Our 45 gigawatts put us among Europe's leading power producers

At the end of the 2008 financial year, the RWE Group had an installed capacity of 45.2 GW. We rank fifth among Europe’s power generators. These figures include the contractually secured capacities mentioned earlier that are not owned by RWE. Our electricity generation capacity increased by 0.8 GW compared with 2007. This is primarily because we refurbished, modernized and expanded existing facilities. RWE Innogy’s rise in capacity was partially due to the acquisition of Spanish-based wind power operator Urvasco Energía. Hard coal accounts for the biggest share of our installed capacity at 31 %, followed by lignite (24 %), gas (16 %) and nuclear power (14 %). Renewable energy had a share of 3.4 %. We intend to increase it considerably and will invest an average of more than €1 billion per year to do so. The geographical focus of our electricity generation is Germany: This is where 33.4 GW, or 74 %, of our power plant capacity is located. In second place, with 10.1 GW, or 22 %, of our capacity is the UK. Hungary comes in third, with a production capacity of 0.9 GW, or 2 %.