Corporate Responsibility

Electricity is a unique product that has the power to enhance the quality of life for people throughout the world. Companies who have this power must also demonstrate responsibility. For a global wholesale generating company like International Power, this equates to following fair and ethical principles to govern the way we manage and conduct our business. It means working more smartly – by ensuring our key competencies, technical expertise and best practices are properly implemented over a widely dispersed and diverse range of assets to produce power, water and process heat more safely and cleanly. It also means that Corporate Responsibility (CR) as a specific element forms an integral part of our business decisions and contributes to our global competitiveness and reputation.

Establishing a sound reputation requires commitment at all levels of the company. We work hard to build long-term sustainable partnerships in the communities in which we operate. Our strategy is to provide local employment, support the local economy and act as a responsible neighbour and employer whilst contributing to the improvement of local health and education services.

This strong commitment to corporate responsibility flows from the top. The Board is briefed regularly on our CR performance and executive management are committed to delivering high standards of implementation. Consequently environmental and social considerations form part of our strategic decision-making process. In those instances where we share ownership of an asset, we encourage our partners to adopt our CR standards and principles, typically through influence at business level board meetings.

Power production is a complex process and all our assets operate in competitive markets. Although our assets throughout the world may use different fuels and different technologies to generate electricity, heat, water or steam, the way we record and report our CR performance must be undertaken in a consistent and transparent way. By working to the Global Reporting Initiative and the Association of British Insurers’ reporting guidelines we, and our stakeholders, can check and compare our performance with that of other power companies.



The FTSE4GOOD index covers environment sustainability, stakeholder relationships and upholding and supporting universal human rights. We continue to be included within the FTSE4GOOD index, which identifies companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards.		International Power received a Gold ranking in the overall Corporate Responsibility index, a Platinum ranking in the Environment index and a Silver ranking in the Community Index. This represents substantive recognition of our corporate commitment to managing environmental and societal issues. For more information please see our Corporate Responsibility Implementation Page

Corporate governance information can be found in the Investors section.