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E.ON MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
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Audit Phase: Military

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

No public evidence identified of E.ON SE, its named subsidiaries, RWE AG, or RWE-controlled entities holding contracts with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, the Israel Defence Forces, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Border Police, or other Israeli-security bodies.1, 2, 3, 4

No public evidence identified of E.ON or RWE appearing in reviewed Israeli defence-export directories, SIBAT-associated catalogues, defence-exhibition listings, or official procurement records in connection with Israeli state-security contracts.3, 4

No public evidence identified of corporate or government announcements documenting E.ON–Israeli-defence cooperation, joint ventures, partnership agreements, or procurement arrangements.5, 3, 4

RWE Supply & Trading submitted material to an Israeli government natural-gas committee in December 2011 concerning the Nabucco pipeline and possible Israeli gas exports to Europe.6 The January 2012 committee transcript records discussion of RWE’s LNG business and possible export options, but does not identify an executed RWE contract, Israeli end-user, RWE-built infrastructure, or security-sector recipient.7

RWE held a 16.67% interest in Nabucco Gas Pipeline International, whose shareholders were expected to negotiate gas-supply contracts, but OMV acquired RWE’s former stake in 2013.8, 9 Globes reported in March 2014 that Turcas Petrol and RWE had jointly bid in a Leviathan gas-export tender to Turkey, but the report describes a bid rather than an award or completed delivery arrangement.10 No later primary record was located establishing a resulting contract, physical supply, pipeline construction, or military/security end-user.7, 10

No public evidence identified that RWE, RWE Renewables, Belectric Israel, or another RWE-controlled entity supplied, constructed, maintained, serviced, or logistically sustained physical goods or infrastructure for Israeli military, police, prison, border, occupation, settler-security, or settlement recipients while RWE held E.ON shares.3, 4, 11, 12

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

E.ON SE operates as an energy distribution-network operator and retail energy supplier and does not manufacture hardware or equipment.13, 14 no public evidence identified of a militarised, ruggedised, or mil-spec product line attributable to E.ON, or of E.ON export licences, end-user certificates, or export-control determinations for Israeli military or security end-users.5, 3, 15

E.ON’s venture-capital arm, Future Energy Ventures (FEV), formerly innogy Innovation Hub, maintains a documented Tel Aviv operational presence and has made equity investments in Israeli startups with dual-use or security-sector applications.13, 16, 17 These are equity stakes through an E.ON subsidiary vehicle rather than verified direct E.ON product sales or service provision.13

FEV’s investment in Prisma Photonics is the material dual-use finding and is addressed below under Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes.18, 19, 20, 21 no public evidence identified that E.ON’s own networks use Prisma technology or that Prisma supplied an Israeli military recipient through E.ON.20, 21, 22

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified of E.ON or RWE operating as a manufacturer or operator of heavy construction or engineering equipment, or of NGO reports, photographic documentation, or UN records linking either company to West Bank settlement construction, the separation barrier, checkpoints, demolitions, military installations, or Israeli-security infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights.1, 2, 23, 24, 25

No public evidence identified of E.ON/RWE construction, engineering, maintenance, or service contracts for settlement, occupation, or security infrastructure.3, 4, 26

RWE Renewables stated in December 2021 that it had agreed to sell Belectric’s European and Israeli businesses, including Belectric Israel, to Elevion Group.11 RWE described Belectric Israel’s former activity as third-party solar engineering, procurement and construction, and operations-and-maintenance services; the available record does not identify individual projects, client, location, capacity, value, equipment, or end-user.11, 12 The business was disposed of in December 2021 and is therefore discontinued within RWE.11, 12

E.ON does not appear in the OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in Israeli settlements, A/HRC/60/19, published in September 2025 and comprising 158 enterprises from 11 countries.23 The baseline record identifies Heidelberg Materials as the sole confirmed German company in that update.27, 23 E.ON is not listed in any category of the Who Profits company database or in the AFSC Investigate all-companies database; current page-level searches also returned no text match for E.ON or RWE.1, 2, 24, 25

The Israeli Civil Administration electricity unit describes governmental approval and coordination of West Bank electricity infrastructure, including coordination with the IDF and other Israeli bodies, but its retrieved page does not name E.ON or RWE.26

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

FEV Investment in Prisma Photonics - Dual-Use Fibre-Optic Sensing

Future Energy Ventures is described in public announcements as E.ON’s venture-capital investment and collaboration platform and was a named investor in two successive Prisma Photonics funding rounds.18, 19, 13 In Prisma’s approximately $20 million Series B in February 2022, led by Insight Partners, FEV was a named participant and FEV Investment Principal Ohad Mamann was quoted in the announcement.18 FEV participated again in Prisma’s approximately $20 million Series C in September 2023, also led by Insight Partners, alongside SE Ventures, Elements, Chione Switzerland, and INcapital.19

Prisma’s Hyper-Scan platform converts existing telecom fibre-optic cables into distributed sensor networks capable of detecting intrusions, environmental events, and infrastructure anomalies across thousands of kilometres.20, 21 Publicly documented use cases include power-grid monitoring, oil-and-gas pipeline surveillance, railway monitoring, and military-perimeter and installation security.20, 21

Prisma raised a further $30 million round in October 2025, led by Protego Ventures and described as supporting expansion into defence and security-infrastructure markets.20, 21 Prisma’s chief executive stated that the technology can protect a military installation and optimise renewable-energy integration.20 FEV and E.ON were not named as participants in that October 2025 defence-sector round.20, 21

TransnetBW is a confirmed Prisma evaluation customer for dynamic line-rating technology on its power circuits and is not an E.ON entity.22 no public evidence identified confirming E.ON’s own grid operations as a Prisma customer.22

FEV Investment in Buildots - Commercial Construction Software

FEV was a named investor in Buildots’ approximately $45 million Series D, led by Qumra Capital and completed in 2025.28, 29 Buildots was co-founded by Roy Danon, Yakir Sudry, and Aviv Leibovici, graduates of the IDF’s Talpiot military-technology programme who met during their service.28, 30 Its product is a commercial AI and computer-vision platform for construction-site progress tracking, sold to commercial construction companies and contractors globally.28, 30

No public evidence identified of military, settlement, defence, or Israeli-security procurement of Buildots’ product.28, 30, 29 The FEV Series D investment occurred after the July 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion and the November 2024 ICC arrest warrants.28, 29

Additional FEV Israeli Portfolio Companies

The innogy Innovation Hub portfolio, as captured in a third-party data scrape in May 2019, listed Israeli portfolio companies including FirstPoint Mobile Guard, Oriient, Shield-IoT, Vicarius, Waycare, Placense, and TechSee.31 FEV confirmed an active Israeli investment presence through its Tel Aviv hub and public communications to Israeli founders.17

FEV Fund II, a $272 million fund closed in January 2024 with an SFDR Article 9 designation, reported operational activity across Germany, Israel, and Silicon Valley, with E.ON as anchor limited partner.13 The full list of limited partners beyond E.ON is not publicly disclosed.13

Shield-IoT, in which innogy led a $3.6 million seed round in September 2019, states that its IoT-security platform serves government and defence sectors.32, 33 FirstPoint Mobile Guard, in which innogy led a $2.5 million seed round in Q4 2018, markets its cellular-security suite to governments and militaries safeguarding sensitive missions.34, 35 Vicarius, in which innogy participated in a $5 million seed round in January 2020, offers software vulnerability detection and has no documented military-specific application in the available sources.36, 37 Oriient is an innogy/FEV seed investment from April 2019 providing indoor positioning and navigation for retail and smart-building uses, while Waycare was an innogy seed and Series A investment between 2018 and 2019 providing smart-city traffic management and serving Israeli government bodies.38, 39

OurCrowd and IDF Unit 8200 Reference

In 2018, innogy SE, now an E.ON subsidiary, announced a strategic investment partnership with Jerusalem-based equity-crowdfunding platform OurCrowd to co-identify Israeli startups.40 In OurCrowd partner material, Mickey Steiner of innogy Innovation Hub described the Israeli technology ecosystem as attractive partly because of veterans of IDF intelligence unit 8200.40 no public evidence identified of a confirmed FEV strategy to invest specifically in Unit 8200-founded companies.40

Defence-Prime Relationships

No public evidence identified of E.ON, FEV, innogy, or RWE supplying Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime with components, sub-systems, raw materials, manufacturing services, joint development, co-production, licensed manufacturing, or technology-transfer arrangements.3, 4

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of E.ON or RWE holding contracts for catering, power, fuel, transport, telecoms, shipping, freight, port services, waste management, facilities management, or other logistical-support services specifically for IDF bases, military-training facilities, prisons, checkpoints, or Israeli-security installations.3, 4, 41

No public evidence identified of such support in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, Negev military facilities, detention infrastructure, or settler-security systems.3, 4, 26

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of E.ON or RWE acting as a prime contractor, licensed manufacturer, or component supplier of lethal systems, munitions, explosive precursors, warhead components, missile-defence systems, fighter aircraft, tanks, naval systems, or weapon-specific sub-systems for Israel.3, 4

No public evidence identified of a connection between E.ON and Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, or another Israeli strategic air-defence or offensive-weapons programme.3, 4

E.ON holds an approximate one-sixth ownership stake in Urenco Group, a commercial uranium-enrichment company, jointly with RWE and the governments of the United Kingdom and Netherlands.42 Urenco’s customer base comprises civil nuclear-power operators, and no public evidence identified connects Urenco material to Israel’s nuclear programme.42, 4 RWE’s 2025 report identifies RWE’s 50% Uranit interest, while Uranit holds 33% of Urenco.4

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of government decisions granting, denying, suspending, or revoking export licences for E.ON or RWE products or services destined for Israeli military or security end-users.3, 4

No public evidence identified of arms-embargo proceedings, sanctions-compliance investigations, judicial reviews, or court proceedings involving E.ON or RWE supply relationships with Israeli military or security recipients.3, 4

The Germany–Israel bilateral energy-cooperation agreement of 24 March 2022 is a government-to-government arrangement, and E.ON is not a named party.5

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

International and UN Bodies

E.ON does not appear in the OHCHR settlement-business database, A/HRC/60/19, published in September 2025.23 E.ON is not listed in the AFSC Investigate all-companies database or any category of the Who Profits company database, and current accessible public-page searches found no E.ON or RWE text match.1, 2, 24, 25

Document-scoped full-text screening identified no occurrence of “E.ON” in the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-database updates, UN A/HRC/59/23, PAX’s June 2024 Companies Arming Israel and Their Financiers, Al-Haq’s July 2024 Business and Human Rights material, and the specified Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, BankTrack, BDS, KLP, and Who Profits materials.23, 24, 25

NGO Reports and Watchlists

No public evidence identified of E.ON being named in PAX’s June 2024 Companies Arming Israel and Their Financiers report, Don’t Buy Into Occupation annual reports for 2021–2025, or published Al-Haq, BankTrack, SOMO, Corporate Occupation, or BDS Movement reports and databases reviewed for this audit.1, 2, 23

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment, exclusion, legal, shareholder, or institutional-divestment campaign specifically targeting E.ON’s Israeli activities, defence-adjacent portfolio, or RWE’s E.ON holding.1, 2, 24, 25

Corporate Policy Response

No public evidence identified of E.ON making policy statements, contract terminations, or end-use-monitoring commitments specifically concerning its FEV Israeli portfolio or an Israeli military, settlement, or security supply chain.13, 17, 15

RWE’s 23 October 2023 public statement expressed solidarity with Israel, condemned the Hamas attack, and stated that Israel must protect its citizens, but did not announce military supply, contract, funding, technology transfer, or security-service provision.43

Governance, Ownership, and Attribution Boundary

E.ON is a German SE whose 2024 annual report describes its activities as energy networks, customer solutions, and energy-infrastructure solutions, rather than as an RWE subsidiary.14 RWE’s documented E.ON interest is 15.00% indirect voting rights, allocated on 8 December 2020; E.ON’s 2025 report records 396,197,820 shares and no stock with special control rights.15, 14

RWE’s 2025 annual report treats its E.ON holding as an other non-current financial asset, with a carrying amount of €6.324 billion at 31 December 2025, and reports E.ON dividends in RWE’s financial result.4 RWE itself reported a dispersed shareholder base as of 12 March 2026, with Qatar Holding at 9.3% and BlackRock at 5.9% as its largest disclosed shareholders.44

The 2019 RWE–E.ON/innogy transaction transferred RWE’s 76.8% innogy stake to E.ON, provided RWE with a 16.7% E.ON equity interest and an E.ON Supervisory Board seat, and transferred E.ON and innogy renewable-generation assets to RWE.45, 46 The CMA recorded the parties’ submission that the interest was intended as a purely financial investment and that an investor-relationship agreement limited RWE’s ability to exercise influence, although the CMA found RWE might have the lowest merger-control level of control, material influence, given its holding, expertise, and potential influence over other shareholders.3

Dr. Rolf Martin Schmitz, identified in 2019 as the RWE-associated E.ON Supervisory Board appointee, was listed as an E.ON Supervisory Board and Executive Committee member at 31 December 2025.45, 15 This establishes a supervisory-board connection and potential shareholder-level material influence, but not operational control, a shared operating group, or direction over either company’s Israel-related activities.3, 4, 15

No public evidence identified of an RWE-appointed executive-management arrangement, group-consolidation relationship, procurement-control authority, management-services agreement, shared Israeli project, or authority for RWE to direct E.ON’s procurement, investments, or portfolio companies.3, 4, 15 no public evidence identified supporting attribution of RWE’s former Belectric Israel activity or historical Israeli gas-market discussions to E.ON beyond shareholder proximity.4, 15, 11, 6

Leonhard Birnbaum is E.ON’s Management Board Chair and CEO, with disclosed board portfolios including Energy Networks, procurement, customer solutions, finance, digital technology, cybersecurity, and innovation.15, 14 Karl-Ludwig Kley’s E.ON Supervisory Board chairmanship is historical: he did not seek re-election at the May 2023 AGM, and Erich Clementi became chair.47 E.ON’s 2025 report lists Clementi as current Supervisory Board Chair and reports no board personnel changes during fiscal 2025.15

Kley’s membership on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem remains a historical civilian academic-governance connection.48, 49, 50 no public evidence identified that this role involved direction of defence research, constituted a military-industry position, or involved Kley holding equity in Israeli defence primes, defence-industry directorships, donations to Israeli defence foundations, or public statements of co-belligerency.48

Ulrich Grillo, E.ON Supervisory Board Deputy Chair, is listed as Chairman of Rheinmetall AG.15 The reviewed evidence does not establish a specific Israel-related act by Grillo through Rheinmetall, and this board affiliation is not evidence of an E.ON supply relationship with Israel.15

Footnotes

  1. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/all ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. https://investigate.afsc.org/all-companies?page=0 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  3. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5cb5a3d0ed915d3f51602d34/Non-Confidential_RWE_EON_Minority_Stake.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16

  4. https://www.rwe.com/-/media/RWE/documents/05-investor-relations/finanzkalendar-und-veroeffentlichungen/2025-GJ/RWE-Annual-Report-2025.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18

  5. https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2022/03/20220324-germany-and-israel-agree-on-energy-partnership.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/ng_commitee/he/RWEPresentation.pdf ↩ ↩2

  7. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/transcription/he/9_1_2012.pdf ↩ ↩2

  8. https://www.eib.org/en/press/all/2010-142-eib-ebrd-and-ifc-start-appraisal-of-nabucco-pipeline ↩

  9. https://www.omv.com/en/media/press-releases/2013/omv-sells-part-of-nabucco-west-shares-to-gdf-suez ↩

  10. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-10-bids-for-leviathan-export-tender-to-turkey-1000926526 ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.rwe.com/en/press/rwe-renewables/2021-12-17-rwe-renewables-sells-belectrics-european-and-israeli-businesses-to-elevion-group/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  12. https://www.rwe.com/-/media/RWE/documents/05-investor-relations/finanzkalendar-und-veroeffentlichungen/2021-GJ/2022-03-15-rwe-annual-report-2021.pdf?sc_lang=en ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. https://globalventuring.com/corporate/fundraising/e-on-anchored-fev-closes-fund-ii/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  14. https://annualreport.eon.com/content/dam/eon-annualreport/documents/en/GB24-gesamt-EN_final.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://financialfilings.com/filings/eon-se/annual-report/2026/32915822/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  16. https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/investor_page/innogy-innovation-hub ↩

  17. https://medium.com/future-energy-ventures/wake-up-israeli-innovators-its-time-to-disrupt-the-energy-sector-e0960d3492f8 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  18. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deep-tech-company-prisma-photonics-raises-20-million-from-insight-partners-to-monitor-large-scale-critical-infrastructure-while-protecting-the-environment-301478483.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://www.insightpartners.com/ideas/prisma-photonics-secures-approximately-20-million-led-by-insight-partners-to-monitor-large-scale-critical-infrastructure-towards-net-zero-emissions/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prisma-photonics-raises-30m-to-scale-ai-driven-fiber-sensing-platform-for-power-grid-and-security-infrastructure-302584123.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  21. https://techtime.news/2025/10/18/prisma-photonics-4/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  22. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/transnetbw-implements-prisma-photonics-to-evaluate-ai-driven-dynamic-line-rating-technology-on-three-power-circuits-302703684.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc6019-database-all-business-enterprises-involved-activities-detailed ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  24. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/all ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  25. https://investigate.afsc.org/all-companies?page=0 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  26. https://www.gov.il/he/Departments/units/electricity_unit ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_operating_in_West_Bank_settlements ↩

  28. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryv7nabfge ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  29. https://buildots.com/blog/buildots-raises-45m-in-series-d-funding/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  30. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sm24gdi85 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  31. https://parsers.vc/fund/innovationhub.innogy.com/ ↩

  32. https://www.iotforall.com/news/press-shieldiot-seed-round-innogy ↩

  33. https://www.energylivenews.com/2019/09/25/israeli-iot-security-firm-raises-3-6m-investment-led-by-energy-firm-innogy/ ↩

  34. https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/firstpoint-mobile-guard-launches-the-worlds-most-protected-cellular-connectivity-suite-for-enterprises-301487301.html ↩

  35. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ijura-and-firstpoint-mobile-guard-team-up-to-provide-groundbreaking-cybersecurity-threat-protection-for-mobile-devices-300898758.html ↩

  36. https://innovationhub.innogy.com/news/vicarius-raises-5-million-in-seed-funding-for-its-predictive-cyberthreat-technology/ ↩

  37. https://nocamels.com/2020/01/israels-vicarius-raises-5m-for-its-cyberthreat-prediction-tech/ ↩

  38. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sksn0cpi9 ↩

  39. https://nocamels.com/2019/10/mobility-tech-waycare-7-3m-traffic-management/ ↩

  40. https://blog.ourcrowd.com/innogy/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  41. https://www.rwe.com/en/the-group/countries-and-locations/ ↩

  42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urenco_Group ↩ ↩2

  43. https://www.rwe.com/en/press/rwe-ag/2023-10-23-against-hate-terror-and-anti-semitism-solidarity-with-israel/ ↩

  44. https://www.rwe.com/en/investor-relations/rwe-share/share-at-a-glance/shareholder-structure/ ↩

  45. https://www.rwe.com/en/press/rwe-ag/2019-09-17-brussels-paves-the-way-for-one-of-the-biggest-transactions-the-new-rwe-can-get-started/ ↩ ↩2

  46. https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m8871_2573_3.pdf ↩

  47. https://www.eon.com/en/about-us/media/press-release/2023.html ↩

  48. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Ludwig_Kley ↩ ↩2

  49. https://www.timesofisrael.com/merck-ceo-sees-firms-future-intertwined-with-israels/ ↩

  50. https://en.huji.ac.il/en/article/27100 ↩