José Manuel Revuelta, new director general of infrastructures and networks of Endesa

José Manuel Revuelta Mediavilla has been appointed by the Board of Directors of Endesa as the company's new General Manager of Infrastructures and Networks. Revuelta will replace Gianluca Caccialupi, who has been at the helm of e-distribution, Endesa's distribution subsidiary, for the past three years.

Revuelta will be responsible for implementing Endesa's ambitious plan to digitise distribution networks, the true facilitator of the energy transition process. The key role that Endesa places on networks to achieve the decarbonisation and electrification of the economy reflects the investment the company will make in its distribution assets over the next three years: 2.6 billion euros, 30% more than in the 2020-2022 plan.

Revuelta, holder of a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Valladolid and a PhD in Economics from Carlos III University, has extensive experience in the energy sector and has spent much of his career in Endesa, which he joined in 1998, and the Enel Group. From 2018 he held the position of Country Manager of Enel Peru, from where he led the transformation of Enel's subsidiary to adapt it to the intense energy transition process in which the electricity sector is immersed.

Prior to running Enel Perú, he held the positions of Operation and Maintenance Director of Endesa Distribución and Planning and Control Director of Endesa Red, both within the infrastructure area. He was previously the Assistant Director of Regulation and Demand Management at Endesa Energía. He was also a member of the Board of Sedigas, the Spanish Gas Association, during this period.

Revuelta also has experience in the public sector, since between 2006 and 2008 he was Director of Regulation and Competition at the CNE (National Energy Commission), the former regulator of the Spanish energy sector that later joined the current Spanish Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC).

Born in Puente San Miguel (Cantabria), Revuelta has an Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa and has completed training stays at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Harvard Business School. As a teacher, he has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Valladolid and the Departments of Statistics and Economics of Carlos III University.

The network, a strategic vector

Revuelta is at the helm of the Endesa distribution branch at a time of transformation in which networks play a key role in ensuring the integration of renewable energies, the development of technologies that facilitate distributed energy or the mass deployment of the electric car.

Network infrastructures face, in parallel with their technology facilitating role in combating climate change, the consequences of climate change. They must increase their resilience to extreme phenomena to ensure quality of supply.

Therefore, the distribution network will be one of Endesa's priority investment areas in the next triennium, with the aim of making it smarter and improving service to users. The objective set out in the 2021-2023 strategic plan is to reduce both the number of interruptions and the duration of the interruptions by 23% and 27%, respectively.

Service to nearly 21 million people

As of 31 December 2020, Endesa distributed electricity in 24 Spanish provinces (A Coruña, Almería, Badajoz, Barcelona, Cádiz, Córdoba, Girona, Granada, Huelva, Huesca, Balearic Islands, Jaén, Las Palmas, León, Lleida, Malaga, Ourense, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Seville, Soria, Tarragona, Teruel, Zamora and Zaragoza) of eight Autonomous Communities (Andalusia, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Extremadura and Galicia) and in the city of Ceuta. This equates to a geographical area with a total 195,488 km2 and a population of about 21 million inhabitants.

The number of customers with an access contract to Endesa's distribution networks at that time exceeded 12 million and the total energy distributed by the company's networks, measured in central bars, reached GWh 105,743 (gigawatt per hour) in 2020.        

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 CSR. Our workforce totals around 9,600 employees. Endesa is a division of Enel, Europe’s largest electricity group.