Our impact

Our ESG performance achieved five-star ranking by GRESB

We were awarded top marks, achieving the maximum five-star rating in GRESB’s 2023 environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmark.

Each year, GRESB assesses and benchmarks the ESG performance of assets worldwide, providing clarity and insights to financial markets on complex sustainability topics.

Achieving a score of 97 out of 100, we scored highly for leadership, risk management and reporting.

Find out more about what this means for our commitment to sustainability

For us, sustainability means creating shared value for all of our stakeholders.

Whether that’s through funding for the communities surrounding our energy plants, community ownership of our projects or ensuring that we build and maintain our developments with support from local workers and suppliers.

Building relationships with our communities, being transparent and caring in our approach, and redistributing value is at the heart of everything we do. 

Our sustainable heritage

As an early leader in community engagement, we began building relationships with the communities around our onshore projects in the UK from the very beginning. Since establishing the first community benefit fund in 2005, we have created successful and trusted community engagement and funding initiatives at all plants in the UK, Sweden, and Norway, as well as some of our projects in Spain, Italy and France.

Our community involvement

In 2022 we supported almost 200 community projects

The projects funded including the refurbishment of community facilities, support for cultural groups to preserve their heritage and contributing to the rebuilding of community health facilities.

The results of our activities speak for themselves – almost half of our projects are now involved in community engagement models and this number is still growing. In Italy we established our first crowdfunding campaign to allow the people living around our plants to invest in renewable energy projects, achieving almost 70 investors and 180% of our target funds. In Spain, we are the first company to be awarded with the Sustainability Seal by UNEF for three agrivoltaic projects.

As a result of many years of refining our sustainable approach, we formalised our commitment in the form of our Sustainability Charter. It represents how we behave and how we implement sustainability throughout our activities.

Community Portal

Through our actions, we contribute specifically to five of the Sustainable Development Goals

3. Good Health and well-being

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

5. Gender equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

7. Affordable and clean energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

9. Industry innovation and infrastructure

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

13. Climate action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Our Sustainability Report

The Sustainability at the Core – Our shared value report aims to explain how our vision of sustainability inspires business models and activities. In this document, which summarizes our non-financial performance according to the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, we explain how we produce and sell clean energy, how we provide innovative services, our relationships with local communities, how we protect the environment, the growth of people, our governance and our guiding values.