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Energy at the 500 MW Klamath Cogener
ation Plant in Klamath Falls, on the border
HERE has been recognition for PPM w
between Oregon and California.
- wastewater discharge by up to 2.3 million
gallons per day and providing the plant
ater for cooling, reducing the cityʼs c
clean-up
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Combined Cycle Journal has named the
with cost-ef
bined cycle technology to supply power to
California utilities and steam to Collins
ogeneration plant – which uses com-
Forest Products –
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team as “best of the best” for Manage
Respected industry trade publication l
is the project that
Chain programme completed a
in February 2007 the
ment of Change; Environmental Steward
said:
Plant managing director Ray Martens
fective cooling water.
d
alue
ship; and Operations & Maintenance.
- weʼre doing the right things.”
“Winning these awards tells me
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aunched PPM as a company in 2001.
meter point administration
Particularly central to the honours is the
- United States –
numbers (MP
ata clean-up of around 4000
plantʼs use of treated municipal waste-
of advanced natural gas-fired plant
design, environmental stewardship and
Widely recognised as the gold standard
competitive business practices, the
gas emissions – due to its advanced
leanest fossil-fuelled power plant in the
When constructed, Klamath became the
technology and unique carbon of
in terms of greenhouse
program.
fset
customers had been underbilled.
ANs) where
completed, a total of £450,000
additional cash has been
Since the clean-up was
collected along with a further
£1
existing payment plans by the
end of December 2007 against
12,000 due to be paid through
an expected target collection of
£510,000.
who assisted in the data clean-
u
A big thank you goes to all
Small Business Billing.
p operation with Domestic and
a small number of SME sites
where we have underbilled due
The project is now progressing
to applying an incorrect meter
multiplier to the billing records.
individually managed by a
Business Sales Executive to
Each customer is being
maximise cash collection, which
has an estimated additional cash
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benefit of around £600,000.
final results will be published
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The
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part in the “Best Companies”
survey and, following on from
year ScottishPower took
the results, the dif
Communit
SKILLS development is at the heart of
y benefits from learning
ness areas set out to discover
how to improve the results.
ferent busi-
HR team asked for volunteers to
get involved with employee
Within Energy Wholesale, the
engagement and now a team of
employees has so far met twice
to share the survey results and
identify and resolve any key
issues.
ScottishPower Learning which helps
employees develop their skills in an
developed new skills and enhanced existing
will present John Campbell and
innovative and cost-ef
ones, while 81 per cent felt the programmes
gave them confidence.
his team with a summary of key
Later in the month, this group
issues and proposed solutions.
Learning has been refocusing its core
fective way.
community programmes to help maximise
Over the last two years, ScottishPower improve the company’
“skip level meetings” with as
the value they provide to employees. It has
mote the brand; 88 per cent felt proud of the
Some 95 per cent felt CBD activities
many employees as possible,
EnergyNetworks is to carry out
provided a structured range of community-
company’s promotion of its community
s image and help pro-
giving them the chance to dis
based development opportunities (CBD),
activities; 95 per cent felt satisfaction in
cuss their views on the survey
-
linked to specific skills and therefore to
“giving something back” to society; and 96
CLASS ACT: Back to school for one participant
per cent felt the experience was fun and
ing group is being established
.
under Sheila Duncan, head of
In Energy Retail, a small work-
while, year-on-year
employees’
Human Resources, to carry out
CBD has increased by almost 50 per cent.
Last year saw some 233 staf
development needs.
ough evaluation and the results from last
motivational.
more detailed analysis.
In supporting its programmes,
, staff engagement in
f participating
ScottishPower Learning undertakes thor
year
through a new Intranet site, located at
per cent of those who took part felt they
key finding of the survey reveals that 96
’s survey have now been published.
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This strategic focus has been supported
SPLearning/. For more information on CBD,
call 120 or email ScottishPower Learning.
.scottishpower.plc.uk/employee/
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