EDP Y.E.S. - You Empower Society is a new brand that will allow us to aggregate more than 500 projects of social responsibility that are being developed by EDP worldwide, with a similar objective - implement measures to decarbonize production and consumption, promote human rights and social inclusion, promote social responsibility and encourage our employees to dare to change the world.
Promote access to energy and energy savings, improving living conditions and economic development of communities
Develop and support projects in order to promote proximity to local communities
Our program challenges cultural empowerment by supporting initiatives dedicated to arts and traditions
Promote biodiversity, climate change awareness and the circular economy through several initiatives
These programs aim to facilitate capacitation and work-tools, to generate economic value
The tree that has no light, but gives light
In Alcorriol, a Christmas tree is born equipped with 45 solar panels that capture sunlight during the day to bring the magic of Christmas by night.
Solidarity Solar - Portugal
In Portugal, providing access to solar energy to underprivileged families and communities
Annually, EDP supports more than 300 projects in communities around the world, with an investment of over €30M.
Part of this investment corresponds to projects whose scope of action contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On the other hand, EDP uses the international methodology B4SI - Business for Societal Impact - to evaluate its voluntary investment in the community, which represents the largest part of the investment in this area
