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RWE Deutschland AG – strong value driver and additional growth potential within the RWE Group Berlin, 11 June 2014

Arndt Neuhaus Chief Executive Officer RWE Deutschland AG

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RWE’s mid-term business profile drivers

GENERATION

Integrated utility along the value chain with focus on core markets within Europe

TRADING DISTRIBUTION SUPPLY

High portion of earnings from stable regulated businesses (German and CEE/SEE networks; renewables)

> GER: Stable regulatory environment for the next regulatory period Electricity: 2014 – 18 Gas: 2013 – 17 – Potential for revenue

growth from integration of renewables

– Focus on performance > CEE/SEE: Aim to stabilise

regulated earnings – CZ: Discussion on next

regulatory period (2015)

– HU: Political pressure on returns

> Focus on efficiency enhancements

> Increasing pressure on sales margins

> Margin upside via new products and cross selling

> Value oriented customer service

> Smart markets: – Decentralised

CHP/services – Energy efficiency

> Growth by leveraging sales know-how across mature and new markets

> Selective growth in renewable energy

> RWE Innogy aims to earn its cost of capital in 2016

> Restructure conventional power generation (“no profit or cash burning”)

> Upside potential from market recovery of conventional power markets (e.g. new market design or recovery of commodities)

> Ongoing focus on value extraction in commercial asset optimisation

> Develop growth opportunities in new trading markets

> Additional value contribution from principal investment projects

> Commercial settlement with Gazprom; no further losses until May 2016

> Ongoing losses from long-term contracted gas storage capacities

Overview


From commodity driven earnings development to attractive regulated profile

RWE develops towards an attractive stable downstream business profile with additional focus on renewables and upside potential from conventional power generation

6.4

51%

48%

24%

55%

Operating result in € bn

5.9

3.9 – 4.3e

>20%

>70%

Upstream Gas & Oil Renewables

Distribution and Supply

Conventional power generation

Trading Gas Midstream 2012 2013 2014e

5%–10%

Of which circa 40%-50% regulated

>70%

10%–15%

Mid-term

Overview


RWE Deutschland: We are a leading energy utility in the German market

Key figures 2013 RWE Deutschland Group External revenue 25.7 Euro billion

EBITDA 2.3 Euro billion

Operating result 1.6 Euro billion

Investments 1.0 Euro billion

Employees 19,100 Full-time equivalent (FTE)

End customers 8 million

Electricity distributed 150 TWh

Gas distributed 90 TWh

Grid length electricity 330,000 km

Grid length gas 48,000 km

Essen

Market position Germany Electricity supply No. 1

Gas supply No. 3

Dr. Arndt Neuhaus CEO

Bernd Böddeling Finance

Dr. Heinz-Willi Mölders Human Resources

Dr. Joachim Schneider Grid Engineering

Dr. Bernd Widera Sales and Regional Companies

Overview


Strong and stable earnings contribution with additional growth potential

We play an important role in the RWE Group: distribution and sales are essential value drivers

Overview

26 %

Distribution

RWE Deutschland AG

Sales

Earnings contribution to RWE Group 2013

> Sales margin

> Customer base

> Operative costs

> Selective growth investments

> Asset management of RAB1

> O&M costs

> Regulatory management

Value drivers

28 %

EBITDA RWE Group: €8.8 bn

Operating result RWE Group €5.9 bn

Share RWE Deutschland

1 RAB = Regulated Asset Base

EBITDA OR


Efficiency improvements

Higher earnings from the disposal of grid assets

Weather induced decline in gas earnings

Continuous growth of operating result in the past and in future

Overview

Review operating result in € m1 Forecast 2014

Long-term

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Average growth rate of about 5.5% from 2003 to 2013: Cost reduction through efficiency

programmes

Increase of margin in sales business

Negative effect of regulation in grid business

1,046

1,626 +5.5% p.a.

Stable income situation due to stable regulatory situation for this and the next regulatory period (until 2018)

Growth opportunities through efficiency improvements and smart energy systems

provide growth potential in the order of 3% p.a.

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+

+

+

+

+

1 Pro forma figures for current organisational structure.

Operating result moderately above last year’s level:

+

-


Political targets / market trends

> Sales (smart markets) − Investments in decentralised

CHP/energy services − Energy efficiency products − Management of virtual power plants/

decentralised energy systems

> Distribution (smart grids) − Smart regulated investments

Growth opportunities

> Ambitious political targets until 2020: − 25% of total electricity generation

from CHP − 1.5% p.a decrease in total energy

consumption (2014 – 2020) − 40% reduction of greenhouse gas

emissions (compared to 1990) − 35% of electricity demand covered

by renewables > Financial support for decentralized energy

system > Growth in PV and wind capacity > Electricity as efficient energy source

Core business as a combination of technology and sales to provide robust value contribution

Successful products to be transferred to other RWE markets

Overview

German “Energiewende” offers distinct growth opportunities with scalable investments


Solid distribution grid business > RWE Deutschland group owns 330,000 km

electricity and 48,000 km gas distribution grids.

> Operation of local distribution grid (low and medium voltage) via concessions from individual municipalities.

> Municipalities assign these concessions for electricity, gas, water and distant heating. In return they receive a regulated concession fee.

> We supply electricity, gas and/or water to almost every fourth German municipality – supply is located in regions with high population density and industrial growth.

> Returns on grid are determined by German regulatory authority on the basis of an incentive regulation scheme.

> Regulator fixes income for periods of five years – for current period until 2018 (electricity grid) stable income situation.

> Our investment strategy yields high performing grids for the future – financial target setting oriented at international peers with highest outperformance.

Distribution

Munich

Stuttgart Saarbrücken

Mainz

Hanover

Hamburg

Berlin

Essen

Düsseldorf Cologne

Augsburg

Frankfurt Wiesbaden

Dresden

Distribution grid area electricity, natural gas and/or water of RWE Deutschland Group


Stadtwerkepartnerschaft – Innovation

Smart grids: „Smart“ solutions for profitable investments Distribution

Smart Country – Smart Grid solution for rural areas have successfully passed practise test

RWE implements „more intelligence“ in the low voltage grid with the project „smart operator“

Energy users become prosumers – this implies more ICT and new market models with enhanced roles for distribution grid operators

Power-to-gas demonstration plant of RWE – a look into the future of storage


Strong market position in German retail market: no.1 in electricity and gas sales to households

Sales

Strategic aspiration

> Increase of revenue and operating results per customer due to differentiated products/services and the continuous utilisation of cross-selling potentials

Market position

> 16% market share in electricity > 10% market share in natural gas > RWE could retain customers

more successfully than competitors

Household

> Value-oriented customer service, growth beyond pure commodity sales

> 13% market share in electricity > 10% market share in natural gas

> "Be excellent" in customer care and market oriented products

> 12% market share in electricity1)

> 6% market share in natural gas1)

Business

Utilities/resellers

1) Sales volume in relation to total consumption in Germany


Sales

Profitable customer base maintained in spite of intensive competition and high churn rates

Development of household electricity prices1

is driven by increased taxes and levies

3.600 3.500

[Start of liberalization in 1998 = 100]

2013 2005

40 % 50 % 109

169

Taxes and levies Generation, grid, sales

Intense competition (more than 1,300 suppliers) shown by accumulated churn rate of households2

3.600 3.500

[ in %]

2005

40 % 50 %

2009 20133

7

21

33

Best in class customer service and online offers

Acquisition skills via most successful German discounter brand

Brand management and marketing campaigns to increase loyalty/credibility

Advanced customer insight management

Key success factors of RWE

w x

7.4 7.3

2013 2012

[in millions]4 Value-oriented development of household customer base (electricity/gas)

1 Source: BDEW; status October 2013 - average three-person household with 3,500 kWh/a 2 Source: BDEW-Kundenfokus, BDEW-Energietrends 3 Source: BDEW-Kundenfokus, BDEW-Energietrends; Status October 2013 4 Status December 2013, 2012 excl. Kevag


Energy services: approx. €500 million revenue and €45 million operating result in 2013; expansion investment: €75 million in 2013 to over €80 million in 2014, further growth planned for the next years – expected IRR approx. 8%

RWE is the largest German energy service provider

Smart markets: We use the potential of energy services with distributed generation

Sales

- CAPEX Energy services [€ million] - - Energy services business with diversified portfolio -

> Major source of revenue > Classic district as "cash

cow"

Local and district heating

> Strategic growth area > Main part of CAPEX

dedicated to contracting solutions

Contracting solutions (heating, cooling, cogeneration,

compressed air)

> Strike to initiate asset-based transactions and special products

Consulting services (energy controlling,

thermography)

> Importance of innovative products is steadily increasing

Special Products (Virtual Power Plant etc.)

Energy services growth in implementation

808075

2013 2014 2015+


New function of RWE Retail Board: Create additional value on RWE´s international customer base

Sales

RWE Retail Board established to leverage large customer base of over 23 million private and commercial electricity and gas customers across Europe.

Platform for further growth by creation of retail innovations via cross-border initiatives – e.g. transfer know-how from „Energiewende“ to other European core markets.

Retail Board also focuses on best-practice transfer and target setting for the regional retail businesses.

Structure RWE Retail Targets

1) in personal union CEO of RWE Deutschland

RWE AG

CEO CFO COO CHO

RWE Retail Board (functional focus)

Retail Central Eastern

and South Eastern Europe

(RWE East)

Retail Great Britain (RWE npower)

Retail Netherlands/

Belgium (Essent)

Retail Germany

(RWE Deutschland)

(regional focus)

CEO1): Dr. Arndt Neuhaus + regional retail heads + CFO


Research & development for markets of tomorrow R&D

Smart metering > Project ‘Mülheim Counts’:

provision of more than 100,000 smart electricity meters

> Investment volume: €30 m

Smart grids > Development and expansion

of smart electricity grids > Investment: approx. €500 m until 2020

Smart home > ‘inHaus2’: Carbon-free

housing project in Duisburg > Provision of innovative

energy applications > Partnership with

Fraunhofer Institute

Superconductor > Energy transmission without

losses and saving space > World's longest superconductor

test line in Essen (1.0 km) in operation

Electric cars > Development and operation

of 1,900 charging points throughout Germany

> Provision of electricity from renewable sources

> Cooperation partners: Daimler, Renault, Nissan, ADAC, Schneider Electric, and others

Essen

Duisburg Mülheim


Based on changing energy markets we have three basic strategic pillars

Summary

RWE Deutschland AG yields continuously high contribution to RWE Group’s value

Distribute Sell Develop

Outperform regulatory targets by optimised investment strategy and highest operating efficiency

Maintain position as top performer with high value customer base

Develop and success-fully implement new business models for a smart energy world with value-enhancing growth potential

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