OREANDA-NEWS. SSE has today published its first ‘Being Responsible annual review’ which puts in one place all the data and information its customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders may require in order to understand SSE’s responsible approach to managing its activities and its contribution, beyond the bottom line, to the wider world. 

The review provides an overview of key policies and actions associated with SSE’s responsible approach, with a particular focus on those achieved in the 2014/15 financial year. Highlights include:

  • The first FTSE 100 company to be awarded the Fair Tax Mark in recognition of its responsible approach to managing its tax affairs
  • Ensuring all new eligible service and works contracts since April 2014 have included a requirement to pay the Living Wage to people working regularly on SSE’s sites.
  • A 34% reduction in the carbon emissions from SSE’s activities and a 17% reduction in the carbon intensity of SSE’s electricity generation
  • New reports covering: the value of SSE’s Human Capital (?3.4bn); the contribution SSE made to the UK economy in 2014/15 (?8.8bn); the sustainability impact of England’s largest wind farm; and how Biodiversity is protected and enhanced at SSE’s operational sites and those under development.
  • Almost ?4m invested in communities close to SSE’s renewable developments in GB and Ireland.
  • 100 customer service employees given specialist training to support customers with Dementia.

Alistair Phillips Davies, SSE Chief Executive said: “While reporting is crucial and we believe it has an important function in holding companies to account, our objective is not to report for reporting’s sake. I am very clear, the actions and the values that underpin those actions are what matter most. 

“We want to ensure  that we are transparent about our approach and the impact we making, so that our customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders can understand SSE’s business ethos and its contribution, beyond the bottom line, to the wider world.

The Being Responsible review we have published today demonstrates that the progress we have made in 2014/15 has taken us several steps closer to meeting that objective and I look forward to SSE taking further steps in the years ahead.”