Shared Responsibility - Npower

Corporate Responsibility Report 2003EnvironmentOur approach to environmental management is to ensure thatenvironmental issues are fully integrated into our business and thatappropriate processes are in place to manage key environmental impacts.We are continually working to minimise the impact of our operations onthe environment and to improve the management of environmental issueswithin the company.Stephen Timms MP, Energy Minister‘North Hoyle is a flagship development that is now officially a part ofthe UK’s energy mix. What is currently seen as innovative on the partof its builders should become commonplace as we increasingly turnto renewable sources to meet more of our energy demands.’Environmental ManagementAll our major generating sites and our largercombined heat and power (CHP) stations haveseparate environmental management systems(EMS) certified to ISO 14001. Other parts ofthe business also have a certified EMS whereappropriate. During 2003 npower extended theirEMS to cover the whole of the retail business andthis is now certified to ISO 14001. An EMS coversmanagement of our other office buildings butthis is not currently certified to ISO 14001. We areplanning to extend the npower EMS to includeour other office buildings in the coming year.Having an EMS in place ensures that we minimiseour environmental risks and that we operatewithin the requirements of appropriate legislation.However there are occasional events when we doexceed the limits placed on us by the EnvironmentAgency. We have developed procedures to respondquickly and effectively to any such incident.EnvironmentTo continuously improve environmentalmanagement and to ensure that our activitiesdo not cause harm to the environment.Targets for 2003Commission the 60MW North HoyleOffshore Wind Farm.Achieve a place in the top level of the Businessin the Environment (BiE) benchmark.Extend npower’s certified EMS across themain areas of the business and achieve fullcertification.No exceedences of authorisation limits thatresult in improvement conditions from theEnvironment Agency.ProgressNorth Hoyle Offshore Wind Farm startedgenerating electricity in November 2003.We achieved a score of 94% in the BiE index,compared to 93.4% in 2002.npower’s EMS achieved accreditation toISO 14001 in November 2003.There was one exceedence of an authorisationcondition, which did not result in anyimprovement conditions being applied.16