Energy Efficiency

One key to achieving climate protection goals is to maximise energy efficiency. Building new power stations enables us to generate electricity more efficiently. We are also lowering our own energy consumption and helping our customers save energy too.

There are two ways in which we as an energy utility can help to reduce CO₂ emissions: we can generate electricity more efficiently, for example by making our power stations more efficient, and we can help our customers to use energy more sparingly too. This is the aim of the various innovative products and services that we offer our customers. We are also investing heavily in electromobility, a new business area that we are pursuing in tandem with our expansion of renewables.

Progress

The first of several new power stations came on stream in 2010. We expect these to raise the mean efficiency of our fossil-fuel power stations by more than 3 percentage points by 2013. Approx. 40 % of our centrally managed fleet of company cars have been replaced by more efficient models since 2009. Projects to improve the energy efficiency of our buildings have been initiated, and the scope of our customer projects broadened. These are expected to yield measura-ble improvements in efficiency from 2011 onwards.

Objectives in Energy Efficiency