Pennon Group, owners of South West Water and Viridor Waste, has published its fourteenth Corporate Responsibility Reports at both Group and individual company level.

The Group has developed eight corporate responsibility objectives:

• manage Pennon Group as a sustainable and successful business for the benefit of shareholders
• aim to ensure that all business activities have a positive economic, social and environmental impact on the communities in which we operate
• engage with all  stakeholders and to foster good relationships with them
• strive for the highest standards of health and safety in the workplace so as to minimise accidents, incidents and lost time
• develop and motivate employees, to treat them fairly and ensure that they are fully engaged in all aspects of the Group’s objectives
• aspire to leadership in minimising emissions that contribute to climate change, and to develop climate change adaptation strategies
• aspire to leadership in all aspects of resource efficiency
• comply with all legislative environmental standards and to exceed them where appropriate.

and six key performance indicators (KPIs):

• capital investment
• community support and donations
• R IDD OR statistics
• renewable energy generation
• CO2 emissions data
• cycling volumes achieved.

Pennon has also highlighted its climate change strategy to maximise opportunities for renewable energy generation as of ”key significance”. The Reports have all been dependently verified by external assessors.

South West Water’s Corporate Corporate Responsibility Report 2010 highlights a number of achievements for 2009, including:

• Renewable energy generation reached its highest-ever level of 18.7 GWh.
• South West Water won the Sustainable Drainage and Flood Management Initiative of the Year category in the 2009 Water Industry Achievement Awards, for its Exmoor Mires project.

The Report also highlights Puros, the company’s major business change programme designed to bring significant improvement in operational efficiency and performance. Following a successful pilot stage the programme has been split into three workstreams.

The first - operational work planning - was delivered by the end of 2010. Further validation and preparatory work for streams 2 and 3 – remote operation of assets and optimising network performance - will be concluded within the current financial year.

For further information visit

http://www.pennon-group.co.uk/pennongroup/corporate/crreport