Our foundation: acciona.org

Originally known as ACCIONA Microenergía, the foundation was established to channel ACCIONA’s social efforts toward improving access to basic services in developing communities. As a corporate foundation, it aligns with the company’s strategic priorities, focusing on areas that directly impact human development. acciona.org ensures access to energy, water, and sanitation while raising awareness about the lack of these services and the significant benefits they bring to the economy, education, health, and employment in underserved communities.

The Luz en Casa (Light at Home) initiative was launched in Cajamarca, a region with the highest poverty rates and lack of electricity in Peru. Within five years, the initiative reached its breakeven point, demonstrating that an adequate delivery model based on solar home systems can provide electricity to low-income households in isolated, rural areas. Luz en Casa has expanded to Loreto in the Peruvian Amazon and Cuzco. The success of Luz en Casa later inspired the launch of the Agua en Casa (Water at Home) initiative in Ica, addressing rural water and sanitation needs.

In collaboration with the Oaxaca Government, AECID (Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation), and AMEXCID (Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation), the Luz en Casa Oaxaca program was introduced to improve living conditions in the most remote rural households by providing basic electricity services. This initiative expanded with the EncASa Oaxaca programme , which also offers access to clean drinking water, sanitation, and improved cookstoves through a catalogue of eco-technologies chosen and constructed by the users. The program later expanded to new areas such as San Luis Potosí.

A project to provide energy access in refugee camps, in partnership with AECID, the Technical University of Madrid, other Spanish companies, and the UNHCR. The project explored the feasibility of biogas generation for cooking. This initiative continues under the “Alianza Shire. Access to energy for refugees and host communities” project, co-funded by the European Union. The project, which started in 2023, develops a home electricity service model for refugee and host communities in Dollo Ado.

Luz en Casa was adapted to the Ngäbe-Buglé indigenous region of Panama, where development rates are low. Implemented with partners like AECID, the European Union, and Senacyt - Panama Innovation, Technology, and Science National Secretariat, this project provides underserved households access to electricity, alleviating poverty and promoting economic, educational, domestic, and recreational activities.

Starting up of the activity in the country to bring and ensure the access to energy, water & sanitation in the most remote communities. Luz en Casa was customized for the Chilean context, especially in the Coquimbo region, where around 3,000 homes are off-grid. The technology chosen meets the region’s power demands, and the maintenance fee management is adapted to available channels. Since 2023, ACCIONA has also been developing projects to improve rural water and sanitation infrastructure.

acciona.org promotes a pioneering initiative to reduce energy poverty through collective self-consumption, in line with Spain’s electricity energy self-consumption regulations. It collaborates with municipalities to build solar photovoltaic stations that generate energy to reduce electricity bills for vulnerable households, while also decreasing the carbon footprint of municipal facilities.

In rural communities in the Palawan province, where many people rely on expensive and polluting diesel generators or underperforming solar kits, Light at Home provides an alternative. Through solar home systems, acciona.org brings electricity to these communities, in collaboration with partners like the Ayala Foundation and AECID.