• Artworks from special competition "Vision of Energy" to be projected onto Brandenburg Gate
  • Heatmap: E.ON-designed app enables visitors to monitor most popular illuminations

E.ON is sponsoring the Festival of Lights, one of the world's best-known light art festivals, which this year will run from October 9 to 18. The event, during which light artists transform Berlin's landmarks and public spaces into brilliantly lit works of art, regularly attracts an audience of millions globally.

The partnership between E.ON and the Festival of Lights will feature an inaugural special competition called "Vision of Energy." Light artists are invited to create video installations that embody their vision of energy. E.ON and Festival of Lights will showcase the best artworks from the competition as 3D projections on the Brandenburg Gate. "This special competition has attracted a lot of buzz," said Birgit Zander, Managing Director Festival of Lights GmbH, the entity that organizes the event. "We've received many exciting proposals from around the world. Visitors and our global audience have something very special to look forward to."

"Our sponsorship of the Festival of Lights reflects our enhanced activities in, and our strong commitment to, Germany's capital city," Thomas König, of E.ON Deutschland, emphasized. E.ON is the largest stakeholder in Gasag (Berlin's gas utility), has several offices in Berlin, and aims to forge a long-term energy partnership with the city-state. The company is currently carrying out a fundamental strategic transformation and in the future will focus on renewables, energy networks, and customer solutions. "The new E.ON is an excellent fit with Berlin's energy-policy objectives," König said. Zander described E.ON as "an ideal partner, whose support for the festival makes an important contribution to the global perception of Berlin as a cultural metropolis."

This year, visitors can for the first time track popular illuminations on their smart phone in real time. Festival images uploaded to Instagram with the hash tag #lightsbyEON are displayed as dots on a heatmap developed by E.ON. The map, which is available at eon-fol.com, guides visitors to the most-photographed illuminations. Participants qualify for a drawing in which E.ON will give away a trip for two to Iceland to see the Northern Lights.

E.ON is an international, investor-owned energy company based in Düsseldorf, Germany. Its more than 58,000 employees generated around €112 billion in sales in 2014. E.ON ranks among the world's leading renewables companies and provides power and gas to about 33 million customers.

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