Headquartered in Quickborn, near Hamburg, E.ON Hanse is one of Northern Germany's biggest energy utilities, supplying around 1.3 million residential, small-business, industrial, and municipal customers with power, gas, and heat. The company sells about 40 billion kilowatt-hours of natural gas and 12 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. It operates a 26,500-kilometer-long gas pipeline network, owns natural gas storage facilities in Hamburg and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, and operates a 51,000-kilometer-long electricity supply network.

E.ON Hanse's 2,900 highly skilled employees in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania work all year round to ensure a reliable, secure energy supply.