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EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
Company type Aktiengesellschaft
FWB:  EBK
Industry Electric utilities
PredecessorBadenwerk
Mittelschwäbische Überlandzentrale
Neckarwerke Elektrizitätsversorgung
Ueberlandwerk Jagstkreis
Württembergische Landes-Elektrizitäts-AG  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Founded1997 (1997)
Headquarters
Karlsruhe
,
Germany
Key people
Dr. Georg Stamatelopoulos (CEO)
Products Electric power
Revenue€56,0 billion (2022)
3,252,100,000 Euro (2023)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
€1.7 billion (2022) [1]
Total assets €69.5 billion (2022) [1]
Total equity €12.8 billion (2022) [1]
Number of employees
26,980 (2022)
Website www.enbw.com

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, or simply EnBW, is a publicly-traded energy company headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Contents

History

Foundation and development

EnBW came into existence on 1 January 1997 as a result of the merger between two energy companies from Baden-Württemberg, Badenwerk AG and Energie-Versorgung Schwaben AG (EVS). [2] Subsequently, on 1 October 2003, EnBW further merged with Neckarwerke Stuttgart AG. [3]

Strategic reorientation and expansion of renewable energy activities

In March 2012, Frank Mastiaux was appointed as the new CEO of EnBW. [4] At the end of 2012, in response to the nuclear power phase-out and the energy transition, Mastiaux announced a strategic reorientation. [5] The proportion of renewable energy sources in EnBW's energy mix was to increase from 12% to 40% by 2020. [6] The figure of 40.1% was reached in 2021. [7] Much of this was to be achieved by expanding wind power: with 1,016 MW onshore and 975 MW offshore, [8] EnBW is now one of the leading wind farm developers and operators in Germany. [9]

Between 2020 and 2025, the company plans to invest over €5 billion in the further expansion of renewable energy generation and aims to operate onshore and offshore wind farms with a total capacity of at least 4,000 MW. [10] EnBW's first offshore wind farm – EnBW Baltic 1, comprising 21 wind turbines in the Baltic Sea – went into operation in 2011. This was followed in early summer 2015 by the 80-turbine EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm, a stake in which had already been sold to Australian investment group Macquarie for €720 million in January 2015. [11] In early 2020, the EnBW Hohe See and Albatros wind farms with a total of 87 turbines and 609 MW capacity went into operation in the North Sea. In 2017, EnBW won bidding for the right to construct its third North Sea wind farm, the 900 MW EnBW He Dreiht, which is unsubsidised and is scheduled for completion in 2025. [12] In January 2019, EnBW acquired seven wind farms in Sweden with a total of 51 turbines and an installed capacity of 105 MW. [13]

EnBW also plans to expand its grids business and make various divestments. An important growth market is Turkey, where EnBW's focus is on hydroelectric power stations and wind farms. [14]

In 2017, EnBW began expanding its electric mobility, photovoltaics and distributed energy generation activities:

In electric mobility, EnBW has collaborated since March 2017 with Tank & Rast, an operator of service areas along the German autobahn network, to expand the provision of charging points for electric vehicles. [15] EnBW provides the EnBW mobility+ app, which combines a charging point locator with payment options and covers Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy and the Netherlands. [16] According to an independent study by P3, Cirrantic and Theon Data, [17] EnBW has the largest charging network spanning Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2020, the company extended its market leadership in fast charging to Austria by entering into a joint venture with SMATRICS called SMATRICS EnBW. [18] In April 2021, EnBW announced plans to open Europe's biggest public fast charging park for electric vehicles by the end of the year. [19]

In photovoltaics and distributed energy generation, EnBW aims to expand photovoltaic generating capacity to 1,200 MWp by 2025, mainly in Germany but also in selected markets elsewhere. [7] In this connection, EnBW is building Germany's largest unsubsidised solar farm with an area of 164 hectares in Brandenburg [20] and in March 2018 acquired Senec, a Leipzig-based manufacturer of home solar battery storage systems. [21]

In March 2023, EnBW announced that it intends to end coal usage by 2028. [22]

In August 2023, it was announced EnBW had acquired a 10% equity stake in a renewable ammonia production plant developed by Norwegian company Skipavika Green Ammonia (SkiGA). [23]

Internationalisation of renewable energy activities

The EnBW 2025 Strategy includes selective internationalisation of the company's renewable energy activities. [24] EnBW has a presence in Denmark through its subsidiary Connected Wind Services and in Sweden in the form of EnBW Sverige. In June 2019, EnBW completed the acquisition of Valeco, France. [25] The company has a renewable energy joint venture in Turkey in partnership with Borusan. EnBW has also opened offices of its own in Taiwan [26] and the United States [27] in order to bid in offshore wind auctions. Early in 2021, EnBW and BP jointly won an auction for rights to develop offshore wind farms in two adjacent areas of the Irish Sea. [28]

Transmission grid

In 2023, EnBW sold around a quarter of its high-voltage transmission grid TransnetBW to a savings banks-led consortium for around 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion). [29] Also in 2023, state-owned KfW acquired a 24.95% minority stake in TransnetBW, firming up its grip on critical energy infrastructure in a bid to speed up the country's energy transition. [30]

Sports sponsorship

EnBW was the main sponsor of football clubs VfB Stuttgart [31] and Karlsruher SC [32] for several years until 2010 and continues to sponsor both clubs at a lesser level.

Structure

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EnBW headquarters in Karlsruhe

Shareholders

The two principal shareholders of EnBW are NECKARPRI-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (itself fully owned by the state of Baden-Württemberg) and Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke (OEW, owned by local municipalities), each of which hold a 46.75% ownership interest. [33]

Board of Management

The Board of Management (Vorstand) of the EnBW holding company consists of Andreas Schell (Chief Executive Officer since 15 November 2022), Colette Rückert-Hennen (Chief Human Resources Officer), Thomas Kusterer (Chief Financial Officer), Dirk Gusewill (Chief Operating Officer Critical Infrastructure) and Georg Stamatelopoulos (Chief Operating Officer Generation). [34]

Figures

EnBW has around 5.5 million customers [35] and is the third-largest energy company in Germany. [36] With a workforce of 26,980, EnBW generated revenue of €56,0 billion in 2022. [7]

Carbon intensity

YearGeneration portfolio [8]

electrical output in MW

CO2 Intensity in g/kWh
201813,387553
201913,849419
202012,486342
202112,722478
202213,066491

Facilities

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Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear power plants

Conventional power plants

Source: [37]

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Rheinhafen-Dampfkraftwerk Karlsruhe

Renewable energy sources: hydropower

Source: [38]

Renewable energy sources: offshore wind farms

Source: [39]

Renewable energy sources: onshore wind farms

Source: [40]

Wind farms and wind power projects in Baden-Württemberg:

Wind farms in other German states:

Wind farms in other countries:

Renewable energy sources: solar power

Source: [41]

Solar farms in operation:

Solar farms in development:

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