Winners 6th edition
First prize
Provivienda: Home energy saving solutions
The project aims to improve the most vulnerable households’ access to energy and reduce energy poverty. The proposed actions include diagnosing the energy needs of households and implementing measures to improve efficiency, as well as providing training on consumption habits, energy saving methods, how to increase comfort levels, how to understand and optimise utility bills, how to benefit from the subsidised electricity rate and legal advice regarding energy consumption
Runners-up prize
Tomillo Foundation: Vulnerable Young People, Agents of Social Change
With the aim of increasing young people’s employability and making homes more sustainable with networked solutions, the Tomillo Foundation carries out this energy-efficiency project to promote energy savings, provide training to increase employment opportunities and prevent electrical risks in vulnerable homes. Once they have completed the theory section of the course, the students take part in hands-on training that involves carrying out audits and awareness-raising activities with families suffering socio-economic difficulties.
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Arquia Foundation: Arquia/Well-being
This project helps people at risk of exclusion, disabled people or patients undergoing treatment to access decent housing and improve the habitability of these homes, promoting their quality of life and emotional well-being. Working alongside organisations, they carry out life-changing sustainable refurbishments, prioritising energy efficiency and resource optimisation. These actions prioritise energy efficiency in buildings, making it possible to reduce families’ utility costs and increase their well-being.
Konecta Foundation: Green Jobs Hub for vulnerable people
The main objective is to promote green economy employment opportunities, including in the area of renewable energies, especially for young and vulnerable people, by improving their employability with training courses and qualifications, in both companies and with freelancers, as well as supporting people who wish to start their own business. At the same time, it boosts research and drives the generation of knowledge on this subject through Sustainable Challenges involving various project collaborators.
Habitatge Social Foundation: Prometheus Project
The initiative aims to reduce the incidence of energy poverty among families who rent social flats. It is aimed at homeless families, particularly those with children, disabled people and single-parent families. The project intends to minimise the impact of energy poverty and ensure that these families have access to resources, training and education. Another of its objectives is to guarantee that housing meets energy-efficiency standards and to provide solutions to the effects of climate change based on sensorisation, data analysis and architectural interventions.
Integra Pirineus Private Foundation:Give Life to the Forest
“Give Life to the Forest” implements sustainable forest management principles in the woodlands of the Pyrenees and uses excess tree trimmings to produce forest biomass (wood chips), which is then sold as a green energy source for large boilers in the region (town halls, hospitals, hotels, etc.). This generates employment for people in vulnerable situations or at risk of exclusion, particularly those with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health disorders.
Generamés: Generamés Project: clean energy and social inclusion
Thanks to this initiative, people at risk of social exclusion receive specialised training in areas such as photovoltaics, charging points and aerothermal energy. They then join Generamés with an insertion contract, providing them with a hands-on learning experience and improving their personal and professional skills. They are organised in teams working both for private (residential, industrial) and public entities (through public tenders).
Institut Metrópoli: Heat Guardians
This project aims to inform and improve public policy on climate change adaptation and, specifically, to generate new data on thermal (dis)comfort inside the homes of children located in vulnerable areas at higher risk of energy poverty. The project helps raise students’ and the educational community’s awareness of the local impacts of climate change, energy habits and the co-design of proposals.
Mohammad Nazrul Chowdhury Begum: Trust Project
The Trust Project is a scalable and adaptable initiative that provides comprehensive support to people in extreme vulnerability. Through groups and fortnightly meetings, it fosters synergies with various institutions and support networks, offering practical tools, training, energy advice and access to financial resources. It also offers training and support on energy and energy efficiency issues and carries out energy refurbishments in some of its users’ homes. This allows beneficiaries to move towards their objectives with autonomy.
The initiative is based on a network of points that provide advice on energy rights and consumption, in coordination with local (public and private) social organisations in Madrid. It targets the most vulnerable groups, especially elderly people who live alone, single-parent families and migrants. One Energy Window was launched in Vallecas in 2019 and another opened in Villaverde in 2022. A further two are planned for 2025, located in Moratalaz and Usera.
Tras el éxito de las anteriores convocatorias, Fundación Naturgy lanza la IV edición del ‘Premio a la mejor iniciativa social en el ámbito energético’.
Queremos dar visibilidad a aquellas personas, entidades o instituciones que destacan en el ámbito social vinculado, directa o indirectamente, a la energía, y ayudar a financiar iniciativas en este ámbito para mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas más vulnerables.
Buscamos proyectos desarrollados en España que estén relacionados con la energía, que tengan un fin social claro y que ayuden a los que más lo necesitan a mejorar sus condiciones de vida: proyectos educativos, de vulnerabilidad energética, de emprendimiento, de inclusión social, de salud, ambientales, relacionados con la economía circular…
Es importante que las iniciativas presentadas estén en marcha o ya concluidas. El importe íntegro del reconocimiento deberá ser destinado a proyectos sociales que promuevan la mejora de las condiciones de los colectivos vulnerables en temas relacionados con la energía.
Este premio forma parte de la línea de acción social de Fundación Naturgy, en su vocación por desarrollar actuaciones destinadas a paliar la vulnerabilidad energética.