our ecological responsibility
Society expects energy suppliers in particular to find solutions when it comes to protecting the environment. We actively accept the responsibility the MVV Energie Group bears for the environment. We aim to contribute towards reducing CO2 emissions and to supply our customers with energy from efficient, environmentallyfriendly generation. Furthermore, it is incumbent on us to help protect natural resources. Our ecological responsibility also includes supplying customers with clean drinking water. By consistently implementing our strategy, with its focus on sustainability, we have taken the right course. We are making the energy supply more ecological and more efficient.
Groundbreaking political targets
The Federal Government aims to make Germany one of the most energyefficient and environmentallyfriendly economies in the world and has set ambitious climate protection targets. By 2025, renewable energies should account for a 40 % to 45 % share of the electricity supply in Germany. By 2035, 55 % to 60 % of electricity should be generated from renewable energy sources and 80 % by 2050. At the same time, the energy supply should remain reliable and affordable for consumers.
At the beginning of 2014, the EU agreed a climate package providing for a reduction in CO2 emissions. By 2030, these should fall 40 % short of the 1990 figure. In 2010 already, the Federal Government set the ambitious target of reducing CO2 emissions in Germany by 40 % by 2020 and by 80 % to 95 % by 2050, in both cases compared with 1990.
To meet these climate protection targets, energy and climate protection will have to occupy a permanently high position on the political agenda. Not only that, the energy industry, industrial and commercial customers and private consumers will have to align their behaviour more closely to climate protection considerations.
mVV energie aims to actively help shape the conversion
Together with our subsidiaries and shareholdings, we intend to make our contribution towards the energy system conversion and climate protection and to reduce our CO2 emissions in the long term. To this end, we have set specific targets and backed these up with measures:
In the period from 2010 to 2020, the MVV Energie Group is investing around Euro 1.5 billion in expanding renewable energies, environmentallyfriendly district heating and combined heat and power (CHP) generation, boosting energy efficiency and generating energy from waste.
We will continually raise the share of total electricity generation at the MVV Energie Group attributable to renewable energies and CHP.
MVV Energie AG will further increase the density of and expand its district heating grid. The share of households in Mannheim supplied with environmentallyfriendly district heating is thus to be raised from 59 % in 2010 to 70 % by 2020.
By 2015, Energieversorgung Offenbach AG intends to build a generation capacity of 120 MW from onshore wind turbines.
Stadtwerke Kiel AG aims to cover at least 50 % of the heating energy market in the state capital of Kiel with district and local heating by 2030. Today, it covers around 35 % to 40 % of room heating requirements with CHPgenerated district heating. The core foundation for this heating energy concept is the heating energy and electricity generated at the joint power plant in Kiel (Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Kiel GKK). This plant is due to reach the end of its technical life in the coming years. The construction of a gaspowered CHP plant is planned as the followup solution.
Stadtwerke Ingolstadt aims to continually expand its district heating grid. By 2030, at least 50 % of Ingolstadts heating energy requirements are to be covered with district heating from CHP generation or waste industrial heat.
The extent to which these targets can be met is highly dependent on energy policy decisions and regulations. Due above all to economic considerations, these could oblige us to adjust part of our targets.
Our Czech subgroup MVV Energie CZ has already met its target of producing around 45 % of its heating energy with CHP and renewable energies, such as biomass, geothermal energy and the incineration of the biogenic share of waste, by 2022.
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targets focus on overall energy system
For sustainability management purposes, we are working on longterm strategic sustainability targets for the MVV Energie Group. What counts for us is consideration of the energy system as whole. It is not the isolated change in absolute greenhouse gas emissions at our group of companies that offers the most valuable information about the relevant contribution towards climate protection, but rather the actual change in emissions in the overall system. For us, it is therefore less relevant whether the respective CO2 emissions are recognised at MVV Energie, at customers or at competitors. Against this backdrop, our strategic measures led to net reductions of around 243 000 tonnes of CO2e in the energy system in the 2013/14 financial year.
In further developing our sustainability targets, it is particularly important for us that ecological targets should largely be independent of external factors, such as prices or generation margins (spreads). We rather aim to present the actual impact of our strategic measures and activities in the field of sustainability and the actual scale of MVV Energies contribution.
When it comes to ecological responsibility, energy suppliers with proprietary electricity and heating energy generation in particular are measured in terms of their contribution towards cutting CO2 emissions and thus towards protecting the climate. We are making our contribution to reducing CO2 in all business fields. In terms of our generation activities, this relates above all to our expansion of renewable energies and highefficiency CHP generation. However, we are also making a contribution in our other business fields, such as in our sales activities or with our energyrelated services. By offering innovative solutions and services, we are supporting customers in reducing their CO2 emissions.
Focus on quality of data basis
We comment on the main aspects of our contribution to climate and environmental protection by reference to power plant, generation and emission data collected across the Group as of 30 September 2014. In the coming financial years too, we intend to further stand ardise, improve and extend the data basis and data quality across all locations. In the medium to long term, we aim to align our reporting towards the guidelines issued by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
51 % share of electricity from renewable energies and chp
The total Volume oF electricity Generated at the mVV enerGie Group rose yearonyear from 3 897 million kWh to 4 021 million kWh equivalent to a 3 % increase. Of this total, 3 850 million kWh were attributable to Germany (previous year: 3 716 million kWh) and 171 million kWh (previous year: 181 million kWh) to our Czech subgroup, which thus accounted for a 4.3 % share of total electricity generation at the MVV Energie Group (previous year: 4.6 %). The expansion in renewable energies was the main factor driving the increase in electricity generation volumes.
To facilitate comparison of our electricity generation figures with German averages, the tables, charts and explanatory texts below do not include electricity generation data for the Czech subgroup.
electricity generated at the mVV energie Group in Germany
kWh million 2013/14 2012/13 %change
Electricity from renewable energies, including biomass CHP and biogenic share of waste 872 750 + 16
Electricity from CHP 1 070 1 199 4
Other electricity generation 1 908 1 767 + 8
total 3 850 3 716 + 4
Our electricity Generation Volumes From renewable enerGies (including the biogenic share of waste and refusederived fuels) grew by 16 % from 750 million kWh in the previous year to 872 million kWh. This growth was mainly due to the further expansion in our wind power portfolio, which led to a 45 % increase in the volume of electricity fedin by our wind turbines. Their capacity rose from 201 million kWh in the previous year to 292 million kWh in the year under report. Alongside the seven wind farms taken over from Iberdrola Deutschland GmbH as of 1 January 2013, this growth was driven in particular by new wind turbines at our Energieversorgung Offenbach AG (EVO) subsidiary. Three wind turbines at the Dirlammen location generated electricity for the first full year in the 2013/14 financial year. Moreover, ten wind turbines at Hungerberg were connected to the grid in the 2nd quarter of 2013/14. Our biomass plants generated 6 % more electricity in the year under report than in the previous year. In the 2012/13 financial year, downtime due to inspection and repair work had encroached on electricity generation at our biomass power plants in Mannheim and Knigs Wusterhausen. The volume of electricity generated by incinerating waste and refusederived fuels grew by 5 %. Here too, the increase was due to downtime in the previous year, in which our energy from waste plant in Leuna was affected by turbine damage.
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electricity generation from renewable energies and biogenic share of waste/rdF at the mVV energie Group in Germany
kWh million 2013/14 2012/13 %change
Biomass plants 321 300 + 7
Biogas plants 16 17 6
subtotal for biomass 337 317 + 6
Biogenic share of waste/RDF 238 227 + 5
Wind power 292 201 + 45
Hydroelectricity 4 4 0
Photovoltaics 1 1 0
total 872 750 + 16
electricity generation from renewab
