CALGARY,
AB, Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - TransAlta
Corporation (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC) (the "Company" or "TransAlta")
announced today that it has ranked first on Newsweek's inaugural
"World's Most Trustworthy Companies 2023" list for the Energy and
Utilities category. The list identifies the top 1,000 companies in
21 countries and across 23 industries.
Newsweek's 2023 World's Most Trustworthy companies have been
chosen based on a holistic approach to evaluating trust across
three pillars of public trust – customer, investor, and employee.
The list was compiled based on an extensive survey of over 70,000
participants, gathering 269,000 evaluations of companies that
people trust as a customer, as an investor and as an employee.
"We are extremely proud to be recognized as a notable and
trusted brand amongst this list of respected international leaders
across our sector and others. This is not only an honour for
TransAlta, but also a testament to the hard work of our employees
in ensuring we are true to our core values of "respect" and
"integrity" and are delivering on our commitment of being a leader
in clean electricity," said John
Kousinioris, President and CEO of TransAlta.
"We stress the importance of our core values in all that we do
and have been focusing our efforts on being a leader in our
customer centric focus and on building a culture of purpose,
learning and results. We're so proud to see how this intentional
work is garnering international recognition, building trust and
elevating our reputation with our employees, our customers, and our
investors," said Jane Fedoretz,
Executive Vice President, People, Talent and Transformation at
TransAlta.
For more information about the awards, please visit
https://www.newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-most-trustworthy-companies-2023
About TransAlta
Corporation
TransAlta owns, operates and develops a diverse fleet of
electrical power generation assets in Canada, the United
States and Australia with a
focus on long-term shareholder value. TransAlta provides
municipalities, medium and large industries, and utility customers
with clean, affordable, energy efficient and reliable power. Today,
TransAlta is one of Canada's
largest producers of wind power and Alberta's largest producer of hydro-electric
power. For over 111 years, TransAlta has been a responsible
operator and a proud member of the communities where we
operate and where our employees work and live. TransAlta
aligns its corporate goals with the UN Sustainable Development
Goals and its climate change strategy with CDP (formerly Climate
Disclosure Project) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial
Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. TransAlta has achieved a 68 per
cent reduction in GHG emissions or 22 million tonnes since
2015 and has received scores of A- from CDP and AA from
MSCI.
For more information about TransAlta, visit our web site at
transalta.com.
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