Clara Raposo, Chairwoman

Greenvolt was created as an agent of change for society. A change in the right direction: contributing to the fight against climate change and carbon neutrality in energy production, promoting a fairer and more democratic energy transition by developing concrete solutions that allow families and businesses to mitigate the effect of rising energy costs and, through the use of forest residues for energy production, a change that also mitigates the risk of forest fires that we all know so well.

2021 was a landmark financial year for Greenvolt. The company was redesigned and shortly afterwards, on 15 July 2021, was listed on the stock exchange, following a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO).
Greenvolt has designed and implements a differentiating strategy in the energy sector. We are building an unique portfolio in terms of business areas, aimed at ensuring the economic interest of the company’s activity as a whole and, at the same time, contributing to global sustainability in its broadest sense.

Technological progress in recent years has meant that energy production through renewable solar and wind sources has achieved the lowest total costs within the current range of energy production technologies. The expansion of renewable production sources therefore contributes to lower energy prices. However, there are always challenges that we are mindful of, such as, for example, the availability of land or the slowness inherent in licensing processes.

Through renewable energy production from residual biomass, Greenvolt is actively contributing to the creation of a forest residue market in Portugal, which provides a financial incentive for small inland forest owners to clear their forests. From this perspective, Greenvolt is also an agent with an impact on territorial cohesion.

As regards renewable energy production through solar and wind sources, Greenvolt is currently present in several European countries in the development of large-scale projects, while also operating in the distributed solar-based generation segment, aimed at self-consumption. Thus, in addition to its role as an agent of change in the energy transition to a carbon-free economy, we also pursue the ambition of becoming an agent of change in the energy paradigm by developing small scale self-consumption solutions with an immediate impact on reducing the energy bill.

We believe that energy transition should not only be fast, but also inclusive and democratic. Greenvolt seeks to be on the right side of history every day and that is our main motivation in delivering innovative solutions to the causes of our time.

Finally, my heartfelt thanks go to all the people who are part of Greenvolt. They are tireless, every day, in pursuing the major goals of this Company. My thanks also go to all the financial entities that support us on a daily basis, as well as to other institutions and organisations with whom we interact in the most diverse geographies. 2021 will, no doubt, be especially remembered by all of us. We are now focused on the challenges of the new year.