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COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT:
OUR DEDICATION TO
THE WORLD AROUND US
COMMUNITY
ENVIRONMENT
Dear Reader,
Integrys Energy Group is a premier andgrowing energy enterprise, with local energycompanies serving a multitude of communities.We are 5,000 employees-strong. And thereinlies the secret to our success. Our employees
are not only talented energy professionals; they are the heart of ourbusiness, bringing their commitment to community and theirappreciation for nature to life in our company.
Our employees volunteer their own time in the community, act onbehalf of our companies to support local groups and protect theenvironment, and inspire new corporate initiatives to do even more.
This brochure captures the essence of this dedication, but wecannot begin to tell the whole story here.
Please visit our Web site, integrysgroup.com, where we share evenmore about the heartfelt efforts the people of Integrys make for ourworld every day.
Sincerely,
President and Chief Executive Officer,Integrys Energy Group
The differences between people shape the world we livein. Every employee, customer and investor of IntegrysEnergy Group has a view of our world that cannot beduplicated.
Yet we all share one thing in common: community.
Each of us resides in a community where we live, work
and grow. Integrys Energy Group believes in giving backto our local communities, in exchange for the privilege ofserving them.
Our charitable foundation, Wisconsin Public Service
Foundation (operating in the areas of Michigan Gas
Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources, Upper Peninsula
Power Company, Wisconsin Public Service and Integrys
Energy Services), provides more than $1 million annuallyto support organizations focused on education, arts andculture, environmental causes, health and human servicesand community development. Peoples Gas and North
Shore Gas contribute more than $1 million each year tothese types of organizations in the greater Chicago area.
At every Integrys company our employees and retirees arethe hands, hearts, minds and smiles that help get the workdone in countless ways for our communities.
Look inside to read more about their contributions. To learn even more, please visit us at integrysgroup.com
and click on Community.
Everywhere you look today, you can see a common theme: be green. What does that mean for an energy company likeIntegrys Energy Group?
It means we must work to provide our customers with energywhile finding ways to help preserve a clean, healthy world.
Our most visible environmental efforts center on the way weproduce and deliver energy. At our electric utilities, we striveto make the best environmental decisions for our customers,
investors and employees. Our newest electric generatingunit, Weston 4, uses the cleanest coal technology available toproduce reasonably priced power. We’re also investing in newwind generation to meet our responsibility to use renewable
power. Each of our natural gas companies is focused onproviding one of the cleanest fuels on Earth.
At Integrys Energy Services, our nonregulated energycompany, our customers’ newfound focus on green living isdriving the creation of new products and services, includingsolar energy, biogas and renewable energy credits.
Ultimately, at every Integrys company, we are keeping our eye on the environment. Look inside to read more about ourefforts. For even more stories, visit us at integrysgroup.com
and click on Environment.
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COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT:
OUR DEDICATION TO
THE WORLD AROUND US
COMMUNITY
ENVIRONMENT
Dear Reader,
Integrys Energy Group is a premier andgrowing energy enterprise, with local energycompanies serving a multitude of communities.We are 5,000 employees-strong. And thereinlies the secret to our success. Our employees
are not only talented energy professionals; they are the heart of ourbusiness, bringing their commitment to community and theirappreciation for nature to life in our company.
Our employees volunteer their own time in the community, act onbehalf of our companies to support local groups and protect theenvironment, and inspire new corporate initiatives to do even more.
This brochure captures the essence of this dedication, but wecannot begin to tell the whole story here.
Please visit our Web site, integrysgroup.com, where we share evenmore about the heartfelt efforts the people of Integrys make for ourworld every day.
Sincerely,
President and Chief Executive Officer,Integrys Energy Group
The differences between people shape the world we livein. Every employee, customer and investor of IntegrysEnergy Group has a view of our world that cannot beduplicated.
Yet we all share one thing in common: community.
Each of us resides in a community where we live, work
and grow. Integrys Energy Group believes in giving backto our local communities, in exchange for the privilege ofserving them.
Our charitable foundation, Wisconsin Public Service
Foundation (operating in the areas of Michigan Gas
Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources, Upper Peninsula
Power Company, Wisconsin Public Service and Integrys
Energy Services), provides more than $1 million annuallyto support organizations focused on education, arts andculture, environmental causes, health and human servicesand community development. Peoples Gas and North
Shore Gas contribute more than $1 million each year tothese types of organizations in the greater Chicago area.
At every Integrys company our employees and retirees arethe hands, hearts, minds and smiles that help get the workdone in countless ways for our communities.
Look inside to read more about their contributions. To learn even more, please visit us at integrysgroup.com
and click on Community.
Everywhere you look today, you can see a common theme: be green. What does that mean for an energy company likeIntegrys Energy Group?
It means we must work to provide our customers with energywhile finding ways to help preserve a clean, healthy world.
Our most visible environmental efforts center on the way weproduce and deliver energy. At our electric utilities, we striveto make the best environmental decisions for our customers,
investors and employees. Our newest electric generatingunit, Weston 4, uses the cleanest coal technology available toproduce reasonably priced power. We’re also investing in newwind generation to meet our responsibility to use renewable
power. Each of our natural gas companies is focused onproviding one of the cleanest fuels on Earth.
At Integrys Energy Services, our nonregulated energycompany, our customers’ newfound focus on green living isdriving the creation of new products and services, includingsolar energy, biogas and renewable energy credits.
Ultimately, at every Integrys company, we are keeping our eye on the environment. Look inside to read more about ourefforts. For even more stories, visit us at integrysgroup.com
and click on Environment.
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• On many school days, you’re likely to find representativesfrom our utilities in middle schools conducting electric and
natural gas safety demonstrations. These demonstrationsare a longstanding tradition of educating today’s youthabout energy safety.
• For 20 years Integrys companies have participated inschool-business partnerships. Students learn about theworld of work while we learn about the promisingindividuals we will someday serve as our customers andemploy in our companies.
• Our employees are well-known for lending a hand to create parks and playgrounds for our youngest communitymembers. One example is an employee-built play system in Eagan, Minnesota, at the B. Robert Lewis House, a safeplace for women and children experiencing domesticviolence.
• Each fall employees from Peoples Gas, North Shore Gasand Wisconsin Public Service volunteer for Team H.E.A.T.
(Home Energy Assistance Together), our communityinitiative to weatherize homes for limited-income
customers. The customers have an easier time managing theirheating bills and are better prepared to enjoy a cozy winter.
• Employees from across all of our companies choose serviceover self by helping those in need during the holidays.
Instead of having traditional holiday parties, some employeescelebrate the season by adopting families to share a meal withand prepare gift baskets to make many homes brighter.
• Employees and retirees in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin,as well as many other areas, multiply the impact of their personalvolunteerism through our Dollars for Doers program. Whenthey volunteer 20 or more hours of their own time to aqualifying organization, our foundation makes a contribution to that organization.
• Our local offices proudly support local festivals, parades and
fairs. Through sponsorships, hands-on help or even our truckson parade, we share in these rituals that bring our communitymembers closer together.
For more stories, visit us at integrysgroup.com and click onCommunity.
• Each spring, Wisconsin Public Service electric generatingplants in Wausau and Green Bay become the birthplace ofendangered peregrine falcons. Our employees watch thenesting, egg laying, hatching and eventual departure of thefalcons like proud parents.
• Our Environmental Services group undertakes many effortsacross our service areas for control of invasive species, whichcan threaten the existence of native plants and animals. AtUpper Peninsula Power Company, employees control theovergrowth of an aggressive garlic mustard plant, which takesover areas in forests and crowds out other plants.
• Michigan Gas Utilities and Wisconsin Public Service help farmcustomers turn manure into valuable biofuel. We are happyto share our knowledge about anaerobic digestion, whichconverts manure into usable energy. In fact, in somesituations, we are able to buy excess energy from farmers who have a surplus.
• More than 40 high schools are in the Wisconsin Public ServiceSolarWise for Schools® program. These schools receive adonated photovoltaic system for their school, the energy thesystem generates, a solar curriculum for students and theopportunity to compete in an annual Solar Olympics event.
• Integrys Gas Group, on behalf of all of our natural gas utilities,reclaims used lubricants and glycol. Previously viewed aswaste products, these chemicals are captured after use, runthrough a chemical reclaiming unit and used again.
• Our electric generating facilities incorporate environmentalfeatures, including fish barriers, to prevent fish from enteringplant intake pipes; fly ash collection, to keep ash fromentering the environment and enable it to be reused for other purposes; and wastewater treatment, which removesunwanted chemicals from the plants’ discharge water. We’realso in the process of adding emissions-control equipment toour plants.
• At all of our companies, we offer electronic billing, payment
and service options, which eliminate paper use and addconvenience to our customers’ lives.
stewards of the environment
• In Illinois, we’ve adopted green technology by usingbiodiesel and hybrid vehicles. Our companies thereencourage energy conservation and protection of theenvironment, as demonstrated by the Smart Home, a“green home” Peoples Gas sponsors at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
• The next facility to be built in the Integrys family will be aWisconsin Public Service office in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. This Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED)-certified building will exemplify green construction.
• Integrys Energy Services partners with others across the nationto produce significant amounts of renewable energy, includinga 6.4-megawatt landfill-gas-to-electricity plant in Rockford,Illinois. The company has created a new business segmentfocusing on renewable energy, efficiency and conservation.
If you are interested in learning more about our dedication tothe environment, visit us at integrysgroup.com and click onEnvironment.
hands, hearts, minds & smiles in the community
This brochure has been printed on 30% post-consumer recycled paper.
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COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT:
OUR DEDICATION TO
THE WORLD AROUND US
COMMUNITY
ENVIRONMENT
Dear Reader,
Integrys Energy Group is a premier andgrowing energy enterprise, with local energycompanies serving a multitude of communities.We are 5,000 employees-strong. And thereinlies the secret to our success. Our employees
are not only talented energy professionals; they are the heart of ourbusiness, bringing their commitment to community and theirappreciation for nature to life in our company.
Our employees volunteer their own time in the community, act onbehalf of our companies to support local groups and protect theenvironment, and inspire new corporate initiatives to do even more.
This brochure captures the essence of this dedication, but wecannot begin to tell the whole story here.
Please visit our Web site, integrysgroup.com, where we share evenmore about the heartfelt efforts the people of Integrys make for ourworld every day.
Sincerely,
President and Chief Executive Officer,Integrys Energy Group
The differences between people shape the world we livein. Every employee, customer and investor of IntegrysEnergy Group has a view of our world that cannot beduplicated.
Yet we all share one thing in common: community.
Each of us resides in a community where we live, work
and grow. Integrys Energy Group believes in giving backto our local communities, in exchange for the privilege ofserving them.
Our charitable foundation, Wisconsin Public Service
Foundation (operating in the areas of Michigan Gas
Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources, Upper Peninsula
Power Company, Wisconsin Public Service and Integrys
Energy Services), provides more than $1 million annuallyto support organizations focused on education, arts andculture, environmental causes, health and human servicesand community development. Peoples Gas and North
Shore Gas contribute more than $1 million each year tothese types of organizations in the greater Chicago area.
At every Integrys company our employees and retirees arethe hands, hearts, minds and smiles that help get the workdone in countless ways for our communities.
Look inside to read more about their contributions. To learn even more, please visit us at integrysgroup.com
and click on Community.
Everywhere you look today, you can see a common theme: be green. What does that mean for an energy company likeIntegrys Energy Group?
It means we must work to provide our customers with energywhile finding ways to help preserve a clean, healthy world.
Our most visible environmental efforts center on the way weproduce and deliver energy. At our electric utilities, we striveto make the best environmental decisions for our customers,
investors and employees. Our newest electric generatingunit, Weston 4, uses the cleanest coal technology available toproduce reasonably priced power. We’re also investing in newwind generation to meet our responsibility to use renewable
power. Each of our natural gas companies is focused onproviding one of the cleanest fuels on Earth.
At Integrys Energy Services, our nonregulated energycompany, our customers’ newfound focus on green living isdriving the creation of new products and services, includingsolar energy, biogas and renewable energy credits.
Ultimately, at every Integrys company, we are keeping our eye on the environment. Look inside to read more about ourefforts. For even more stories, visit us at integrysgroup.com
and click on Environment.
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• On many school days, you’re likely to find representativesfrom our utilities in middle schools conducting electric and
natural gas safety demonstrations. These demonstrationsare a longstanding tradition of educating today’s youthabout energy safety.
• For 20 years Integrys companies have participated inschool-business partnerships. Students learn about theworld of work while we learn about the promisingindividuals we will someday serve as our customers andemploy in our companies.
• Our employees are well-known for lending a hand to create parks and playgrounds for our youngest communitymembers. One example is an employee-built play system in Eagan, Minnesota, at the B. Robert Lewis House, a safeplace for women and children experiencing domesticviolence.
• Each fall employees from Peoples Gas, North Shore Gasand Wisconsin Public Service volunteer for Team H.E.A.T.
(Home Energy Assistance Together), our communityinitiative to weatherize homes for limited-income
customers. The customers have an easier time managing theirheating bills and are better prepared to enjoy a cozy winter.
• Employees from across all of our companies choose serviceover self by helping those in need during the holidays.
Instead of having traditional holiday parties, some employeescelebrate the season by adopting families to share a meal withand prepare gift baskets to make many homes brighter.
• Employees and retirees in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin,as well as many other areas, multiply the impact of their personalvolunteerism through our Dollars for Doers program. Whenthey volunteer 20 or more hours of their own time to aqualifying organization, our foundation makes a contribution to that organization.
• Our local offices proudly support local festivals, parades and
fairs. Through sponsorships, hands-on help or even our truckson parade, we share in these rituals that bring our communitymembers closer together.
For more stories, visit us at integrysgroup.com and click onCommunity.
• Each spring, Wisconsin Public Service electric generatingplants in Wausau and Green Bay become the birthplace ofendangered peregrine falcons. Our employees watch thenesting, egg laying, hatching and eventual departure of thefalcons like proud parents.
• Our Environmental Services group undertakes many effortsacross our service areas for control of invasive species, whichcan threaten the existence of native plants and animals. AtUpper Peninsula Power Company, employees control theovergrowth of an aggressive garlic mustard plant, which takesover areas in forests and crowds out other plants.
• Michigan Gas Utilities and Wisconsin Public Service help farmcustomers turn manure into valuable biofuel. We are happyto share our knowledge about anaerobic digestion, whichconverts manure into usable energy. In fact, in somesituations, we are able to buy excess energy from farmers who have a surplus.
• More than 40 high schools are in the Wisconsin Public ServiceSolarWise for Schools® program. These schools receive adonated photovoltaic system for their school, the energy thesystem generates, a solar curriculum for students and theopportunity to compete in an annual Solar Olympics event.
• Integrys Gas Group, on behalf of all of our natural gas utilities,reclaims used lubricants and glycol. Previously viewed aswaste products, these chemicals are captured after use, runthrough a chemical reclaiming unit and used again.
• Our electric generating facilities incorporate environmentalfeatures, including fish barriers, to prevent fish from enteringplant intake pipes; fly ash collection, to keep ash fromentering the environment and enable it to be reused for other purposes; and wastewater treatment, which removesunwanted chemicals from the plants’ discharge water. We’realso in the process of adding emissions-control equipment toour plants.
• At all of our companies, we offer electronic billing, payment
and service options, which eliminate paper use and addconvenience to our customers’ lives.
stewards of the environment
• In Illinois, we’ve adopted green technology by usingbiodiesel and hybrid vehicles. Our companies thereencourage energy conservation and protection of theenvironment, as demonstrated by the Smart Home, a“green home” Peoples Gas sponsors at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
• The next facility to be built in the Integrys family will be aWisconsin Public Service office in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. This Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED)-certified building will exemplify green construction.
• Integrys Energy Services partners with others across the nationto produce significant amounts of renewable energy, includinga 6.4-megawatt landfill-gas-to-electricity plant in Rockford,Illinois. The company has created a new business segmentfocusing on renewable energy, efficiency and conservation.
If you are interested in learning more about our dedication tothe environment, visit us at integrysgroup.com and click onEnvironment.
hands, hearts, minds & smiles in the community
This brochure has been printed on 30% post-consumer recycled paper.
Community_Environ_ab5 5/2/08 3:44 PM Page 2
COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT:
OUR DEDICATION TO
THE WORLD AROUND US
COMMUNITY
ENVIRONMENT
Dear Reader,
Integrys Energy Group is a premier andgrowing energy enterprise, with local energycompanies serving a multitude of communities.We are 5,000 employees-strong. And thereinlies the secret to our success. Our employees
are not only talented energy professionals; they are the heart of ourbusiness, bringing their commitment to community and theirappreciation for nature to life in our company.
Our employees volunteer their own time in the community, act onbehalf of our companies to support local groups and protect theenvironment, and inspire new corporate initiatives to do even more.
This brochure captures the essence of this dedication, but wecannot begin to tell the whole story here.
Please visit our Web site, integrysgroup.com, where we share evenmore about the heartfelt efforts the people of Integrys make for ourworld every day.
Sincerely,
President and Chief Executive Officer,Integrys Energy Group
The differences between people shape the world we livein. Every employee, customer and investor of IntegrysEnergy Group has a view of our world that cannot beduplicated.
Yet we all share one thing in common: community.
Each of us resides in a community where we live, work
and grow. Integrys Energy Group believes in giving backto our local communities, in exchange for the privilege ofserving them.
Our charitable foundation, Wisconsin Public Service
Foundation (operating in the areas of Michigan Gas
Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources, Upper Peninsula
Power Company, Wisconsin Public Service and Integrys
Energy Services), provides more than $1 million annuallyto support organizations focused on education, arts andculture, environmental causes, health and human servicesand community development. Peoples Gas and North
Shore Gas contribute more than $1 million each year tothese types of organizations in the greater Chicago area.
At every Integrys company our employees and retirees arethe hands, hearts, minds and smiles that help get the workdone in countless ways for our communities.
Look inside to read more about their contributions. To learn even more, please visit us at integrysgroup.com
and click on Community.
Everywhere you look today, you can see a common theme: be green. What does that mean for an energy company likeIntegrys Energy Group?
It means we must work to provide our customers with energywhile finding ways to help preserve a clean, healthy world.
Our most visible environmental efforts center on the way weproduce and deliver energy. At our electric utilities, we striveto make the best environmental decisions for our customers,
investors and employees. Our newest electric generatingunit, Weston 4, uses the cleanest coal technology available toproduce reasonably priced power. We’re also investing in newwind generation to meet our responsibility to use renewable
power. Each of our natural gas companies is focused onproviding one of the cleanest fuels on Earth.
At Integrys Energy Services, our nonregulated energycompany, our customers’ newfound focus on green living isdriving the creation of new products and services, includingsolar energy, biogas and renewable energy credits.
Ultimately, at every Integrys company, we are keeping our eye on the environment. Look inside to read more about ourefforts. For even more stories, visit us at integrysgroup.com
and click on Environment.
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