EDP’s new sustainable website: an eco-friendly platform for the future

EDP’s new eco-friendly website, in English and Portuguese, is the source of information for the global company, spanning multiple regions and business areas. With this sustainable web design, the platform:

• Streamlines access to essential information across geographies, creating a frictionless user journey;
• Provides robust transparency and consistency, fostering deeper trust and dependability for all users;
• Creates a seamless user-centric journey across different formats and devices.

This consolidation not only centralises content but multiplies the positive impact, delivering on EDP’s vision for a digital ecosystem, with one global voice, that supports progress everywhere.

On the other hand, there are also 16 local sites within the global website, in their respective languages and in English, that can be accessed through the ‘EDP in the World’ tab. These websites focus on EDP’s presence in those countries, on the operations in place and the achievements made, with the language serving as an important tool for them to be represented as individual businesses and cultural geographies.

Every element and feature on the new website is carefully designed to minimise environmental impact and promote conscious digital practices. These are some of its innovative characteristics. Check some details on EDP’s sustainable web design philosophy.

Website CO₂ footprint meter

EDP’s website features a new real-time carbon emissions tracker on every page. Editors and readers can now see exactly how their digital interactions contribute to emissions, what changes from page to page, and understand the environmental impact at every click. This transparency enables genuinely informed decisions - proving that in the digital era, even the smallest touchpoint can be part of the solution for a greener planet.

Modular, lightweight architecture

The website’s underlying structure is built with efficiency and sustainability at its core. A modular system and lightweight technical architecture are employed to:

• Minimise energy consumption throughout all site operations, from loading pages to updating content.
• Optimise performance and speed, ensuring every interaction feels intuitive and effortless for users worldwide.
• Significantly reduce unnecessary data transfer and digital waste, providing an experience that is both high-performance and environmentally responsible, with less website CO2 emissions.

By embedding these principles in the very foundation of the platform, EDP ensures that every user experience supports global sustainability ambitions.

Best practice compliance

Behind the scenes of EDP’s website, development, content management, and hosting procedures comply strictly with demanding industry best practices. Resource efficiency, top-tier performance, and uncompromising security are standard at every touchpoint. This approach goes beyond minimum requirements: sustainability is purposefully woven into every layer, making responsible choices natural and expected.

Accessibility for everyone, everywhere

The new website has been built to comply with WCAG accessibility guidelines, ensuring that no user is left behind. Navigation structures are intuitive and logically organised, allowing users to move through content with ease, regardless of device or ability. Full support is given for screen readers and alternative text, ensuring visually impaired users can access all content, while keyboard operation makes navigation barrier-free for those who cannot use a mouse. A responsive design ensures that, whether accessed via phone, tablet, or desktop, the platform remains highly usable, modern, and welcoming.

Responsible AI: powering the digital experience

Artificial intelligence is also present and responsibly integrated throughout the new EDP digital journey - not just as ‘nice-to-have’ innovation, but to genuinely improve user experience and foster transparency and trust.

With automatic translation between English and Portuguese, the site invites broad engagement across language borders and empowers more communities. Intuitive natural-language search enables quick and easy discovery of critical content, while smart recommendations ensure every user receives information that matches their needs and context. Together, these AI-driven enhancements carry EDP’s global expertise in renewables, energy efficiency, and technology further and faster, supporting a smarter energy transition for all.

EDP’s continued investments in renewables, in energy transition, innovation, and pioneering digital transformation are also reflected throughout our new website. It’s not just a showcase of sustainable innovation; it is a centre point for global connection, bringing together offices, teams, markets, projects, stakeholders and visitors as a cohesive, future-ready community that leads by example for the world.

The digital world is a powerful lever for energy transition, and we are well aware of that, of the challenges, but also of the many opportunities it represents. At EDP, we will continue to work for a brighter, cleaner tomorrow - making a sustainable future something experienced daily, also through our website. 

Employees, partners, industry leaders, tech and energy enthusiasts, and all other visitors are invited to explore the new sustainable website, and experience how it can set the pace for responsible digital change. We choose Earth also through the virtual world, and in this new digital home, everyone has a role to play, showing how the energy transition is a transformative force for a sustainable future.