the categories of the independent 

"Top German Employers" survey 

for the fifth time running. Alongside job 

security, developmental options and remuneration, 

a further category that was also 

surveyed was "work-life balance" – where we 

took third place in the individual category 

rankings. The study, in which a total of 105 

companies participated, is conducted every 

year by the magazine "Junge Karriere" from 

the Handelsblatt Publishing Group in cooperation 

with the Corporate Research Foundation. 

EnBW has been entitled to use the "Fair 

Company" seal of approval since 2006. The 

magazine "Junge Karriere" confers this seal of 

recognition on companies who act ethically 

towards interns and graduates – and who 

give them a fair chance for a career start. 

Feedback – 

employee survey 

In November 2008, around 14,000 EnBW 

employees were asked about the company 

and their work situation. The return rate of 

72% was outstanding for a first survey of 

this kind. 

The main objective of the survey was to 

measure the strength of the "bond" between 

employees and the company – so-called 

"employee commitment". In a follow-up 

process, the findings are now being 

analysed, and action strategies and measures 

to further boost commitment levels 

are being drawn up together with the employees 

themselves. This employee survey 

is to be repeated at regular intervals in order 

to assess the effect of the implemented 

measures and the situation of the company 

on the commitment of employees to EnBW. 

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Responsible and prevention-oriented – 

work safety and occupational medicine 

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More than just meeting 

our obligations 

The provisions of the employers' accident 

insurance associations and the statutory 

regulations define the duties of the work 

safety and occupational medicine departments. 

These include such things as screening 

examinations, acute and emergency 

medical care, vaccinations, physical therapy, 

psychological counselling, workplace inspections, 

workplace design, the definition 

and monitoring of safety standards, the 

staging of training courses, the provision of 

advisory services for management personnel 

and involvement in the medical and 

technical bodies in the area of work safety. 

In addition, both departments see it as their 

mission to provide prevention and care 

services in the social sphere. The emphasis 

is on prevention and on helping to identify 

and address relevant developments in the 

work environment at the earliest possible 

stage and preventing illness and risks affecting 

the individual employee. 

Demographic change 

The changing age structure is not only an 

issue when it comes to personnel recruiting 

and knowledge management in the broadest 

sense of the term but has also been a key 

theme in the area of work safety and for 

EnBW's occupational medicine department 

for a number of years now. With this in 

mind, the two departments have worked together 

to develop new approaches, in particular 

in the area of healthcare management 

as well as – in cooperation with the social 

welfare department at EnBW – in the field of 

employee reintegration. While the latter 

services are primarily geared towards providing 

advice for employees with impaired 

health, supporting these employees and 

ensuring their long-term deployment at 

suitable workplaces, the main thrust of the 

healthcare management services is prevention. 

In order to achieve this goal, the department 

also organises courses for things 

like spinal column and back exercises, 

smoking cessation, meditation, yoga or 

Nordic Walking.

Raising awareness levels among 

management executives 

A further key aspect of the prevention 

concept is that of raising awareness levels 

among management personnel. In November 

2007, a pilot seminar on the topic of 

"leadership responsibility towards employees 

with behavioural and impaired performance 

problems" was launched at EnBW 

Systeme Infrastruktur GmbH (SIS). Up to 

the end of 2008, a total of 14 additional oneand-a-half 

day seminars were staged and 

were attended by 139 management personnel 

from top management to team leaders. 

The psychologists and doctors from the 

occupational medicine department who developed 

the seminar concept held presentations 

on warning signs, how management 

personnel can reflect on their own role, the 

use of internal and external support structures 

or personal preventive healthcare. The 

speakers were assisted by in-house lawyers 

specialising in employment law as well as 

by employees who are themselves affected 

by illness and who play an active volunteer 

role in the psychosocial advisory support 

group which is part of the occupational 

medicine department. 

This seminar series has already culminated 

in two further activities: the first one is 

"life@SIS", which was created at the beginning 

of 2009 and which is tasked with collecting 

data based on analysis of the actual 

situation in areas like work-life balance, reconciling 

career and family, women in specialist 

and management positions, work and 

age or general psychological stress factors. 

The next step in the project will be to define 

areas where action is needed and then to 

develop potential solutions. 

The second sustainability measure is the expansion 

of the consulting services provided 

by the psychosocial counselling unit for all 

management personnel, personnel support 

specialists, training personnel and works 

council members. Throughout the Group, 

the focus is also increasingly on the individual 

employee: effective counselling and 

support measures are to be developed to 

help employees in times of personal crisis 

and with personal, psychological or social 

issues. 

Current campaigns 

Special events are organised on a regular 

basis to raise awareness levels for typical 

diseases and illnesses. While roadshows in 

recent years have focused on topics like 

cardiovascular problems, tick-borne encephalitis 

or flu vaccination campaigns, 

stem cell donor typing or ergonomic sitting 

postures, a special campaign in spring 2009 

served as a refresher event on the topic of 

colon cancer: a giant colon walk-in model 

was used at seven EnBW locations, and the 

team of doctors from the occupational medicine 

department explained the illness and 

advised employees, customers and visitors 

on site. This campaign picked up on various 

activities in this area that have been conducted 

since back in 2003, when around 

20,000 EnBW employees were informed 

about the disease, given test strips for 

screening examinations and provided with 

follow-up support by the occupational medicine 

department. Prevention seminars, lectures 

and other events have been staged 

ever since. 

The colon cancer prevention project geared 

towards actively raising awareness levels 

among employees was presented with an 

award in an in-house sustainability competition 

and will be presented at EDF level in 

the winter of 2009/2010. 

In-house survey 

In the spring of 2008, a patient satisfaction 

survey was conducted at all the offices of 

the occupational medicine department. 

Around 2,900 patients were polled over a 

period of six weeks, and just under 1,200 of 

these EnBW employees returned the questionnaires. 

The questions covered the full 

range of occupational medicine activities, 

from examinations based on the provisions 

of the employers' accident insurance associations, 

vaccinations and emergency care to 

physiotherapy, psychosocial counselling 

and general support services. Employees 

were asked about the quality and organisation 

of care services, equipment levels, 

confidentiality, the standard of specialist 

expertise and the quality of interpersonal 

interaction. 

The average overall grade given by employees 

was excellent at 1.4, but there were also 

indications that there is still room for optimisation: 

concerning such things as the 

relocation of services from central to 

peripheral locations, in particular to the 

Regionalgesellschaft and Kraftwerksgesellschaft 

companies, or greater transparency 

in the area of mandatory services as well as 

regarding the supplementary services 

provided by the occupational medicine 

department. 

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Improving quality 

through qualification 

Another way in which we assure and improve 

quality – and naturally also motivate 

employees – is by offering standardised further 

training and development courses for 

our skilled personnel. As no provisions were 

in place for this, the occupational medicine 

department at EnBW lobbied the Association 

of German Business and Company Doctors 

for a suitable solution. The specialist 

designation of "Occupational Medicine Assistant" 

was then created in the autumn of 

2008. In November 2008, the first person to 

be awarded this certificate was in fact a 

female employee of our occupational medicine 

department. 

Put to the test 

At the beginning of 2009, the concrete 

preparations began for the auditing of the 

occupational medicine department together 

with all the external offices by the 

Gesellschaft für Qualitätssicherung in der 

betriebsärztlichen Betreuung mbH quality 

assurance company. Following wide-ranging 

on-site audits in May and July, the occupational 

medicine department was then certified 

in August 2009 without any reservations 

whatsoever. This further underlines 

the fact that this department also provides 

a measurably and assured high level of standardised 

medical services for the EnBW 

employees in its care. In the words of the 

external auditor: "Overall, the audit showed 

the existence of high-quality occupational 

medicine services complete with a wide 

range of special campaigns and a highly 

employee-focused concept, with the result 

that the granting of the seal of approval is 

recommended without restriction." 

The work safety manual documenting and 

outlining the organisation of work safety 

practices at EnBW and all the relevant measures 

was successfully audited back in 2007 

and will be submitted for recertification in 

2010. 

From fire protection to 

protective clothing 

In the year under review, the work safety 

department was expanded and upgraded to 

form the "work safety and preventive fire 

protection unit". Alongside the development 

of the necessary fire protection regulations 

for the EnBW Group, its main activities 

in 2008 included further long-term 

projects such as the hazardous substances 

manual and the whitelist for hazardous substances, 

the management of weatherproof 

and protective workwear or the auditing of 

electrical operating equipment in line with 

the "BGV A3" rules of the employers' accident 

insurance association.

Learning about safety 

in a playful way 

At the conventional power plants operated 

by EnBW (coal-fired, hydroelectric and 

waste-fired power plants), the first six 

months of 2008 were "Olympic months", as 

the company's work safety specialists had 

thought up something special for these 

"sensitive" locations: the idea was to address 

a total of 12 key issues in the form of a game. 

To this end, two teams were formed at each 

location and were tested on the relevant 

topics one after the other at three-week intervals. 

The teams were then awarded gold, 

silver or bronze based on the number of 

points they scored. 

But it wasn't just points that were collected 

but also improvement suggestions – 1,400 

in all, some of which were put into practice 

right away. And this successful concept is to 

be continued: in 2009, a "work safety week" 

will be staged at each of the conventional 

power plant locations, and plans are also 

afoot to hold a kind of "Olympic Games" for 

the nuclear power segment at a later date. 

Accident rates continue to fall 

The number of accidents fell yet again in 

2008 – underlining the importance of work 

safety management at EnBW: the rate of 

reportable accidents – in other words, accidents 

resulting in more than three lost days 

– was 7.3 per thousand employees, following 

figures of 8.2 and 7.9 for 2007 and 2006. 

The accidents of employees of external contractors 

are also documented. Compared to 

other companies in the industry, the accident 

rates at EnBW paint an extremely 

encouraging picture. At the same time, however, 

the number of lost days was slightly 

higher than in 2007 at 1,759. 

2008 Booklet, p. 22 

Protection thanks 

to safety standards 

The safety of our employees, the employees 

of external contractors, our suppliers and 

our plants – as well as the people who live 

near these plants – is just as important to us 

as the safety of our products. We play an 

active role in the German Association for 

Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies 

(VDE). In addition, the EnBW Energy 

Community enables us to maintain close 

contacts not only with the local electrical 

trades but also with the architects, engineers, 

energy consultants, wholesalers and 

companies from the electrical appliance 

sector who are also members of this organisation. 

Moreover, the EnBW Energy Community 

also works together with guilds, 

special-interest federations and training 

institutions and provides its members with 

information on both new technical and 

legal regulations and developments. 

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"If it weren't for the sponsoring 

activities of EnBW, there wouldn't be 

so many different top-flight sports 

clubs in Baden-Württemberg." 

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Jörg Papenheim, Managing Director of 

EnBW TV Rottenburg Volleyball GmbH

Passionate heart, cool head 

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The hall is rocking. 75 minutes into the 

game, it's 3:0 and EnBW TV Rottenburg has 

won its first home game in the 2009/10 

season against Wuppertal Titans. “Volleyball 

really works here in our region", says a 

calm and relaxed Jörg Papenheim at the 

edge of the court, observing this mix of 

bedlam, sporting event and festival. A mix 

that has the right feel and that motivates 

the players. Their success story began in 

1998 with promotion to the upper district 

league and then up to the regional league a 

year later. In 2003, they celebrated promotion 

to the second national division; three 

years later, they played one season right at 

the top in national division one. The players 

didn't let the relegation of the team 

dampen their spirits: they fought back and 

once again gained promotion to the first 

division in 2008. In the 2009 season, they 

even made it to a play-off place in national 

division one. "Our first promotion came too 

soon, but it still gave us enormous motivation. 

The next time we won promotion, we 

were stronger, and our second team is now 

even playing in the second national division", 

says Managing Director Papenheim 

with understandable pride. 

The enthusiasm of the grown-ups – whether 

player, support staff, manager, trainer, fan 

or volunteer helper – naturally also extends 

to the youngest members of the club: the

oadly based "Schlag auf Schlag" youth initiative 

lights the spark of volleyball passion 

in over 200 children and teenagers who 

are looked after and trained in around 30 

teams. They also had a good 2008/2009 

season: eleven teams succeeded in qualifying 

for the Württemberg championships, 

with a further three teams taking part in 

the southern German and two in the German 

championships. In 2009, the under-18 

German championships took place in Rottenburg, 

and the home team performed excellently, 

ending up in third place. 

Jörg Papenheim has a deep passion for the 

sport; he is also completely down to earth 

and is an expert when it comes to analysis. 

"Volleyball is my biggest hobby; I fell in love 

with it when I was 17." The judoka and tennis 

fan played the game himself until he 

had a serious skiing accident in 1995 – and 

has now been the trainer for various teams 

right up to regional level for the last 17 

years. After graduating from university and 

gaining initial experience as the Managing 

Director of Volleyball Fellbach GmbH, he 

moved to his new post in Rottenburg in 

2005 and is meanwhile a kind of "Man Friday" 

in his capacity of Managing Director of 

TVR Volleyball GmbH: he signs players and 

trainers and coordinates the work of the 

physiotherapists and the team doctor. He 

organises test games and training camps, 

takes care of the diet sheets and supplement 

regimes of his players. He looks for – 

and finds – sponsors, and he handles the 

full range of press and PR work as well as 

financial planning, cost management auditing 

and accounting. He is assisted in these tasks 

by two employees and several honorary 

assistants. 

And he naturally attends all the games – to 

cheer on the teams, develop their skills and 

keep an eye out for new talent. But he also 

has a commonsense attitude towards signing 

new players, even though the financial 

situation of the club has improved vastly 

since EnBW became name and primary 

sponsor in 2008: "We have a long-term 

strategy; we don't just want to sign 12 top 

"mercenaries" for our top team squad – it 

would be totally out of line with our concept", 

says the 35 year-old when asked about his 

"personnel policy". His main goal is to develop 

young players, to monitor the progress and 

foster the sporting careers of individual 

athletes. He says it's no big deal if some of 

the children who take up the sport don't go 

on to make a career out of it. "Even a lesstalented 

volleyball player has just as much 

chance of becoming a great manager or an 

enthusiastic helper." 

Nevertheless, it takes a great deal of time 

and money to pursue this commitment to 

youth development, to create a network between 

school sports and clubs, not to mention 

the day-to-day running of a volleyball 

team at the top level. And this is an area in 

which Jörg Papenheim believes there is still 

a great deal of room for improvement: "It 

would be good if more companies from the 

region took on responsibility for their social 

environment and were willing to support 

sports in general and our project in particular." 

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Our commitments in 

our social environment 

Elite sports and major events 

Our strong roots in the region are also clearly 

reflected in our sponsoring activities: we 

are the primary sponsor of the two soccer 

clubs VfB Stuttgart and Karlsruher SC; we 

support the first division handball clubs 

Frisch Auf! Göppingen and HBW Balingen- 

Weilstetten, the EnBW Ludwigsburg basketball 

team and the young up-and-coming 

volleyball team EnBW TV Rottenburg. 

We have also supported mass-participation 

sports in Baden-Württemberg for a number 

of years now through our cooperation with 

the Baden Gymnastics Federation (BTB) and 

the Swabian Gymnastics Association (STB). 

The focus is on events like the Children's 

State Gymnastics Festival or the State Gymnastics 

Festival appealing to both old and 

young. We also provide a showcase for top 

athletes at the annual EnBW World Gymnastics 

Cup, at which the world's best gymnasts 

compete for the titles. 

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On the soccer front, we promote new talent 

by acting as main and name sponsor for the 

"EnBW Oberliga-Junioren" junior league. 

This involvement benefits budding young 

footballers in over 50 clubs in Baden-Württemberg. 

While the Gymnastics Gala that tours at 

least a dozen cities every year during the 

Christmas period is a veritable feast for the 

eyes, the "Tour de Ländle" cycling event that 

we organise and finance motivates people 

to join in and get some exercise. Over 

20,000 cyclists took part in both 2008 and 

2009, and this figure rose to around 50,000 

during the festive evening events. It goes 

without saying that the 8-day events were 

not just about cycling and celebrating – and 

that they also had a social aspect: once 

again, representatives of the municipalities 

taking part in the "Tour" had the opportunity 

to raise donations for a social organisation 

of their choice in the "EnBW money per 

mile" campaign. 

Culture and the arts 

We will continue our close cooperation with 

the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe 

and Stuttgart Art Museum. We are also 

a longstanding partner of the Stuttgart 

Ballet company and the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus 

opera house, and we sponsor the 

"Young Euro Classics" musical event as well 

as the theatre forum event at the Berliner 

Festspiele festival house. In addition, we 

were one of the main sponsors of the International 

Music Festival in Stuttgart in 2009. 

We can also look back on a long tradition of 

events on our own premises: since 1995, 

for example, we have been staging the 

"Ateliereinblicke" (Studio Insights) exhibition 

series at our headquarters in Karlsruhe, 

supporting young artists from the region by 

showcasing their works in an exhibition and 

putting together a catalogue. And we will 

soon be celebrating a decade of cooperation 

with the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and 

Design. This cooperation takes on concrete 

form at the often unconventional exhibitions 

in the foyer of our head office in

Stuttgart. In the run-up to Christmas, this is 

also the venue for the exhibition of the donated 

works of art for "Release Stuttgart", 

the highly reputed organisation that provides 

advice and assistance for people with 

drug problems. The works of well and lesser 

known artists have been exhibited here 

every year since 1999, and the proceeds 

from the sales exhibition are equally divided 

between the artists themselves and Release 

Stuttgart. The showroom at our offices 

in Berlin also serves as a venue for the display 

of contemporary works of art and modern 

design objects that provide an "avant 

garde take" on energy topics and issues. 

January 2008 saw the launch of a long-term 

lecture series entitled "Thinkers of our 

times", in which leading and often unorthodox 

figures from the worlds of science, society, 

the arts and sports hold lectures and 

presentations every two months at our locations 

in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Berlin. 

Speakers to date include creative out-of-thebox 

thinkers like Rüdiger Safranski, Albert 

Speer or Martin Walser. 

Research and educational activities 

The Baden-Württemberg Energy Research 

Foundation supports research, demonstration 

and development projects with particular 

emphasis on topics like renewables and 

the rational use of energy. The Foundation 

was set up in 1989 by our four predecessor 

companies together with the state of Baden- 

Württemberg and is funded by the energy 

supply companies; these funds are meanwhile 

managed by EnBW. During the last 20 

years, the Foundation has made well over 30 

million € available in research capital – 

mainly for projects in Baden-Württemberg. 

In 2004, an endowment by EnBW paved the 

way for the creation of the Centre for Innovative 

Energy Systems (ZIES) at Düsseldorf 

University of Applied Science. The mission 

of the ZIES is to lay the foundation for rational 

decision-making processes on the 

road to a sustainable energy supply system. 

The Centre is active in the fields of training, 

applied research and consulting. 

Every two years, the EnBW Foundation, formerly 

the Badenwerk Foundation created in 

1972, presents the Heinrich Hertz Award 

with its significant cash prize in recognition 

of outstanding scientific or technical 

achievements. It also promotes the futureoriented 

work of up-and-coming scientists 

in the field of generation, distribution and 

application of electrical energy. 

EnBW is currently active at 50 universities 

and has endowed 11 faculty chairs. These 

commitments are also primarily focused on 

institutions of learning in Baden-Württemberg. 

In addition to promoting research and 

teaching, our endeavours in this area are 

naturally also geared towards fostering the 

successful development of future graduates 

with an eye to offering them career opportunities 

within our company. 

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Information and communication 

EnBW has been working together with 

schools and other educational institutions 

in Baden-Württemberg for more than 30 

years now. All the various activities are designed 

to fit in with the teaching curricula; 

they are coordinated with the relevant 

school authorities, who also handle all the 

official application processes. The information 

services we provide are designed to 

support teaching staff at general education 

schools as well as kindergarten carers and 

students undergoing teacher training. The 

information formats range from presentations 

and hands-on workshops all the way 

through to trips lasting one or more days 

and focusing on energy-related topics. We 

also do everything we can to ensure that 

the activities we organise for children and 

youths are as target group-specific as possible: 

we try to appeal to the interests of preschool 

children by employing the services 

of an "adventure instructor", for example, 

and by encouraging them to take part in 

"energy-charged experiments" on site. We 

also stage events where school pupils attending 

secondary level can become "energy 

detectives"; we invite them to tour a 

power plant or a drinking water works, or we 

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motivate them to become involved in the 

"Class!" media project that we have been organising 

together with the Südkurier newspaper 

since 2008. 

The "Youth Thinks the Future" management 

game we staged up to 2008 called for maximum 

creativity over a period of five days. 

This initiative was designed to encourage 

young people to think about key issues and 

to incorporate today's youth in the dialogue 

about our common future. The "Energy 

Stimuli" competition pursues similar objectives. 

We have been organising this competition 

annually since 2005 to find Baden- 

Württemberg's most impressive "Energy 

School Class" and "Energy Family". 

In addition, our info centres are also open to 

members of the public who are interested 

in energy-related topics: whether it be the 

nuclear power plants in Philippsburg, at the 

Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Neckarwestheim 

or in Obrigheim, at the hydroelectric power 

plants in Forbach and Iffezheim, the coalfired 

power plant in Altbach/Deizisau or the 

Stuttgart-Münster heat-and-power plant. In 

2008, well over 60,000 people took the opportunity 

to visit one of our facilities. 

Recognition for outstanding 

volunteer work 

In 2008, we sponsored the special award in 

the "Echt gut! Ehrenamt in Baden-Württemberg!” 

competition (Thumbs Up for Voluntary 

Work in Baden-Wurttemberg) for the 

fifth time. The winners were chosen in January 

2009, and the cash prizes went to three 

promotion and self-help associations in 

Heilbronn, Calw and Ludwigsburg.

International projects and 

climate protection 

The EnBW Rainforest Foundation was set 

up in 2004. In line with the statutes of the 

Foundation, the goal is to protect and promote 

the ecological stabilisation of rainforests 

and to help the people in the affected 

regions to help themselves. Projects 

eligible for funding include measures that 

create sources of income, combat ruthless 

exploitation of the rainforests, repair the 

damage that has been done and raise awareness 

levels among the local people. The 

Foundation also supports the training of – 

and the provision of equipment for – 

rangers whose job is to protect the rainforest 

as well as for research projects. 

The first project was launched at the end of 

2005 in the Bach Ma National Park in Central 

Vietnam: together with the German Development 

Service (DED), EnBW aims to 

promote alternative sources of income for 

the countries bordering on this last contiguous 

rainforest in this region of the world as 

well as sustainable forest management and 

gentle or eco-tourism. 

In September 2007, the Foundation began 

its cooperation with the World Wildlife 

Foundation (WWF) with a reforestation project 

in the lowland rainforest over an area of 

around 2,000 hectares in Sabah on Borneo 

(Malaysia). Just one month later, a new programme 

incorporating the rural population 

was launched in Yen Chau in the highlands 

of northern Vietnam. The goal of this programme 

is to preserve natural resources 

and support rural development by implementing 

sustainable and targeted soil 

protection measures. In this project, the 

Foundation is working together with the 

University of Hohenheim. 

Together with Jatro Solutions GmbH – a 

company affiliated to Hohenheim University 

– a project was launched in Madagascar 

in 2007. This was a CDM project focusing on 

the cultivation of jatropha on barren land. 

The goals are to obtain CO 2 certificates and 

to produce vegetable oil or biodiesel from 

the (inedible) nuts of the plant while simultaneously 

rehabilitating degraded land. 

Around 1,000 hectares of jatropha will have 

been planted by the beginning of 2010, and 

this area will be expanded to as much as 

100,000 hectares if this pilot project is 

successful. 

Also see p. 26 

Back in the spring of 2007, EnBW – itself a 

water supplier – and the Zweckverband 

Landeswasserversorgung water supply 

association decided to support the Baden- 

Württemberg Foundation for Development 

Cooperation (SEZ) in the building of wells in 

Uganda. The project is scheduled to run for 

five years and aims to create 30 village wells 

that will in future ensure the supply of clean 

drinking water to around 30,000 people. 12 of 

these wells were already in operation at the 

beginning of 2009. 

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Glossary 

Biomass 

Biomass is the term used to describe all 

plant and animal matter as well as the products, 

residual substances and waste resulting 

from their use. This includes wood, cereals 

and vegetable oils as well as organic 

waste and residual matter from forestry 

(bark), agricultural (manure), industrial 

(grape pulp) and commercial (organic 

waste) operations. 

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) 

CCS is the abbreviation used to describe the 

technology for carbon dioxide capture and 

storage. Various different techniques are already 

undergoing small-scale trials. They 

should be available for technical application 

on a large scale by 2020 and allow low-CO 2 

utilisation of fossil fuels for the generation 

of electricity. No final decision has yet been 

made on transport systems or storage locations. 

According to the EU, however, all coalfired 

power plants must be CCS-ready by 

2020 – in other words, they must permit 

retrofitting of this technology. 

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) 

CDM, the mechanism for environmentally 

compatible development, is one of the flexible 

instruments defined by the Kyoto Protocol. 

CDM projects are climate protection 

projects implemented in developing countries 

by industrialised states. These projects 

must be sustainable and must be implemented 

in addition to existing projects. The 

emissions avoided by the projects are reviewed 

and certified by independent institutions. 

Industrialised countries and companies 

can then claim credits for the CDM 

emission certificates to help them to meet 

their own emission targets. 

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Clean Diesel 

EnBW's clean diesel particulate filter system 

is an innovative, environmentally efficient, 

self-contained particulate reduction system. 

It is defined for retrofitting to utility vehicles, 

ships, rail vehicles and stationary diesel 

engines. Utility vehicles fitted with the 

clean diesel system qualify for Euro 4 classification 

and the German green environmental 

sticker. 

Compliance 

Comprises all organisational measures 

designed to ensure compliance with laws, 

regulations and internal guidelines as well 

as contractual obligations and voluntary 

commitments in the key areas and processes 

of corporate activity. 

CO 2 footprint 

The computed amount of carbon dioxide 

(CO 2 equivalents) emitted into the atmosphere 

as a result of the activities of a company 

or even an individual person. 

Cogeneration 

The waste heat from a power plant can be 

used to heat buildings in the vicinity or as 

process heat. This means more energy is 

obtained from the same fuel input. A power 

plant that generates both electricity and 

heat in this way is called a combined heatand-power 

plant. 

Corporate governance 

The totality of basic principles and rules 

geared towards the interests of shareholders 

and relating to organisation, conduct and 

transparency that are designed to ensure a 

balanced relationship between executive 

management and monitoring activities at 

the highest governance level of the company 

while ensuring decision-making 

capability and efficient leadership. 

"E-Energy" promotion programme 

A new core initiative launched by the German 

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology. 

Within the framework of this programme, 

EnBW was presented with an 

award in recognition of its "MeRegio – 

Minimum Emission Region" project. The 

aim of the project is to reduce greenhouse 

gas emissions in a model region. 

Emissions 

Emissions are the gaseous, liquid or solid 

substances released into the atmosphere or 

other parts of the environment from an installation 

or other technical process; they 

also take the form of noise, vibrations, radiation 

and heat. The source of the emissions 

is known as the "emitter". Emissions are not 

only caused by human activity. There are also 

natural emitters: cattle and swampland 

emit methane (swamp gas, CH 4), for example, 

while plants emit pollen as well as 

volatile organic compounds (VOC) and volcanoes 

emit sulphur dioxide (SO 2). 

Emissions trading 

Trading of emission rights is an environmental 

policy instrument designed to promote 

climate protection. In the Kyoto Protocol, 

the industrialised nations reached 

agreement on the worldwide reduction of 

greenhouse gas emissions. In order to ensure 

maximum efficiency of distribution of 

the stipulated volume by which the emission 

of these gases is to be reduced, the permitted 

emission volume for a specific country 

is divided into emission certificates 

allowing the emission of specific amounts 

of gases that impact the global climate. 

States can trade these emission rights with 

one another. In order to meet its emission 

reduction obligations, the EU has introduced 

an emissions trading system at company 

level. Certificates are allocated to the

companies concerned within the framework 

of National Allocation Plans (NAPs). Companies 

who need more certificates than they 

have been allocated have to purchase additional 

certificates; companies who receive 

more certificates than they need can in turn 

sell certificates. All market participants are 

free to decide whether they buy emission 

certificates or implement emission reduction 

measures. 

Fermenter 

A fermentation tank – in a biogas plant, for 

example – in which biogas is produced from 

biomass. Biogas can be processed and upgraded 

to natural gas quality and used as a 

substitute for natural gas. 

Flue gases 

Flue gas is the term used to describe the 

waste gas occurring during combustion 

processes in power plants, waste incineration 

plants, production processes etc. (Postcombustion). 

Fuel cell 

Converts chemical energy into electrical energy 

and heat through reverse electrolysis. 

This efficient technology for decentral energy 

generation can be used to power appliances 

and automobiles as well as for the 

supply of electricity and heat in buildings 

and industry. 

German Energy Industry Act (EnWG) 

The EnWG, which came into force in July 

2005, created a regulatory framework for 

the supply of electricity and gas. The core 

elements of the Act are the definition of 

network operator obligations, rules governing 

network access and network fees, and 

the monitoring activities of the German 

Network Agency or the state regulatory 

authorities. 

German Energy-Saving Ordinance (EnEV) 

The amended EnEV legislation came into 

force on October 1, 2009 and now includes 

stricter requirements for the energy efficiency 

of new buildings and the modernisation 

of old buildings. In future, the energy 

requirement for heating and hot water in 

residential and non-residential buildings is 

to be reduced by an average 30%. 

German Renewables Act (EEG) 

The "EEG", the German Renewables Act, is 

designed to ensure the priority of electricity 

from all renewable energy sources like sun, 

wind, water, biomass and geothermal energy 

as well as sewage, pit and landfill gas. The 

legislation came into effect in 2000 with 

the aim of significantly increasing the share 

of renewables in overall electricity generation 

in Germany in line with the objectives 

formulated by the EU. 

Gigawatt (GW) 

One gigawatt equals one billion watts or one 

million kilowatts (kW). 

Greenhouse gases 

Greenhouse gases (GHG) caused by human 

activity influence the natural greenhouse 

effect. The increasing concentration of 

greenhouse gases in the atmosphere results 

in less heat being radiated back into space 

from the earth's surface, and this in turn 

leads to a rise in the average temperature on 

earth. The Kyoto Protocol defines the following 

relevant greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide 

(CO 2), methane (CH 4), dinitrogen oxide 

(N 2O), partially halogenated hydrofluorocarbons 

(HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PCFs) and 

sulphur hexafluoride (SF 6). 

Immissions 

Immissions are the effects of the emitted 

pollutants on plants, animals and humans 

as well as buildings once they have spread in 

the air, water or soil or have been chemically 

or physically transformed. 

Integrated Energy and 

Climate Package (IECP) 

At a policy meeting in Meseberg in August 

2007, the German government decided on 

the key elements of an Integrated Energy 

and Climate Programme (IECP). The programme 

jointly drawn up by the Federal 

Ministry of Economics and Technology and 

the Federal Ministry of Environmental Affairs, 

Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety 

took on concrete form in December 2007. 

It is a combination of promotion measures, 

economic instruments and regulatory 

measures covering energy production, energy 

efficiency, transport and private households, 

comprising a total of 29 individual 

measures. 

Intergovernmental Panel 

on Climate Change (IPCC) 

The IPCC was set up in 1988 by UNEP (United 

Nations Environmental Programme) and 

the WMO (World Meteorological Organisation). 

All countries who are members of 

these organisations can nominate scientists 

for the IPCC. The main remit of the IPCC is 

to assess the risks of climate change and to 

document avoidance strategies. The IPCC 

does not conduct its own research but collects 

the findings of research in the various 

disciplines, including in particular the field 

of climatology. It provides a coherent 

overview of this material in the IPCC Assessment 

Reports. These reports are prepared in 

working groups and approved in plenary 

session. All this takes place within the 

framework of a complex, multi-phase 

procedure involving lead authors and coauthors 

for individual articles, coordinators 

and lead authors for the overall report and 

independent experts for the individual sections 

and the report as a whole. These independent 

opinions are provided not only by 

the nominated and selected scientists but 

also by representatives of the governments 

of the member states. 

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Intermodal electromobility 

This term comprises concepts for mobility 

spanning different forms of transport based 

on electric vehicles of different designs. 

International Energy Agency (IEA) 

The International Energy Agency (IEA) was 

founded in 1973 with the aim of promoting 

cooperation on the research, development, 

market introduction and application of energy 

technologies. 27 industrialised nations 

belong to the Paris-based organisation. The 

IEA publishes a comprehensive World Energy 

Report each year. 

Kilowatt (kW) 

One kilowatt equals 1,000 watts. 

Kyoto Protocol 

The Kyoto Protocol is based on the UN Climate 

Framework Convention and is a binding 

treaty under international law in which 

38 industrialised countries (OECD members 

and Eastern European transformation 

states) have pledged to reduce their CO 2 

emissions. The Protocol permits the use of 

three "flexible" instruments which enable 

these states to meet a part of their commitments 

in the period from 2008 to 2012 at as 

low a cost as possible. As the commitments 

outlined in the Kyoto Protocol do not make 

any key contribution to the achievement of 

the goal of the Climate Framework Convention, 

agreement on a follow-up treaty to 

Kyoto is of particular importance. 

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Megawatt (MW) 

One megawatt equals one million watts or 

1,000 kilowatts (kW). 

Smart grids 

"Smart grids" (intelligent networks) is the 

term used to describe the networking and 

control of decentral generating and storage 

systems as well as the connection of consumers 

and network operating media using 

information and communication technology 

(ICT). 

Terrawatt (TW) 

One terrawatt equals one trillion watts or 

one billion kilowatts (kW).

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This 2008/2009 Sustainability Report with 

the 2008 Booklet is focused on the business 

year 2008. In mid-2010, we intend up update 

the relevant facts and figures for the 

2009 reporting year with the publication of 

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