Allegheny Energy is an electric utility headquartered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. It owns and operates electric generation facilities and delivers electric services to customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia. Allegheny Energy was incorporated in Maryland in 1925.[3] However, some of its predecessor companies have been serving their communities for over a century.
The company has three primary businesses:
merchant generation, which operates power plants primarily in Pennsylvania and West Virginia;
transmission expansion; and
utility operations, consisting of transmission and distribution operations serving 1.6 million customers, primarily in small towns and rural areas. Southwestern Pennsylvania, excluding the city of Pittsburgh, provides about half of regulated utility revenues.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for identifying best practices and new industry trends and designing benefit programs that are responsive to Associate needs, cost effective, competitive in the market place and comply with state and federal regulations.
- Manage employee benefit program design including, life, medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), tuition assistance, employee assistance, paid time off programs and other ancillary benefits that enhance associate engagement.
- Develop programs which continue to build momentum around wellness.
- Partner and collaborate with executives, Finance, HR and external benefit consultants and vendors to determine best benefit programs for the Company. Effectively manage external benefit vendors to maximize the value of the benefits received by Associates.
- Partner with Benefits Delivery in the annual open enrollment process including writing communications, organizing training for new programs, and soliciting feedback on program design and execution.
- Responsible for the development and implementation of the communication strategy including the on-going communication and feedback process with mangers and associates to monitor the effectiveness of the plans.
- Partner with Finance to forecast the annual benefit spend and manage a medical plan budget of over $50 million.
- Lead and manage Benefit Design team and provide consultative leadership and support for the Benefit Delivery team.
Managers often ask, usually with exasperation, "How can I keep my employees motivated? I pay them decently. What else is there?"
Offering competitive salaries is certainly important. But a paycheck is what helps people get to sleep at night, not what gets them going in the morning.
What keeps them committed to come in on the weekend or stay late or go that extra mile is more than money - it's the day-to-day 'stuff' like respect, fairness, recognition and feeling in control of their small piece of the world. Here are 10 powerful ways to gain employee's cooperation and commitment to the team, department or organization.
Allegheny has indicated that its policy is "to produce and distribute electricity in a reliable and responsible manner that protects its personnel, communities, customers, and the environment." [8]
In February 1995, the company signed a participation accord with the United States Department of Energy as a participant in the Climate Challenge Program. Under this accord, Allegheny Energy agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions (as carbon dioxide equivalents) by 2 million tons per year by 2000. Through a series of reduction efforts including demand side management programs, heat-rate and efficiency improvements on generation equipment, transportation alternatives, and land-use management involving forestation and vegetative sequestration efforts, Allegheny was able to achieve just under 8.5 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent reductions. These reductions fulfilled the company’s Climate Challenge commitment goal by the calendar year 2000.[9]
Carbon dioxide reduction efforts have continued since 2000 and Allegheny has since recorded another 9 million tons of avoided emissions through continued efficiency improvements, demand side management measures, and vegetative sequestration.[10]
The company complies with current sulfur dioxide emissions standards through a system-wide plan combining the use of emission controls, low sulfur fuel and emission allowances.[11] Allegheny has taken steps to significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at its generating facilities, investing $1.3 billion to install clean air technology at both the Hatfield’s Ferry and Fort Martin power stations. With the addition of scrubbers at these plants, 85 percent of its coal-fired fleet now utilizes the best available controls for reducing sulfur dioxide emissions. Allegheny now has one of the cleanest fleets in the United States with respect to sulfur dioxide.[12] The scrubber projects will also significantly reduce mercury emissions at these power stations.
The company has three primary businesses:
merchant generation, which operates power plants primarily in Pennsylvania and West Virginia;
transmission expansion; and
utility operations, consisting of transmission and distribution operations serving 1.6 million customers, primarily in small towns and rural areas. Southwestern Pennsylvania, excluding the city of Pittsburgh, provides about half of regulated utility revenues.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for identifying best practices and new industry trends and designing benefit programs that are responsive to Associate needs, cost effective, competitive in the market place and comply with state and federal regulations.
- Manage employee benefit program design including, life, medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), tuition assistance, employee assistance, paid time off programs and other ancillary benefits that enhance associate engagement.
- Develop programs which continue to build momentum around wellness.
- Partner and collaborate with executives, Finance, HR and external benefit consultants and vendors to determine best benefit programs for the Company. Effectively manage external benefit vendors to maximize the value of the benefits received by Associates.
- Partner with Benefits Delivery in the annual open enrollment process including writing communications, organizing training for new programs, and soliciting feedback on program design and execution.
- Responsible for the development and implementation of the communication strategy including the on-going communication and feedback process with mangers and associates to monitor the effectiveness of the plans.
- Partner with Finance to forecast the annual benefit spend and manage a medical plan budget of over $50 million.
- Lead and manage Benefit Design team and provide consultative leadership and support for the Benefit Delivery team.
Managers often ask, usually with exasperation, "How can I keep my employees motivated? I pay them decently. What else is there?"
Offering competitive salaries is certainly important. But a paycheck is what helps people get to sleep at night, not what gets them going in the morning.
What keeps them committed to come in on the weekend or stay late or go that extra mile is more than money - it's the day-to-day 'stuff' like respect, fairness, recognition and feeling in control of their small piece of the world. Here are 10 powerful ways to gain employee's cooperation and commitment to the team, department or organization.
Allegheny has indicated that its policy is "to produce and distribute electricity in a reliable and responsible manner that protects its personnel, communities, customers, and the environment." [8]
In February 1995, the company signed a participation accord with the United States Department of Energy as a participant in the Climate Challenge Program. Under this accord, Allegheny Energy agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions (as carbon dioxide equivalents) by 2 million tons per year by 2000. Through a series of reduction efforts including demand side management programs, heat-rate and efficiency improvements on generation equipment, transportation alternatives, and land-use management involving forestation and vegetative sequestration efforts, Allegheny was able to achieve just under 8.5 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent reductions. These reductions fulfilled the company’s Climate Challenge commitment goal by the calendar year 2000.[9]
Carbon dioxide reduction efforts have continued since 2000 and Allegheny has since recorded another 9 million tons of avoided emissions through continued efficiency improvements, demand side management measures, and vegetative sequestration.[10]
The company complies with current sulfur dioxide emissions standards through a system-wide plan combining the use of emission controls, low sulfur fuel and emission allowances.[11] Allegheny has taken steps to significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at its generating facilities, investing $1.3 billion to install clean air technology at both the Hatfield’s Ferry and Fort Martin power stations. With the addition of scrubbers at these plants, 85 percent of its coal-fired fleet now utilizes the best available controls for reducing sulfur dioxide emissions. Allegheny now has one of the cleanest fleets in the United States with respect to sulfur dioxide.[12] The scrubber projects will also significantly reduce mercury emissions at these power stations.