Key performance indicators and targets

Further information, including definitions of our KPIs, can be found on pages 40 and 41 of the Annual Report and Accounts 2010/11.

 

KPI

Target 

Results

Employees

Employee engagement index
(percent)

To increase

10/11+:
09/10: 68
08/09: 70

Employee lost time injury frequency rate
(injuries per 100,000 hours)

Zero

10/11: 0.18
09/10: 0.15
08/09: 0.25

Shareholder value

Adjusted earnings per share
(pence)*

To increase

10/11: 51.7
09/10: 49.5
08/09: 43.3

Group return on equity
(% three year average)

To increase

10/11: 11.9
09/10: 11.3
08/09: 10.8

Regulated controllable operating costs
(% of regulated assets)&

To decrease

10/11: 7.3
09/10: 7.5
08/09: 8.0

 

Network reliability

Electricity delivered by the UK electricity transmission system as a proportion of electricity demanded
(percent)

99.9999

10/11: 99.9999
09/10: 99.9999
08/09: 99.9999

Gas delivered by the UK gas transmission system as a proportion of gas demanded
(percent)

100

10/11: 100
09/10: 100
08/09: 100

MWh lost on our US electricity transmission system
( MWh)

<204

10/11: 414
09/10: 147
08/09: 266

Gas distribution UK network reliability
(percent)

99.999

10/11: 99.999
09/10: 99.999
08/09: 99.999

Average time the average customer is without power over the year from our US electricity distribution network
(minutes)

<122

10/11: 123
09/10: 114
08/09: 114

Customer satisfaction

Gas distribution UK
(quartile ranking)

To improve

10/11: 4th
09/10: 4th
08/09: 4th

Gas distribution US - residential
(quartile ranking)

To improve

10/11: 2nd
09/10: 3rd
08/09: 4th

Gas distribution US - commercial
(quartile ranking)

To improve

10/11: 4th
09:10: 2nd
08/09: 3rd

Electricity  Generation & Distribution - residential
(quartile ranking)

To improve

10/11: 3rd
09/10: 4th
08/09: 3rd

Electricity Generation & Distribution - commercial
(quartile ranking)

To improve

10/11: 2nd
09/10: 3rd
08/09: 4th

Environment

Percentage reduction in greenhouse gas emissions baseline
(percent)#

80% by 2050; 45% by 2020

10/11: 51
09/10: 55
08/09: 42

Not measured. Next survey will be carried out in 2011/12.
*Adjusted earnings excludes exceptional items, remeasurements and stranded cost recoveries
& Prior years restated on a constant currency basis