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More than 700 people work every day to maintain REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais as one of the most efficient energy transmission operators worldwide, meeting all the quality and safety criteria necessary to guarantee the uninterrupted supply of electricity and gas to mainland Portugal.
REN consistently invests in promoting knowledge and research and development, deepening the relationship between academia and the industry, seeking to advance solutions for the major technological and environmental challenges faced at national and international level. An investment that, while creating value for shareholders within a framework of sustainable development, enables participation in the construction of the European energy market and future new-generation transnational infrastructures.
Portugal is REN’s main focus and natural market, where the company will continue to invest to guarantee long-term electricity and gas infrastructure needs, with a permanent orientation towards greater sustainability, improved performance, and quality of service. The international investment strategy is conservative, focusing on sectors in which the company is a specialist and in markets with economic stability and predictable regulatory frameworks.
The history of REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais began in 1947, when CNE – Companhia Nacional de Eletricidade, S.A.R.L., a pioneering company in the transmission of electricity in Portugal and its original predecessor, was founded. In 1975, with the nationalisations decreed by the Portuguese Government following the revolution on 25 April 1974, it was integrated in Eletricidade de Portugal, S.A. At EDP, REN’s current roles as an electricity transmission company were carried out by the Electricity Network Operational Division. In 2000, this is separated from EDP due to the privatisation of the EDP Group and the liberalisation of the European energy market, which imposed the legal separation between the companies responsible for the management of the transmission network and those that carry out electricity generation and distribution activities.
In 2003, still under the name Redes Elétricas Nacionais, REN acquired 18.3% of the share capital of Galp Energia, also becoming responsible for the transmission of high-pressure gas. It is then renamed REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais.
The company began to be reprivatised in 2007, a process which was completed on 2 February 2012. On 24 April 2014, a decision was made to sell up to 11% of REN by Parpública and Caixa Geral de Depósitos, which culminated in both leaving the company’s reference shareholder structure on 16 June 2014
The Business Council for Sustainable Development Portugal is a non-profit association representing over 140 leading companies in Portugal that are actively committed to the transition to sustainability.
Portuguese network of the United Nations Global Compact, which brings together the initiative’s participants that operate or are headquartered in Portugal.
Association made up of companies and business groups with relevant economic activity in Portugal and with the common ambition of contributing to the development of a more prosperous and fairer Portugal.
Forum organisations for equality. Comprising 69 organisations, both national and multinational, from the public, private, and social economy sectors with operations in Portugal. All of them are committed to strengthening their organisational culture, promoting the principles of equality between women and men in employment.
Project seeking to enable the rapid Portuguese implementation of the production, storage, transmission, and use of green hydrogen at competitive costs.
European association representing the interests of the hydrogen industry and its stakeholders and promoting hydrogen as an enabler for a zero-emission society.
Entity supporting the large-scale deployment of clean hydrogen technologies by 2030, bringing together renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production, demand in the industry, mobility and other sectors, and hydrogen transmission and distribution.
Initiative promoted by BCSD Portugal within the scope of act4nature international, with the aim of mobilising companies to protect, promote, and restore biodiversity.
European initiative promoted by IENE – Infrastructure and Ecology Network Europe, together with association EpE – Entreprises pour l’Environnement, seeking to create a collective international dynamic to protect, enhance, and restore biodiversity in a sustainable manner.
Collaboration between non-governmental organisations and national energy transmission system operators with the mission of promoting the sustainable development of energy networks, in line with the Paris Agreement commitment.
Collaborative Laboratory for Integrated Forest and Fire Management: a non-profit association whose mission is to promote the integrated management of forests and fire.
Call to action to encourage business leaders to promote the defence of human rights and the improvement of people’s living conditions.
Underwritten by 82 Portuguese companies and organisations, it presents 11 objectives to halt climate change.
Initiative led by the UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme), in partnership with the European Commission, the UK Government, the Environmental Defence Fund, and major Oil and Gas companies, seeking to reduce methane emissions.
Set of principles offering guidance to companies on how to promote gender equality.
Gender equality accelerator programme for companies participating in the United Nations Global.
The Diversity Charter, an initiative of the European Commission, seeks to encourage employers to implement and develop internal policies and practices to promote diversity.
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