Engagement channels and relevant issues for our Stakeholders

Active listening and constructive dialogue with Stakeholders

Iberdrola has set up the mechanisms and channels needed to ensure that all Stakeholders are able to interact and communicate with us.

These channels are constantly evolving to keep up with the needs and situations that apply at any given time and make them as effective as possible in building close, sound and long-lasting relationships.

Thanks to active listening and constant dialogue, Iberdrola group gains valuable insight on the main issues concerning Stakeholders, helping us to take better decisions and action.

Relevant cross-cutting channels and issues for all Stakeholders 

Cross-cutting channels

Relevant cross-cutting issues

Telephone, email, website and intranet  Ethics, integrity and transparency (accountability to Stakeholders and society)
 Meetings and interviews  Climate emergency, energy transition and industrial partnerships
   Innovation, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and cybersecurity
   Electricity prices
   Vulnerable customers and universal access to energy
  Strategy, investment plans, financial outlook and regulatory changes
   Respect for human rights, local comunnities and just transition
   ESG Performance and Sustainable Development Goals 
   Action for biodiversity and nature

Relevant channels and issues specific to each Stakeholder group

Iberdrola people

Specific channels

  • Meetings with the president and management team

  • Intranet, newspaper and employee management platform

  • Volunteer channel and single employment channel

  • Work climate surveys

  • WhatsApp for employees

  • Ethics mailbox

Specific relevant issues

  • Attracting, developing and retaining talent
  • Social benefits and work-life balance
  • Diversity and equality 
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Labour relations and rights

Shareholders and the financial community

Specific channels

  • General Shareholders‘ Meeting
  • Shareholders’ Club
  • Shareholders‘ Bulletin
  • Results presentations, Capital Markets & ESG Day and roadshows
  • Investor relations app
  • Corporate reports
  • Shareholders’ ethics mailbox
  • Shareholders' website
  • Exclusive OLA channel

Specific relevant issues

  • Strategy and investments
  • Structure, composition and remuneration of the Board of Directors
  • Economic and financial performance
  • Shares and dividends
  • Political and regulatory situation in the countries in which Iberdrola operates

Customers

Grids business' users

Specific channels

  • Digital channels (customer website, app)
  • Non-face-to-face channel (telephone)
  • Satisfaction surveys
  • Complaints systems
  • Communication and dissemination campaigns

Specific relevant issue

  • Quality of supply
  • Customer satisfaction and experience
  • Complaints, claims and incidents
  • Present and future of the sector (Energy transition)
  • Strategy and investments

Customers business' users

Specific channels

  • Digital channels (customer website, social networks, chat, Iberdrola Customer App, public recharge App)
  • Remote channel (telephone)
  • Customer service points, pop ups
  • Satisfaction surveys
  • Communication and dissemination campaigns

Specific relevant issues

  • Electricity bills and prices
  • Customer satisfaction and experience
  • Marketing of new solutions
  • Complaints and incident claims
  • Climate Change and Decarbonisation

Supply chain

Specific channels

  • Supplier registration, evaluation and classification platform
  • Satisfaction survey
  • IBuy tender management platform
  • Supplier service centre
  • Supplier website
  • Consultation mailboxes and Whistleblower Channel
  • Traction campaigns, improvement plans and remediation plans
  • Global and Local Supplier of the Year Awards
  • Social and Sustainability Audits

Specific relevant issues

  • Supply chain sustainability
  • Purchasing conditions, contracts and payments
  • Strategy and investments
  • Supplier traction
  • Economic and financial performance
  • Support for innovation
  • Improvement of tools

Communities

Media

Specific channels

  • Website
  • Press releases 
  • Events and meetings 
  • Social media

Specific relevant issues

  • Strategy and investments
  • Ethics, integrity and transparency
  • Electricity bills and prices
  • Iberdrola's role in the development of local communities
  • Customer satisfaction and experience

Regulatory entities

Specific channels

  • Queries and procedures
  • Informational websites and capsules

Specific relevant issues

  • Strategy and investments
  • Present and future of the sector (Energy transition)
  • Public policies
  • Regulation of energy markets
  • Regulation of remuneration to regulated businesses

People affected by the facilities

  • Ethics mailboxes and other mechanisms for receiving complaints and claims at project level
  • Community surveys
  • Specific discussion panels with the community
  • Web-based consultation mailbox

Specific relevant issues

  • Communication with and involvement of local communities in operations
  • Iberdrola's role in the development of local communities (employment, investment, taxes, local purchasing)
  • Support for vulnerable groups
  • Rights of local communities over land or housing and socio-cultural heritage

Environment

Specific channels

  • Corporate website and reports
  • Inspections and audits
  • Alliances, collaborations, events and conferences

Specific relevant issues

  • Climate change and decarbonisation
  • Biodiversity
  • Sustainability indexes
  • Environmental management
  • Present and future of the sector (Energy transition)
  • Circular economy

 

Iberdrola shares the outcome of its Stakeholder relations in its communication strategy on the corporate website and on social media, as well as through various reporting elements, especially the Statement of Non-financial Information [PDF] External link, opens in new window. and the Integrated Report [PDF] External link, opens in new window..

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