ANNUAL REPORT 2011 - DONG Energy

notes
05 Fuel and energy
Business performance IFRS
DKK million 2011 2010 2011 2010
Natural gas (17,540) (17,850) (17,540) (17,850)
Electricity (5,466) (5,023) (5,466) (5,023)
Coal (2,000) (1,982) (2,000) (1,982)
Biomass (1,256) (1,343) (1,256) (1,343)
Oil (220) (320) (220) (320)
Transportation costs, etc. (3,320) (3,609) (3,320) (3,609)
Economic hedging (32) (208) 157 (364)
Hedge accounting - - 41 128
Costs associated with construction
contracts (223) - (223) -
Other cost of sales (1,548) (1,073) (1,548) (1,073)
fuel and energy (31,605) (31,408) (31,375) (31,436)
06 Staff costs
DKK million 2011 2010
Wages, salaries and remuneration (3,669) (3,246)
Pensions (312) (295)
Other social security costs (83) (66)
Other staff costs (39) (36)
staff costs before transfer to assets (4,103) (3,643)
Transfer to assets 510 697
staff costs (3,593) (2,946)
The Group’s pension plans are primarily defi ned contribution
plans that do not commit DONG Energy beyond the amounts
contributed. The defi ned benefi t plans relate to obligations to
pay a defi ned benefi t to a few power station employees that
are no longer with the company and to public servants taken
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2011
over from municipally owned regional companies. In 2011,
these obligations amounted to DKK 15 million (2010: DKK 22
million). The average number of employees in DONG Energy in
2011 was 5,966 (2010: 5,800 employees).