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Feature Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company

Sustainability Coordinator/Representative: Scott Golla

Employees: >15,000

Individuals impacted: > 300 million

Notable sustainability projects:

• Westinghouse is under contract to build ten AP1000™ nuclear power generating units which are expected to displace approximately 4,500,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over their operating lifetime.  In the U.S. for 2008, nuclear energy represented 72.3% of the emissions-free electricity generation (NEI, 2009). Globally, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recognized that nuclear power is expected to have a significant role in mitigating global climate change.  Westinghouse technology is the basis for nearly 50 percent of the world's 400+ operating commercial nuclear power plants. Westinghouse offers the only certified Generation III+ simplified reactor design to provide clean, safe, reliable, and dramatically less resource-intensive, nuclear power.

• Westinghouse approaches using less water very strategically for our customers. We are actively pursuing low water use and hybrid cooling technologies for our AP1000™ and future generation designs to be installed across various climates globally. These low water technologies will save thousands of gallons per minute versus conventional nuclear power generation technology.

• In fiscal year 2009 alone, we reduced water use per production unit by >15% at two of our large southwestern Pennsylvania operations.

• Also in fiscal year 2009, more than 5,000 metric tons of industrial waste were diverted from landfill disposal (recycled, reused, used for energy recovery, etc.) from our four largest domestic manufacturing locations.

• Westinghouse is beginning to occupy a new 960,000 square foot world headquarters office complex in Cranberry Township, Pa., that is being constructed to be a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified green building, designed to use less energy, less water, and less virgin materials, and to minimize overall environmental impacts of constructing such an office building versus conventional space. It incorporates efficient water fixtures, water efficient landscaping, and bio-swales for storm water management.

• Westinghouse is currently operating an employee shuttle (from the former headquarters to the new location) to ease the footprint of its employees commuting to the new headquarters in Cranberry Township.  The shuttles, which have been gaining increasing popularity since the start of the move, are responsible for an average net monthly savings of approximately 87 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per typical month since occupying the first of four buildings in the new headquarters complex.

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