People
People are at the heart of everything we do – from working with communities to build the renewable projects that reduce emissions, to ensuring that our colleagues come home safely from work every day. People enable us to drive the green energy transition that is vital for us and generations to come. Sustainability encompasses more than simply protecting the environment or delivering climate action; it also includes people, communities and delivering for society as a whole.
Community Benefit Fund
Statkraft works with local communities to deliver renewable energy projects that ensure that Ireland's homes and businesses can be powered by clean, green energy. Through our projects we can support local initiatives in communities via the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) Community Benefit Fund which can be used for the wider economic, environmental, social and cultural well-being of the local community. With a value of €2 per megawatt hour, some of the community benefit initiatives rolled out as a result of renewable energy projects developed by Statkraft in Ireland include:
• Outdoor amenity areas
• Retrofitting housing schemes
• Energy efficiency schemes
• Educational supports
• Community spaces for locals
• Biodiversity initiatives
The safety of our staff
A safe and healthy work environment is vitally important to use whatever country we are operating in, and whatever the project. We are committed to preventing incidents and promoting a workplace without injury or harm to our employees, business partners and local stakeholders.
Constructing wind turbines and installing solar panels and batteries is complex, challenging work. Whether it is constructing, operating or maintaining these projects, there can be risks involved.
Our goal is that everyone should return home safely from work, and that those impacted by our operations should be safeguarded. We constantly work to improve and expand our internal and external health-and-safety initiatives.
Key Irish figures 2023
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497,000 tonnesof CO2 was prevented from entering the atmosphere thanks to our Operations team
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€875,000was distributed in community benefit funding to clubs and initiatives through Statkraft-owned and managed projects