Environmental Policy of EnBW
EnBW has firmly anchored sustainability and environmental protection in its corporate objectives. Environmental protection is therefore a central task at the Group level and in all the companies and a binding guideline for all employees in their activities. Environmentally oriented corporate management in cooperation with the employees is the basis for this in EnBW AG and its companies. In order to guarantee this, EnBW AG has introduced an environmental management system according to ISO 14001.
Our environmental policy describes the basic attitude of EnBW AG towards environmental protection. The scope of EnBW AG's environmental policy covers the activities and facilities of all the business and functional units of EnBW AG.
EnBW stands for a secure and sustainable energy supply.
- For us, sustainable management consists of the simultaneous perception of economic, ecological and social responsibility.
- As a company, we share responsibility for our environment and the preservation of biological diversity. We consider climate protection and the future-oriented, sustainable use of all natural resources in all of our actions.
- With our energy mix, we aim to achieve supply security while protecting the environment and ensuring appropriate economic efficiency.
- We take precautions for the safe operation of our plants and for the protection of people and the environment.
EnBW promotes communication and the raising of awareness on environmentally relevant topics.
- We maintain an open dialogue with politicians, authorities, the public and social groups, and we develop and maintain partnerships.
- The environmentally responsible behaviour of our suppliers and contractors is important to us.
- Our employees act in an environmentally conscious manner and are constantly improving their qualifications.
EnBW promotes environmentally sound action in all business segments.
- Within our value-added processes we comply with the legal requirements. In many areas, we already exceed them today. In addition, we have voluntarily committed ourselves to comply with more far-reaching standards of sustainable corporate management.
- We offer our customers innovative products and services for the rational use of energy.
- We are consistently and committed to continuously improving our performance for the environment as far as this is economically.
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Environmental targets
The EnBW 2020 strategy has given rise to a new system of targets covering five dimensions: Finance, strategy, customers and society, employees and the environment. This enables us to dovetail the financial and non-financial aspects of our business activities. We use meaningful performance indicators to measure the degree to which we have achieved our targets.
We strive to credibly reconcile corporate, political and social objectives in the environmental field. Derived from the requirements of the energy revolution, our environmental strategy comprises the following fields of action:
- Expand renewable energies
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Increasing energy efficiency, also for customers
Performance indicators
We use the following performance indicators to measure our performance in the individual fields of action by means of clear and binding targets. The performance indicators installed renewable energies capacity and share of installed renewable energies capacity as well as CO₂ intensity are defined as top performance indicators of the environmental dimension for the implementation of the EnBW 2020 Strategy.
The emissions of CO₂ from own generation of electricity for the Group, as well as the volume of electricity generated by the Group without the contribution made by the nuclear power plants, form the basis for the calculation of the key performance indicator CO₂ intensity. This performance indicator is calculated as the ratio between the emissions and the generated volume of electricity and thus specifically describes the amount of CO₂ released per kilowatt hour. By discounting the electricity generated by nuclear power plants, the performance indicator will not be influenced by the phasing out of nuclear energy in the coming years.
With the permanent change in the framework conditions for the energy industry, the strategic development of EnBW and its business portfolio continues. The new target horizon is the year 2025 with the vision of being a sustainable and innovative infrastructure partner for our customers and other stakeholders. As part of the further development of the strategy, quantitative target values for 2025 were also defined for the top performance indicators.
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Objective
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Performance indicator
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2020
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2019
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2020 Target
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2025 Target
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Objective
Expand renewable energies (RE)
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Performance indicator
TOP installed RE capacity in GW and share of RE in generation capacity in %
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2020
4.9 / 39.0
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2019
4.4 / 31.8
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2020 Target
5.0 / > 40
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2025 Target
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Objective
Implement climate protection /
reduction potential of greenhouse gases |
Performance indicator
TOP CO₂-intensity in g/kWh h
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2020
372
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2019
419
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2020 Target
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2025 Target
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Objective
Avoid emission of
green house gases |
Performance indicator
Avoided CO₂ emissions in millions of t
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2020
8.9
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2019
7.9
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2020 Target
8.8
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2025 Target
n.a.
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Environmental measures
Environmental data
On a regular basis we publish environmental data on CO₂ footprint, air pollutants, resource use, water use, etc. These figures supplement the environmental data published in the Annual Report to meet the reporting requirements of the CSR Directive and the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
For some environmental indicators, extrapolations and estimates of consumption have been made where primary data are not available for the whole reporting period. If we notice in subsequent years that estimates have not been made correctly, we complete our data gaps with primary data, also retrospectively. We also take into account more recent findings on emission factors retroactively, if necessary. Significant deviations from the reported values are corrected as a matter of principle.