About Energie Baden-Württemberg

With some six million customers, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG with headquarters in Karlsruhe is the third-largest energy company in Germany. In 2007, EnBW generated annual revenue in excess of € 14 billion with more than 20,000 employees. Our core activities focus on the segments electricity, gas as well as energy and environmental services.

Traditionally, we are firmly rooted in Baden-Württemberg. We also operate throughout Germany and in other markets of central and eastern Europe. We will continue to focus on our core competencies in future and supply our customers reliably and competently with energy and energy-related services.

We operate conventional power stations and nuclear power plants. But that is not all. Hydroelectric power has always played an important role for us. For the other renewable sources of energy such as wind, geothermal power and biomass there is still development potential. We see them as opportunities for economic growth and for the environment and will make use of these opportunities. The gas business will also play an important role in future, as will local generation and heat generation. EnBW aims to reinforce its position in all these areas. Whatever we tackle, we want to play a trailblazing and leading role.
EnBW is primarily engaged in electricity, gas, energy and environmental services. Its products and services include electricity generation, electricity transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution, and thermal and non-thermal waste disposal services.

The company recorded revenues of E13,219 million during the fiscal year ended December 2006, an increase of 22.8% over 2005. Higher revenues were driven by increase in electricity prices and high unit sales of electricity in 2006.

The installed generation capacity of EnBW in December 2006 was 14,811 megawatts (MW) of which 6,579 MW was generated from conventional power stations, 4,843 MW from nuclear power plants (including EDF contracts), 3,354 MW from Run-of-the-river and storage power stations, and balance 35 MW from other renewable energy sources.

BDI initiative "Innovation Strategies and Knowledge Management" develops scenarios and strategies for the future of production and the knowledge society

Prof. Utz Claassen, Chairman of the Board of the EnBW AG, takes over chairmanship

“We need to be more clear about which products, processes and organi­sational structures will keep us in the market in future, what technological advances we must reckon with, and in which technologies we ourselves can become the drivers in the worldwide markets.” These were the words of  BDI President Jürgen R. Thumann on the occasion of the presentation of the BDI initiative “Innovation Strategies and Knowledge Management” in Hanover. The initiative will be chaired by Professor Utz Claassen, Chairman of the Board of the EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, who is contributing to the initiative his thorough knowledge and innovative power as the "Knowledge Manager of the Year 2002” and as a “Partner for Innovation” of the Federal Government.

“With their commitment to the initiative, the BDI and the companies invited to participate wish to give a definite profile to the challenges facing  Germany as a location for innovation,” Prof. Claassen declared at the presentation of the BDI initiative at the Hanover fair. “The meshing of science and business must help identify and sustain future-oriented technology clusters. Practised knowledge management is a further decisive component in ensuring our affluence differential, and with it our future economic development, on the basis of competence,” Claassen continued.

BDI Chairman Thumann emphasised that the BDI intends to play an active part in the dialog with the Federal Government on innovation policies. “The initiative will show our potentials and future perspectives for net profit, and develop roadmaps for the future from them,” said Thumann. This means that the BDI assumes the responsibility for ensuring  sustainable technological development and net profit in Germany, and for helping to shape the process for discussion on innovation and technology policies. The EnBW Board Chairman, Prof. Claassen, said, “The Federal German Government has acknowledged the 3% target of Barcelona. We must now work together, not only to reach this goal, but also to invest intelligently in future-capable innovations and jobs.”