Highlights 2018

Expansion of e-mobility

EnBW made further progress in the area of e-mobility in 2018. This included, amongst other things, the construction and expansion of charging infrastructure with other cooperation partners, such as Tank & Rast, OMV, EURONICS, ECE and hagebau, the award-winning EnBW mobility+ app with new functions, the BMW i3 leasing offer for EnBW employees, the start of the “E-Mobility Avenue” pilot project in Ostfildern by Netze BW and the award of the “SAFE” project funding to a consortium consisting of EnBW, public utilities and local authorities.

EnBW strengthens its position on the growth market for decentralised energy solutions

EnBW became a full-service provider for home energy solutions by acquiring Deutsche Energieversorgung GmbH (DEV). DEV has sold more than 20,000 electricity storage systems under the name SENEC and is one of the most important suppliers on the German home electricity storage market. DEV was renamed as SENEC GmbH in autumn.

Bosch and EnBW inaugurate new battery storage system

The battery storage system with a 5 MW output that was jointly developed by Bosch and EnBW was inaugurated at the Heilbronn power plant site in April. It will enable the power plant to respond better to fluctuating decentralised feed-ins from renewable energies.

EnBW receives fourth and final approval for the dismantling of the Obrigheim nuclear power plant

In April, EnBW received the fourth and final dismantling approval for the Obrigheim nuclear power plant (KWO) from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for the Environment. The dismantling work is due to be completed within the guidelines laid down by the Atomic Energy Law by the mid-2020s. Overall, all five of the EnBW nuclear power plants are now already involved in the dismantling process.

Start of construction of the EnBW Hohe See and EnBW Albatros wind farms

Since April 2018, our offshore wind farms EnBW Hohe See and EnBW Albatros have been under construction in the German North Sea. The combined total of 87 wind turbines with an output of 609 MW are due to be placed into operation by the end of 2019, generating around 2.5 billion kWh of electricity. EnBW is continuing to focus on its core country of Germany for expansion but is also looking at international markets, working with partners on offshore projects in North America and Taiwan and onshore in Sweden, France and Turkey.

Start of construction of the EnBW Hohe See and EnBW Albatros wind farms

EnBW issues its first green bond

EnBW successfully issued its first green bond with a volume of €500 million and a term to maturity of 15 years on the capital market in October. It was thus one of the first German companies to issue a green bond of this magnitude. The proceeds from the bond will flow into wind power, photovoltaic and electromobility projects.

Major contract for RBS wave as general planner for expansion of broadband network in the Rastatt district

In the promising broadband business, the company RBS wave, a subsidiary of Netze BW, secured the contract in a Europewide tender process in July to develop a broadband network for the Rastatt administrative district as the general planner. In the largest project to date in the history of the company, RBS wave will plan, amongst other things, the fibre-optic backbone network.

EnBW acquires 7 wind farms in Sweden

Following the foundation of the Swedish subsidiary EnBW Sverige AB and the start of construction of a wind farm with an output of around 11 MW, EnBW acquired two operating companies with seven wind farms in Sweden at the end of the year – with a total installed output of 105 MW. EnBW also founded a branch office in France in June in order to expand into the onshore wind and photovoltaic sectors in the country.

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