ESG
Focused on local communities and biodiversity
Clean energy with real-world impact
Matrix Renewables embeds ESG principles at the core of its global operations, making strong ESG performance essential to sustainable growth, effective risk management, and long-term value creation.The company pursues continuous improvement aligned with top standards and engages closely with investors, customers, partners, and communities to deliver lasting benefits.
Matrix Renewables believes meaningful progress requires collaboration and partners with contractors, suppliers, and like-minded organizations to drive positive change across the renewable energy value chain.
Sustainability reports
The 2025 report shows the significant progress the company has made in
meeting high standards on environment, health, safety, and supply chain management while at the same time ensuring that local communities benefit from projects.
Matrix Renewables has positioned itself as a leading responsible renewable energy IPP (Independent Power Producer) in the markets it operates in, thereby enhancing its brand and reputation amongst key stakeholders.
Creating social value
Investing with social impact
Aligned with the principles of a just energy transition, it integrates social and governance considerations throughout its operations.
Social License
- Creation of local social value by promoting local engagement projects that foster local employment, educational activities, training, and socio-economic development.
- Annual Social Action Plan based on three pillars: education, training and singular projects.
- Responsible supply chain management.
- Company’s alignment with best practices in sustainability and responsible investment.
Biodiversity and solar grazing
Implementing a sustainable vegetation management plan based on biodiversity criteria and using sheep allows for a net positive impact on local biodiversity, soil regeneration, reduces maintenance costs, and empowers rural communities. Matrix Renewables implements a biodiversity-led vegetation management plan that uses sheep grazing to enhance local biodiversity and soil health, reduce maintenance costs, and support rural communities.
- Matrix Renewables revives the long-lost tradition of livestock farming, or reaches agreements with local farmers that boost the local economy, so that livestock can graze on our property in a sustainable manner.
- Matrix has developed an algorithm that determines the optimal number of sheep to graze each year based on vegetation type and volume, ensuring effective vegetation control while avoiding overgrazing and minimizing runoff and erosion.
- The sheep are managed internally so that they graze in delimited areas, respecting the pollination periods.
- This symbiotic relationship illustrates how sustainable infrastructure management can generate positive impacts on biodiversity, the local economy, and social engagement.
“Having the sheep inside the solar plant gives me great peace of mind: they are protected by fencing, have access to water and food, and my work becomes much easier. I no longer need to move them constantly, which greatly reduces the day-to-day effort”.
Training
- Matrix Renewables collaborates with foundations to introduce young women to traditionally male-dominated professions through interactive school-based programs featuring Matrix employees and students.
- It also organizes entrepreneurship and finance training programs for women to support local business creation and promote economic independence.
- In collaboration with its contractors, Matrix delivers training programs for individuals at risk of social exclusion, including long-term unemployed and immigrant populations, enabling their participation in the workforce during the construction of its projects.
Our impact
Matrix Renewables contributes to a global and just transition to a low-carbon economy by generating clean, renewable energy through its projects.
By understanding the local ecological systems, Matrix promotes the development of targeted management plans that aim to achieve a net positive impact on biodiversity in the areas surrounding our plants.
Matrix Renewables recognizes the importance of understanding and managing the emissions associated with its own operations as part of a broader effort to understand its environmental footprint.
Supply chain
The company has established a Suppliers Code of Conduct that sets out minimum ESG requirements for partners, particularly those supplying key equipment like modules, batteries, transformers, and inverters. To ensure compliance, Matrix Renewables conducts regular supply-chain traceability audits-both document reviews and on-site inspections, mainly in Asian manufacturing plants-to prevent human rights violations and confirm adherence to ESG standards.
The code aligns with international frameworks such as the ILO Fundamental Conventions and IFC Performance Standards. Throughout the years, the company audited supply chain traceability at production facilities for polysilicon ingots, wafers, cells and modules totaling more than 1 GW, as well as a transformer plant in Turkey (350 MW). It also carried out Environment, Health & Safety audit at a polysilicon ingot and wafer facility in China (182 MW).
