The president of Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán, is participating this week at the Ceraweek Congress organized by S&P Global, the largest energy event in the United States and one of the largest in the world held in Houston (Texas) from yesterday March 10 until Friday 14.
Ignacio Galán has held meetings with the highest responsible for the United States energy policy: the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum, President of the National Council of Energy Domain and Secretary of Interior of the United States during these meetings, Galán expressed his commitment to the country, where significant growth is expected in the demand for electricity.
“The United States is one of Iberdrola’s main investment destinations. At 50,000 million dollars invested in the last 20 years we will add more than 20,000 million dollars from here at the end of the decade To modernize, expand and digitize network infrastructure, making the increase in expected demand in the country possible, ”said Galán. These investments could be increased through generation projects.
50,000 million dollars in assets after two decades in the United States
After 20 years in the United States, Iberdrola has active for 50,000 million dollars in 24 statesHe uses more than 9,000 people in the country and holds through their purchases a total of 70,000 jobs.
80% of the Iberdrola business in the US are electrical networks. At present, the company operates more than 170,000 kilometers of electric lines in the New York states, Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts, among others.
In addition, Iberdrola has an installed power of around 10,000 MW.