Bankinter | The board of directors of Endesa has approved two different tranches of buybacks. On the one hand, a first tranche of €17.3 million intended to comply with the flexible remuneration programmes for group employees, with a maximum of 1.11 million shares. The execution period will run from 28 March to 14 April. The second tranche is valued at a maximum amount of €500 million and the objective is…
CdM | Endesa, through its network subsidiary, e-distribución, has exceeded 30 GW of distributed renewable capacity connected to its distribution grid, enough to supply the consumption of almost 20 million homes and avoid the emission of close to 30 million tonnes of CO2. These are installations of small and medium-scale renewable energy producers and self-consumption which, in recent years, have been increasing their weight on the renewable generation map in…
Reconciling the support of center-right nationalist parties, such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) or Junts per Catalunya (the party of the fugitive Puigdemont), with that of extreme left parties (Podemos, Sumar…) was possible a year ago, to elevate Pedro Sánchez to the presidency of the Government despite having lost the elections. Spain has never had a weaker government, more willing to stay in power by making the necessary concessions…
Renta 4 | The company has reached an agreement to acquire Acciona’s hydro assets in Spain. The deal consists of 656 MW of 34 plants generating 1.3 TWh in 2023, for which Endesa has agreed to pay €1,000 million debt-free, financed with its own funds, and which is expected to close in 1H25, subject to the relevant regulatory approvals. Assessment: The remaining useful life of these assets is limited in…
Banco Sabadell : According to press reports, Endesa has shown interest in the hydroelectric assets that Acciona has recently put up for sale. Specifically, they would comprise 626.5 MW spread over 34 plants and with a concession life of between 12 and 39 years. According to the news, Acciona Energía aims to obtain around €1,000 million in a process that is still in its initial stages, and in which the…
Endesa has closed the sale of 49.99% of a large solar portfolio of 2,000 MW of capacity to the Emirati renewables fund Masdar for €817 million, the energy company informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) on Thursday. The agreement will be accompanied by a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA), which will be managed by a firm wholly controlled by the electricity company headed by José Bogas. With the entry…
CdM | Endesa has combined the use of 5G technology with artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the safety of workers during maintenance work on distribution network infrastructures, the company said. Specifically, e-distribución, the energy company’s network subsidiary, has deployed a private 5G network at the Ecogarraf substation in Barcelona as part of the European Smart5Grid project, which has explored the possibilities offered by 5G technology in the development of smart…
Link Securities| The company, through its Redes subsidiary, will spend €71.5 million this year on infrastructure inspection, grid improvements and selective pruning work with the dual aim of ensuring continuity of supply and reducing the risk of fires, especially in the summer period, according to the Bolsamania.com portal. The investment in the so-called “Summer Campaign 2024” is 21% higher than in the previous year and places special emphasis on cleaning…
ENDESA (ELE), through its renewables division Enel Green Power España (EGPE), has commissioned the largest vanadium flow battery renewable energy storage facility in Europe at the Son Orlandis solar plant in Majorca. It is the first energy storage plant that the company has built in Spain with this innovative technology, without using lithium, thanks to vanadium flow storage. The Son Orlandis storage system is an innovative battery based on vanadium…
José Bogas, ENDESAS’s CEO, explains in Consejeros magazine that “295,000 million of investment is needed for the period 2021-30, and we have many years ahead of us when when we are not investing at this pace. Of these 295,000 million, 118,000 million are for renewables; 85,000 for energy efficiency, but almost nothing has been done so far; 53,000 for networks, which is more than 5,000 every year and we have…