Iberdrola SA’s international renewable power capability grew to 45,082 megawatts (MW) within the first half of 2025 and now accounts for 79 % of the Spanish utility’s complete technology capability.
The primary six months of the 12 months noticed a 4 % development in new capability in comparison with the identical interval in 2024.
Iberdrola’s complete capability reached 57,273 MW after 1,800 MW had been put in within the first half of 2025.
Manufacturing rose 2.3 % year-on-year to 66,300 gigawatt hours (gWh). “By nation, the manufacturing will increase at Iberdrola Energía Internacional (+15.7 %) stand out, due to the 68 % development in offshore wind farms in France and Germany; in Brazil (+11.7 %), pushed by larger hydroelectric manufacturing; and in Spain (+6.4 %), with development in each renewable applied sciences (particularly photo voltaic) and nuclear and mixed cycles”, it stated in a press release on-line.
Offshore wind output elevated 42 % within the second quarter in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months, whereas photo voltaic technology within the second quarter climbed 57.4 % year-on-year.
Earlier its subsidiary Avangrid Inc. reported that Iberdrola’s complete put in capability within the U.S. reached roughly 10,500 MW within the first half of 2025.
Iberdrola stated it’s “producing 91 % of its manufacturing in Spain with out emissions and one hundred pc in nations similar to the UK, the US, Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Greece”.
Iberdrola stated it has set a brand new file in electrical energy distribution for the January-June interval. Energy distribution within the first half of 2025 exceeded 124,200 gWh, up 4.8 % year-over-year.
The UK led the expansion, logging a rise of over 30 % to greater than 20,000 gWh due to the combination of Electrical energy North West Ltd. (ENW), Iberdrola stated. Iberdrola acquired ENW final 12 months for round EUR 5 billion ($5.8 billion), growing the variety of its UK prospects by practically 5 million.
In Spain, Iberdrola distributed 44,871 gWh of energy within the first half of 2025, up 2.5 % year-on-year.
Iberdrola expects to develop operational renewable capability by 4,000 MW and controlled community belongings by over 10 % this 12 months.
Beneath its 2024-26 plan, Iberdrola eyes gross investments of EUR 41 billion by 2026, targeted on the electrification of financial sectors.
“The electrification of power is unstoppable and can increase exponentially within the years forward, supporting decarbonization, boosting power safety, and decreasing the volatility brought on by fossil fuels”, Iberdrola government chair Ignacio Galán stated in a press release March 21, 2024, for the corporate’s announcement of the plan.
“Our strategic pillars give attention to networks, geographical diversification, and a balanced power and prospects combine.
“This plan will permit us to develop our asset base, develop our profitability and strengthen our funds, in addition to growing dividends and driving jobs and expertise and financial development”.
Iberdrola expects its renewables companions to contribute EUR 5 billion to the funding objective.
Eighty-five % of the gross funding is allotted for Iberdrola’s A-rated markets. Thirty-five % is for the U.S., 24 % for the UK, 15 % for Iberia, 15 % for Latin America and 11 % for Australia, France, Germany and others.
The three-year plan consists of EUR 15.5 billion of gross “selective funding in renewables”, over half of which might go to the U.S., the UK, France and Germany.
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