The environment
We ensure a smaller environmental footprint
We ensure a smaller environmental footprint
We feel we have more responsibility than just the task of producing renewable electricity. We wish to ensure a cleaner environment and help reduce the global CO2 footprint. The more producers and consumers of renewable energy, the less carbon dioxide is emitted.
We are developing renewable energy so that we all have enough electricity from renewable sources in the future. Increasing the use of green energy, for example in transport, housing or agriculture, is the easiest way to reduce the CO2 footprint.
We believe that through skillful planning, the impact of new renewable energy development projects on the environment and communities is minimal, and they can be integrated into the living environment.
When launching new renewable energy development projects, we evaluate the possible consequences of each project on the environment and people. Also the ways in which they can affect communities.
We rely on in-depth environmental impact assessments to help identify potentially significant environmental impacts and ways to mitigate them.
We base our actions and decisions on environmental policy that provides us with a framework. We avoid environmental pollution and minimize the environmental impact of the company's activities.
We follow the ten points of our environmental principles that help to take account of the surrounding environment.
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We address environmental issues systematically and with a long-term perspective.
Read moreWe help to breath new life into former industries where operations have ended. So, the closed ash field of Balti Power Plant has started a new life with us building the Narva Wind Farm there. Similarly to an old mining area where we now produce green energy in the Laaskõrve Solar Park.
Objects reminiscent of the oil shale energy footprint have become the foundation for units generating renewable energy. No square metre of forest or arable land has been used to build these wind farms and solar parks, and the former industrial areas have received a new application.
We implement a certified environmental management system in accordance with the international standard ISO 14001 to ensure resource-efficient and sustainable operations. We constantly check and improve our environmental management system.
We have additionally implemented an environmental management system (EMAS registered) at our Iru Power Plant in accordance with the European Union EMAS regulation.
Compared to an ISO-compliant environmental management system, EMAS requires a company to be more open and credible in showing its environmental performance outside.
In order to ensure the transparency of our environmental activities, we prepare environmental reports certified by an impartial verifier, and make them public. The environmental report contains a brief description of the company and its environmental management system, the leading principles for the environment, an overview of significant environmental aspects and impacts, environmental objectives, and the performance of environmental activities.