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2006 Corporate Responsibility Report - E.ON UK at a glance

E.ON UK at a glance

E.ON UK in 2006

Sales £8.6 billion
Adjusted earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) £838 million
Retail customers Around 6 million
Electricity sales 56.3TWh
Gas sales 92.6TWh
Customer connections through Central Networks 4.9 million
Employees 15,621
Electricity generation capacity 1 10,762MW
- Combined heat and power (CHP) capacity 2 359MW
- Renewables (wind + hydro) capacity 3 253MW
CO2 emissions from heat and power generation 4 654 kt/TWh

CO2 emissions electricity generation (attributable to E.ON UK) 5

 709 kt/TWh

1 Includes total electricity generation capacity of all assets wholly or partially owned by E.ON UK. Of this, 10,574MW is attributable to E.ON UK on an equity basis, eg where E.ON UK owns 50% of an asset, 50% of the capacity is deemed to be attributable to E.ON UK.

2 Capacity of combined heat and power plants which provided both heat/steam and power during reporting period. Capacity shown is electrical capacity only. Inclusion of CHP plants not used for heat production during reporting period brings total capacity to 576.

3 Maximum dedicated renewable electricity generation capacity. Note that Rheidol hydroelectric power station nominally runs below maximum capacity.

4 Total CO2 emissions from all generation assets wholly or partially owned by E.ON UK, including combined heat and power (CHP).

5 CO2 emissions from electricity generation plant only, excluding CHP. Where E.ON UK owns less than 100% of an asset, only the attributable share is included.

Successes and disappointments in 2006 included:

Successes

  • Received approval for the offshore elements of the London Array offshore wind farm   of 1,000MW London Array scheme in the Thames estuary - read more here;
  • Received approval for UK's largest offshore wind farm, the 180MW Robin Rigg scheme in the Solway Firth - read more here;
  • Received approval to build a new 1,200MW gas-fired power station at Grain, read more here;
  • Started work on the UK's largest dedicated biomass power station at Steven's Croft, Lockerbie, Scotland - read more here;
  • Climbed from last to second place in the energywatch league table of customer satisfaction - read more here.

Disappointments

  • A serious health and safety incident at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, Nottinghamshire - read more here;
  • Rejection of the final Company proposals in the Employee Deal following a ballot of trade union members - read more here.

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