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Financial and non-financial key performance indicators and targets

We safeguard the implementation of our strategy by means of a holistic goal and performance management system. Our goal system comprises the five dimensions of finance, strategy, customers and society, environment and employees.

The key performance indicators enable us to measure the degree to which goals are achieved and to manage our company. The key performance indicators for the 2021 financial year were unchanged in comparison with the previous year with one exception: The internal financing capability was replaced by the debt repayment potential as planned.

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Goal dimension finance


  • Securing our profitability. Our primary goal is to secure our financial profitability. Our operating result – measured on the basis of adjusted EBITDA – should reach €2.3 billion in 2025.
  • Managing the financial profile. The key performance indicator debt repayment potential describes the retained cash flow in relation to net debt. The debt repayment potential measures the ability of EnBW to repay its debts from its current earnings potential. This performance indicator should enable us to achieve a controlled growth in earnings within the scope of our financial targets, while maintaining a solid investment-grade rating at the same time. To manage our financial profile, we regularly check whether the debt repayment potential complies with the latest requirements of the rating agencies.
  • Increasing the value of the company. Our declared long-term goal is to increase the value of the company and generate value for our stakeholders. This is the case when the return on capital employed (ROCE) is higher than the required cost of this capital.

Goal
Key performance indicator
2021
Target for 2025
Goal
Secure profitability
Key performance indicator
Adjusted EBITDA
2021
€3.0 billion
Target for 2025
€3.2 billion
Goal
Managing the financial profile
Key performance indicator
Debt repayment potential
2021
20.3%
Target for 2025
≥ 12%
Goal
Increasing Group value0We will use value spread to measure the increase in the value of the company from 2022 onwards. This performance indicator is more meaningful and is independent of external market influences making it easier to control. It will also improve the comparability of the data. ROCE will thus be replaced by the new key performance indicator value spread. Value spread stood at 2.1% in the 2021 reporting year.
Key performance indicator
ROCE
Value Spread
2021
7.0%
Target for 2025

0.5 - 1.5%
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Goal dimension strategy


Our EnBW 2025 strategy is increasingly placing the company’s focus onto the infrastructure aspects of existing energy-related business fields and utilizing our core expertise to exploit new growth opportunities above and beyond the energy sector. We want to increase our adjusted EBITDA to €3.2 billion by 2025. All three segments Smart Infrastructure for Customers, System Critical Infrastructure and Sustainable Generation Infrastructure will contribute to the achievement of this target.

Goal
Key performance indicator
2021
Target for 2025
Goal
Share of result accounted for by “Smart Infrastructure for Customers”
Key performance indicator
Share of overall adjusted EBITDA
2021
€0.3 billion / 10.9%0The sum of the three segments does not correspond to the adjusted EBITDA for the EnBW Group. €-187.4 million (-6.3%) is attributable to Other/Consolidation in the 2021 financial year.
Target for 2025
€0.6 billion / 20.0%
Goal
Share of result accounted for by “System Critical Infrastructure”
Key performance indicator
Share of overall adjusted EBITDA
2021
€1.3 billion / 43.5%0The sum of the three segments does not correspond to the adjusted EBITDA for the EnBW Group. €-187.4 million (-6.3%) is attributable to Other/Consolidation in the 2021 financial year.
Target for 2025
€1.3 billion / 40.0%
Goal
Share of result accounted for by “Sustainable Generation Infrastructure"
Key performance indicator
Share of overall adjusted EBITDA
2021
€1.5 billion / 51.9%0The sum of the three segments does not correspond to the adjusted EBITDA for the EnBW Group. €-187.4 million (-6.3%) is attributable to Other/Consolidation in the 2021 financial year.
Target for 2025
€1.3 billion / 40.0%
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Goal dimension customers and society


  • Improving our reputation. In view of the radical changes to the energy landscape, successful corporate growth as an energy company requires social acceptance. The Reputation Index reflects the diverse range of activities, influencing factors and assessments of a variety of stakeholder groups.
  • Customer proximity. This key performance indicator is used to assess the satisfaction of our private end customers with whom we have a direct customer relationship. The information is compiled using comprehensive customer surveys about the brands EnBW and Yello conducted by an external service provider. The expected values in 2021 will reflect a high level of customer loyalty.
  • Supply reliability. Providing a reliable and safe supply of energy to our customers has the highest priority. SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) serves as the key performance indicator for supply reliability. It specifies the average length of supply interruption in the electricity distribution grid experienced annually by each connected customer. SAIDI includes all unscheduled interruptions to supply that last more than three minutes for the end consumer.
Goal
Key performance indicator
2021
Target for 2025
Goal
Reputation
Key performance indicator
Reputation Index
2021
55
Target for 2025
58 bis 62
Goal
Customer proximity
Key performance indicator
Customer Satisfaction Index EnBW
Customer Satisfaction Index Yello
2021
127
159
Target for 2025
125 bis 136
148 bis 159
Goal
Supply reliability
Key performance indicator
SAIDI (electricity) in min/year
2021
16 min/year
Target for 2025
< 20 min/year
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Goal dimension environment


  • Expand renewable energies (RE).The share of our generation capacity accounted for by renewable energies in 2025 is to be > 50%.
  • Climate protection. EnBW actively contributes to climate protection by successively reducing the CO₂ intensity of its own generation of electricity (excluding nuclear power) by 15 to 30% by 2025 compared to the reference year 20180The reference year is 2018 because the 2020 reporting year cannot be considered representative for the coming years (due to, among other things, market effects and the coronavirus pandemic)..
Goal
Key performance indicator
2021
Target for 2025
Goal
Expand Renewable Energies (RE)
Key performance indicator
Installed output of RE
Share of the generation capacity accounted for by RE
2021
5.1 GW
40.1%
Target for 2025
6.5 to 7.5 GW
> 50%
Goal
Climate protection
Key performance indicator
CO₂ intensity0The 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. This performance indicator still excludes nuclear generation. The CO₂ intensity including nuclear generation for the reporting year was 386 g/kWh (previous year: 268 g/kWh).
2021
478 g/kWh
Target for 2025
-15% to -30%
(reference year 2018)0The reference year is 2018 because the 2020 reporting year cannot be considered representative for the coming years (due to, among other things, market effects and the coronavirus pandemic).
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Goal dimension employees


  • Engagement of employees.The PEI expresses how engaged employees are in their work at EnBW and was measured and reported as a key performance indicator for the first time in 2020. It is compiled at all companies with more than 100 employees (except for the Independent Transmission Operators [ITOs]) as part of an employee survey carried out by an external, independent service provider. It is determined based on the first question of the standardized list of questions “How happy are you working for the EnBW Group and the companies in the Group?” It is a question that uses a rating scale from 1 (I do not agree at all) to 5 (I agree completely). The value determined is then converted to a scale of 0 to 100.
  • Occupational safety. The LTIF indicates how many accidents at work led to at least one day of absence, based on one million hours worked. The calculation of the LTIF overall generally includes all companies with more than 100 employees. For the calculation of the LTIF for companies controlled by the Group, those companies engaged in the area of waste management are excluded because the number of accidents deviates significantly from that in the core business in the energy industry. External agency workers and contractors are not taken into account in either performance indicator. The number of accidents at work and the resulting days of absence should remain stable or fall.
Goal
Key performance indicator
2021
Target for 2025
Goal
Engagement of employees
Key performance indicator
People Engagement Index (PEI)0Variations in the group of consolidated companies (all companies with more than 100 employees are generally considered [except ITOs]). Companies that were fully consolidated for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2021 were not included in the employee surveys for the PEI.
2021
82
Target for 2025
77-830Due to the extraordinary effects relating to the coronavirus pandemic in the year this key performance indicator was introduced, we may need to adjust this target value during the strategy period.
Goal
Occupational safety
Key performance indicator
LTIF for companies controlled by the Group0Variations in the group of consolidated companies (all companies with more than 100 employees, excluding external agency workers and contractors, are considered). Companies that were fully consolidated for the first time during the 2021 financial year were not included in the calculations for the LTIF performance indicators.0Excluding companies in the area of waste management.
LTIF overall0Variations in the group of consolidated companies (all companies with more than 100 employees, excluding external agency workers and contractors, are considered). Companies that were fully consolidated for the first time during the 2021 financial year were not included in the calculations for the LTIF performance indicators.
2021
2.3
3.3
Target for 2025
2.1
3.5
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