Our company spontaneously offered help as well. If I may say so, I see a positive takeaway from this crisis: the solidarity of these communities is real I saw it myself while I was there. I'd like to take this opportunity to say how proud I am of our employees for their outstanding efforts. But thanks to our people's tireless dedication and enthusiasm, they got the job done, in some cases in potentially dangerous situations. Each substation had to be cleaned and dried. Here, damage to substations, cables, distribution boxes, and service connections had to be cataloged and repaired.
LEONHARD BIRNBAUM OBIT FULL
Work is in full swing in the low-voltage networks as well. Our people restored power as quickly as possible in the heavily damaged segments of our intermediate-voltage network by connecting them to functioning lines or by using emergency generators. All of the almost 500 substations and transformer stations affected by the storm have now been inspected, cleaned, and almost completely put back into operation. Nearly all the white boxes are now green, and the people there have electricity service again, at least on a provisional basis.Īs of today, only about 1,000 of the originally roughly 200,000 people are still without power. The map you see now shows the same area last week, on August 4. Statements by Birnbaum/Spieker, 1H21, August 11, 2021
Moreover, E.ON has many years of experience dealing with weather events and has again demonstrated its crisis-management skills. This crisis has once again demonstrated the advantage of our setup: we can take action locally and where people live, while at the same time drawing on the strength of a large corporation. Many employees from our regional utilities volunteered to help their colleagues in the affected areas. Literally overnight E.ON sent about 1,000 people from our subsidiaries nationwide to the disaster zone. Each white box on this map indicates a customer who lost power on July 23 due to a disabled substation or transformer station. These maps, which are screenshots from the app, show the extent of the destruction exemplified by Erstadt-Blessem, a town located aboutĢ0 kilometers southwest of Cologne. It was a way we were able to utilize our digitalization expertise during the crisis-swiftly and effectively. Our colleagues quickly created an app for submitting damage reports, enabling us to respond faster. Almost 500 of our substations and transformer stations were under water. About 200,000 people in the network territory of our Westnetz subsidiary lacked electricity and gas immediately after the floods.
The water also damaged the energy infrastructure in many places, in some cases even destroying it. It wasn't the largest rivers that caused the floods, but rather the many small, otherwise innocuous streams and rivers. I went to see for myself and was shocked by the immense damage. Our thoughts are with the people who lost everything in this terrible event. We're all still struck by the dramatic images of the flood disaster in Germany. More about this from Marc in a moment.īefore turning to our numbers I'd like to touch on a topic that has preoccupied and moved us all in recent days. Against this background, we're raising our outlook for the 2021 financial year by €600 million, from €3.8 to €4.0 billion previously to €4.4 to €4.6 billion. €3.2 billion, an increase of 45 percent relative to the first six months of the prior year. I too would like to welcome you to today's telephone conference, at which Marc Spieker and I will present you very good half-year results.
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