ITC Holdings Corporation earns DEQ Clean Corporate Citizen Award

Agency: Environmental Quality

For More Information                                      Donna Davis, 517-335-2784, davisd8@michigan.gov

         Brad Wurfel, 517-241-7395, wurfelb@michigan.gov 

The DEQ today presented one of its highest environmental stewardship honors - the Clean Corporate Citizen Award - to ITC Holdings Corporation at the company's Novi headquarters. ITC is the 174^th Michigan facility to receive this honor.

The C3 Program is a voluntary environmental program that recognizes environmental stewardship at Michigan facilities. Candidates demonstrate facility-specific environmental management systems, have active pollution prevention initiatives at their facilities, and have a consistent record of compliance with state and federal environmental requirements.

Based in Novi, Michigan, ITC is the nation's largest fully independent electric transmission company, providing the bulk transfer of electrical energy from generating plants to substations serving communities and businesses across the state. ITC owns and operates high-voltage transmission facilities in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas along approximately 15,000 circuit miles of transmission line.

"We are pleased that our environmental management system enabled us to recover more than 5.7 million pounds of recycled metal and 284,000 gallons of oil across our operations in 2011 alone," said Gregory Loanidis, president, ITC Michigan. "We are honored to receive this recognition from the State of Michigan, and we will continue to look for ways to reduce our impact on the environment while investing in the transmission grid to improve reliability, expand access to markets, lower the overall cost of delivered energy, and allow new generating resources to connect to our systems."

The C3 Award joins a number of honors that ITC has received from national and local environmental and ecological organizations.

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