Comparative Importance of Environmental Policy

By formulating our management vision "Change, Innovation, and Success" (Vision 2010) in March 2000, we set forth our management philosophy "Prospering together with the local community" and "Creating new corporate value," and have since been striving to realize the corporate image "Multi-energy services company trusted and preferred by customers."

Under the vision, we regard addressing environmental issues as a vital management objective and have defined our fundamental ideas for achieving the objective under our "environmental policy."

In the "Mid-term Management Policy," an action plan to realize Vision 2010, we clarified our commitment to gain further public confidence in our Company as one of major policy measures to execute "environment-conscious management."

Accordingly, we, as a public utility corporation that supplies electricity, have actively implemented community relations activities and addressed environmental issues as well as observed corporate ethics, and relevant laws and regulations. In January 2005, we reorganized our management structure to further intensify our efforts in CSR (corporate social responsibility).

We are determined to contribute to the growth of local communities and improve our corporate value while building up and maintaining firm relations of mutual trust with customers, shareholders, investors, and local communities by paying close attention to their opinions and ideas.