Awards
Corporate Knights “Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada" — 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014
Corporate Knights magazine ranks the relative impact of companies’ carbon, water, waste, and energy use and compiles a list of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada. Corporate Knights magazine named Capital Power to its 2014 list of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada. Capital Power was also named to the list in 2011, 2012, and 2013.
The report measures corporations on their publicly-available information in the categories of Environment, Social, Governance, and Transparency.
Alberta Venture’s Award for Alberta’s Best Workplaces: Training and Development — 2014
Alberta Venture recognized Capital Power as one of "Alberta’s Best Workplaces for Training and Development". This award acknowledges a company dedicated to providing learning and development opportunities to not only strengthen the skills of its employees but to further their engagement in the workplace.
Employee Campaign Chair of the Year, United Way of the Alberta Capital Region — 2014
In recognition of Capital Power’s 2013 United Way campaign, United Way of the Alberta Capital Region nominated Capital Power for two Awards of Distinction: Outstanding Campaign Committee, and Employee Campaign Chair of the Year, Private Sector. Capital Power won the award for the Employee Campaign Chair of the Year, Private Sector.
Annual Mayor's Celebration of the Arts – Award for Innovative Support by a Business for the Arts – 2014
Capital Power received the Award for Innovative Support by a Business for the Arts at the Mayor's Celebration of the Arts. The Art Gallery of Alberta nominated us for our Capital Powered Art series. The Mayor's Celebration of the Arts honours outstanding Edmonton supporters of the arts and professional artists that excel in their fields.
Project of the Year honours – Project Management Institute (Northern Alberta chapter) – 2013
The Project Management Institute (Northern Alberta chapter) awarded our Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation with Project of the Year, in recognition of work completed from 2011 to early 2013. The Project Management Institute Project of the Year Award recognizes, honours, and publicizes a successful project and the achievements of the project team for superior project management performance.
Capital Awards – International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) – 2012, 2013 & 2014
Our 2010 and 2011 corporate responsibility reports received Capital Awards of Excellence from IABC Edmonton in 2012 and 2013.
The Halkirk and Quality Wind blade-signing events also received an Award of Excellence at the 2013 Capital Awards ceremony.
Our 2013 corporate responsibility report received an Award of Merit in 2014.
The Capital Awards recognize communicators in Edmonton and are judged by a panel of communications professionals from across North America.