California Climate Action Registry

GWP Joined the California Climate Action Registry

In 2005, GWP voluntarily joined the California Climate Action Registry in order to publicly and voluntarily report our green house gas emissions from the generation of electricity under the registry’s rigorous program.

GWP has a proven track record in making positive investments in renewable resources which helps us reduce green house gas emissions. Since joining the registry, we have an added bonus of monitoring our emissions that provides us with a benchmark for improvement as we continually seek to provide low cost reliable service to our customers and while being environmentally responsible and strengthening our renewables portfolio.

The California Climate Action Registry (CCAR) was created by the California legislature in 2000, as a non-profit public/private partnership that helps companies and organizations throughout the United States to track, publicly report and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The results are certified by independent third-parties to ensure compliance with CCAR protocols and standardization across participants and sectors. Organizations that are willing to meet the accounting standards and third party certification requirement of the CCAR show their serious intent to address climate change. The CCAR has been widely recognized as a gold standard for public reporting of greenhouse gases.

In 2006, GWP was the first municipal utility in Southern California to earn the distinction of Climate Action Leader™. GWP is now publicly and voluntarily reporting its green house gas emissions from generation of electricity under the CCAR rigorous program. GWP has successfully certified CHG emissions inventory with CCAR.

“Glendale Water & Power understands that everyone has a role to play in combating climate change, including our local municipalities” said Diane Wittenberg, President of the California Climate Action Registry. “We applaud GWP for making the effort to track its progress in reducing GHG emissions through our rigorous program.”

Starting next year, all of the electric power companies and utilities in the Registry program, including Glendale Water & Power, will also report the “carbon intensity” of the power it delivers. This not only provides a basis for consistent comparison across the power industry regardless of entity size, but also greatly enhances the public’s ability to compare the climate impact of power companies operating in California and allow for the tracking of carbon intensity performance over time.

Glendale Water & Power’s certified GHG emission report for 2004 is now available through the Registry’s website at www.climateregistry.org/CARROT/Public/
 

 

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