ENOC Group recently won the Golden Peacock Global Award for Sustainability (GPGAS) 2017, in acknowledgment of the Group's efforts in accomplishing excellence in sustainability performance and advertising lasting development in the region.

Established in 1991 by the Institute of Directors (IOD), the Golden Peacock Honors for Corporate Leadership and Institutional Excellencies has actually been taken into consideration a benchmark of corporate excellence worldwide. The GPGAS was instituted to urge organisations to embed sustainability efforts within their operations.

As the first power company between East to receive this award, ENOC Group was acknowledged for its wide range of environment-friendly initiatives, favorable influence on its stakeholders and enhancing the happiness of its employees. The award motivates ENOC to additionally execute projects that will enhance energy efficiency measures.

His Excellency Saif Humaid Al Falasi, Group CEO, ENOC, said: "We have taken conscious efforts to enhance energy and effectiveness measures and drive lasting development within our operations. Following our launch of the first UAE solar powered service station and our plans to include solar PV panels in all future gas station in Dubai, we want to proceed straightening with the UAE's long-term strategy to satisfy the nation's smart and sustainable objectives. Receiving the GPGAS shows our continuous effort to promoting the very best techniques in energy performance and sustainability."

Across its retail network of 116 terminals in the UAE, the Group has actually released a host of innovative initiatives that contribute to boosting energy efficiency that contribute to improving power performance such as the Vapour Recovery System (Virtual Reality) - a process that practically prevents the gas vapour or various other fuel discharges in gasoline terminals adding to enhanced public health.

The Group's numerous CSR initiatives have helped foster total community growth; such as, Dubai Municipality's "World No Tobacco Day' partnership by not selling tobacco products throughout all ENOC and EPPCO filling station, a collaboration with British University in Dubai to launch the first Sustainability Summer School global trip and running a comprehensive annual discovering programme - ENOC Difficulty - to provide people with special demands with a platform to find out about the essential professional skills.

Among other initiatives, ENOC Group has actually piloted the supply of the new 'Biodiesel5' product in the UAE - a tidy fuel produced from grease, waste cooking oil to lower emissions such as co2, black smoke and unburnt hydrocarbons.

The GPGAS award has actually put ENOC in the characteristic of company excellence around the world sharing the room with heavyweights like IBM, Jones Lang LaSalle, Legrand, General Motors, Volkswagen, Coca-Cola, ONGC India, Monsanto, Marks and Spencer and The Walt Disney Company.