Decarbonisation solutions
Comprehensive strategies for industrial and corporate decarbonisation
The transition to a low-emissions economy is no longer a matter of regulatory compliance: it is the most powerful driver of competitive transformation available to businesses today. Iberdrola provides corporations and industries with a range of services to support them in reducing their carbon footprint. Technology, renewable supply and digital assets are integrated into a single ecosystem of solutions designed to turn the climate challenge into a business advantage through green competitiveness.
Achieving net zero emissions is not a quick change: it is a journey that requires diagnosis, planning and execution across the entire value chain. At the Iberdrola Group, we cover the full activity cycle of our commercial and industrial clients, turning them into key drivers and leading players in the electrification of the economy through tailored consultancy. This comprehensive support begins with a detailed analysis of each organisation’s starting point and extends to the implementation of cutting-edge technologies in every production process.
After more than 25 years on the path of electrification, our track record and global outlook enable us to help companies manage energy and CO₂ emissions efficiently, collaborating on the design of a tailored plan to reduce greenhouse gases with a target horizon between 2030 and 2050. This holistic approach ensures that every investment decision delivers measurable results aligned with each organisation’s climate commitments.
Measurement and control: Carbon footprint calculation
The carbon footprint is the environmental indicator that measures both direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO₂), the main contributor to global warming since 1990. For businesses, accurately quantifying these emissions – across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 – is the first step towards any realistic and effective decarbonisation strategy.
Collecting and working with this raw data is essential to transform it into business intelligence, informing climate decision-making and turning transparency into a real competitive advantage for investors, customers and regulators.
Transformación energética: Electrificación industrial
Electrification based on renewable energy is the most efficient pathway to eliminate carbon from production processes. Decarbonising industry through electrification is essential to improve energy efficiency and foster innovation. From replacing gas boilers with electric heat pumps, to deploying on-site photovoltaic self-consumption systems or signing long-term renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs), Iberdrola offers a full range of solutions tailored to each sector and process.
For sectors that are difficult to electrify – known as hard-to-abate – the group deploys specific green industrial heat solutions: aerothermal energy and heat pumps for low temperatures, electric boilers, local biomass and biogas, as well as green hydrogen for processes requiring higher temperatures or energy density. The electrification of heavy transport completes this offering, ensuring charging infrastructure powered by 100% renewable electricity.
Commitment and offsetting: Carbon credit management
Any rigorous climate strategy prioritises real emissions reductions before resorting to offsetting. However, for residual emissions that cannot be eliminated in the short term, Iberdrola offers access to high-integrity carbon credits through nature-based solutions.
Carbon2Nature, a company wholly owned by Iberdrola, develops long-term conservation, restoration and sustainable land management projects with high climate, environmental and social impact, generating high-quality carbon credits that are made available to clients to support their journey to net zero emissions. Its portfolio of projects in operation and under negotiation represents more than 20 million trees planted and the capture of more than 14 million tonnes of CO₂. In this way, offsetting is coherently integrated into a global climate strategy that measures, reduces and neutralises, in that order of priority.
Why accelerate your business decarbonisation with Iberdrola?
Iberdrola firmly believes that the transition to a carbon-neutral economy by 2050 is both achievable and economically sound. The decarbonisation of the economy is also a major opportunity to create wealth, generate employment and improve air quality. Electrifying the economy is not an additional cost: it is the most robust way to mitigate exposure to regulatory risks, ensure business continuity and generate sustainable long-term value.
Companies that anticipate this transformation will be better positioned to respond to stricter climate regulations, increasing demands from capital markets and the expectations of customers and business partners. Those that delay it, on the other hand, face regulatory, reputational and financial risks that intensify with each year of inaction.
Boosting competitiveness and energy efficiency
Reducing carbon intensity and optimising energy vectors generate direct and measurable economic benefits. In pilot plants that have adopted advanced electrification technologies, emissions have been reduced by more than 60%, while energy costs have fallen by 30%. These figures show how industrial decarbonisation, far from being an expense, is an investment with tangible returns: lower exposure to fossil fuel price volatility, improved operating margins and greater resilience to energy disruptions.
Industrial and commercial customers can not only take part in building a green competitiveness model, but, with the right guidance, can also improve efficiency and profitability and play a key role in shaping a sustainable economic future. Energy savings, reduced CO₂ costs and increased productivity combine to strengthen each organisation’s competitive position in its markets.
Iberdrola: Global leadership at the service of your decarbonisation
Only a group with international presence and execution capacity can guarantee consistency, technical excellence and security of supply in complex, cross-border decarbonisation projects. Iberdrola has been committed to electrifying consumption for more than 25 years and will continue its investment effort with more than €58 billion by 2028 to remain at the forefront of the energy revolution, improving electrical network infrastructure in distribution and transmission while driving renewable energy generation and storage. This scale makes it possible to transfer global best practices to local projects with unrivalled guarantees of success.
A global benchmark in renewable energy and net zero solutions
More than two decades of pioneering experience in the renewable energy sector underpin our technical and financial capacity as a decarbonisation partner. Iberdrola’s commitment is built around two priority objectives: achieving net zero emissions across all scopes before 2040 and delivering a net positive impact on biodiversity by 2030. A group that has set these objectives for itself, and meets them in a verifiable way, offers its corporate clients a guarantee of rigour, technology and long-term vision on their path to climate neutrality.
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Cumplimiento de normativas y estándares ESG internacionales
The climate regulatory framework is advancing at pace. Regulation plays a key role in enabling the transition, at the lowest possible cost, towards more efficient and low-emission energy vectors and end uses, supporting sustainable decarbonisation. Frameworks such as the CSRD, the EU Taxonomy and the GHG Protocol require large companies to measure, report and reduce their emissions with precision and verifiable transparency.
Through our Integrated Report, we provide annual disclosure of the company’s key metrics and figures, with a strong focus on full transparency in our progress towards achieving the environmental targets required for the decarbonisation of the electricity sector. In this way, investors, analysts and stakeholders can access the information needed to verify that our environmental performance is robust and traceable. It is also aligned with Science Based Targets and the most demanding ESG standards, which in turn strengthen access to green financing& and improve our risk profile in capital markets.
We share this experience with our clients by providing access to digital platforms and energy resource management services that support their decarbonisation projects.