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Leading the Clean Energy Transition

Sustainability Report 2021

2021 Sustainability Highlights

Clean Energy

Safety & Environment

Clean Energy

Our PowerEnergy program helped fund North America’s largest electric-vehicle charging hub in Brooklyn.

Public Safety

Safety & Environment

Public Safety

We’ve installed more than 86,000 detectors in buildings and homes to find gas leaks.

Efficiency

Safety & Environment

Energy Efficiency

Our energy-efficiency upgrades helped a Long Island City office tower reduce power usage by up to 20 percent.

Operational Excellence

Innovation

Our technology helped develop the first “silent jackhammer,” which breaks rocks quickly, effectively, and quietly.

Operational Excellence

Financial Stability

Our company has achieved dividend growth for the 48th straight year—longer than any other company in the S&P 500.

Renewable Energy

Operational Excellence

Renewable Energy

O&R began operating its first battery-storage project, a 3-megawatt project in Rockland County.

Customer & Community

Creating Jobs

We trained low- and moderate-income residents to install solar panels on NYC apartment roofs.

Local Support

Customer & Community

Local Support

We donated $600,000 to groups fighting food insecurity.

Enhanced Customer Experience

Customer & Community

Assisting Customers

We introduced new payment programs during the pandemic to help customers struggling to pay their bills.

Sustainability Journey

Con Edison has been committed to sustainability for more than two decades—we have learned from our challenges and are proud of our successes. We recognize that sustainability is a journey, and while we have achieved much, we continue to look for ways to improve and meet the needs of our stakeholders.

Read more in the timeline below.

Timeline
2022

Moving Forward

Con Edison has solidified its status as an industry leader in providing safe and reliable energy to customers while protecting the environment and fostering a more diverse and inclusive workforce. With our Clean Energy Commitment and all-in support for solar and wind projects and electric vehicles, we’re showing a way forward for the sustainability of our company and the environment. We remain a company that gets big things done, and that will continue in 2022.

Here’s a snapshot of some of our accomplishments in the past year:
  • Our Safety Leadership System app led to a reduction in operating errors and our achievement of one of the highest safety ratings in company history. The app earned a President’s Award from the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies.
  • We’re offering upgrades to customers for more energy-efficient equipment. Since 2009, those upgrades have reduced carbon emissions by 11 million metric tons.
  • We’ve announced our plan to invest $2 billion by 2030 to fortify our energy-delivery systems to protect them from extreme weather events.
  • With more than 130 projects across 20 states, we’re the second-largest producer of solar energy in North America.
  • We trained low-and moderate-income residents to install solar panels on the roofs of 40 New York City-owned apartment buildings.
  • We’ve announced our plan to invest $1.5 billion in transformers and other equipment to strengthen our electric-delivery system.
  • The New York Times spoke to experts who called our climate change resilience plan “the gold standard” in our industry.
  • We’re about to take delivery of the first all-electric utility bucket truck.
  • We donated $12.6 million to more than 600 nonprofits that have struggled since the pandemic.
  • We’re close to completing our rollout of 5 million smart meters across our service area.
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