PSO: Partner in Environmental Stewardship (pdf)

PSO has a strong commitment to protecting the environment and maintaining the company's investment in the natural resources of the state of Oklahoma. PSO is involved in a number of environmental stewardship initiatives throughout the state.

PSO gets power from wind farms in western Oklahoma.

PSO Customer Services representatives routinely present material to students on the topic of wind energy. In the western part of PSO's service area, is the Weatherford Wind Energy Center, a 147-megawatt facility. The giant turbines there produce power for PSO customers.

View facts about PSO and the environment in our environmental fact sheet. (PDF: 85KB : get viewer)

We conduct our business so that we conserve resources and protect the communities where we live and work.

PSO strives not only to be a good corporate citizen, but to conduct business in an environmentally sound way. Our employees are encouraged to be leaders in protecting the environment and to demonstrate by their work practices and with interactions with customers and community leaders that we respect our environment.

Also, employees are asked to make a commitment to work so that they do not compromise the needs of future generations, they prevent pollution prevention, recycle when possible, practice efficiency, reuse materials and avoid waste

PSO, AEP Tell Environmental Story (PDF : 214 KB : get viewer)

PSO For Pens

One of two Aldabra tortoises now being raised at the Sutton Avian Research Center is pictured here being held next to its father at the Tulsa Zoo in 2000. The hatchling seen here now weighs 75 pounds. The second tortoise, hatched in 2001, weighs 55 pounds. According to the Sutton Center’s Steve Sherrod, the tortoises eat like horses, but consume only vegetation, fruits and vegetables.

Instead of being sent to a landfill, some PSO power poles that were broken, splintered or otherwise ruined in January’s ice storm will soon be serving a new, rather unusual purpose.

Steve Sherrod, executive director of the Sutton Avian Research Center located near Bartlesville, collected the poles and is using them in constructing a new outdoor corral for two Aldabra tortoises he has raised from hatchlings.

PSO Regional Environmental Coordinator Mickie Taylor worked with Sherrod to facilitate the collection and donation of the used poles.

“We always try to ‘recycle’ as many of these poles as possible following a catastrophic event, such as January’s ice storm,” said Taylor. “Out of approximately 400 distribution poles from the McAlester District that were damaged in the storm, only about 80-100 went to a landfi ll, which is pretty good. The rest were recycled for a variety of uses, but this is definitely the most interesting use.”

According to Sherrod, the tortoises don’t do well in temperatures below 50 degrees F and must be brought inside during fall and winter months.

We invite to you spend some time at the environmental section of our corporate web site to learn more.

Oklahoma’s top wind energy supplier, -- PSO

Already Oklahoma’s top wind energy supplier, PSO is taking steps to ensure it maintains its position as the state’s renewable energy leader, issuing a Request For Proposals for up to 200 megawatts of new renewable energy. The RFP calls for the energy to be available by the end of 2010.

Located about 15 miles northwest of Lawton, Blue Canyon II is one of three wind generation facilities with which PSO has long-term contracts totaling nearly 400 MW. A new request for proposals seeks to add another 200 MW of renewable energy to the company’s generation portfolio.