RWE is one of Europe’s five leading electricity and gas companies. Through our expertise in oil, gas and lignite production, the construction and operation of conventional and renewables-based power plants, commodities trading as well as electricity and gas transmission and sales, we cover the entire energy value chain. More than 70,000 employees supply about 16 million customers with electricity and nearly 8 million customers with gas via our fully consolidated companies. In fiscal 2010, we recorded more than €53 billion in revenue.