Notas de prensa

GAS NATURAL FENOSA signed the agreement today to sell a 20% minority stake in the company Holding de Negocios de Gas, S.A., which owns the gas distribution network assets in Spain, to a long-term infrastructure investment consortium comprised of Allianz Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
GAS NATURAL FENOSA, through its subsidiary, Global Power Generation (GPG), agreed to acquire two solar photovoltaic plants in Brazil from Canadian Solar Inc.
In the first year of operation of its Vulnerability Plan, GAS NATURAL FENOSA guaranteed a supply to more than 30,000 families throughout Spain by means of measures such as payment in instalments, collaboration with social services for identifying vulnerable customers, and subsidised rate management. Thanks to the dedicated telephone number (900 724 900) set up by the company for assisting its customers in vulnerable situations, GAS NATURAL FENOSA attended 85,000 calls relating to possible cases of energy poverty.
Today, Madrid City Hall’s Area for Equality, Social Rights and Employment and the GAS NATURAL FENOSA Foundation signed a collaboration agreement to establish a general framework for taking joint actions to fight energy poverty for families and to promote training and rehabilitating housing for a part of the population in a situation of vulnerability.
GAS NATURAL MEXICO closed an issuance of bonds this week in the amount of €152 million (3.5 billion Mexican pesos). This issuance was set in two segments: one for €87 million (2 billion Mexican pesos) at 3 years with a variable rate and a 0.40% margin, and another for €65 million (1.5 billion Mexican pesos) at 7 years with a fixed rate and a 1.44% margin.
The President of the Regional Government of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara; the Mayor of Plasencia, Fernando Pizarro; the Economic Affairs and Infrastructures Councillor of Extremadura, José Luis Navarro; the Managing Director of People and Resources of Gas Natural Fenosa, Rosa Mª Sanz; the Managing Director of Wholesale Businesses of Gas Natural Fenosa, Manuel Fernández; and the General Manager of Gas Natural Fenosa Renovables, Ana Peris, officially laid the first stone for the Merengue wind farm, the first to be built in the Autonomous Region of Extremadura.
The President of ASEIF (the Valencia Association of Plumbing, Heating, Gas and Other Fluid Installers), Francisco Alonso, and the General Manager of Nedgia Cegas, Celestina López, have renewed the agreement under which the power company will maintain its position as a partner of this business association. The two entities have been working together for 10 years on promoting the use of natural gas as an environmentally-friendly source of energy that brings efficiency and competitiveness to industrial sectors in the Region of Valencia.
GAS NATURAL FENOSA has launched a series of actions aimed at making it easier for its customers to receive the new subsidised rate, which came into force last October and which they can apply for until 10 April. The action plan designed by the power company includes initiatives aimed at certain groups considered to be especially sensitive in this regard, such as the unemployed and pensions, in order to make it easier for them to apply for the new Subsidised Rate.
The Mayor of Albacete, Manuel Serrano, and the General Manager of Nedgia Castilla-La Mancha, Miguel Martín de Pinto, held a work meeting at Albacete City Hall today which was also attended by the distribution company’s provincial delegate, Manuel Sánchez as well as councillor for Public Works and Energy Efficiency, Julián Garijo.
GAS NATURAL FENOSA will increase its number of CNG vehicle refuelling stations in Spain. The energy company plans to open 50 supply points in the country, in a number of cities including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville, Málaga, Murcia, Alicante, Córdoba, Valladolid, Vigo, Gijón, La Coruña and Santander. The opening of these points will bring the total number of the company’s public CNG stations in Spain to 100.