Environmental Stewardship Award

Award description

This award honours an IPP that proves sustainability is more than a slogan, it’s how they operate. These leaders take pride in permits to actively protect the natural environment, drive conservation, and embed sustainable practices, showing that wind energy can leave nothing but a clean breeze behind.

Award criteria

  • Entrants should submit a project description that outlines the complexity of the project in terms of:
    • Size of project, 
    • topographical complexity, 
    • permitting challenges, 
    • technological innovation, 
    • level and amount of endangered vegetation.
  • Detail the environmental benefits: Describe the impact on natural resource management (including MW/hectare) and positive effect/impact on the balance of the environment (e.g., hectares of land rehabilitated, conservation efforts of flora and fauna species, water sources conserved or enhanced, etc.)
  • Outline the methodology, verification and reporting: Describe the rationale for the methodology, how the initiative has been validated and reported on in a manner over and above the requirements of the governed processes. Describe any safety and structural or technical integrity considerations and the rationale for actions taken to address these
  • Contribution to the field: Describe how your project showcases emerging or developing technologies or ideas as they are applied to enhancing environmental or sustainability outcomes – including but not limited to the mitigation of wildlife fatality on wind farms.

Nominator Details

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Nominee Details

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- Please describe the project
- Provide some background about the project or the activity
- What were the environmental benefits of the project?
- What was the methodology, verification and reporting?
- Were there any safety or technical considerations?
- What was the impact of the project on enhancing environmental or sustainability outcomes?
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