Given the unprecedented health emergency in Spain derived from the global pandemic generated by Covid-19, Endesa, within its commitment to society, has designed a Public Responsibility Plan, endowed with 25 million euros, for direct aid to the purchase of material, special supply conditions and donations to alleviate the main health and social needs caused by the health crisis.
In a first phase, the Action Plan is aimed at immediate and most urgent aid, around 3 axes. The first of these axes is based on the donation of materials and services. And Endesa will make available to this plan its logistical and purchasing capacity, both national and international, as well as qualified personnel and the necessary means for the provision of protective equipment for health or public service personnel (gowns, masks and other Personal Protective Equipment -PPEs-), and Instruments for the care of hospitalized patients (ventilators, tests, drugs, etc.)
The second of the company's lines of action focuses on reinforcing the special conditions of energy supply to Residences, Hospitals and Medicalized Hotels, making available to the public service its capacity as an energy supplier for health facilities. Concretizing in equipment and personnel to guarantee the electricity supply in field hospitals and medicalized hotels (generating sets, increased power, troubleshooting, etc.)
Free supply during the state of alarm to medicalized hotels that are Endesa customers.
The third axis is based on economic donations to institutions, organizations and health centers that help to cover basic needs of special gravity previously identified.
ICU ventilators and masks. In this sense, Endesa has purchased ventilators for ICU and 2 million masks worth 10 million euros that it will make available to the competent health authorities.
The company will provide support to public service teams (local police, UME, civil protection, others) through materials, vehicles and services that may be required to address this epidemiological emergency.
According to the CEO of Endesa, José Bogas, "we are experiencing a very serious health, economic and social situation, unprecedented in recent history. That is why at Endesa we have designed an action plan with those actions in which we will be most useful and in which, without a doubt, we will be able to fulfill what we promise to our customers and to all citizens".
This Endesa Action Plan is in line with the action announced last Monday, March 23 by Enel for Italy through the Enel Cuore Foundation (foundation of the Enel group, to which Endesa belongs).
Actions already underway
The initiative joins those that the company has been doing these days avoiding cuts to residential sector customers for non-payment, making conditions more flexible for SMEs, the self-employed and families with needs, offering telematic alternatives so that no one has to leave home to interact with Endesa, analyzing case by case the requests of client companies, ensuring immediate payments to suppliers of care and sales channels, and donations from its plants to hospitals in the areas where it has infrastructure.
Endesa has also reinforced the operation of its distribution and energy control centers and generation plants to ensure the electricity supply in the territories in which it operates (Aragon, Andalusia and part of Extremadura, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Galicia and Castilla y León). It has also doubled its renewable generation control center, located in Madrid, with a mirror center in Santiago de Compostela.
Once the health problem, which is now the most pressing, has been overcome, Endesa is considering in a next phase other measures aimed at alleviating the effects that the economic crisis will have on the most vulnerable customers.
Endesa Foundation
Endesa, through its Foundation, is already focused on helping the most vulnerable groups with whom it collaborates and alleviating the effects of the crisis on those most in need. Thus, in collaboration with organizations already partners of the Foundation, Endesa will help Cáritas with 100,000 euros, the SAFA Foundation in Andalusia with 270,000 euros for families, the Integra Foundation with 45,000 euros and, within the Retotech program, the printers donated to schools will be used to make protective visors for health workers and aid bodies.
