The use of renewable energy sources, as implemented by ENDESA, provides many significant environmental benefits compared to the consequences of using traditional energy sources, such as CO2 emissions, as Renewable energy sources do not emit these or other greenhouse gases during their production and use.
CO2 or carbon dioxide is one of the elements resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels (oil, coal, etc.) and contributes significantly to the worsening the greenhouse effect, which causes global warming. That’s why it’s so important to reduce your emissions.
ENDESA’s contribution
Endesa, through its network subsidiary e-distribución, has exceeded the figure of 30 GW of distributed renewable capacity connected through its network. distribution networka force that makes it possible to feed the consumption of almost 20 million households and avoid the emission of almost 30 million tons of CO2.
These are facilities of manufacturers of small and medium-sized renewable energy and self-consumptions that in recent years have increased their weight on the map of renewable generation in Spain to complement industrial-scale generation. The connection via the distribution network shows the growing importance of the network in the energy transition process.
They have almost been connected since 2020 11 GW of renewable capacity distributed to the Endesa network with growing progress in each of the years, highlighting the need for a regulatory framework that promotes investments in networks and flexibility in licensing to meet the increase in access requests.
“Networks are the backbone of the energy transition, that element that sits in the background, but without them nothing works. It is essential that the investments in networks both to meet connection requests from renewable energy producers and the demand from industries for data centers, desalination plants or green hydrogen plants. If this does not happen, the goals of decarbonizing the economy will not be achieved,” says the General Manager of Endesa Networks, José Manuel Revuelta.
The numbers show growing role of the distribution network as an access route for sustainable generation to the electricity grid. Eurelectric data indicates that 70% of green generation capacity connected to the electricity system by 2030 will do so through the distribution network and the evolution of recent years confirms this trend.
In the case of the network managed by Endesa, connections were made at the end of November more than 18,600 medium-sized renewable energy production facilitiesmainly photovoltaic installations. The number of active self-consumption installations in the e-distribution network now amounts to almost 305,000 (associated with 327,000 deliveries), multiplying by 37 the number with which 2020 ended.
In these four years, the power associated with all these distributed generation facilities has increased by almost 53%, from 20.1 to 30.7 GW. Of the total, 24.7 GW corresponds to high-voltage connections and 6.0 GW of connections via medium and low voltage networks.
Through November, renewable energy generation connected through Endesa’s distribution network has grown by 14%, adding a further 3.8 GW. cover the consumption of 1.9 million households and avoid releasing 3 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.