Oda and Iberdrola promote renewable energies among companies

The First Vice President of the Chamber, Jesús Navarro, and Iberdrola’s Corporate Delegate, Ibán Molina, opened the conference, which was attended by Julia Company, General Manager of IVACE.

In his speech, Jesús Navarro underlined the importance of companies adopting strategies for the implementation of renewable energy production and self-consumption processes, because on the one hand, allow to lower energy billthey allow us to move forward in sustainability at a time when gas and electricity costs are rising”.

In this sense, “We are working on actions to improve the business fabric of the province in terms of sustainability and energy efficiency, and at the same time allow them to reduce the cost of these supplies,” said the Chamber of Alicante. and ensuring their viability, especially in the case of small and medium-sized companies and the self-employed”.

Jesús Navarro emphasized that the Alicante Chamber and Provincial Council support the creation of a provincial energy community that supports sustainability and a significant reduction in energy cost, both for city councils and for families and SMEs in the region.

“The aim of the chamber is to promote the use and consumption of clean and sustainable energies such as photovoltaics and, above all, to achieve a reduction in the energy bill for SMEs and self-employed. bear the consequences of these increases in electricity prices“, he explained.

“Families and SMEs integrated into an energy community benefit from direct savings of between 25% and 30% on their current billsis socially up-to-date and environmentally conscious, together with a digitized management. Collaboration, cooperation, sustainability and economies of scale are the axes of this project.”

In addition, Jesús Navarro pointed out that “organizations with a sustainable strategy, committed to the environment and society will be the companies of the future with the advantage of a clear brand positioning in the market”.

Ibán Molina, Iberdrola’s delegate in the Community of Valencia, A carbon neutral economy by 2050“Decarbonization of the economy, which will be a great opportunity to create wealth, create jobs and improve the quality of the environment”. According to Ibán Molina, “Recent events related to the war in Ukraine are starting the discussion about the need to have a secure energy supply, as independent as possible from third countries, so the best solution is to invest in renewable energy.”

The company delegate highlighted the strategic line Iberdrola followed to execute, for example “decarbonising electricity generation commitment to renewable energies and through electrification of demand, promotion of electric mobility, and electrification of heat in both homes and industry”.

Ibán Molina wanted to emphasize that the time for self-consumption and distributed production has come, and ” 140 megawatt self-consumption power and 15,500 installations in the provinceMore than 12,000 companies are connected to the distribution network in the province, which can respond to the strong increase in self-consumption without saturation or overload thanks to investments made in recent years, electricity networks are becoming more robust, flexible and smart, so we continue to support them as they are the true backbone of decarbonisation. we must”.

The day briefed on the intervention of Julia Company, general manager of IVACE. framework of aid and subsidies accessible to companies. David Palacios, head of solar communities and collective self-consumption at Iberdrola, also attended and discussed different strategies and innovative solutions for self-consumption. José Juan Esplugues, Technician of the General Directorate of Industry, Energy and Mining, discussed the current legal framework.

The second part of the day was structured around a roundtable where the present and future of energy self-consumption were discussed and success stories in this field were presented. David Palacios himself, Ricardo Caso, commercial director of VRP Electric, Enrique Bonet of Sprinter, Cristóbal Olivares of Applied Engineering and Juan José Brotons of BBVA joined in.