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Contributing to Positive Social Change
Contributing to Positive Social Change
As an anchor institution in our communities, we want to have the biggest positive social impact possible. To bring this commitment to life, we’ve created and are initiating a social impact strategy focused on addressing immediate needs and the long-term well-being of our employees, customers and communities – all while helping to create a healthier and more sustainable planet.
We’re bringing our corporate citizenship commitments to the communities we serve by:
- Creating opportunities for our employees to grow and thrive, to make meaningful change in their own communities and to build a workplace committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Ensuring our services empower our customers to reduce their own environmental footprints through new energy products, offerings and capabilities while helping them reduce their energy costs over the long term. This includes:
- Access to rebates on more efficient appliances.
- Access to reduced costs on insulation to help improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
- Free energy audits identify the best opportunities to improve energy efficiency.
- Providing customers with effective emergency response during power outages (including digital updates regarding outages across our service areas in addition to fast response by our crews to restore power).
- Providing much-needed resources to help our customers in need during difficult times (such as access to financial assistance to reduce energy costs).
- Helping our communities thrive by supporting initiatives through the Avangrid Foundation that increase access to education and job training, provide support for critical services like shelter and food security, provide support for the arts, work to protect biodiversity, address climate impacts and more.
- Connecting with our communities through employee volunteerism, stakeholder engagement and creating more opportunities for suppliers from diverse backgrounds.
About Avangrid: Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR) aspires to be the leading sustainable energy company in the United States. Headquartered in Orange, CT with approximately $44 billion in assets and operations in 24 U.S. states, Avangrid has two primary lines of business: networks and renewables. Through its networks business, Avangrid owns and operates eight electric and natural gas utilities, serving more than 3.3 million customers in New York and New England. Through its renewables business, Avangrid owns and operates a portfolio of renewable energy generation facilities across the United States. Avangrid employs approximately 8,000 people and has been recognized by JUST Capital in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 as one of the JUST 100 companies – a ranking of America’s best corporate citizens. In 2024, Avangrid ranked first among utilities and 12 overall. The company supports the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals and was named among the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2024 for the sixth consecutive year by the Ethisphere Institute. Avangrid is a member of the group of companies controlled by Iberdrola, S.A. For more information, visit www.avangrid.com.
About Iberdrola: Iberdrola is one of the world's biggest energy companies and a leader in renewables, spearheading the energy transition to a low carbon economy. The group supplies energy to almost 100 million people in dozens of countries. With a focus on renewable energy, smart networks and smart solutions for customers, Iberdrola’s main markets include Europe (Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. The company is also present in growth markets such as Japan, Taiwan, Ireland, Sweden and Poland, among others.
With a workforce of nearly 40,000 and assets in excess of €141.7 billion, across the world, Iberdrola helps to support 400,000 jobs across its supply chain, with annual procurement of €12.2 billion. A benchmark in the fight against climate change, Iberdrola has invested more than €130 billion over the past two decades to help build a sustainable energy model, based on sound environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles.
