2010 Utility Environmental Benchmarking Forum held in
Chattanooga, Tennessee
BrownFlynn – Barbara Brown and Beth Meany
Navigant Consulting –
Mark Cira and Jim Carter
Shaw Industries –
Emma Williams
Symbiotic Engineering – Michael Whitaker, Mark Reiner, and Timothy Hillman
Representatives from the following utility companies have agreed to participate and share information:
The 2010 Environmental Benchmarking Forum was held on May 12 and 13, 2010, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and focused on utilities' environmental and sustainability footprint (see Forum photos). The forum was sponsored by Utility Environmental Footprint, a voluntary partnership of utility and other environmentally focused entities that are willing to share lessons learned and benchmarks in order to stimulate industry environmental improvement. A pre-conference optional tour of TVA's Kingston fossil cleanup was available to participants on May 11.
The next forum is tentatively scheduled to be in fall 2011. There will also likely be company-sponsored lessons learned sessions in the next 4-6 months.
Forum Members:
AEP, Bonneville Power, Consumers Energy, DTE Energy, Dominion Resources, Duke Energy, Entergy, E.ON, Exelon, Florida Power & Light (FP&L), Progress Energy, PP&L, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), Southern Company, and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Agenda Topics:
- Environmental footprint assessment and explanation
- Environmental footprint metrics by policy area (air, climate change, land, natural resources, waste, and water) with blinded industry data
- Best-in-class performance (from participants)
- Sustainability planning, deployment and lessons learned
- Discussion of utility industry sustainability including the GRI framework
- Moving from economic and environmental metrics towards social sustainability metrics