Key performance indicators and targets

Further information, including definitions of our KPIs, can be found on pages 38 and 39 of the Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12.

 

KPI

Target 

Results

Employees

Employee engagement index
(percent)

To increase

11/12: 66
10/11+:
09/10: 68

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

Zero

11/12: 0.18
10/11: 0.18
09/10: 0.15

Shareholder value

Adjusted earnings per share
(pence)*

To increase

11/12: 51.3
10/11: 50.9
09/10: 48.6

Group return on equity

To increase

11/12: 10.9
10/11: 10.8
09/10: 12.6

Regulated controllable operating costs
(% of regulated assets)&

To decrease

11/12: 6.7
10/11: 7.2
09/10: 7.5

Network reliability

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

99.9999

11/12: 99.999999
10/11: 99.9999
09/10: 99.9999

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

100

11/12: 100
10/11: 100
09/10: 100

MWh lost on our US electricity transmission system
( MWh)

 

11/12: 558
10/11: 414
09/10: 147

Gas distribution UK network reliability
(percent)

99.999

11/12: 99.999
10/11: 99.999
09/10: 99.999

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

 

11/12: 121
10/11: 123
09/10: 114

Customer satisfaction

Gas distribution UK
(quartile ranking)

To improve

11/12: 3rd
10/11: 4th
09/10: 4th

Gas distribution US - residential
(quartile ranking)

To improve

11/12: 3rd
10/11: 2nd
09/10: 3rd

Gas distribution US - commercial
(quartile ranking)

To improve

11/12: 3rd
10/11: 4th
09:10: 2nd

Electricity  Generation & Distribution - residential
(quartile ranking)

To improve

11/12: 3rd
10/11: 3rd
09/10: 4th

Electricity Generation & Distribution - commercial
(quartile ranking)

To improve

11/12: 2nd
10/11: 2nd
09/10: 3rd

Environment

Percentage reduction in greenhouse gas emissions baseline
(percent)

80% by 2050; 45% by 2020

11/12: 55
10/11: 51
09/10: 55

Not measured.
*Adjusted earnings excludes exceptional items, remeasurements and stranded cost recoveries
& Prior years restated on a constant currency basis