Southern Company Gas 2022 Sustainability Executive Summary Final 4.19.23 - Flipbook - Page 9
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Offered support—including no reconnection fees,
appliance replacement grants and financial
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Received an Environmental, Social & Governance
assistance—to residential customers affected by
(ESG) Award from the Southern Gas Association
devastating tornadoes in Chattanooga
Sponsored GTI Energy’s Veritas effort to develop a
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Volunteered with the Tennessee River Gorge Trust
standardized, science-based approach to measuring,
to help clear trails and restore riverside areas at the
calculating and reporting methane emissions
Pot Point Nature Trail, for the 13th year in a row
Since 2011, avoided over one million metric tons of
CO2 emissions from the combined efforts of Southern
Company Gas’ energy efficiency programs
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Collaborated with PGA TOUR, Georgia Power and
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and a Utility Customer Champion by Escalent
PowerSecure to deliver the first ever net-zero
energy PGA TOUR Championship
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Volunteered over 8,500 hours for community projects
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Planted more than 500 square feet of monarch
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Awarded more than $50,000 in environmental
stewardship grants to 11 organizations
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Announced a partnership with the Fox Valley and
Northern Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity affiliates to
butterfly pollinator gardens and distributed 5,000
develop Smart Neighborhood™ communities,
seeds through our EverGreen volunteer events
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Named a 2022 Utility Environmental Champion
comprised of 30 single-family, net-zero emissions homes
Avoided the release of approximately 21,000 MMBtu
of natural gas through cross-compression technology
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Up to one-third of customers’ annual natural gas
supply is from producers who voluntarily commit to
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Supported the Drawdown Georgia Business
lowering methane emissions[1]
Compact, launched by the Ray C. Anderson Center for
Sustainable Business at the Georgia Tech Scheller
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Received approval from the Virginia State Corporation
College of Business, to leverage the collective influence
Commission to launch a Sustainable Gas Program
of some of Georgia’s highest-profile companies to
that includes an RNG Interconnect Pilot
achieve net-zero carbon emissions in the state by 2050
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Continued the Piedmont Enhancement Project to
replace natural gas mains and some service lines in
the Buckhead area with newer, more advanced pipe
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Collected over 16,000 pounds of unwanted electronics
for recycling and repurposing for Earth Day
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Opened a compressed natural gas fueling station
at the Port of Savannah with the Chesapeake
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Partnered with the National Park Service to host the
annual Chattahoochee River Cleanup Project, where
Utilities Corporation
volunteers helped clean a five-mile stretch of the river
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Offset over 160 million pounds of carbon dioxide
equivalent (CO2e) through the Greener Life® program[2]
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In partnership with City Fields, a community
development corporation, built 20 homes since 2018
and expected to build 10 more in 2023 as part of the
1 As of November 1, 2022.
2 Represents cumulative CO2e offsets since the program launched in
October 2019, as of year-end 2022.
Blythe Oldfield neighborhood revitalization effort
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