Mission OUR MISSION: Our mission is to provide clean, reliable and efficient energy and energy-related products to our customers while earning meaningful returns for our shareholders. In pursuit of our mission, we are committed to best-in-class safety and operational excellence; growth through financially disciplined new construction, upgrades to existing facilities and opportunistic acquisitions; meaningful support of our local communities; and environmental stewardship.
OUR VALUES: Our ASPIRE values – Accountability, Safety, Passion, Integrity, Respect and Esprit de Corps – influence everything we do at Calpine. They support a well-defined mission aimed at advancing us toward our shared vision. We ASPIRE to effectively perform every task, every action, every pursuit and every decision with these values in mind:
• Accountability: We embrace our individual responsibility and perform to the best of our ability. We make sure we understand what is expected for the task at hand and execute on it. We always follow the applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures. • Safety: We put safety first in everything we do. We realize our well-being and that of our colleagues is the responsibility of each one of us and is critical to Calpine’s success. We investigate, communicate and proactively manage any unsafe conditions. • Passion: We work with passion for our business, passion for our community and passion for the environment. Passion to us means a sense of urgency and focus. • Integrity: In all that we do, we demonstrate our integrity by being true to our word. We follow through on commitments to our customers, colleagues, suppliers, investors and communities. • Respect: We cultivate a respectful, nurturing and diverse work environment characterized by open, honest and direct communications. We honor receiving and discussing other points of view, always without fear of reprimand. • Esprit de Corps: We work with a collective sense of pride and honor in everything that we do. We value our diverse backgrounds and experiences. We work as an inclusive team where we share, support and encourage each other to achieve our common goals. We encourage, support and mentor our colleagues to help them attain personal achievement.
Description Calpine Corporation is America’s largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources with operations in competitive power markets. Our fleet of 76 power plants in operation and 1 under construction represents nearly 26,000 megawatts of generation capacity. Through wholesale power operations and our retail businesses Calpine Energy Solutions and Champion Energy, we serve customers in 22 states, Canada and Mexico. Our clean, efficient, modern and flexible fleet uses advanced technologies to generate power in a low-carbon and environmentally responsible manner. We are uniquely positioned to benefit from the secular trends affecting our industry, including the abundant and affordable supply of clean natural gas, environmental regulation, aging power generation infrastructure and the increasing need for dispatchable power plants to successfully integrate intermittent renewables into the grid. Please visit www.calpine.com to learn more about how Calpine is creating power for a sustainable future.
Calpine has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 442 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Calpine employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).
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Overall, 86% of employees would recommend working at Calpine to a friend. This is based on 442 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
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