Environmental
Sustainability
The following principles guide KYMEA's decision making and operations:
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations and permits
- Communicate environmental stewardship and encourage pollution prevention
- Educate members and support cost-effective energy conservation programs
- Work to coordinate generation and transmission planning with other local utilities and energy partners
- Consider environmental factors in planning, design, construction and operational decisions
- Consider environmental generation needs
KYMEA adheres to sustainable business practices such as:
- Supporting generation from non-carbon energy sources, including participation in regional hydro and solar projects
- EPA Energy Star Certified Headquarters
- Software to monitor the building better balance heating & cooling requirements
- Rooftop units that increased energy efficiency by more than 15%
- Roof with reflective surface to keep the building cooler in the summer
- LED lighting outside and throughout the building, which consumes a quarter of the power of fluorescent fixtures
- Educating employees and members to make responsible decisions that improve the quality of the environment we live and work in Recycling mixed office materials
- Recycling mixed office materials
