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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
We have successfully concluded the EnBW 2020 strategy. Our EnBW 2025 strategy has the motto “Making and shaping the infrastructure world of tomorrow” and is based on a holistic approach to stakeholders. It defines specific financial and non-financial targets in the dimensions finance, strategy, customers and society, environment and employees. 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 our EnBW 2025 strategy, our environmental aspects and the requirements of the energy revolution, in environmental protection, we focus on the following fields of action:
- Expand renewable energies
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Increasing energy efficiency, also for customers
Performance indicators
We use the three performance indicators installed renewable energies capacity, share of installed renewable energies capacity and CO₂ intensity to measure our performance in the individual fields of action by means of clear and binding targets. These are defined as top performance indicators of the environmental dimension for the implementation of the EnBW 2025 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.
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Objective
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Performance indicator
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2021
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2020
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2025 Target
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Objective
Expand renewable energies (RE)
Expand renewable energiesTOP Performance Indicator: Installed renewable energies (RE) capacity and share of RE capacity in the generation capacity: In 2021, the installed output of renewable energies increased to 5.1 GW. The share of the generation capacity accounted for by RE increased to 40.1%. Both performance indicators were thus slightly below the forecasted values, which was due to delays in the supply chains. The commissioning of our solar parks Gottesgabe and Alttrebbin will only begin in the first quarter of 2022. The increase in comparison to the previous year was the result of the full commissioning of our Weesow-Willmersdorf solar park with a total capacity of 187 MWp and the expansion of onshore wind farms and other photovoltaic power plants. We have thus continued to push forward the expansion of electricity generation from renewable energy sources in accordance with our strategy. |
Performance indicator
TOP installed RE capacity in GW and share of RE in generation capacity in %
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2021
5,1 / 40,1
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2020
4.9 / 39.0
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2025 Target
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Objective
Implement climate protection /
reduction potential of greenhouse gases climate protection / realising greenhouse gas reduction potentialTOP performance indicator: CO₂intensity The CO₂ intensity of our own electricity generation increased in comparison to the previous year to 478 g/kWh. With respect to our target of reducing the CO₂ intensity of our own electricity generation, 2020 was an exceptional year that was subject to extraordinary effects. Electricity generation at our fossil fuel-fired power plants was thus significantly lower than expected due to market-driven developments. In the Integrated Annual Report 2020, we thus forecast a CO₂ intensity for 2021 at the same level as in 2020 in the best-case scenario, and an increase of 15% in the worst-case scenario. In the 2021 financial year, economic activities recovered as we had previously forecast and this resulted in a catch-up effect with high demand for energy and raw materials. Furthermore, the 2021 financial year was characterized by below-average wind conditions and, in particular, market-driven developments, especially in the gas sector. Significantly higher volumes of electricity were generated using fossil fuel-fired power plants as a result, which is why the forecasted range for CO₂ intensity in 2021 in comparison to the exceptional year 2020 was exceeded. Nevertheless, CO₂ intensity in 2021 was 12.7% lower than in 2018 and thus still at the lower end of our target corridor for reducing our CO₂ intensity by 2025 by between -15% and -30% in comparison to the reference year of 2018. |
Performance indicator
TOP CO₂-intensity in g/kWh0The calculation method for the key performance indicator CO₂ intensity will be restricted in future to include only factors that can be controlled by the company. In contrast to previous years, the share related to redispatch that cannot be controlled by EnBW is no longer included. Using the previous calculation method, the CO₂ intensity for the 2021 financial year would have been 492 g/kWh (previous year 372 g/kWh). This performance indicator still excludes nuclear generation. The CO₂ intensity including nuclear generation for the 2021 year was 386 g/kWh (previous year: 268 g/kWh).
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2021
478
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2020
342
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2025 Target
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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.