Responsibility for Water, Air and Soil Quality

E.ON’s commitment to environmental protection at our facilities and in our service territory takes many forms and typically exceeds compliance with environmental laws. We work continuously to reduce airborne pollutants, solid waste as well as water consumption and pollutants. We consider environmental issues and impacts the moment we begin planning a facility and continue to do so along the entire value chain in electricity and natural gas, from production and transmission to distribution and consumption.

E.ON has clear rules and certified systems to manage environmental matters. Our E.ON Health & Safety Environment Management System encompasses company policies for health, safety and the environment. We expect all of our employees to comply with these policies. We have personnel responsible for monitoring compliance with environmental standards at our facilities.

Although responsibility for our environmental performance lies with the E.ON Board of Management, the contribution of each and every employee is integral to our success.

To help further climate protection in the group, a groupwide environmental conference is held every two years. It acts as a forum for discussing what our next steps should be, identifying our climate protection responsibilities and exchanging ideas with international experts in the field. The 2008 conference will be held in Birmingham and will be attended by around 200 participants.

The success of our operational environmental protection effort is demonstrated by the extreme rarity of environmental incidents at our company. In the last three years, E.ON Group had only a single significant environmental incident that triggered our 24-hour reporting requirement. The incident involved dust emissions from a solid-waste combustion plant while it switched from waste-fired to oil-fired operation in 2005. As in previous years, there were no International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) incidents at E.ON facilities in 2007.