ACCIONA is the greenest electric utility in the world

For the second year running, renewable energy company ACCIONA has been ranked number one on the list of the ‘New Energy Top 100 Green Utilities’, published every year by Energy Intelligence. The list, now in its fifth edition, combines the evaluation of CO₂ emissions indices of companies and their installed renewable capacity.

Energy Intelligence selected 100 of the biggest power generators worldwide, with capacity oscillating between 160 GW (China Huaneng) and just under 7 GW (OGE Energy, USA). Overall, the companies analysed totalled 3225 GW of installed capacity, or 55% of the total generation capacity in the world (based on 2013 figures from the International Energy Agency).

After ACCIONA, the greenest utilities are China General Nuclear, Iberdrola (Spain), NextEra Energy (US), Invenergy (US), China Guodian, EDP (Portugal), Enel (Italy), China Three Gorges and EDF (France). European companies occupy five of the top 10 positions, while Chinese companies now hold six of the 10 first positions in terms of renewable MW installed.

The analysis also highlights, among other things, that almost 80% of new electric power capacity installed by the companies appearing in the ranking in 2015 is renewable.