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Photoelectron spectroscopy at high kinetic energy is a research field that receives an increasing interest due to the possibility of studying bulk properties of materials and deeply buried interfaces. Recently the high kinetic energy electron (HIKE) spectroscopy facility at BESSY in Berlin has become operative at the bending magnet beamline KMC-1. The first results show very good performance. Electron spectra have been recorded using X-ray energies from 2 to 12keV excitation energy. Using back-scattering conditions in the monochromator, very high-resolution has been achieved for photon energies around 2, 6 and 8keV. In the latter case, spectra with a total resolving power from the monochromator of ⩾80000 have been achieved and it has been possible to perform electron spectroscopy with resolving power of ⩾60000, yielding a total instrument resolution of about 150meV as determined directly from spectra …