How is the solid organic waste management project being carried out in El Guavio power plant?
As part of the processes of El Guavio Power Plant Environmental Education Program (PEA).
The electricity sector in Colombia, committed to ethics and transparency
Within the framework of the III Ethics in the Electricity Sector Forum, 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 the companies and the sector. The twelve companies behind this collective effort are: Enel Colombia, the Energy Company of Bogotá, AES Chivor, the Energy Company of Boyacá (EBSA), the Energy Company of Cundinamarca (EEC), Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM), Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA), ISAGEN, Termoemcali, XM, ISA Transelca and ISA Intercolombia. Additionally, the Energy Company of Bogotá has signed as an adherent to the commitments of this collective action. The companies committed themselves to implementing a cooperative 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 regarding corruption risks and non-competitive practices.
The commitments acquired by each of the signing companies are:
To achieve this outcome, working groups were organized led by the National Operation Council and XM, with the participation of representatives of each of the twelve commitment companies. On behalf of Enel Group Colombia, participated Raffaele Cutrignelli and Alberto Gómez Porras, of the Auditing Management; and Diana Jiménez and John Rey, from 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, among which the Transparency Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, the Superintendence of Residential Public Services, the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce, and the Mining and Energy Planning , 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 to the Agreement; while the Transparency Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, the NGO Transparencia por Colombia, 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 Enel Group Colombia companies already considered issues such as transparency, anti-corruption and compliance through their policies and regulations.