2010 Key Figures at a Glance
| Field | Performance indicator | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | |
| Economy | External electricity sales volume | billion kWh | 311.2 | 282.8 | 317.1 | 306.4 |
| External gas sales volume | billion kWh | 395.4 | 332.0 | 327.8 | 335.0 | |
| Electricity customers | million | 16.2 | 16.5 | 14.4 | 14.6 | |
| Gas customers | million | 7.9 | 8.0 | 6.2 | 6.3 | |
| External revenue | €million | 53,320 | 47,741 | 48,950 | 42,507 | |
| Share of the RWE Group’s revenue earned in countries with a high or very high risk of corruption1 | % | 12.0 | 12.7 | 12.9 | 11.8 | |
| Net income | €million | 3,308 | 3,571 | 2,558 | 2,667 | |
| Value added | €million | 2,876 | 3,177 | 3,453 | 2,970 | |
| Capital expenditure | €million | 6,643 | 15,637 | 5,693 | 4,227 | |
| Enviroment | Power plant capacity | MW | 52,214 | 49,582 | 45,196 | 44,533 |
| NOX emissions | g/kWh | 0.58 | 0.67 | 0.67 | 0.76 | |
| SO2 emissions | g/kWh | 0.29 | 0.34 | 0.39 | 0.57 | |
| Particulate emissions | g/kWh | 0.019 | 0.024 | 0.028 | 0.034 | |
| Primary energy consumption | billion kWh | 403.0 | 368.2 | 396.0 | 411.7 | |
| Water consumption2 | m3/MWh | 1.41 | 1.70 | 1.49 | 1.69 | |
| Specific CO2 emissions | mt/MWh | 0.732 | 0.796 | 0.768 | 0.866 | |
| Scope 1 CO2 emissions3 | million mt | 167.1 | 151.3 | 174.5 | 189.7 | |
| Scope 2 CO2 emissions4 | million mt | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.6 | |
| Scope 3 CO2 emissions5 | million mt | 135.7 | 128.1 | 127.0 | 127.8 | |
| Share of the Group’s electricity generation accounted for by renewables | % | 4.06 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 2.4 | |
| Society | Employees7 | 70,856 | 70,726 | 65,908 | 63,439 | |
| Share of women in the company | % | 26.2 | 26.1 | 25.6 | 25.2 | |
| Share of women in executive positions | % | 10.8 | 9.08 | 8.9 | 8.9 | |
| Fluctuation rate | % | 8.3 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 9.1 | |
| Health ratio | % | 95.6 | 95.4 | 95.4 | 95.6 | |
| Lost-time incident frequency | LTIF9 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 6.1 | |
| Fatal work-related accidents10 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 9 |
1 Countries rated lower than six on a scale of zero to ten in the Corruption Perceptions Index by the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International, with ten corresponding to the lowest risk of corruption
2 Difference between power plant water withdrawals and returns to rivers and other surface waters; excluding power plants with seawater cooling
3 Scope 1: direct CO2 emissions from in-house sources (electricity generation, oil and gas production, gas transmission)
4 Scope 2: indirect CO2 emissions from the generation of electricity purchased from third parties which is used when being transmitted over the RWE network (network losses)
5 Scope 3: indirect CO2 emissions that do not fall under Scope 1 or 2, produced through the generation of electricity procured from third parties, (including network losses in third-party networks), production and transmission of used fuel, and CO2 emissions of gas sold to customers
6 Electricity generation based on wind (3.1 TWh), hydro (3.5 TWh) and biomass (2.3 TWh)
7 Converted to full-time positions
8 Excluding Essent
9 Number of accidents leading to the loss of at least one person day per million working hours; excluding employees of third-party companies
10 Including employees of third-party companies
