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Renewables and Sustainability

Hidden services provided by reservoirs

The month of March 2013 was the rainiest since recordkeeping began (around 1947, according to the Spanish Meteorology Agency, AEMET). We all probably realised this because of the number of days we had to bring ...

The experience of understanding and appreciating the beauty and complexity of our environment by looking after birds

Born and bred in Madrid, my friends always thought of me as a total city girl until my career in Iberdrola led me into an environmental role.  That was what sparked my interest in learning ...

Electric bicycles: modernity, environmental responsibility and sustainable mobility

Try to imagine a new alternative means of urban transport: one that is lightweight, one that gives you a work-out, one that skips the traffic jams, saves you time looking for a parking space, one ...

I joined the wind energy industry to become part of the solution to those challenges

Like so many others at Iberdrola Renewables, wind energy has become my life’s work. I came to it from a career working air quality issues, and from that I knew the status quo of conventional ...

From a former mine to a future forest: how we restored the surroundings of the La Muela II power plant

We recently completed the project to restore the mine from which the materials were taken for the construction of the Cortes-La Muela power plant, an initiative that 20 Iberdrola employees have been working on for ...

What is this “carbon footprint” that we are hearing so much about these days?

Recently, all of Iberdrola´s employees received a survey to calculate the carbon footprint caused by our daily trips to the offices. This initiative is part of the company’s emissions inventory that it has been doing ...

Doha Climate Change Conference, a paper-smart meeting with a lot of content

The ‘bare minimum’ agreement reached this weekend at the United Nations Meeting on Climate Change in Doha means that there will be a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol until the year 2020. The ...

Educating Families about Wind Technician Jobs in the U.S.

In many communities throughout the United States, families – especially school children – are curious about what wind technicians do on the job every day. I am the wind plant supervisor at Cayuga Ridge, and ...

The Iberdrola Forest celebrates its fifth anniversary

At Iberdrola, we are in luck. An environmental project set up in 2008 has continued over the years and is bearing fruit or, rather, is extending considerably. I am referring to the Iberdrola Forest. This ...

Turning on the TV or heating a glass of milk are actions which give off CO2

My first post in this blog on sustainability and the environment was about climate change, and now I’d like to share with you some important information about our carbon footprint; what damage it poses to ...