ScottishPower participates in a number of external indices and award programmes.
Business in the Community
ScottishPower retained platinum status in Business in the Community’s Corporate Responsibility Index 2010 – for the fourth consecutive year. The index, which ScottishPower has participated in since its launch in 2002, is widely recognised as the UK’s leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility.
Carbon Disclosure Project
ScottishPower provides information to IBERDROLA for their submission to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Climate Leadership Index of top 50 global companies.
The Carbon Disclosure Project is the world’s largest institutional investor collaboration on the business implications for climate change.
More than 1,000 large corporations report on their emissions through the CDP’s website: www.cdproject.net
Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Through our parent IBERDROLA, we participate annually in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. A number of indices covering different geographic zones, worldwide, provide asset managers with reliable and objective benchmarks to manage sustainability portfolios.
Awards 2010
Longannet Power Station was shortlisted for two Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland (VIBES) Awards in the process and management categories. Longannet was also nominated as the UK entry for the Large Organisations category in the European EMAS Awards.
Energy Wholesale won the IChemE Award for Health & Safety for their work on implementing process safety across the business.
ScottishPower also won several Big Tick Awards from Business in the Community. These were:
- Employability Award for ScottishPower's Skillskeer Programme
- Education Award for the PowerWise children’s safety programme
- Highly Commended in the “Turning Work Experience Into Work Inspiration” category for ScottishPower’s Young Apprentice Programme
In addition, a Big Tick awarded in 2009 was reaccredited in 2010 for the Power in Partnership Award received in respect of North Staffordshire Warm Zone, in partnership with National Grid.
ScottishPower also received a commendation in the Arts & Business Scotland Awards for its sustained partnership with the Scottish music festival, Celtic Connections.
The company was also shortlisted in the Hollis Sponsorship Awards 2010, in the Education Sponsorship category for its Transform programme, in partnership with National Theatre of Scotland.
ScottishPower also won a customer service award in the North West Contact Centre Awards, in the Best Customer Experience Programme category, for its Customer First programme, in Direct Debit Operations, Warrington.
We also retained our Gold Award in Scotland’s Healthy Working Lives programme.