Corporate Social Responsibility at Essential Energy

Our Sustainability Strategy guides us in generating positive value for stakeholders including our customers, our community, and our people. We are committed to supporting the industry and our communities in the transition to a net zero economy, while continuing to provide customers with accessible, reliable, and resilient energy. Our sustainability strategy builds on our strong foundation of existing sustainability-related activities, and leverages key sustainability themes in the Corporate Strategy (increasing network resilience and reliability, renewable energy uptake and facilitating electric vehicle (EV) adoption) Essential energy is responding to climate change by: 1. Building climate resilience and partnering to minimise disruptions during crisis by future-proofing assets, providing our customers with alternate energy solutions and responding to climate events 2. Facilitating the net zero transition by supporting electrification, including electric vehicle penetration and scaling and optimising network connections 3. Decarbonising our operations by electrifying our fleet, leveraging renewables and actively managing line losses in the way we build, operate and maintain the network Essential Energy is enabling regional development and resilient communities by: 1. Assisting regional business and communities through partnerships, advocacy, engagement and tech-enabled solutions, to provide reliable and efficient connections 2. Ensuring sustainable and resilient supply chains by responding to social and environmental vulnerabilities in our supply chains and integrating sustainability into our procurement decisions 3. Protecting cultural heritage tThrough engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups, guardians and landowners and managing risks in culturally significant areas We're empowering people in our footprint by: 1.Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of employees tThrough our health and wellbeing program and leading health and safety standards 2. Championing an inclusive, supportive and growth-oriented culture by promoting our values and building a diverse and accountable workplace

EE runs community engagement and other initiatives. I have not been a part of any so far.

I've so far worked on cleaning up the Integration data log files, purchasing Encrypted SSD's for our hosting tech team and being involved with the LastPass hack and resetting all our passwords stored in this.