At Soltec, convinced that the Sun should shine on everyone, we are committed to the wellbeing of the local communities surrounding our operations.
We are convinced that photovoltaic plants are a growth and development opportunity for the municipalities and communities where they are installed. They are drivers for the local economy by stimulating employment and boosting existing economic activity.
That allows us to create employment in the communities where we operate, prioritizing the procurement of local goods and services, and seeking to reinvest solar plant profits back into the neighborhoods.
Through our Foundation and various donations and sponsorships, we collaborate in the development and dissemination of renewable energies.
We are strongly committed to hiring local labor, especially when projects are located in rural or deprived areas with high unemployment.
Our projects generated 1,697 local jobs in 2022, providing labor opportunities to community members. We are also firm believers in education as a key pillar to improving the skills and knowledge of our local employees. For this reason, we deliver free training courses not only in renewable energy, but also in other trades potentially benefiting the communities where we operate.
Once projects have been completed, we offer long-term contracting opportunities to employees who have demonstrated outstanding performance. At Soltec, we strive to reinforce the commitment of our company to the well-being and development of local communities surrounding our operations
Soltec makes significant efforts to roll out corporate voluntary work and to support projects which meet specific site needs, as long as their aim is to generate a positive environmental and social impact on local communities.
Soltec Power Holdings and COCEMFE, jointly contributed to the decoration of a climbing wall for the students of the School of Early Childhood and Primary Education CEIP Bolivia of Madrid, where children with disabilities study. Soltec develops this initiative together with COCEMFE to reinforce the importance that the educational center gives to healthy environments of free and diverse play.
The Soltec Global Volunteer Service together with ANSE carries out the Solbirds action, a scientific bird banding in La Contraparada, in the heart of the Segura garden (Murcia). We ring, release and paint little houses for specimens of Zarcero Berber, a small, native and exclusive bird of the Region of Murcia.
Soltec Power Holdings, through its Global Volunteering Service, together with ANSE, Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste, has carried out a planting barrier (hedge) consisting of 500 trees and shrubs native to the Region of Murcia in the vicinity of the solar project of La Asomada. In this way, we contribute to shielding the visual impact of the photovoltaic plant.
Soltec Power Holdings, together with ANSE and the Mar de Músicas, have collected waste of various kinds in Cala Reona (Spain) to raise awareness about the need to keep our coasts clean. This initiative comes from the hand of Soltec and is framed within the sustainability actions of the La Mar de Músicas festival and the support of the Cartagena City Council. With this action, the Murcian company continues to show its commitment to the environment and social awareness.
Soltec Power Holdings’ volunteers carried out a reforestation of local trees close to the Segura river in the city of Molina de Segura (Spain). This are was devastated some months before by great floods. With this action, organized together with the environmental NGO ANSE, Soltec Power Holdings contributes to avoid the devastating effects of the heavy rains that periodically happen in the region.
Soltec Power Holdings have collaborated in some of their solar plants with the help of people with disabilities. In the Region of Murcia (Spain), we collaborated with the Day Center for People with Disabilities of the City Council of Totana (Murcia, Spain). They contributed with the installation of the plant. Thanks to this and other initiatives with the association, the Spanish Red Cross has awarded Soltec with a distinction for its labor integration plans.
Soltec Power Holdings celebrates de World Energy Day carrying out a solidary action with Unicef. We collaborated with the supply of 135.000 water purification pills in order to turn drinking water into drinkable for those who may need it.
Soltec Power Holdings’ volunteers have carried out a reforestation of cypresses on Roldán Forest and the recovery of the regional ecosystem by reforesting a riverbank on the Segura River.
These actions are part of the LIFE-Tetraclinis-EUROPA project, whose purpose is to contribute to conservation and sustainability of the habitats at a long-term increasing the area of this kind of forest in order to reduce the impact of tree trekking. In this way, Soltec Power Holdings contributes to remove a large amount of greenhouse gases effect the Atmosphere and that values ecosystem derived values to society acting as a reservoir of biodiversity, with which the decontamination of water and controlling erosion, among others.
Soltec Power Holdings organizes within La Mar de Músicas fest (Cartagena, Spain) several actions of waste collection on the coasts of the Region of Murcia. Together with the NGOs Mi Costa Sin Plásticos and Región de Murcia Limpia collecting plastics in Cabo de Palos beaches. All these wastes were deposited in a container fish by the sculptor Fernando Sáenz de Elorrieta located on the esplanade of the lighthouse of Cabo de Palos to raise awareness about the importance of keeping our coasts clean.
Soltec Power Holdings celebrates the Day Of The Sun, The 21st of June, and the arrival of summer with a donation to Greenpeace on behalf of all employees of the company. We join the fight against the Climate Change and, with our commitment to renewable energies, we contribute to the conservation of the Artic ecosystem.
Soltec Power Holdings’ volunteers collaborated with the affected ones by the floods happened in Molina de Segura (Murcia, Spain) during September 2019. The volunteers helped several neighbors of the most affected areas with the cleaning of their houses after the extreme rains.
The company, together with their employees, made a great donation of school material for the schools of the region affected by the floods. Besides, the company collected several batches of hygiene products to be donated to the City Hall of Molina de Segura, that distributed them between those families in need.
Soltec Power Holdings made a donation to the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) in order to make a course for the interested workers about smoking cessation. The course was distributed in several sessions. In this way, the company promotes the healthy habits between its team members.