Noticias
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20/09/2024 - 10:00 UTC +02:00Galán at CNBC: "Grid is our largest business" Ignacio Galán, Executive Chairman of Iberdrola , was interviewed on CNBC ahead of the inauguration of the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in Brittany. The piece highlighted the size and scale and investment that has gone into the Saint-Brieuc project, as well as Iberdrola’s leadership in renewables and grids, and its major investments across the world, including the UK and US. Mr Galán shared optimistic insights about Europe's energy landscape, building on Mario Draghi's recent report, and emphasised Iberdrola's leadership in grid development across the US, Brazil, and France, highlighting the critical role of the grid in decarbonising and electrifying nations. He discussed the industry's opportunities presented by the energy transition and affirmed Iberdrola's ongoing investment in offshore projects in the coming years. Addressing the upcoming US election, Mr Galán noted that both grid and renewables development have grown consistently in the US for many years, and that remained his expectation going forward. READ MORE
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20/09/2024 - 08:00 UTC +02:00Iberdrola begins training employees at its National Training Center in the United States Iberdrola, through its company in the United States, Avangrid, has welcomed the first group of students to receive training at its newly opened National Training Center in Oregon. The space, which is located near many of the company's existing wind and solar facilities, will provide hands-on and safety training for new hires. It will also be used to enhance the skills of existing wind and solar specialists. You can read the full story in Avangrid's Communication Room. READ MORE
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19/09/2024 - 12:34 UTC +02:00Iberdrola strengthens its leadership in offshore wind with the inauguration of €2.4 billion Saint-Brieuc project in France This morning (Thursday 19th September) in Brittany, Iberdrola inaugurated the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France, the second largest in the country, with 496-megawatt (MW) of capacity and an annual production of nearly 2,000 gigawatt hours (GWh). This will make it possible to provide secure, indigenous, and emission-free energy to close to 1 million people. With an investment of €2.4 billion, the project began development in 2012 and entered full operation in 2024, following three years of construction. It consists of 62 turbines, each with a capacity of 8 MW, the most powerful installed in France to date. The construction work supported more than 1,700 jobs, 500 locally, and involved a range of industry leading companies, such as Siemens-Gamesa (wind turbines), the Navantia Windar consortium (foundations and transition pieces), Haizea (towers), Prysmian (cabling) and Van Oord (installation). In total, more than 150 European companies worked on the project. The executive chairman of Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán, said: "This project lays the foundations for the offshore wind sector in France and clearly demonstrates the potential that this technology has to boost energy security and the reindustrialisation of Europe, while contributing to climate objectives, in line with the Draghi report.” The Saint-Brieuc project also helped to advance the offshore wind sector in France. The wind turbines were manufactured by Siemens-Gamesa at a new facility in Le Havre and the components of the jacket foundations were partly built and assembled by Navantia Windar in the Port of Brest. Iberdrola’s experienced project team and suppliers successfully overcame a range of challenges to deliver the project on schedule, including adverse weather and challenging sea conditions. Innovative new techniques and equipment for fixing the turbine’s foundations to the seabed were developed, overcoming the challenges posed by hard rock formations in the seabed (composed of basalt rock). Years of planning was involved in ensuring hundreds of companies across the supply chain delivered components and equipment to specification and on schedule, all supported by expert teams leading on thousands of environmental protection measures and delivering against a wide range of social requirements. Leading offshore wind in the world Saint-Brieuc is Iberdrola's fourth offshore wind farm in full operation, following West of Duddon Sands (United Kingdom), located in the Irish Sea, Wikinger (Germany), in the Baltic Sea, and East Anglia One (United Kingdom), located in the North Sea. In addition, Iberdrola has four other projects in construction. In 2025, Baltic Eagle in Germany and Vineyard Wind 1 (which will be the first large-scale in the United States) will come into operation. In 2026, East Anglia Three in the United Kingdom and Windanker in Germany will come into operation. Iberdrola’s investment in operational offshore wind farms, and those under construction, amounts to €15 billion. Beyond these projects, in the last month, Iberdrola has been awarded contracts for two new projects. East Anglia Two, in the UK and New England Wind 1, in the state of Massachusetts (US). Once concluded, the group’s total investment in offshore wind will exceed €25 billion. Iberdrola also has guaranteed seabed rights for future projects in the UK, continental Europe, the US, Australia, and Japan. Iberdrola in France Besides to the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm, Iberdrola operates 11 onshore wind projects in France and has a portfolio of wind and solar PV projects of in different stages of development. The company has offices in Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Nancy, Bordeaux, Limoges and Marseille, in addition to its operations and maintenance facilities for its assets in the country, such as Saint-Brieuc. READ MORE
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18/09/2024 - 15:00 UTC +02:00Iberdrola and CTA present the Q-Zero Partnership and the opportunities for decarbonisation in Andalusia The Andalusian Regional Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines, Jorge Paradela, closed today in Seville, Spain an event organised by Iberdrola and CTA (Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía or Technological Corporation of Andalusia) to present the Q-Zero Partnership and the opportunities offered by decarbonisation for the Andalusian economy, which was attended by more than 100 representatives of organisations related to this industry. Paradela pointed out that we are "facing a major challenge that is bringing a change of mentality in industry and a greater adaptation of the business culture towards sustainability’. In this challenge, ‘industry and technological development have to work together to implement the technological solutions required to address all the energy needs" of industrial processes, he added. Iberdrola's Director of Climate Change and Alliances, Gonzalo Sáenz de Miera, pointed out that "clean industry is the future as long as it is competitive’ and added that ‘Andalusia and Spain have enormous opportunities to take advantage of them because they have economic energy, a good industrial base and a proactive Administration". He also stressed that, ‘in a context of global competition to take advantage of industrial opportunities, Andalusia is a clear leader in the green economy, but, in order to really make the most of this transition, we must continue to commit to ambitious policies, working in alliances, such as this Alliance Q-Zero, which will provide employment and industrial opportunities for Spain and, in particular, for Andalusia’. The Q-Zero Alliance(https://alianzaqcero.es ) is an initiative launched this year by Iberdrola and 70 other Spanish industries to accelerate the decarbonisation of thermal demand in industry and buildings and to promote the coming together of renewable electricity generation and the needs of thermal energy consumers. READ MORE
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18/09/2024 - 15:00 UTC +02:00MarramWind floating offshore wind farm helps solve World War I maritime mystery Iberdrola, through its UK subsidiary ScottishPower, is conducting studies in the North Sea for what could be one of the world's first floating offshore wind farms. During this seabed analysis phase, the probable resting place of the SS Tobol, a Russian merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German submarine in 1917 during the First World War, has been identified. Following the discovery, a 250 metre exclusion zone has been established around the wreck to protect it during MarramWind's research work. You can read the full story in the ScottishPower Newsroom. READ MORE
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17/09/2024 - 13:53 UTC +02:00Galán to the athletes: "You have changed the way this country is and the way it thinks" Iberdrola will continue to promote Spanish sport in the next Olympic cycle, which will culminate with the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This was stated by its Executive Chairman, Ignacio Galán, during a meeting today with Olympic and Paralympic athletes María Pérez, Teresa Perales, Susana Rodríguez, Sara Sorribes, Elena Congost and Laura Ester at the company's offices in Madrid. ‘You have changed the way of this country is and the way this country things. Today I wanted to be with you to congratulate you and to assure you that in the next Olympics you can continue to count on us. We will be supporting you at every level’, said Galán. These sportswomen have been closely linked to the electricity company for years. María Pérez, Susana Rodríguez and Laura Ester are part of the Iberdrola Ambassadors programme, with which the company aims to give the greatest possible visibility to a selection of athletes in the media and social networks, creating new role models. Teresa Perales, for her part, is a member of the honorary jury of the Iberdrola Supera Awards, with which every year the company shows its appreciation for the hard work of those who promote the empowerment of women through sport from the grassroots. For all these reasons, and within the framework of this meeting, the Executive Chairman of the Group announced that Sara Sorribes and Elena Congost will be new Iberdrola Ambassadors. He also presented these six women with the Iberdrola Medals for Energy in Sport, in recognition of their impeccable professional careers and, in particular, their amazing performance at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. After Elena Congost's controversial disqualification from the French Paralympic Games, Galán made a special mention for the marathon runner. The Iberdrola Executive Chairman said: ‘Elena, you have shown great competitive spirit. You sacrificed everything because, more than medals or success, the most important thing is people and team spirit. You helped a teammate who was struggling. We will support you so that you can achieve everything you set out to do. Two decades promoting equality through sport Iberdrola firmly believes that sport is one of the essential vehicles for promoting equality. Since 2016, it has been the main promoter of sport practiced by women. It currently supports 35 national federations and gives its name to more than 160 competitions. With its commitment, over these eight years, it has contributed to an increase of more than 80% in the members of these federations, to almost 820,000. Its focus is not exclusively on elite and federated athletes. It holds the Iberdrola Supera awards every year, with a total of 300,000 euros distributed among six categories. It is also promoting actions in addition to mere sponsorship, such as organising of sporting events or communication campaigns, including its Iberdrola Ambassadors programme. The encouragement of the electricity company also extends to Paralympic sport. Since its creation in 2005, it has collaborated with the Spanish Paralympic Committee's (CPE) Paralympic Sports Support Plan (ADOP) to provide our athletes with the best conditions to prepare and undertake their participation in all their competitions with guaranteed success. Likewise, Iberdrola, through its Foundation in Spain and together with the Spanish Paralympic Committee, provides Paralympic athletes who are beneficiaries of the Paralympic Sport Support Plan with scholarships for university and postgraduate training. This collaboration agreement aims to facilitate the professional training of athletes so they can join the job market once their sporting career is over. Finally, it is worth remembering that the company is one of the companies collaborating with Universo Mujer, a comprehensive initiative for the development of women and their personal growth in society, which was created to develop initiatives that contribute to improving and transforming society through the values of all women's sport. READ MORE
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17/09/2024 - 09:00 UTC +02:00Iberdrola Legal Hub receives Financial Times Innovative Lawyers award in the Operational Transformation category Iberdrola Legal Hub has received the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award in London in the category of Operational Transformation (Legal Operations). The FT Innovative Lawyers Awards, Europe's most prestigious in innovation, recognise the most disruptive projects from leading law firms and in-house counsel at Europe's top companies. The award-winning platform, Iberdrola Legal Hub, uses a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool to digitise the entire contract management process with third parties: from the request for a new contract, its drafting, negotiation with the counterparty, validation, signing, custodianship, monitoring of compliance and risk management until its completion. It also digitises legal consultations. Iberdrola Legal Hub has already been implemented in Spain and has more than 700 people from all business and corporate areas working collaboratively on all contracts being negotiated. The implementation of CLM in the rest of the subholdings has already begun and means more than 5,000 people from all areas and businesses will be able to work together on all the company's contracts being negotiated by the end of 2024. Legal Hub is one of the projects of Iberdrola's Legal Innovation Centre created in 2022. To date, within the framework of digitisation , the Legal Innovation Centre has digitised all of lawyers’ key functions, including electronic invoicing and budget, supplier, corporate and litigation management. READ MORE
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16/09/2024 - 11:40 UTC +02:00Ignacio Galán meets with more than 300 employees at the annual ‘Leading Forward’ meeting The Executive Chairman of Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán , spoke about the company's evolution over the last two decades and its magnificent prospects for the coming years at the annual meeting with employees held at the Iberdrola Campus (San Agustín del Guadalix, Spain). The event took place over two days and was attended by more than 300 professionals from all the countries where Iberdrola is present, from the different businesses and corporate areas and from all levels and generations. With the motto 'Leading Forward', the meeting celebrated major milestones in recent years and highlighted the need to continue on this path in the coming decades, when electrification will grow faster than ever before. The Executive Chairman of Iberdrola reviewed the company's brilliant track record in recent decades and addressed talent management, a key factor for companies in the 21st century. READ MORE
