Sustainable Corporate Management

Energy: Total energy consumption (in MWh)

As in the previous year, growth (under-proportionate to production increase) is expected. // Strong production increase  Konzernweite, nominale Jahresendkapazitäten – Ausbau 2010 (in MWp) production figures are not disclosed.

Water: total water withdrawal (in m³)

Water: waste water injection (in m³)

Emissions: total GHG emissions in (tCO_2eq.)

Estimate // with strong production increase  Konzernweite, nominale Jahresendkapazitäten – Ausbau 2010 (in MWp)

Emissions: NOx, SOx and other air emissions (in tonnes)

Estimate // with strong production increase  Konzernweite, nominale Jahresendkapazitäten – Ausbau 2010 (in MWp)

Waste: total production waste (in tonnes)

Estimate // only in absolute figures as production figures are not disclosed (strong production increase).  Konzernweite, nominale Jahresendkapazitäten – Ausbau 2010 (in MWp))

Soil sealing: sealed area (in m²)

Only US sites; including SolarWorld Korea Ltd

Environmental compatibility: share of ISO 14001 certified locations (weighted by average capacity)

Indicator dropped in year 2009 due to U.S. sites not yet having been certified, at the same time increased production there.

Packaging: material in tonnes

Environmental violations: sanctions due to environmental violations

Employment type: share of temporary employees

Employee turnover: share of employees leaving the company per year

So far no differentiation between full time and part time

Collective agreements: share of employees covered by collective agreements

Training and professional development/upskilling & qualification: average training expenditure per employee (in €)

Expenditures for training by external providers have so far not been included. A split between temporary staff and employees is not possible for U.S. data.

Age structure of workforce: in ten-year steps

Not measured per FTE

Absenteeism: total missed worktime due to sick leave/
total planned worktime

Accident rate (in ‰): number of accidents/number of hours worked (i.e. per 1,000 employees incl. temporary employees)

Relocation of jobs due to restructuring: total costs (in k€) including compensation payments, severance pay, outplacement, recruitments, training, consulting

These data are not yet collected in this aggregate form, but there are figures from the U.S. (incl. severance pay, outplacement, extended health insurance). The rise from 2009 to 2010 is due to recruitments in the course of the ramp-up of the 500 MW cell production as well as the 300 MW module production in Hillsboro.

Diversity: Share of women in total workforce

Women‘s rate dropped between 2007 and 2008 due to shift of wafer and cell production in the U.S. from Camarillo (solar and semiconductor market with a high share of women) to Hillsboro (solar and semiconductor market with low share of women) // by now groupwide share of women back to almost the level of 2007.

Diversity: share of women in management positions

Pay: total amount of all bonus payments (in m€)

We do not grant stock options, but we pay a profit-oriented participation model (GOMAB). Futher data on this indicator are so far not available.

Discrimination: number of documented incidents

Effect of subsidies: share of business activity in markets with feed-in tariffs or regulated pricing

The shipment share in markets without feed-in tariff or regulated pricing is still below 1 %.
Benchmarks: heavily subsidised markets such as nuclear energy, German coal, EU agricultural market

Finanzielle Zuwendungen der öffentlichen Hand (Investitionszuschüsse und Forschungszuschüsse)

Donations to political parties in (k€)

Other donations in (k€)

Regional development: Solar2World project scope (in kWp)

Litigation risk: expenditures and fines for lawsuits and court cases regarding anti-competitive behavior, Anti-Trust, monopoly behavior

Corruption: share of business activity in regions with corruption index of below 6.0

Ascertained corruption incidents

In the reporting period, a corruption incident was ascertained for the first time. The incident did not occur inside the SolarWorld Group but at a joint venture. According to our zero tolerance principle, we immediately drew personnel consequences and initiated a criminal prosecution.

Sanctions due to violation of legal provisions

Customer satisfaction: share of satisfied customers among respondents

Aggregate number (trade: wholesalers, specialist partners): The satisfaction analysis (wafers: cell producers) should have come to hand in the summer but will now be performed in 2011.

Earnings from new products: with a life cycle below 12 months

These data refer only to SolarWorld AG. They are not yet available for the
entire group.

Health and safety aspects of the products: share of product recalls for safety or health reasons in total number of products sold

Hardly lost any customers in the past but rather gained some continuously; in the market for 12 years

Customer loyalty: share of new customers (specialist partners)

End of 2010: 506 specialist partners

Customer loyalty: market share (total)

Sanctions due to product and service conditions

Certification: ISO 9001 certification of suppliers

Certification: ISO 14001 certification of suppliers

Production loss: difference between planned and actual production due to material bottlenecks (in %)

Production loss: monetary effects of production loss due to material bottlenecks (in €)

Innovation: total R&D expenditure (in m€)

Innovation: total investment in research on ESG relevant aspects

Our entire business (solar energy) is ESG relevant.

Patents: Number of inventions filed in the last 12 months