Our business
We are e-distribución, an electricity distribution company carrying out regulated activities.
Our job is to bring electricity to your home or business and maintain the electricity grid to ensure a safe, high-quality supply.
We are responsible for:
- Maintaining the electricity grid.
- Reading meters.
- Managing faults and continuously improving our service.
Although we have changed our name, we are still your distribution company, with the same commitment as always.
Our commitment.
We work to drive the energy transition, relying on digitalisation and the development of smarter electricity grids.
Digitalising the network allows us to:
- Reduce supply interruptions.
- Improve response times to faults.
- Facilitate the integration of renewable energies, self-consumption, and electric mobility.
Where we operate
Electricity distribution in Spain is carried out by geographical areas.
At e‑distribución, we operate in:
- 24 provinces across 8 autonomous communities: Andalucía, Aragón, Baleares, Canarias, Cataluña, Extremadura, Castilla y León, and Galicia.
- Ciudad autónoma de Ceuta.
Our network covers 195,488 km² and serves nearly 22 million people.
Distribution company and commercialisation company: How do they differ?
The commercialisation company
- This is the company you sign your electricity contract with.
- It issues your bills and collects payment.
- It buys the energy and pays the distribution company to transport it.
The distribution company
- Brings electricity to your home.
- Reads the meters.
- Repairs grid faults.
- Maintains facilities to guarantee the quality of the supply.
As a consumer, you can choose and switch commercialisation companies whenever you want.
The distribution company depends on the area and cannot be chosen.
The cost of using the grid is called the access toll; it is set by the Government and is included in your electricity bill.
Our key figures
- 318,870 km of electricity grid.
- More than 12.79 million customers.
- 143,500 GWh distributed per year (more than 47% of Spain's electricity demand).
- 1,309 substations and 131,012 transformer substations.
- 99.7% of supplies up to 15 kW have smart meters (remote management project)
- 99% of transformer substations have remote access to meters.