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Energy and


                 climate change management strategy



                 In 2017, the company continued taking on projects
                 to improve the efficiency and rational use of energy with the following goals:




                   Environmental respect          Energy resource            Economic efficiency in
                      and protection           management efficiency        the application of energy



                 The new tools that we have incorporated to reduce and control energy consumption
                 are examples of this.



         Tools incorporated in 2017 to reduce energy consumption


         IT application                                   Creara and MC2
         Computer applications for controlling e-billing,  Statistical monitoring of operating periods,
         enabling:                                        enabling the contract manager:
         • Contract power capacity adjustment.            • Continuous supervision of the demanded power
         • Reactive energy consumption control.           in relation to the contract and undesired reactive
         • Retailer offer analysis.                       energy consumption.
         • Automatic e-bill adjustment check against
         related contract.




         Professionals made incredible       in the following charts, since      the company. The increase in
         efforts in this period to keep      compared with the                   renewable energy consumption
         a record of electricity and fuel    2015 and 2016, which only           was due to new managed
         consumption from all the            report data from Spain, Italy,      facilities in Spain with
         regions were Aqualia operates.      Portugal and the Czech              an elevated production of
         This is the reason for the          Republic, the figures from 2017     biogas.
         spike in consumption data           encompass all activities of




                               3,347,591







                                                                      177,460 GJ of
                       1,890,048                                    renewable energy
               1,763,943
                                                                     were produced in
                                                                    2017, 82% in Spain.




                                                                      28,653 tonnes
               2015     2016    2017                                of reactive energy
                                                                     were consumed
             Indirect energy consumption (GJ)                             in 2017.





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