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03/14/2025
Avangrid Continues Outreach Efforts to Hispanic Communities with Roundtable Hosted in Texas
Avangrid Continues Outreach Efforts to Hispanic Communities with Roundtable Hosted in Texas
Avangrid Met with Houston Hispanic Leaders to Listen and Learn on How to Elevate Involvement in Energy Matters and Job Opportunities
Photo features roundtable participants representing business leaders, community leaders, nonprofits, and former Ambassador Eduardo Aguirre.
Houston, Texas — 03/14/2025 — Avangrid, Inc., a leading energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, hosted a Hispanic roundtable led by CEO, Pedro Azagra, during our time at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas. The engagement brought together business leaders, community leaders, nonprofits, and a former ambassador to explore how to help underserved communities gain access to education, capital, and skills for workforce advancement.
This initiative follows Avangrid’s first Hispanic roundtable in Connecticut and marks a continuation of a long-term commitment to empowering underserved communities and ensuring they have a voice in the policies that affect their daily lives. Later this year, Avangrid will add additional roundtables throughout the 23 states where Avangrid operates.
“Avangrid, a member of the Iberdrola Group, is committed to engaging and supporting Hispanic communities across the United States,” said Avangrid CEO Pedro Azagra. “I am grateful to our distinguished leaders in Texas for their thoughtful and insightful participation in our roundtable and look forward to listening and learning more from them in conversations ahead. At Avangrid, we are committed to uplifting Hispanic voices and ensuring energy policy and strategy reflect our community needs and desires. As we expand our series of Hispanic Roundtables across the country, we will continue to develop real solutions to the complex energy challenges ahead informed by these critical conversations with our key partners.”
Avangrid’s Hispanic Roundtable convened during the CERAWeek energy conference aims to further increase the participation of the Hispanic community in recommending ways to tackling energy issues. CERAWeek is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy conferences. The gathering convenes more than 10,000 participants from 80 countries with the goal of discussing challenges and solutions to the complex energy future ahead.
This roundtable follows Avangrid’s recent announcement of membership with the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators and Avangrid CEO Pedro Azagra joining the Board of Trustees at the National Hispanic Energy Council. With these new memberships and recurring roundtables, Avangrid is bolstering its commitment to being a resource on energy-related issues for Hispanic communities across the nation.
About Avangrid: Avangrid, Inc. is a leading energy company in the United States working to meet the growing demand for energy for homes and businesses across the nation through service, innovation, and continued investments by expanding grid infrastructure and energy generation projects. Avangrid has offices in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maine and Oregon, including operations in 24 states with approximately $47 billion in assets, and has two primary lines of business: networks and renewables. Through its networks business, Avangrid owns and operates eight electric and natural gas utilities, serving more than 3.3 million customers in New York and New England and in 2024. Through its renewables business, Avangrid owns and operates more than 75 energy generation facilities across the United States producing over 9GW of power for over 2.2 million customers. Avangrid employs approximately 8,000 people and has been recognized by JUST Capital as one of the JUST 100 companies – a ranking of America’s best corporate citizens in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year. The company was named among the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2024 for the sixth consecutive year by the Ethisphere Institute. Avangrid is a member of the group of companies controlled by Iberdrola, S.A. For more information, visit www.avangrid.com.
About Iberdrola: Iberdrola is one of the world's biggest energy companies and a leader in renewables, spearheading the energy transition to a low carbon economy. The group supplies energy to almost 100 million people in dozens of countries. With a focus on renewable energy, smart networks and smart solutions for customers, Iberdrola’s main markets include Europe (Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. The company is also present in growth markets such as Japan, Taiwan, Ireland, Sweden and Poland, among others.
With a workforce of nearly 40,000 and assets in excess of €141.7 billion, across the world, Iberdrola helps to support 400,000 jobs across its supply chain, with annual procurement of €12.2 billion. A benchmark in the fight against climate change, Iberdrola has invested more than €130 billion over the past two decades to help build a sustainable energy model, based on sound environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles.
