Naturgy Innovahub, el vehículo del Grupo energético enfocado en la investigación e innovación en tecnologías y nuevos modelos de negocio ligados a la sostenibilidad y la transición energética, celebra su primer aniversario con un balance de 15 proyectos industriales en marcha, la creación de dos sociedades disruptivas y un total de 20 startups incubadas en sus plataformas de emprendimiento.

Today, Naturgy released its financial results for the first six months of 2023 to the market, along with the strategic review for the 2025 horizon recently approved by its Board of Directors. These developments come after the company exceeded all objectives outlined in its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan. The first half of the year was characterised by a decline in energy prices amid persistent volatility and regulatory uncertainty. In this context, the company increased its investments to progress in its industrial plan and played a crucial role in ensuring energy supply security in Spain. This involved supplying gas to businesses and ensuring the continuity of supply in the Spanish power sector, where combined cycle power plants played a fundamental role.

Biomethane Initiatives, a joint venture created a year ago by Suma Capital, a sustainable infrastructure investment management company, and SITRA, an industrial water treatment, waste management and bioenergy company founded in Castellon, has reached an agreement with Nedgia, the gas distributor of the Naturgy group, to inject 40 GWh/year of biomethane into its gas network.

Naturgy has started up two new wind farms in the Canary Islands, which means the energy multinational now manages 12 in the Canary Islands, with a total installed capacity of 94.8 MW. The two new wind farms are Agüimes (10.75 MW), located in the municipal district of the same name, and Camino de la Madera (9.2 MW), in Santa Lucía de Tirajana, both on the island of Gran Canaria.

Naturgy and Greene are collaborating on a project to produce syngas biomethanation for injection into the distribution network or for use in mobility. The innovative aspect of this project, unique in Spain, resides in the type of waste from which the bio-synthetic natural gas is obtained. A thermal process totally transforms the dry waste materials, contributing significantly to the circular economy by giving a second life to this type of difficult-to-process waste.

Through its international power generation subsidiary, Global Power Generation (GPG), Naturgy has begun to operate its third wind farm in Australia, Berrybank 2, increasing the company's total installed capacity in the country to 395 MW. The company also recently inaugurated the ACT Battery in Australia, the group's first utility-scale battery energy storage facility worldwide.