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Environmental protection

EnBW is aware of its shared responsibility for our environment. In all of our actions, we pay particular attention to climate protection, the preservation of biodiversity and the most careful use possible of natural resources.

Environmental Policy of EnBW

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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.

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  • 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 stands for a secure and sustainable energy supply.
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  • 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 communication and the raising of awareness on environmentally relevant topics.
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  • 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.
EnBW promotes environmentally sound action in all business segments.
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Environmental targets

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Our strategy 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 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 and water consumption

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 Strategy.

The installed output of renewable energies (RE) and the share of the generation capacity accounted for by RE measure the expansion of renewable energies. They refer to the installed output of the power plants and not to their weather-dependent contribution to electricity generation.

The key performance indicator CO₂ intensity and the indicators SO₂ intensity and NOx intensity are calculated based on the emissions of CO₂, SO₂ and NOx, as well as the volumes of cooling water and waste water discharged from our own electricity generation in the Group and the volume of electricity generated by the Group without the contribution made by the nuclear power plants. The performance indicators are calculated as the ratio between the emissions or volumes of cooling water/waste water and the generated volume of electricity. They thus describe the specific amount of CO₂, SO₂ and NOx released or the cooling water/waste water discharged per kilowatt hour. By discounting the electricity generated by nuclear power plants, the performance indicators will not be influenced by the phasing out of nuclear energy.

Objective
Performance indicator
2023
2022
2025 Target
Objective
Expand renewable energies (RE)
Performance indicator
TOP installed RE capacity in GW and share of ­RE in generation capacity in %
2023
5,74 / 46,9
2022
5,4 / 41,7
2025 Target
6.5 to 7.5 / > 50
Objective
Implement climate protection /
realising greenhouse gas reduction potential
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.
2023
347
2022
491
2025 Target
–15 % to –30 %0Base year 2018
Objective
Reduction of pollutant emissions
Performance indicator
SO₂-intensity in mg/kWh
2023
204
2022
259
2025 Target
–15 % to –25 %0Base year 2018
Performance indicator
NOx-intensity in mg/kWh
2023
224
2022
277
2025 Target
–10 % to –20 %0Base year 2018
Objective
Reduction of volumes of cooling water and waste water
Performance indicator
Waste water intensity in l/kWh
2023
28,0
2022
30,2
2025 Target
–20 % to –30 %0Base year 2018 0Waste water is the total of the amounts of cooling and waste water that are discharged into surface water. Procurement contracts are not included in the calculation of the performance indicator.
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Environmental measures

All information relating to our key objective of further avoiding CO₂ emissions.

Our measures for the efficient use of energy.

Our activities to minimise the emissions from our plants.

Our contribution to the preservation of biodiversity and individual animal and habitats.

We protect water and soil from pollution and excessive use.

Our work around the responsible procurement and use of resources.

Environmental data

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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.