Acea’s strategic planning takes account of both its industrial dimension and sustainability aspects, facilitating “integrated thinking”.
Acea’s strategy is aimed at pursuing the Group’s sustainable expansion. For this purpose, our industrial vision must consider our stakeholders’ expectations, with a view to creating a shared value.
Our Group serves the people and the local communities. This role makes us aware of both our responsibility towards our stakeholders and the economic, social and environmental impacts that we generate.
Acea’s strategic planning takes account of both its industrial dimension and sustainability aspects, facilitating “integrated thinking”.
Over the years, we have synergistically defined and revised the Business Plan and the Sustainability Plan so as to enhance our capacity to create value not only for the business, but also for the local communities, society and the environment.
The Business Plan and Sustainability Plan project us towards more and more challenging goals, consolidating the integrated vision between business and sustainability, driving us to be a Group that pays attention to its social and environmental context and a generator of shared value.
In the new 2020-2024 Business Plan sustainability constitutes a structural factor behind the Group’s business and operational management decisions. We have provided for investments totalling 2.1 billion Euro related to specific sustainability targets, such as the protection and management of water resources, the contribution to the development of electric mobility and the fight against climate change.
The five pillars defining the 2020-2024 Business Plan can be summarised with the acronym GRIDS, which also integrates the sustainability aspect.
The Sustainability Plan is the strategic tool whereby we express our commitment to increasingly integrate sustainability into our business management and development, in terms of macro objectives, action areas, targets and KPIs. The Plan comprises two levels:
Acea has successfully completed its first Green Bond placement
To give an additional boost to sustainability, Acea has successfully issued its first Green Bond. The issuance is in line with the Group’s financial strategy as set forth in the 2020-2024 Business Plan: the proceeds will be used to fund projects with positive environmental impact, such as those concerning water resource protection, electricity distribution network resilience, energy efficiency, electric mobility, development of the circular economy and increased energy generation from renewable sources.
