Awards

Project of the Year honours –Project Management Institute (Northern Alberta chapter) – 2013

The Project Management Institute (Northern Alberta chapter) awarded our Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation with Project of the Year, recognizing work completed from 2011 to early 2013. The Project Management Institute Project of the Year Award, recognizes, honours, and publicizes a successful project and the achievements of the project team for superior performance of project management.

National Philanthropy Day Award - 2012

This award is presented by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Foundation for Philanthropy to celebrate the philanthropic achievements of individuals and organizations in the community. Capital Power was recognized by STARS for our community philanthropy. 

Oxford County Local Emergency Planning Committee Facility of the Year - Rumford, Maine - 2012

Oxford County Local Emergency Planning Committee recognized Capital Power's Rumford facility as the Facility of the Year for its emergency plans and approach to handling hazardous substances. 

Corporate Knights “Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada" - 2011 & 2012

Corporate Knights magazine ranks the relative impact of companies’ carbon, water, waste, and energy use and compiles a list of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada. Corporate Knights magazine has named Capital Power to its 2012 list of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada. Capital Power was also named to the list in 2011.

“It’s the excellence of our operating and governance practices, combined with the candour of our reporting, that helped Capital Power gain this national recognition,” said Martin Kennedy, Vice President, External & Investor Relations.

The report measures corporations on their publicly-available information in the categories of Environment, Social, Governance and Transparency.

Capital Awards – International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) – 2012 & 2013

Our 2010 and 2011 corporate responsibility reports received Capital Awards of Excellence two years in a row from IABC Edmonton in 2012 and 2013. The Halkirk & Quality Wind blade signing events also received an Award of Excellence at the 2013 Capital Awards ceremony. 

The Capital Awards recognize communicators in Edmonton and are judged by a panel of communications professionals from across North America.

Achievements

Nominations for Awards of Distinction – United Way of the Alberta Capital Region – 2012

The United Way of the Alberta Capital Region nominated Capital Power for two Awards of Distinction for our United Way campaign.