2008 I 2009 Sustainability Report - Econsense

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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. 8 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 integration 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. 9
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