Prince Charles was on hand to give the royal seal of approval when ScottishPower scooped a fantastic ten Business in the Community Awards.
HRH presented the company with their prestigious Large Company of the Year Award which made up one of their ten “Big Tick” awards.
The awards enable companies to show how behaving in a responsible way really does create successful and sustainable businesses. Independently assessed, the Big Tick is only awarded to companies that have demonstrated leadership and the positive, measurable impacts of their corporate responsibility programmes.
ScottishPower, now part of the Spanish Iberdrola group, was crowned Large Company of the Year for its commitment to responsible business practice.
During 2005/06 the energy giant reduced CO2 emissions per unit of electricity produced by 7.1% across the group and internal energy usage by 11.4%.
The company is the largest developer of onshore wind in the UK, adding 704MW of new wind generation capacity over the same period.
Commenting on the awards sweep, José Luis del Valle, ScottishPower Chief Executive, said: “I am delighted that ScottishPower has been recognised as Large Company of the Year by Business in the Community.
“Responsible business practice is embedded into the fabric of ScottishPower’s operations as demonstrated by the ten Big Ticks awarded to a broad range of our activities.
“This award reflects the commitment to our communities by the team at ScottishPower.”
Iberdrola and ScottishPower have one of the world’s largest energy generating capacities with a combined enterprise value of €70billion and almost 22million customers worldwide.
The combination of Iberdrola and ScottishPower has reinforced its world leadership in wind energy, with a combined wind power capacity of 6,238MW. Together Iberdrola and ScottishPower now has an installed capacity of some 39,000MW.
Royal flush: Willie MacDiarmid, ScottishPower's Managing Director of Energy Retail, receives one of the company's ten Business in the Community Awards from The Prince of Wales
Business in the community awards - Ten for ScottishPower
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