Jul 16 2009

PG&E's Environmental Year in Review Now Online

Posted by: Jennifer Zerwer

Each year, PG&E produces a Corporate Responsibility Report to share with our stakeholders the progress we're making and steps we are taking to make positive contributions to the quality of life in the areas where we live and work - as well as to share where our efforts have fallen short. The company began producing an environmental report in the 1990s and broadened the scope to its first Corporate Responsibility Report for calendar year 2003.

PG&E's complete report for calendar year 2008 is now available and can be viewed online.

In the report, you'll find informative Q&As with California Academy of Sciences' Executive Director Dr. Gregory Farrington, Ph.D. on the importance of climate change education and managers at IKEA West Sacramento on how they maintain their standing as one of IKEA's least energy-intensive locations by participating in PG&E's energy efficiency and demand response programs.

A few environmental highlights from the 2008 report include:

• Enabling our customers to achieve record energy savings through our energy efficiency programs--bringing total cumulative customer savings to $24 billion and avoided emissions of carbon dioxide to more than 155 million tons since the mid-1970s.
• Signing new contracts for almost 1,800 MW of additional renewable energy supplies. PG&E now holds commitments that will enable us to provide more than 20 percent of our future power deliveries from renewables.
• Working with the U.S. Climate Action Partnership and others to advocate a national, economy-wide cap-and-trade program to address climate change.
• Purchasing 214,000 metric tonnes of forest carbon from coastal redwood forests for customers enrolled in our voluntary ClimateSmartTM program.
• Earning a spot on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and receiving the highest possible rating from Innovest Strategic Value Advisors

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