What are our policies?
We carry out our energy generation, distribution and commercialization activities under the concept of balance between the work and personal environment of all our employees. We want to promote a positive work environment and impact on the quality of life of our workers.
Our commitment to the community is of vital importance to us. Learn about our Human Rights policies.
Our commitment to the community is of vital importance to us. Learn about our Human Rights policies.
We are committed to health safety and the safety of our employees and contractors, the protection of the environment and the satisfaction of our customers. Learn how we prevent and evaluate risks, implement teamwork values and work for the preservation and recovery of ecosystems.
We want to prevent occupational and health risks, prevent pollution, comply with legal requirements and satisfy our customers, always looking for the effectiveness of their management systems. We want to do our best in the distribution and commercialization of electric power and related services.
What are our policies?
We are committed to good corporate governance. We have a system that allows us to fulfill our responsibilities to social environments and adequately report on their financial performance, their strategic plans and the implemented programs related to sustainable development.
Our vocation is to increase the efficiency of our production processes, the reliability of our infrastructure and compliance with maintenance. Only then can we respond to the growth in energy demand.
Our commitment is to increase the valuation of the company so that it is profitable to our shareholders in a transparent and ethical manner, while optimizing the use of available resources.
We believe that the success of our business projects lies in the capacity and excellence of our staff. That is why we are committed to developing human talent, fostering training and teamwork among our workers. We ensure equality of opportunity, non-discrimination and reconciliation of work and family life. We want to protect the life and health of our workers and collaborating companies.
Our main contribution is a quality service to the communities to promote a social, economic and cultural development. We are aware of and recognize our role as a responsible corporate citizen. We want to contribute to the construction of a more peaceful, prosperous, just and solidary society.
Preserving the environment is an intrinsic part of our business management. That is why we identify, evaluate and control the environmental effects derived from our activity. We pay attention to the use of resources and the treatment and disposal of waste.
We bring a competitive edge to the energy services industry through technological innovation, transforming ideas into value for us and for the country. We promote innovation by generating knowledge to seek sustained growth; we identify new business opportunities, increase the effectiveness of the processes, implement technological development and generate research spaces.
The electricity sector in Colombia, committed to ethics and transparency
Within the framework of the III Forum of Ethics in the Electricity Sector, held in recent days, an agreement was signed to guarantee the Transparency and Ethics Commitment of the sector companies in Colombia. This commitment is the result of a collective action promoted by twelve companies in the electricity sector, including Enel Colombia. The commitment seeks to promote healthy competition, confidence and sustainability of companies and the sector. The twelve companies that manage this collective action are: Enel Colombia, la Empresa de Energía de Bogotá, AES Chivor, Empresa de Energía de Boyacá (EBSA), la Empresa de Energía de Cundinamarca (EEC), Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM), Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA), ISAGEN, Termoemcali, XM, ISA Transelca and ISA Intercolombia. Additionally, the Energy Company of Bogota has signed as an adherent to the commitments of the collective action. The companies committed themselves to implementing a collaborative and sustained cooperation process that strengthens the ethical leadership of the sector. In this way, they declare to the general public the commitments they are taking on around corruption risks and non-competitive practices.
The commitments acquired by each of the signing companies are:
- Advancement in the development and implementation of a Comprehensive Anticorruption Program, taking as a reference the anti-bribery business principles of the International Transparency Organization.
- The promotion of competition in the electricity sector, taking as reference the good corporate governance practices for the prevention of restrictions to free competition.
- Building and disseminating, within each company, a map of corruption risks, restrictive practices to competition and money laundering and financing of terrorism, including the relevant administrative measures; as well as contributing with the development of the same for the sector.
- Providing useful information to promote transparency in the sector and in the energy market.
- Disseminating the present agreement within each company, including its Boards of Directors; as well as with the different interest groups of the electricity sector.
To achieve this result, working groups were held led by the National Operation Council and XM, with the participation of representatives of each of the twelve companies that manage the commitment. On behalf of the Enel Group in Colombia, participated Raffaele Cutrignelli and Alberto Gómez Porras, of the Auditing Department; and Diana Jiménez and John Rey, of the Regulation, Institutional Relations and Environment Management. In addition to the companies, the event was attended and supported by representatives of government entities, authorities and control entities, including the Secretary of Transparency of the Presidency of the Republic, the Superintendence of Residential Public Services, the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce, the Mining and Energy Planning Unit and the NGO Transparencia por Colombia.
Finally, the Regional Support Center for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Global Compact attended the event in the role of Neutral Third Party of the Agreement; while the Transparency Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, the NGO Transparencia por Colombia, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime participated as witnesses in the signing of this sectoral agreement.
It should be noted that, regardless of the signing of this commitment, the companies of the Enel Group in Colombia already considered issues such as transparency, anti-corruption and compliance in their policies and regulations.
Training, the key for equal opportunity at Enel Colombia
One of our main objectives within our sustainability strategy is to achieve labor equality. Since 2011, the companies have been implementing initiatives aimed at eliminating gender inequalities and promoting equal work spaces that contribute to the inclusion and permanence of people in working life without any difference at all.
Within these strategies, companies carry out actions in eight areas, which aim at improving the quality of life of their employees, as well as access to the same opportunities in the workplace. One of the key points in this aspect is that related to access to training, which is offered within the companies and notoriously contributes to the equality of conditions among all people.
The objective of this area is to ensure the construction of training programs that encourage the professional and personal development of employees, favoring access and equal opportunities. Each of the workers designs, together with their immediate supervisor, an Individual Development Plan, according to the improvement opportunities detected in the Performance Evaluation process, as well as in soft and technical skills.
So far this year in the trainings carried out, female participation has been 34% (4% higher than the previous year) and male 66%. It is important to keep in mind that there are 28% of women in the companies’ workforce, despite being a highly masculinized industry.
At the end of 2014, 123,000 hours of training were carried out, and by September 2015, 66,000 hours had been achieved.
At Enel Colombia we have a training program oriented towards its Family Responsible Companies policy, which seeks a balance between the personal and work life of its employees, including high school training for adults that we have designed and implemented, as well as technology in Electrical Network Supervision and professional training in Industrial Engineering. In addition, we have developed courses for people close to retirement and workshops on Life and Financial Planning.
These are our challenges
We always work to be a leader in the fight against climate change in Latin America. We develop renewable energies and optimize the exploitation of traditional sources from an economic and environmental perspective, taking advantage of opportunities generated by markets related to climate change.
As a company committed to climate change, we propose a strategic challenge within our sustainability plan, to demand that our human team address the issue in its day-to-day management, as well as propose concrete actions in three key areas:
- Participate in the development of non-conventional renewable energies
- Capture energy efficiency and cogeneration opportunities
- Lead the development of the sustainable transport mode
We are oriented to fulfilling our business objectives with credibility and trust, promoting citizen participation and a culture of conscious electricity use. To achieve this, we have outlined three specific objectives:
- Improve security of supply.
- Increase demand coverage
- Contribute to the social development of the communities