EEI Financial Conference
Gwen Mizell is VP, Sustainability and Electrification at Ameren.
Excerpted from EEI's 54th annual Financial Conference:
As companies continue to develop and implement long-term ESG sustainability strategies through unprecedented times, there are unknowns. What are companies doing to address diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workforce, supply chain, and in the communities they serve?
Strong corporate governance is essential to achieving success, and investors and stakeholders are encouraging companies to provide greater transparency regarding the implementation of their social and governance goals and strategies.
Ameren, VP, Sustainability and Electrification, Gwen Mizell: Ameren, my company is nine thousand co-workers strong, a fully rate regulated electric and gas utility. We serve about 2.4 million electric customers and nine hundred thousand gas customers, and we have a diverse portfolio that is inclusive of hydro, nuclear, coal, and natural gas, plus a small percentage of renewables, but seventy percent of our portfolio is in coal.
We have pressures to decarbonize much faster than we have been, so two weeks ago we made a major announcement to reduce our carbon footprint to net zero by 2050.