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We expanded our empire state footprint with our newest New York City office, located in the historic Starrett-Lehigh Building. The new office serves as a hub for the company's robust pipeline of projects in the state.
We are creating the energy superhighways of the future, working across a continuum of clean energy technologies to modernize power grids, strengthen energy systems and keep communities vibrant and strong for generations to come.
For more than two decades, we've put the different aspects of power-generation together in ways that have moved the clean energy sector forward. In 2023, we chose to make advances in particular areas of innovation that would make the value to our customers more tangible - and sustainable - so we can keep building the world we want to see.
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We currently have 165+ sites operational, with active projects throughout Canada, Brazil, El Salvador, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Uruguay, the United Kingdom and the United States.
“Gila Bend Energy Storage I & II is part of our AZ Sun portfolio of 9 energy storage projects delivered to Arizona Public Service. The execution of this portfolio highlighted Invenergy's ability to integrate new technology into our construction process and brought teams from across the organization to work together on Invenergy's largest storage project to-date.”
Derek Price, Vice President, Renewable Engineering
“Heartland Farms brought us to just over 1 gigawatt installed in Michigan. With over 250 families participating across six different permitting jurisdictions, this project was a testament to the relationships built over the past decade and the strength of teamwork.”
Erin Kricher, Vice President, Project Community Affairs and Stakeholder Relations
“The Nelson Expansion has bolstered our Nelson Energy Center's capacity to 980 megawatts in total, by adding a flexible resource that can support grid reliability. We are proud to see the project's growth unfold and its positive impact on our ability to power the region.”
Robert Rooney, Nelson Plant Manager
“Yuzukami Kita is our largest solar project developed in Japan to date, with 35 megawatts now online. This green-field initiative not only repurposes land formerly used as a golf course but also significantly benefits the environment, avoiding 20,000 tons of CO2 annually. By bringing this project online, we're contributing to sustainability efforts while meeting the energy demands of Japan.”
Masa Oya, Senior Vice President and Japan Business Head
As we continue to expand our global reach, we are aligning our work with several of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UN SDGs emphasize the interconnected environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable development by putting sustainability at the forefront.
Our commitments to environmental stewardship extend beyond just how we build. At every stage of our work, from design and development to day-to-day operations, we take an active role in engineering each project to function alongside local ecosystems.
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Tons of CO2 emissions avoided
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14M
Gasoline-powered cars off the road
Invenergy aims to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 across our portfolio of renewable and clean power assets. This year, we made progress against our interim targets through an integrated approach. We are reducing our direct and indirect emissions through a combination of emission reduction measures and renewable energy investments focused on emissions from thermal combustion, mobile combustion, fugitives and purchased energy while also engaging with our suppliers and partners to reduce our supply chain emissions in line with our near-term decarbonization and green steel targets. Together with our customers and suppliers, we're learning, adapting and making progress.
Reduce emissions by 50%.
Address 70% of our scope 3
emissions through supplier
engagement and reduction.
Address 70% of our scope 3
emissions through supplier
engagement and reduction.
Achieve Net Zero emissions in
our scope 1 & 2 emissions.
Reduce emissions by 40%.
Achieve Net Zero emissions
across our entire portfolio.
Reduce emissions by 50%.
Address 70% of our scope 3 emissions through supplier engagement and reduction.
Achieve Net Zero emissions in
our scope 1 & 2 emissions.
Achieve Net Zero emissions
across our entire portfolio.
Address 70% of our scope 3 emissions through supplier engagement and reduction.
Reduce emissions by 40%.
Achieve Net Zero emissions
across our entire portfolio.
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE & STRATEGY
From consulting with state and federal governments to collaborating with resource experts, our environmental compliance and strategy teams dive deep on every project, using real-time data insights and resource impact minimization opportunities to ensure we are responsible stewards of the land.
Developing renewable energy projects comes with the duty to manage them responsibly as stewards of the land they'll inhabit.
The opportunity to develop renewable energy projects on large tracts of land comes with the duty to manage it responsibly. As one of the first solar developers and operators in the U.S. with a dedicated vegetation management team, Invenergy is committed to developing and implementing comprehensive vegetation plans based on project-specific assessments and industry-leading best practices for every solar site that we build. Our team of experts leverage their in-depth implementation knowledge to properly establish healthy vegetation specific to each project site and identify long-term adaptive management programs for successful maintenance.
The Invenergy ECS team works with developers, engineers, asset managers, other departments, and external experts from resource agencies, consultants, and academia to ensure that our projects incorporate the latest information to minimize risk to species of concern and sensitive habitats. Invenergy is partnering with several agency, nonprofit, and industry partners to support a PacifiCorp-led study to understand whether painting one wind turbine rotor blade black is a viable technique to minimize impacts on eagles, other birds, and bats at operating wind facilities. Operational minimization techniques for eagles, to date, have been limited.
The Invenergy ECS team is also exploring opportunities to advance low-impact monitoring and survey methods.
For example, as part of required ocean floor surveying, known as benthic surveying, we are collecting water samples to see if they contain fish environmental DNA, or organismal DNA found free in the environment. This method represents a more passive and low-impact way to monitor fisheries compared to traditional methods that involve directly capturing fish to collect samples.
Our dedicated ECS team actively engages in research initiatives to address crucial environmental questions and develop tools and techniques which shape the state of science behind responsible energy planning and implementation. Invenergy’s environmental research initiatives span wind energy, solar, wildlife and vegetation management with partners spanning the breadth of private, public and academic sectors, including institutions such as the US Department of Energy National Laboratories, US Geological Survey, Cornell University, Michigan State University, and Oregon State University.
In 2023, Invenergy participated in a consortium of representatives from American Clean Power and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to bring forward the state of science for wind energy-related post-construction bat monitoring. The group compiled and analyzed bat fatality information from over 700 individual studies over the last 20 years to address fundamental questions that will inform industry and resource agencies' ability to effectively manage both wind energy projects and imperiled bat species.
We work side by side to ensure our projects run efficiently at every step, while also finding ways to reduce and recycle the components involved when they reach the end of their life.
The company we are today is a result of the strong partnerships we build with the communities that host our projects, combined with our commitment to empowering our teams. Through hard work, problem solving, dedication and trust we are building a more sustainable world, enabling progress every day.
As we grow our team, we focus on supporting our colleagues' professional development and are expanding the talent ready to build a clean energy future.
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Safety
Climbing high up the interior of a wind turbine or getting to work on the ground level, our projects start with safety at every step across every area we serve.
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This year, we opened an official Training Center in Bloomington, Illinois, designed to provide comprehensive training classes and programs for groups of new and experienced renewables technicians. The 6,000-square foot facility includes two troubleshooting labs and instruction rooms.
The training classes offered at the center cover a wide range of renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind, and energy storage systems. These classes are tailored to address the evolving needs of the industry and provide technicians with a comprehensive skill set that aligns with industry standards and best practices.
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We are as committed to becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive company as we are to building a sustainable world. Fostering an environment where diverse perspectives are sought, everyone feels included and can grow to their full potential is all of our responsibility.
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Through Invenergy Affinity Groups, we work to connect employees with shared interests and common bonds, creating communities that enrich our company culture and helping colleagues make the impact they want to see in the world.
Invenergy is striving to build the energy workforce of the future—collaborating with local communities and industry partners to train new and experienced energy workers and to provide pathways to competitive careers. To this end, Invenergy has developed a three-part goal focused on the elements required to build a workforce that can power Invenergy’s business growth and increase access for more communities to the clean energy economy.
By the end of 2025, Invenergy Services will increase its total training capacity by 200% when compared to a 2023 baseline.
Recognizing people as the most critical element enabling business success, Invenergy is providing a safe, supportive and engaging environment for technicians to complete hands-on training with equipment and labs. Our ambitious training capacity goal reflects our optimism for the growth of the industry and our confidence to train well-rounded and job-ready technicians that provide best-in-class service.
By the end of 2025, Invenergy will ensure that a majority (>51%) of staff at Invenergy-owned and operated projects are from the surrounding local community, so that project communities are reaping direct economic benefits.
Invenergy has always worked to hire locally to the extent possible, so that project communities tangibly benefit from projects. However, we want to go further by systematically ensuring through new metrics that a clear majority of employees at Invenergy project sites are from the surrounding community.
By 2030, Invenergy and its affiliates will facilitate training for 2,500 traditionally underserved workers. These efforts will ensure individuals in disadvantaged communities have the support that they need to enroll in clean energy job training, complete training, and enter a career with family sustaining wages.
Invenergy is committed to increasing access to renewable energy jobs in underserved communities, including those that have low-to-moderate income designations and those that are energy transition communities. This goal reflects the resolve of Invenergy to play a significant role in promoting economic equity and a just transition.
We are proud to engage, train, upskill, develop and support clean energy's next wave of innovators who will provide the leadership to accelerate sustainability in the sector.
This year we grew our signature corporate management training program, PowerUp, beyond our Chicago office, expanding to include hybrid and e-learning programming. We also piloted the Green Leaders Management Training Program for our Invenergy Services employees. The program is planned to fully launch later in 2024.
Reactivate, an Invenergy joint-venture, celebrated the launch and graduation of 12 Chicagoland trainees from their inaugural workforce training program, Building Equity in Solar Training (B.E.S.T.). Reactivate was also honored with the Green Power Leadership’s “Leadership in Education” award, which recognizes effective and unique programs and organizations focusing on green power education.
Based in Pataskala, Ohio, Illuminate USA is the first and largest solar panel manufacturing facility in the country and the most advanced facility in the world. Announced in March 2023 with a $600 million investment, the company will not only create onshore solar manufacturing, but start building the local supply chain in the USA. Invenergy is Illuminate USA's majority owner and anchor customer, and the facility is expected to create more than 1,000 local jobs in the Greater Columbus and Pataskala communities. Illuminate USA is partnering with local workforce and educational organizations such as OhioMeansJobs, JobsOhio, and Career Technology and Education Center (CTEC) to create training and skills development programs in advanced manufacturing while also supporting recruiting efforts.
As we expand our presence around the world, we are guided by our responsibility to the communities we'll call home. In every location, we stay focused on our role as an active, invested partner who is there to make a lasting, positive impact.
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Being a good community partner is at the heart of everything we do. As we expand our reach, we keep this philosophy top of mind, sponsoring activities, holding events and providing donations to causes where we live, develop, build, work and operate.
Invenergy celebrated the history and culture of the American West by supporting Oklahoma's Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo, one of the largest and most renowned rodeos in the region. This annual event showcases a wide range of events, like saddle bronc riding, barrel racing and team roping. The rodeo is more than competitions; it's also a celebration of the region's heritage and cowboy culture. Over 15,000 attendees came to immerse themselves in the rich history through various cultural exhibits, music, food, and arts and crafts vendors. Vicki Ayres Portman, Invenergy's Senior Manager of Government Affairs, grew up in Guymon and attended the event for years and has said “I'm proud to work for a company who understands the importance of being an integral part of the community.”
At a series of events for participating landowners and neighbors near our Darien Solar Project (200 MW, WI), community members came together for fellowship, dialogue and a bird house building activity that encouraged each family to bring home a small reminder of conservation efforts to add to their own homes. Lindsey Weimer, a participating Darien Landowner who attended with her daughters said, “Our family is dedicated to preserving land for future generations, promoting sustainable farming and educating our children about land and wildlife conservation. By building the bird houses with Darien Solar, we not only had a great time, but we also are doing a small part to help our community and the environment.”
We work within the communities we serve to ensure the safety, resilience, and well-being of our site personnel. They receive training from local first responders to follow all the necessary steps in any emergencies. In 2023, we donated over $380,000 towards nonprofits and causes dedicated to providing healthcare and emergency medical services to the public. Our Prairie Breeze Energy Center was one of many sites that supported their local fire departments. These contributions not only strengthen the capabilities of local first responders but also reinforce the vital partnership between our organization and our communities.
Volunteerism
Our volunteer time-off program encourages teams to dedicate one workday a year to assisting nonprofit organizations and giving back locally. Whether helping out at animal shelters, pitching in at food banks, or serving as an extra set of hands for cleanup crews, Invenergy employees choose to contribute in a range of ways to making a positive impact.
Our teams care about making a difference in their communities and in the world every day. This impact is only possible thanks to the support and collaboration with our many important nonprofit partners.
For more than 100 years, 4-H has welcomed young people of all beliefs and backgrounds, giving kids a voice to express who they are and how they're making a difference in their communities while encouraging them to learn by doing. In 2023, we supported the distribution of over 300 “Power Protectors,” 4-H STEM Challenge kits which include three activities that teach kids how to address real-world issues and explore a future career in the energy sector.
Chicago Scholars provides first-gen students or students from under-resourced communities with mentorship and coaching to complete college, forge a fulfilling career path, and become the next generation of leaders. Invenergy hosted the New Scholar Selection Day at our Chicago headquarters and was proud to see the second annual Invenergy Scholarship awarded to two deserving students pursuing a career in clean energy.
We proudly committed to a 5-year partnership with the Polsky Foundation, the University of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create the Young Innovators Program and Young Innovators Climate and Energy Summer Program, two programs for high school students interested in careers in sustainability and clean energy.
The Chicago Urban League (CUL) has helped people find jobs, secure affordable housing, enhance their educational experiences, and grow their businesses. Invenergy sponsored CUL’s 2023 SUMMIT, Equity in Clean Energy & Water, which featured a daylong series of discussions and a keynote luncheon that explored the roles of corporations, government, and community in creating solutions that advance sustainability, environmental justice and diversity in the clean energy economy.
The National FFA Organization makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. We’ve had a national partnership with FFA since 2018, and each year our operating sites across the U.S. support activities at local chapters.
GRID's mission is to build community-powered solutions to advance economic and environmental justice through renewable energy. We supported a 5-week, all women’s Installations Basics Training cohort of 11 trainees in Sacramento, as well as workforce development activities in Greater Los Angeles. Invenergy employees also had the chance to volunteer at two GRID Workdays to install residential solar for families in Colorado.
KidWind helps teachers and students creatively explore the science and technology implications of a world powered by renewable energy. Invenergy was a main sponsor of the National KidWind Challenge in Boulder, Colorado. We also supported three KidWind teacher training workshops, a KidWind Challenge in Baja, Mexico, and supported two teachers attending KidWind’s annual REcharge Academy.
The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is one of the largest science museums in the world, with more than 400,000 square feet of exhibit space and world-class programming. Our partnership provided free access to the museum for our employees, and Invenergy employees volunteered in several MSI events throughout the year, like their Black Creativity Career Showcase and Science Works.
Pheasants Forever's mission is to conserve pheasants, quail and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public access, education and conservation advocacy. We began our national partnership with Pheasants Forever in 2023. We’re supporting their three-year biodiversity credit pilot with sorghum and oat growers in Kansas in partnership with Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC), and their Pollinator Habitat Outreach Program that increases awareness about decreasing pollinator habitat and engages schools, youth groups and community organizations in establishing local habitat projects.
Trust for Public Land (TPL) was founded on the conviction that all people need access to nature, which is why they work to connect everyone to the benefits and joys of the outdoors. We continued our support of WACA Bell Park in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood, where Invenergy employees had the chance to work with local artist Haman Cross to paint miniature murals at the space.
Women in Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) works to accelerate the transition to a sustainable and equitable energy future by igniting the power of community. Invenergy is a Leader Partner with WRISE, which provided access to all Invenergy employees to a free WRISE membership. In 2023, we also sponsored the RE+ Clean Energy Job Fair, Leadership Forum, and the WRISE Chicago Chapter, WRISE & WINE event.