Category |
Selected Examples of Groups |
Channels of Engagement |
Examples from 2009 |
Business Community |
Investors |
As of December 31, 2009:
- Approximately 71 percent of PG&E Corporation’s shares were held by institutional investors
- The top 50 institutional investors owned approximately 55 percent of our stock
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- Quarterly earnings calls
- Annual investor conference
- One-on-one meetings and industry conferences
- Required disclosures
- Surveys from socially responsible investors
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- We engaged approximately 100 of the top industry analysts and investors at our annual investor conference.
- We hosted approximately 30 meetings for investors and analysts at our corporate headquarters.
- We attended sell-side conferences or met with investors at their offices.
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Suppliers |
- Diverse suppliers (women-, minority- and disabled-veteran-owned businesses) enterprises
- Small businesses
- Large businesses
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- Annual Supplier Conference, which includes supplier awards
- Supplier Diversity Program with specific spending targets
- Green Supply Chain Program
- Facilitating supplier-to-supplier mentoring relationships
- Engagement with ethnic chambers of commerce, veteran business organizations and other groups to reach diverse suppliers
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- To reduce the environmental impact of our supply chain, we continued to participate in the Electric Utility Industry Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance (Alliance)—sharing best practices with other large investor-owned electric utilities and working with industry suppliers and other stakeholders.
- Last year, we led an Alliance team that developed recommendations to reduce the overall life cycle impact of wood utility poles.
- The Alliance is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization with investor-owned utilities as members.
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Customers and Communities |
Business and residential customers |
- 5.1 million electric accounts
(4.5 million residential and 600,000 commercial, industrial and other)
- 4.3 million natural gas accounts
(4.1 million residential and 200,000 commercial and industrial)
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- Use of customer data and insights to drive our decision-making and help simplify our customer service offerings and the way we engage with customers
- Regular customer surveys
- Business customer account representatives focused on integrated demand side management
- Gas service representatives
- Customer call centers, local offices and helplines
- Financial assistance programs for low-income customers
- Online tools to help customers see how and when they use energy
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- PG&E continued to engage with the ClimateSmart External Advisory Group (EAG), made up of respected community, environmental, business and government leaders, who provide expert guidance to the ClimateSmart program through quarterly meetings.
- The ClimateSmart program is a voluntary, tax-deductible program that allows customers to offset the greenhouse gas emissions from the energy they use.
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Non-governmental organizations |
- Environmental organizations
- Community organizations
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- Active participation of officers and other employees on non-profit boards
- Support for community programs through charitable contributions
- Employee volunteer program
- Meetings, conferences and community events
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- We continued to honor our commitment to improve our environmental and social performance by working with Ceres, a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges.
- PG&E collaborated with Ceres and its stakeholder team to improve our reporting on our sustainability performance and key impacts, including goals, targets, issues and initiatives.
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Employees |
Current and Prospective Employees |
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- MBA Leadership Program
- PowerPathway™ Program
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- Clear vision, values and guiding behaviors for all employees
- Annual employee satisfaction survey
- Awards to recognize employee leadership on diversity, safety, volunteering and the environment
- Mentoring program
- Regular briefings, meetings and communication
- PG&E Learning Academy
- Active recruiting
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- ERG employee leaders meet regularly with senior management, bringing important issues to the leaders of the company.
- Each ERG is sponsored by a company officer.
- The ERGs help employees develop their careers, gain leadership skills and get involved in the community.
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Labor Unions |
Approximately 65 percent of our employees
are covered by collective bargaining
agreements with three labor unions:
- IBEW, Local 1245
- ESC/IFPTE, Local 20
- SEIU, Local 24/7
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- Joint learning sessions on key topics
- Co-hosted sessions on the importance of employee and public safety
- Labor and management joint engagement to simplify business processes
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- We held numerous meetings where the company and our unions learned about key health care issues together from third-party experts.
- We then reached a major agreement that provides a new cost structure for active IBEW, ESC and SEIU-represented employees that gives current employees additional medical plan choices and also addresses retiree medical benefits.
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Government |
Federal |
- U.S. House of Representatives and Senate
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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- Industry associations
- Non-profit/business coalitions
- Staff dedicated to engage in regular dialogue
- Regulatory proceedings
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- We played a leadership role in developing the U.S. Climate Action Partnership's (USCAP) detailed policy recommendations for a national, market-based approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- USCAP is a group of businesses and leading environmental organizations encouraging the federal government to enact climate and energy legislation.
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State |
- California Legislature
- California Public Utilities Commission
- California Energy Commission
- California Air Resources Board
- California Department of Fish and Game
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- Industry associations
- Staff dedicated to engage in regular dialogue
- Regulatory proceedings
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- We engage in public regulatory proceedings at the CPUC and CEC.
- These proceedings provide an opportunity for multiple stakeholders to provide input to our regulators on PG&E’s “license to operate.”
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Local |
- 49 counties and 244 cities
- Local elected officials
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- Staff dedicated to engage in regular dialogue
- Local chambers of commerce
- Community Advisory Groups (CAG)
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- We interacted with about a dozen CAGs, comprised of members of the community and designed to serve as a forum for feedback and input.
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