EDP's role
More than a goal or a need, Energy Efficiency is a mission that EDP has been fulfilling in recent decades. Whether at the company's internal level, or in promoting efficient solutions for customers and consumers, or in supporting and developing new technologies that can help changing the world, EDP is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), namely with the SDG 7 - renewable energies and Accessibility.
With SDGs in mind, EDP wants to ensure reliable, sustainable and modern access to energy, at an affordable price for all, and to this end, among other objectives, has made a commitment to provide energy efficiency products and services that allow for a global reduction yo 5TWh by 2022 (value added in reference to consumption between 2015 and 2020).
In order to meet its commitments, EDP has been supporting, in under development countries, numerous renewable energies projects for communities in remote regions, and rural areas, without connection to the electricity grid.The launch of new solar and wind farms; programs to combat energy precariousness and improvements in thermal comfort (one million euros invested in facilities of the Portuguese National Health Service and another million aimed at Private Institutions of Solidarity); and social campaigns promoting energy efficiency.
Among the various EDP initiatives towards greater Energy Efficiency, we highlight:
- The Save to Compete (S2C) program, which EDP launched in 2012, in order to promote the competitiveness of Portuguese and Spanish companies, through energy efficiency measures, it allows participating companies to apply for a number of measures (solar energy, efficient lightning, resource management, among others), receiving factual and customized proposals, as well as saving predictions. The most recent figures point to savings of more than 22 million euros (215 thousand MWh), and a reduction of more than 83 thousand tons in Co2 emissions.
- In Brazil, the EDP Smart (Portuguese version) project has been a way to bring energy efficiency to Brazilian homes and companies, through the provision of services such as solar energy supply, 24h assistance and electric mobility solutions.
- At EDP in Spain (Spanish version), energy efficiency also marks EDP's commitment agenda, with the provision of numerous services, both for individuals and companies, with a common objective: To be more efficient. Projects such as the one developed in partnership with the Spanish Burger King, whose investment in solar energy, allows for the cooking of 39 million burgers a year; or the partnership with the Doy Industries, through which it was both designed and implemented, the more modern and complete system of treatment of fumes and energy use, which then allows the use for self-consumption.
- EDP has promoted several renewable energies storage programs as a pillar of the green revolution, since the balance between electricity production, and the immediate need for consumption, is one of EDP's concerns. New storage technologies will enable energy efficiency to be strengthened, both in large renewable production plants and in small private installations dedicated to self-consumption. For example, E-Redes installed, already in 2015, the first unit of lithium-ion batteries, at the University of Évora. And the Energy Storage Évora pilot project, connected to the medium-voltage network, aims to test various storage solutions so that they can be used, both in isolation and integrated, into wider control and distribution systems. Already in the beginning of 2021, a new business unit was created at EDPR NA, which will aim to achieve a storage capacity of 1 GW, within five years.
- EDP, through Labelec and NEW, is also involved in the European SPARCS project, which seeks to find new paths to energy efficiency - through the joint work of 31 partners from 8 countries in European Union (Finland, Germany, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece, Belgium, Czech Republic and Italy), to whom both Island and Ukraine are also a part of. The goal is to test integrated solutions, within neighbourhoods or urban communities, that make them fully sustainable from an energetic point of view.
To learn more about these and other EDP initiatives in the field of Energy Efficiency, go through our list of articles available at the bottom of this page.
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