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 BP Helios Awards brochure |
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Working to a very tight deadline, we wrote the finalists brochure for the Helios Awards - BP's annual 'Oscars' celebrating its people and values. The brochure featured 22 stories of how the finalists had put BP's values - green, performance, progressive and innovation - into action. shining achievements Celebrating the people and values of BP Every year through the Helios Awards, we recognize and celebrate the great things our people and partners do around the world every day. Our products and services contribute to a better quality of life for many people in the world – they provide the freedom to move, to heat, to see. Our values guide us to achieve our business goals in a responsible manner and through constructive engagement with others to create opportunities for mutual progress. This book features 22 outstanding examples of putting our values into action, selected from 1778 submissions for this year’s awards. These stories demonstrate just how much we can achieve by living our brand throughout our operations. This year’s entries are a rich source of best practice and knowledge. Our employees can find full details of all entries on the Helios Awards website http://heliosawards.bpweb.bp.com or by contacting the Helios Awards team (heliosawards@bp.com).
Human Energy PRODEEM Brazil - Renewable energy supply to rural schools By bringing solar power to schools, we are helping to transform the lives of 440,000 villagers and 70,000 children in some of the poorest and remotest regions of Brazil. In the remote regions of northeastern Brazil, home to nearly half the country’s rural population, 58,000 schools have no reliable source of electricity. The cost of connecting them to the power grid is uneconomic. Through the PRODEEM program, Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has focused on supplying solar power systems to these schools to provide clean and renewable energy for lighting, computers and multimedia technology. The program’s first four phases had gone less than well. For phase five, MME sought a turnkey solution. The tender called for the supply and installation of 1,852 solar power systems across 2.3m km² of some of the world’s toughest terrain. BP Solar won the tender and delivered the systems on time, to consistent quality and with zero accidents - setting new standards for PRODEEM and boosting MME’s confidence in the program. To help local manufacturers improve quality and services, the team sourced most of the materials from them and offered workshops to increase their skills in solar technology installation and operation. Batteries were sourced locally and a product stewardship program was established to minimise environmental damage by recycling spent batteries. At a cost of $29 per child per year, BP has supplied the critical power
infrastructure to enable the latest educational techniques to be used in
some of the poorest and remotest regions of Brazil. For the first time,
440,000 villagers and 70,000 children have a clean, renewable and free
source of energy in their schools - energy that will transform their
lives.
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