This production was achieved due to the group’s international expansion and also due to a greater investment in clean generation technologies, in line with its current strategy.
For the first time in the group’s history, power plants located abroad have contributed more than 50% of all the energy produced in a half-yearly period.
International electricity generation during the first six months of 2008 has increased to 35,685 million kWh or 51.6% of the total generation. The group generated 18,961 million kWh in Latin America, an increase of 32.1%; 13,410 million kWh in the UK, an increase of 10.9%; 2,739 million kWh in the US, an increase of 198.4%; and another 575 million kWh in the rest of the world, an increase of 14.5%.
In Spain, Iberdrola’s production between January 2008 and June 2008, reached 33,473 million kWh, an increase of 2.5%. Other significant increases in generation included combined cycle gas plants, up 61.7%, to 8,893 million kWh; nuclear plants, up 15.3%, to 12,487 million kWh; and wind farms, up 14.6%, to 4,417 million kWh.
