35To Our Shareholders Supervisory Board Year in Review Combined Group Management Report Additional Information Market Units Corporate Governance Consolidated Financial Statements Tables and Explanations Power and Gas Procurement The Central Europe market unit met 134.6 billion kWh, or about 41 percent, of its power requirements with electricity from its own generating facilities. Central Europe purchased 192.6 billion kWh of electricity from jointly owned power plants and outside sources, about 28 percent more than in the prior year. Overall, power procurements rose by 16 per- cent to 327.2 billion kWh. As in the past, in 2007 Pan-European Gas purchased natural gas from German producers and five export countries, which accounted for the following percentages of its total procure- ments of 698 billion kWh: · Germany: 18 percent · Russia: 26 percent · Norway: 25 percent · Netherlands: 17 percent · United Kingdom: 10 percent · Denmark: 3 percent · Other: 1 percent Billion kWh Total: 1,212.5 2007 Gas Sales1 1Unconsolidated figures. Pan-European Gas Central Europe U.K. Nordic U.S. Midwest 910.3 126.2 157.1 5.3 13.6 The U.K. market unit backed 41.2 billion kWh, or about 53 per- cent, of its power requirements of 77.9 billion kWh with elec- tricity from its own power plants. U.K. purchased 36.7 billion kWh of electricity from jointly owned power plants and third parties. Owned generation increased by 5.3 billion kWh from 2006. Nordic covered about two thirds of its total power require- ments of 45.5 billion kWh with power from its own generat- ing facilities. Nordic purchased 15.3 billion kWh of electricity from jointly owned power plants and outside sources com- pared with 14.8 billion kWh in the prior year. U.S. Midwest procured 36.7 billion kWh of electricity in 2007, of which about 92 percent was at its own facilities. It pro- cured 2.9 billion kWh from outside sources, 12 percent less than in the previous year.