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
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
- Reduction of pollutant emissions
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 three indicators installed renewable energies capacity, share of installed renewable energies capacity and CO₂ intensity are defined as top performance indicators of the environmental dimension for the implementation of the EnBW 2025 Strategy.
The emissions of CO₂, SO₂ und NOx 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 and the indicators SO₂ and NOx. These indicators are calculated as the ratio between the emissions and the generated volume of electricity and thus specifically describes the amount of CO₂, SO₂ and NOx released per kilowatt hour. By discounting the electricity generated by nuclear power plants, the indicators 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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2022
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2021
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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 2022, the installed output of renewable energies increased to 5.4 GW compared to 5.1 GW in the previous year. The share of the generation capacity accounted for by RE increased to 41.7 %. Additional output of around 300 MWp was added with the commissioning of the two solar parks Gottesgabe and Alttrebbin. Other onshore wind power plants and PV power plants were also added. Both key performance indicators were within the forecasted ranges. We have thus continued to push forward the expansion of electricity generation from renewable energy sources in accordance with our strategy. Expanding renewable energies to between 6.5 and 7.5 GW by 2025 is one of the 15 strategic measures in the EnBW Sustainability Agenda. In view of the currently installed output and our project pipeline, we believe that we remain on course to achieve the target value. |
Performance indicator
TOP installed RE capacity in GW and share of RE in generation capacity in %
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2022
5,4 / 41,7
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2021
5,1 / 40,1
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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: CO₂ intensity The CO₂ intensity of our own electricity generation increased in comparison to the previous year by 2.6 % to 491 g/kWh and was thus at the lower end of our range for the forecasted increase of 0 % to 15 %. In comparison to 2021, generation from renewable energy sources increased due to more favorable wind conditions and higher generation from photovoltaics following the construction of additional solar parks. In contrast, there was an increase in the deployment of our coal power plants in Germany, especially in southwest Germany to maintain the security of supply, but also in France due to the priority given to the storage of gas in the second half of 2022 as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine and the fact that many of the French nuclear power plants were taken offline. This high deployment had a negative impact on the availability of the hard coal power plants. The CO₂ intensity fell by 10.4 % in 2022 in comparison to the reference year of 2018 (548 g/kWh). We were thus still within our target corridor in 2022 for achieving our target of reducing CO₂ intensity by 15 % to 30 % by 2025, in comparison to the reference year of 2018. |
Performance indicator
TOP CO₂-intensity in g/kWh0The calculation for this performance indicator does not include nuclear generation and the share of positive redispatch that cannot be controlled by EnBW.
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2022
491
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2021
478
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2025 Target
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Objective
Reduction of pollutant emissions
climate protection / realising greenhouse gas reduction potentialSO₂ intensity: The SO₂ intensity of our own electricity generation increased in comparison to the previous year by 11.1 % to 259 mg/kWh. In comparison to 2021, generation from renewable energy sources increased due to more favorable wind conditions and higher generation from photovoltaics following the construction of additional solar parks. In contrast, there was an increase in the deployment of our coal power plants in Germany, especially in southwest Germany to maintain the security of supply, but also in France due to the priority given to the storage of gas in the second half of 2022 as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine and the fact that many of the French nuclear power plants were taken offline. The SO₂ intensity fell by 12.2 % in 2022 in comparison to the reference year of 2018 (295 mg/kWh). We were thus still within our target corridor in 2022 for achieving our target of reducing SO₂ intensity by 15 % to 25 % by 2025, in comparison to the reference year of 2018. NOx intensity: The NOx intensity of our own electricity generation increased in comparison to the previous year by 6.4 % to 286 mg/kWh. In comparison to 2021, generation from renewable energy sources increased due to more favorable wind conditions and higher generation from photovoltaics following the construction of additional solar parks. In contrast, there was an increase in the deployment of our coal power plants in Germany, especially in southwest Germany to maintain the security of supply, but also in France due to the priority given to the storage of gas in the second half of 2022 as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine and the fact that many of the French nuclear power plants were taken offline. The NOx intensity fell by 15.2 % in 2022 in comparison to the reference year of 2018 (337 mg/kWh). We were thus still within our target corridor in 2022 for achieving our target of reducing NOx intensity by 10 % to 20 % by 2025, in comparison to the reference year of 2018. |
Performance indicator
SO₂-intensity in mg/kWh
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2022
259
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2021
233
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2025 Target
–15 % to –25%0(base year 2018)
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Performance indicator
NOx-intensity in mg/kWh
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2022
286
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2021
269
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2025 Target
–10 % to –20%0(base year 2018)
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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.