Strategic approach to climate change

Increasing internal efficiencies

Efficient energy use is a company-wide priority for TransAlta. By focusing on energy efficiency in our fossil fuel plants, we identify opportunities to produce more electricity for each unit of energy consumed. This activity improves our emission intensity. One of the ways we measure these improvements is through production efficiency — the amount of electricity we produce for each unit of energy consumed. This rate is influenced by many factors, such as fuel type, equipment efficiencies, combustion characteristics of the fuel mix and the operating patterns of generation units. We are always on the lookout for new ways to improve our energy use, but we pay particular attention to this objective whenever we plan major maintenance operations and equipment replacements.