Mercedes-Benz Cars and Statkraft make an important contribution to the energy transition

• Mercedes-Benz Cars is the first major industrial company to source electricity from German wind farms, whose subsidies as per the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020.
• The agreement between Mercedes-Benz Cars and Statkraft ensures the continued operation of six community-owned wind farms.
• All German Mercedes-Benz Cars plants are to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy by 2022.
• The green energy from the wind farms is to be used for the production of the EQC electric car (combined power consumption: 22.2 kWh/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km, preliminary figures¹) at the Mercedes-Benz Bremen Plant as well as for the battery production at the location of Deutsche ACCUMOTIVE in Kamenz, Saxony.

(Stuttgart/Düsseldorf, 12 December 2018) Mercedes-Benz Cars together with Statkraft is taking the first step on the road to realising a CO2-neutral energy supply of the German plants. This is another component of the Mercedes-Benz Cars Operations strategy - digital, flexible, green.

The power purchase agreement enables Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. In doing so, Mercedes-Benz Cars ensures the economical operation of existing windmills, which can continue to contribute to achieving the climate goals in Germany as a result. The power purchase agreement is thus an important contribution to the German energy transition (German "Energiewende").

Norwegian energy provider Statkraft supplies the renewable energy from six community-owned wind farms. The power will be used to supply the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen as well as to the German battery production locations such as Kamenz and Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, for example.

"At Mercedes-Benz Cars Operations, we are pursuing the strategy digital, flexible and green in our global production organisation. This also includes that we will supply all our German plants with CO2-neutral energy by 2022. As the first industrial company in Germany, we are using electricity from six wind farms and thereby ensure their continued operation already today. In doing so, we are taking an important step in realising our CO2-neutral production operations and are underscoring our social responsibility," says Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Management Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain.