OREANDA-NEWS. January 16, 2008. OJSC Territorial Generating Company #2 (TGC-2) is announced the winner of the "Social energy" contest organized by RAO UES of Russia together with the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), All-Russian Union of Electro-energy Employers (RaEl), International Confederation of Consumer Unions, Donor Forums and UES Energy Efficiency Fund, the company's press service reported. The contest, which was conducted for the third time, attracted more than 60 of RAO UES subsidiary companies. TGC-2 was awarded with the first prize in the non-financial reports category for "The best representation of the corporate social responsibility policy on the company web site". In addition to this, TGC-2 became the prize winner in the nomination "The best organized interaction with interested parties".

The main goal of the "Social energy" contest was formation of the socially responsible culture of conducting the business in the energy sphere. The contest tasks included educing and consolidating the best examples of the social, charity and ecology programs, conducted by the energy companies of the Holding, as well as sharing experience of successful non-financial risk management in the energy sector and ensuring continuity of the charity policy in the Energy Holding subsidiaries throughout the Energy sector restructuring process.

This year the contest embraced two main categories. The first one included 4 nominations: "Eco energy", "PR energy", " Cooperation energy". The second category  also comprised 4 nominations: "The best non-financial report", "The best organized interaction with interested parties", "The best representation of the corporate social responsibility policy on the company web site", "The best experiment: minor types of reporting".