This year, we launched the campaign “We are the key to energy transition in Chile.” Its goal is to raise awareness about the matrix decarbonization process that is being promoted through multiple stakeholders in which transmission and Transelec play key roles. We must continue our work with a focus on sustainability, maintaining our alignment with communities and the environment that surrounds us, maintaining the quality of the service provided and the robustness of the system at all times.
This year, we launched the campaign “We are the key to energy transition in Chile.” Its goal is to raise awareness about the matrix decarbonization process that is being promoted through multiple stakeholders in which transmission and Transelec play key roles. We must continue our work with a focus on sustainability, maintaining our alignment with communities and the environment that surrounds us, maintaining the quality of the service provided and the robustness of the system at all times.
Managing our significant environmental impacts
Cultivating social license and territorial coexistence
Recognizing best practices for the design of environmental measures based on the incorporation of lessons that emerge from environmental assessment and operations processes developed by the Company and other stakeholders.
Verifying compliance with legal requirements
Promoting awareness of our environmental commitment and the dissemination of our Environmental Management System
Verifying compliance with legal requirements
Identifying digital innovation and transformation initiatives around sustainability in our regional divisions
Quantifying the 2022 carbon footprint at the corporate operations level
Managing the recycling of solid waste and/or residential-like waste at the operations and corporate levels
Quantifying water and energy consumption at the operations level
In the area of hazardous waste, we dismantle autotransformer equipment for component reuse and recycling. This year, we managed four of these units in the city of Concepción.
In 2022, we strengthened efforts to gather basic information in order to assess our energy and water consumption. This allowed us to move towards targets that may be proposed in the future in a context in which both topics are part of the structuring sustainability initiatives established in the Vice Presidency.
Protecting the natural environment and its biodiversity is fundamental for Transelec. We want to contribute to the fight against climate change and develop sustainable business activities.
No habitats of IUCN Red List species were impacted in 2022. This is due to the fact that the potential impact occurs during the project development stage. During operations, intervention is limited to maintenance, which involves cutting, pruning, and spraying strips that have already been intervened on, not at the species level.
Transelec works to create trust-based relationships with neighboring communities. We offer regular working groups, early citizen participation processes, and social investment projects to promote the development of these communities.
Internal progress has been made that has yielded benefits for the strategy’s implementation.
Business: supports planning from the social perspective through analysis (Energy Ministry); new projects decree (Energy Ministry); and due diligence (acquisition of infrastructure - private entities).
Project Development: supports environmental processing through analysis and participation processes (formal and informal) and indigenous consultation processes.
Operations: Working groups, social investment, and energy ideas are developed with communities located near critical and strategic infrastructure.
Cross-cutting programs to support society in general: We have crosscutting programs that benefit those who live near our facilities and others in those municipalities. We have expanded the spectrum of beneficiaries and included the environmental assessment process.
Strategy development: Design of the Community Engagement and Social Investment Strategy for 2024-2027; updating of the strategy with owners; Strip Encroachment Strategy.
