Supplier education, empowerment and recognition

A key to achieving our net-zero commitments is engaging, empowering and working with suppliers to understand and mitigate their own environmental impact.

We engage suppliers to help incorporate this thinking into their processes and develop a greenhouse gas inventory with reduction goals we can monitor over time. Since 2022, our active suppliers have received a greenhouse gas supplier expectation letter introducing next steps on our emissions reduction journey. We also conduct greenhouse gas and supplier environmental, social and governance, or ESG, assessment trainings to support suppliers in this effort.

We’re expanding our supplier sustainability training and engagement program to provide resources to help suppliers calculate and report greenhouse gas inventory – scope 1 and 2, optional scope 3 – consider setting a public greenhouse gas reduction goal, and identify potential greenhouse gas reduction opportunities.

Supplier sustainability resources

Access the Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance’s free supplier greenhouse gas trainings.
Access the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s free greenhouse gas calculator tool.
Access the Technical Assistance Program provided by our peer utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, to view online courses from industry experts giving suppliers insights and best practices they can use to grow their business’ sustainability capabilities.
SSCA quick start guides:
- Quick start guides developed by the SSCA can serve as an introduction to a specific topic. These guides include regulatory happenings, risk management practices, purchasing practices, supply chain concerns and case studies where applicable.
- They’re packed full of tools and resources to assist whichever stage in the journey suppliers find themselves. These topics are evolving quickly. The guides are for informational purposes only, and while every effort has been made to ensure their accuracy, the rapidly changing nature of the subject matter may result in the information becoming outdated or incomplete.
For more topic guidance including workshops, best-practice sharing, and training sessions, visit the SSCA’s website.

Premier Supplier Award Program

The existence of programs to highlight superior partner performance is common across Fortune 500 companies. Entergy launched its first supplier recognition program in 2021. The Premier Supplier Award Program includes categories honoring diverse and local suppliers and those with a focus on sustainability. ESG assessments also help feed into the selection process.

2022 winners for innovation in ESG

Southern Electric Corporation of Mississippi. As part of the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s new journeymen lineman training facility located on a 50-acre site in Flowood, Mississippi, in Entergy’s service territory and neighboring Entergy property, SEC invested in the development of Western Honeybee Apiary managed by its in-house professional environmentalist/forester to address declining bee populations. All honey produced annually is given freely to various charitable community organizations.
Siemens Energy. By working with Siemens, Entergy Mississippi has taken another step toward meeting its environmental goals through the installation of a high-voltage clean air circuit breaker at one of its substations in Vicksburg. This installation was the first in Entergy’s four-state service area and only the second U.S. dead-tank BLUE Circuit Breaker in the country for Siemens.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are scope 3 emissions and how do I calculate them?
Entergy’s scope 3 emissions include purchased goods and services. Suppliers play a key role in reporting their scope 1 emissions, which is a significant portion of Entergy’s scope 3 emissions. Check out these great resources to learn how to track, calculate, report and reduce your emissions.
Why should I report my greenhouse gas emissions?
By measuring and reducing emissions, your business will stay compliant with current and/or future legislation, build brand equity, and discover inefficiencies in operations – in addition to joining the global fight against climate change. Measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions helps companies understand how their everyday activities contribute to climate change and identify areas to improve. Emissions reporting can act as an important communications tool within companies, helping to gain senior management and board support for emissions management.

Additional information about business benefits for accounting for and reporting greenhouse gas emissions: The business benefits of carbon accounting | Normative
What is Entergy's commitment to sustainability?
Our focus on sustainability is an integral part of who we are and helps create sustainable value for all our stakeholders. We understand that protecting our natural resources is necessary to meeting our stakeholders’ needs and for future generations. We are working year-round to address climate issues, reduce carbon emissions across our value chain and protect our natural resources. Our focus on climate change has long been a key means of creating sustainable value for more than two decades. We were the first U.S. utility to set a voluntary greenhouse gas emissions goal in 2001. Today, we operate one of the cleanest large-scale power generation fleets in the country, as noted by the independent Benchmarking Air Emissions Report.

We have climate goals that reach into future decades, too. In 2019, we set a new emissions reduction strategy and committed to reducing our emission intensity by 50% from 2000 base-year levels by 2030. Soon after, we announced our commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. In 2022, we enhanced our milestones, including adding an interim goal of 50% carbon-free energy capacity by 2030. These commitments are central to our mission to power life today and for future generations.

Learn more about our climate goals and progress here: Environmental strategy | Entergy | We power life.
What is Entergy's electricity, carbon and water footprint?
Where can I find more information about Entergy’s sustainability efforts?
What does Entergy do to ensure it has a responsible and diverse supply chain?
Entergy’s supplier diversity team is proud of its involvement in the process of helping empower diverse suppliers. Developing diverse suppliers is not always a reflection of the dollars earned, but the strategic alignment that the suppliers have with ventures of demand for products and services.

Supplier diversity continues to work with diverse suppliers to help them understand Entergy’s business practices, policies and requirements. In doing so, they provide a necessary resource to assist diverse suppliers to align and capitalize on business opportunities and achieve their goals. See: Supplier diversity and development | Entergy | We power life.

Contact us

Questions about procurement and supply chain sustainability at Entergy? We’re here to help. Email suppliersustainability@entergy.com.