Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has appointed WSP, one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms, to support the kingdom's environment and sustainability ambitions and help become an industry pioneer.
SEC said it had commissioned an environmental compliance programme covering all its facilities across the kingdom, mainly driven by its Vision 2030 towards protecting and enhancing the KSA's environment.
The project aims to achieve the environmental compliance requirements of SEC’s operation facilities and assets, against the National Center for Environmental Compliance standards and regulations.
This move comes in line with SEC’s vision of being a leading power provider while protecting the environment through sustainable solutions, said the statement from the Saudi utility.
As per the deal, WSP's Environment & Sustainability Advisory team will support SEC in achieving compliance against the applicable local and international environmental regulations in two phases.
The first phase of the project will see WSP identify all compliance gaps, provide environmental auditing services, and develop the environmental compliance action plans and procedures required to achieve legal compliance with NCEC’s requirements.
The second phase is for oversighting, tracking, and monitoring the Environmental Compliance Action plans’ implementation, including the development of key performance indicator to monitor and control the progress across SEC’s operation sites and assets.
WSP's Environment & Sustainability Advisory team will also support SEC with the development of an Environmental Management System (EMS) based on international benchmarks.
The development of the EMS is a target set by SEC and defined as an internal KPI for meeting International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) requirements.
On the project win, May Faraj, Head of Environment & Sustainability, WSP Middle East said: "I am confident our expertise and technical skills in the Environment & Sustainability space will lay the foundation for successful outcomes. What we’re setting out to achieve here is the provision of advisory services underpinned by bringing SEC’s sustainability commitments to realization, in line with Vision 2030."
"We are proud to have been appointed by SEC; this is a strategic partnership on both ends. As we support SEC to achieve its sustainability ambitions, we are also thrilled to be working on such a big-scale project with a company of this magnitude," he stated.
Dr Abdullah M. AlShoaibi, Environment & Sustainability Manager, said: "We at the Saudi Electricity Company collaborate with WSP to develop corrective action plans and an EMS to ensure we achieve environmental sustainability and improve SEC’s Environmental and Sustainability Performance towards KSA’s sustainable future."
Mahmoud Hashish, Project Director and KSA Environment & Sustainability Lead, WSP Middle East said: "Sustainability is at the core of our values, and we embody it in everything we do. We are bringing this fundamental value to life through our work with SEC. Being at the heart of this project and working hand in hand with SEC, has been such a great and humbling experience."
"We aim to continue working closely with SEC, to ensure environmental compliance & protection, set up benchmarks for SEC to become pioneers in their field, and implement a national transformation plan in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030," he added.
