Endesa X and the Palladium Hotel Group join forces to facilitate electric vehicle recharging in Spain

• They have signed a framework partnership agreement to install fast and semi-fast technology electric vehicle chargers at 13 of their hotels in Ibiza, Menorca, Tenerife, Andalusia, Catalonia and Madrid, with around 50 electrified parking spaces.
• Public access: the chargers installed may also be used by all users, whether or not they are customers staying at the hotels. They are publicly accessible and their availability can be checked in the Endesa X recharge app, Juice Pass. Today there are already more than 2,000 public chargers throughout Spanish territory.
• Endesa X's collaboration with the Palladium Hotel Group is a benchmark for the global tourism sector and is a very important step towards sustainable tourism, essential to facilitate the electrification of transport in our society.

Endesa X, a leading company  in energy services and electric mobility solutions, and the Palladium Hotel Group, have signed an agreement to promote electric mobility in our country. Thanks to this collaboration, Endesa X will initially install some 50 electric vehicle chargers in 13 of the chain's hotels in Ibiza, Menorca, Tenerife, Andalusia, Catalonia and Madrid.

For Davide Ciciliato, general manager of Endesa X, "we are very proud to have a partner such as the Palladium Hotel Group in a key sector in our country such as the tourism sector, helping us in our goal of increasingly democratising zero-emission mobility and facilitating access to recharging. For the development of our recharging infrastructure plan, on which we have been working for more than two years, it is essential to have partners such as the Palladium Hotel Group, which share this path towards the decarbonisation of transport and the fight against climate change"

For his part, the global director of Operations of the Palladium Hotel Group, Raúl Benito, stressed that "this partnership agreement is a decisive step in the development of our environmental commitment policies." Promoting electric mobility means a significant reduction in CO2 emissions, an area in which we are fully involved. The collaboration began in Ibiza in 2017, an island on which we have pioneered an agreement of these characteristics with Endesa X, since we consider it to be the ideal place for a sustainable project of this magnitude, and this year it extends to other hotels on the peninsula, which constitutes significant progress in our commitment to sustainability in its three areas: economic, social and environmental".

Public access chargers

All recharging infrastructure installed at the hotels is publicly accessible and open to all users: anyone can make use of them, even if they are not going to stay at the hotel nor are they a current Endesa customer. Some 50 electrified spaces are planned in total at the car parks of each hotel, where they will also have an exclusive parking and recharging area for electric cars. Customers who are staying at hotels containing recharging infrastructure will also have exclusive advantages.

Being passage areas in which the average parking time of customers is somewhat higher, it is planned that the chargers mainly involve semi-fast technology. Endesa X's JuicePole, with its up to 22 kW of power, allows 80% of the vehicle's battery to be recharged in approximately one hour. In addition, it allows the simultaneous charging of two vehicles at the same time, which favours the rotation of vehicles at the hotels at which they are installed.

JuicePass: manage recharging from your mobile phone

Whether you are a Palladium and Endesa customer or not, you can access public chargers by installing the Endesa X application on your mobile phone, which will allow you to locate the nearest recharging station, know its status, reserve the charger and pay from your JuicePass mobile.

The App is available completely free of charge on IOS and Android and allows registration using personal data or Facebook or Google profiles, which offers economic advantages in recharging prices and also expedites the process.

Sustainable tourism

Endesa X's collaboration with the Palladium Hotel Group is a benchmark for the global tourism sector. A very important step towards sustainable tourism, essential, in our society. And in its goal of adapting to the new forms of understanding the future needs of its customers, the Palladium Hotel Group has taken a step forward with its strategy of facilitating the recharging of electric vehicles, both for its guests and for the users of

electric vehicles in general. For its part, Endesa X contributes a great deal of experience in the energy sector as a subsidiary of Endesa, and also represents a strategic role in e-mobility, as a 360º agent, being a developer and operator of infrastructures, a provider of cutting-edge technological solutions and a provider of digital services. Endesa X is committed to the decarbonisation of demand, and is immersed in an open strategy aimed at digitalisation, sustainability and innovation.

About Endesa

Endesa is the largest electricity company in Spain and the second largest in Portugal. The company is also the second largest gas operator in the Spanish market. Endesa operates an end-to-end business from generation to marketing and through Endesa X also offers value-added services aimed at the decarbonisation of energy uses in homes, companies, industries and public administrations. Endesa is firmly committed to the United Nations SDGs and therefore strongly supports the development of renewable energies through Enel Green Power España, the electrification of the economy and Corporate Social Responsibility. The Endesa Foundation is also active in this field. Our workforce numbers around 10,000 employees. Endesa is a division of Enel, Europe’s largest electricity group.

Endesa X provides innovative solutions that support the energy transition, turning the goals of decarbonisation and electrification into beneficial activities for cities, businesses and people in a constantly evolving world. With a strategy focusing on digitalisation and innovation, it provides an ecosystem of closely interconnected solutions that turn energy into new opportunities for a number of sectors: electric mobility, public and private energy efficiency, artificial intelligence services, data analysis and energy consulting. Endesa X designs, creates and provides modular commercial solutions that enable everyone to create new value thanks to the innovative use of energy. This approach focuses on the principles of sustainability and circular economy to offer households, administrations and companies an alternative model that respects the environment and integrates technological innovation in the daily lives of customers, which are the focus of the company's strategy. Endesa X is the Spanish and Portuguese division of Enel X, a world leader in the field of advanced energy solutions, managing flexibility services with around 6 GW of total capacity and 100 MW of installed storage capacity worldwide, also owning around 195,000 charging stations for electric vehicles worldwide.

About the Palladium Hotel Group

The Palladium Hotel Group is a Spanish hotel chain with 50 years' experience, owned by Grupo Empresas Matutes (GEM). The company has 48 hotels and more than 14,000 rooms distributed across six countries: Spain, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Italy and Brazil and it operates 10 brands: TRS Hotels, Grand Palladium Hotels & Resorts, Palladium Hotels, Palladium Boutique Hotels, Fiesta Hotels & Resorts, Ushuaïa Unexpected Hotels, Ayre Hotels, Only YOU Hotels, BLESS Collection Hotels and the Hard Rock Hotels brand under licence with two hotels in Ibiza and Tenerife. Palladium Hotel Group hotels are characterised by their philosophy of offering their customers a high level of quality in their products and services and excellent values.