Energy communities IV

Direct impact

• Contribution to the decarbonization of Portugal, avoiding CO2 emissions: with a clean energy production of around 108 MWh per year, the solar energy central will avoid the emission of 14.47 tonnes of CO2 every year. This is equivalent to the absorption of CO2 from around 658 trees.

Indirect impact

• Reduction of energy poverty in Portugal: through community energy production, the "100 Aldeias" project will impact 20,000 people in 100 small Portuguese villages, with an expected reduction of around 10% of their energy costs and an increase in their levels of thermal comfort.

Enerbellum is the holding company of the same founders of Cleanwatts - José Basílio Simões, Michael Pinto, Jorge Landeck and Luísa Matos (who are also founders of companies such as ISA - Intelligent Sensing Anywhere and VPS - Virtual Power Solutions) - specialists in the application of information and communication technologies, today commonly referred to as IoT (Internet of Things), in the Energy, Environment and Health and Welfare sectors.

Enerbellum has invested in several impactful projects, using technology to help solve important global problems such as climate change. Enerbellum is also committed to promoting digitalization and the sharing economy, for example, as a means for democratizing access to clean energy, fighting energy poverty, and improving the quality of life.

Cleanwatts, the group's most important subsidiary, is a climate tech company committed to simplifying, amplifying, and accelerating decarbonization and the fight against energy poverty with the participation of companies and communities around the world. It has a holistic view of the challenges and needs of local energy communities and an operating system designed to generate value upstream and downstream of the electric meter by controlling generation, storage, consumption, and energy flexibility.

In addition to supporting existing and emerging Energy Communities, Cleanwatts also creates and installs Energy Communities from local anchor consumers/producers. In these projects, the company combines its digital offering with solutions that do not require investment in resources by the customer, fully assuming the costs of photovoltaic panels, energy storage systems, and other equipment that promote electrification and efficiency of consumption, such as electric vehicle charging and heat pumps. Cleanwatts' mission is to help build a world in which energy is decarbonized, decentralized, digitized, and democratized.