{"id":26774,"date":"2020-12-03T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=26774"},"modified":"2020-12-03T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:02:27","slug":"eph-group-sustainability-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/eph-group-sustainability-report-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"EPH Group Sustainability Report 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are publishing the&nbsp;5th <a href=\"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020_12_01_eph_sr_final-landscape-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sustainability report<\/a> of&nbsp;EPH, which clearly confirms our continuous focus on environmental, social and&nbsp;health and&nbsp;safety aspects of&nbsp;our operations. Along with our release of&nbsp;the&nbsp;2019 Sustainability report, we are publishing a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/eph-and-energy-transition-dec-2020-public_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presentation<\/a> on our historical and&nbsp;future decarbonization efforts. We are pleased to present that the&nbsp;emission intensity decreased by 12% in&nbsp;2019 and&nbsp;by 41% compared to 2015 and&nbsp;that initiatives realized by EPH in&nbsp;2014-2018 reduced CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions by approx. 18 million tonnes per year. We continue striving to seek <strong>real solutions <\/strong>&#8211; not merely offloading but truly <strong>decommissioning <\/strong>the most <strong>carbon-intensive sources <\/strong>while investing and&nbsp;actively <strong>converting <\/strong>our plants to<strong> low-carbon<\/strong> or fully <strong>renewable sources.<\/strong> In&nbsp;the&nbsp;area of&nbsp;health and&nbsp;safety, we have been continuously identifying new ways to achieve better results through integration of&nbsp;health and&nbsp;safety principles into remuneration system, focus on behavior-based safety and&nbsp;periodical trainings. In&nbsp;2019, we were pleased to see a&nbsp;10% reduction in&nbsp;injury frequency rate per number of&nbsp;hours worked.\u00a0EPH also continued in&nbsp;its&nbsp;active participation in&nbsp;social aspects through <strong>EPH Foundation <\/strong>which supported 775 projects in&nbsp;2019 with overall funds exceeding EUR&nbsp;1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>As a&nbsp;major European energy player, we acknowledge our role in&nbsp;the&nbsp;energy transition and&nbsp;support the&nbsp;process by already realized as well as planned decommissioning and&nbsp;conversion projects. Our key achievements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a decrease in&nbsp;<strong>emission intensity<\/strong> by 47% compared to 2014,<\/li>\n<li>a decrease in&nbsp;share of&nbsp;<strong>coal generation <\/strong>in our portfolio from approx. 77% in&nbsp;2014 to 21% in&nbsp;2019 approx. \u00bc of&nbsp;which are<strong> CHP plants <\/strong>operated in&nbsp;highly efficient cogeneration mode,<\/li>\n<li>over <strong>EUR 1&nbsp;billion invested<\/strong> in&nbsp;renewable or low emission power generation over the&nbsp;last 5 years,<\/li>\n<li>and <strong>12% share <\/strong>on the&nbsp;<strong>total emissions reductions <\/strong>from heat and&nbsp;power generation sector <strong>in the&nbsp;EU in&nbsp;period 2014 to 2019<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our goals comprise of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>decommissioning of&nbsp;approximately 50% of&nbsp;our coal powerplants by 2022 and&nbsp;100% of&nbsp;hard coal powerplants by 2025,<\/li>\n<li>saving approx. 40 million tonnes CO<sub>2<\/sub> per year by 2035 compared to 2014,<\/li>\n<li>continuing efforts to minimize our environmental footprint without endangering the&nbsp;ability to provide reliable and&nbsp;stable power supply and&nbsp;grid stability and&nbsp;being fully mindful of&nbsp;social aspects of&nbsp;our steps and&nbsp;decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sustainability report is available <a href=\"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020_12_01_eph_sr_final-landscape-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nPresentation is available <a href=\"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/eph-and-energy-transition-dec-2020-public_final.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are publishing the&nbsp;5th sustainability report of&nbsp;EPH, which clearly confirms our continuous focus on environmental, social and&nbsp;health and&nbsp;safety aspects of&nbsp;our operations. Along with our release of&nbsp;the&nbsp;2019 Sustainability report, we are publishing a&nbsp;presentation on our historical and&nbsp;future decarbonization efforts. We are pleased to present that the&nbsp;emission intensity decreased by 12% in&nbsp;2019 and&nbsp;by 41% compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"tax-year":[90],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"cs_CZ","id":26773,"post_title":"Zpr\u00e1va o udr\u017eitelnosti skupiny EPH za rok 2019","href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/zprava-o-udrzitelnosti-skupiny-eph-za-rok-2019\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/26774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=26774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}