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Invenergy

Sometimes, success comes in all forms—even from

those with four legs.

T WAS THE photo that caused a mini cut down on printing and helped the
sensation last year: A picture of four company slice paper costs nearly in half—
cows on grazing land, with a windmill despite a 7 percent increase in number of
in the background. An invite on the Invenergy employees.
I company’s Instagram page asks Invenergy also pursues renewable energy
visitors to “join the mooovement.” It was the projects in small rural communities, because
most-liked photo on that page for all of 2018. it gives the younger generation a chance to
The company? Invenergy. The reference? work and stay in the town where they grew
The company’s efforts at developing up, instead of moving away. It has invested
and storing renewable energy for clients $160 million in home communities to help
COURTESY OF INVENERGY green power giant had fun promoting jobs and additional tax revenue.
stabilize the local economies by providing
worldwide. It’s a cause the Chicago-based
when it grabbed the pic for its Invenergy
Of course, there are the environmental
Impact: 2018 Sustainability Report. But then,
Invenergy often takes a slightly longer look bene“ts. Invenergy projects in 2018 o set
an additional 14 million tons of carbon
to see if there’s a di erent, better way to dioxide emissions, the equivalent of planting
complete a project. 300 million trees or taking 500,000 cars o
There’s the Miami Wind Energy Center the road. All told, there are now more than
in Northern Texas, where employees made 22,600 megawatts of projects in operation, “I am an engineer and
raised garden beds from used old gearbox oil under construction or contracted worldwide.
containers. Invenergy’s relocated downtown “Sustainability is about more than just an entrepreneur, not an
Denver branch suddenly became the place advancing innovative renewable and clean
where employees biked to work instead of energy technologies,” CEO Michael Polsky environmentalist or a
driving, which all of them did previously. says. “It’s about environmental stewardship,
The switch to Workday and Oracle, two community investment and empowering social activist. But I do
cloud-based administrative software tools, people.”
what makes sense.
Sustainability just

makes sense.”

Michael Polsky, CEO

CREDIT: MOSS Fact finders. When it comes to
revealing what Invenergy is about,
these notes say it all.
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