Energy is a right (that Endesa is not respecting)
Catalunya
Channel
You will receive, in digital format, the ultimate APE guide to standing up to the big companies of the energy oligopoly.
You can claim tax relief on up to 80% of your donation
‘Fire at Endesa!’ Do you want the little flame that will light your dreams? As a thank you for your contribution, we'll give it to you. You can collect it at the APE anniversary (on April 11th at Can Vies, Barcelona) or at any of our drop-in sessions. We can also post it to you (this isn't included in the price, but it will be cheap).
You can claim back up to 80% of your donation
You will receive, in digital format, the ultimate APE guide to standing up to the big companies of the energy oligopoly.
You can claim tax relief on up to 80% of your donation
The new APE pen and the last remaining units of our old notebook make this pack an exclusive offer. Be warned, once they're gone, they're gone for good! You can collect your reward at the APE anniversary (on April 11th at Can Vies, Barcelona) or at any of our drop-in sessions. We can also post it to you (postage not included).
You can claim tax relief on up to 80% of your contribution
On April 11th, we'll be celebrating our 12th anniversary at Can Vies (Barcelona), with a super-strong programme that will include an Anti-Oligopoly Olympics. Fight yes, party too! To thank you for your contribution, we'll treat you to dinner on the day.
You can claim back up to 80% of your donation
The symbolic “Fire to Endesa!” lighter, the new APE pen and the last remaining units of our old notebook make this pack an exclusive offer. Be warned, once they're gone, they're gone for good! You can collect your reward at the APE anniversary (on April 11th at Can Vies, Barcelona) or at any of our advice sessions. We can also send it to your home (postage not included).
You can claim up to 80% of your contribution back
Premium version of the popular dinner! On April 11th, we're celebrating our 12th anniversary at Can Vies (Barcelona), with a super-strong programme that will include the Anti-Oligopoly Olympics. To thank you for your generous contribution, we'll treat you to a meal on the day (lunch/dinner) and four drinks (beer or a soft drink).
You can claim up to 80% of your donation back
You will receive, in digital format, the ultimate APE guide to standing up to the big companies of the energy oligopoly.
You can claim tax relief on up to 80% of your donation
Your organisation will receive 5 printed copies (and the digital version) of the ultimate APE guide to taking on the big companies of the energy oligopoly.
See the tax benefits of your donation here
Want to organise a talk or workshop on how to read your bills, how the social tariff works, or how to stand up to the big energy companies? Want us to run a community advice session in your neighbourhood? Count on us!
If you'd like to do something similar, but can't afford such a large reward, that's no problem. Write to us at contacta@pobresaenergetica.es and we can have a chat.
See the tax benefits of your donation here
We need your support to continue the fight for social electric meters: together we will ensure that thousands of households have access to energy.
Material
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Fine
Penalty applied against the Alliance against Energy Poverty for occupying the Endesa office to demand the widespread installation of social tariffs.
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€ 250 | |
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Campaign materials
To carry forward the campaign against social meters, we need to print posters, create merchandise and organise events. Everything depends on all of us.
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€ 1.250 |
Task
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Legal report
Endesa and the catalan government say it's not possible to install social electricity meters on a widespread basis. We know it is, and that's why we want to commission a report to prove it. Let's leave them with no excuses!
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€ 3.000 | |
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Legal report
Endesa and the catalan government say it's not possible to install social electricity meters on a widespread basis. We know it is, and that's why we want to commission a report to prove it. Let's leave them with no excuses! (If we reach this amount, we'll be able to commission a report on better terms.)
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€ 2.000 |
Infrastructure
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APE's anniversary
As part of the Goteo campaign, we will celebrate our 12th anniversary, with the aim of boosting the campaign's social counters and raising funds for the campaign.
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€ 1.500 | |
| Total | € 4.500 | € 8.000 |
There are thousands of households in Catalonia that have to choose between living in the dark or having their electricity cut off. However, there is an alternative: social meters. Social meters are standard meters installed in homes squatted by vulnerable people. In this way, these people can access electricity regularly and safely while they resolve their housing problem.
This is a measure provided for in the agreement signed by Endesa (Enel) and the catalan government in 2021, but it has not been fully implemented due to obstacles from the company and a lack of will from the different governments that have been in power since then. However, this agreement expired on 31 December 2025, and the PSC has already announced that it has no intention of renewing it.
Countless people have been driven by the inaccessible housing market to occupy a disused property. Tens of thousands of people who, every day, have to face precarity, stigmatisation and, all too often, racism. We at the APE denounce the criminalisation of poverty and the hate speech that not only fuels the far-right but also much of the parliamentary spectrum.
Housing, water and energy are basic human rights and must be treated as such. Therefore, until social rent or the appropriate measure for a vulnerable person is processed, they must be allowed to have minimum conditions. Social meters make this possible: they provide access to water and energy supplies in a regular and safe way, preventing a potential fire risk and guaranteeing the rights and dignity of the people affected.
In the face of excuses from Endesa and the catalan government, we are clear: self-organisation and mobilisation are the answer. That's why we have been campaigning since 2021 to unlock social meters, collaborating with the housing movement and all kinds of social organisations. Just a few months ago, we published a manifesto, with the support of more than 60 collectives and organisations, including several firefighters' unions.
On 19 May 2025, as part of this very campaign, we occupied Endesa's commercial office in Barcelona to demand a three-way meeting with the company and the Generalitat. Endesa's response: sending the police and forcibly ejecting us from the office without giving any answer to our request for a meeting.
As if that weren't enough, we have recently received a fine from the Mossos d'Esquadra for an ‘unnotified assembly’ for this mobilisation. In the face of a necessary measure for thousands of vulnerable households… Endesa calls the police to have us removed and the Generalitat applies the Gag Law to us. The fine isn't particularly large (€250), but we are very clear that we cannot, under any circumstances, allow ourselves to be penalised for the simple act of demanding that a private company fulfils its commitments to the public administration.
We were requesting this three-way meeting to finally unlock the installation of social counters. The measure was included in the Endesa-Generalitat agreement, but the private company has imposed a document that was not envisaged in the agreement and which the municipal social services refuse to sign. Faced with this obstacle, and seeing the lack of will from either side to find a solution, we offered to collaborate to find them.
We have been insisting for years, but they all wash their hands of the matter and say there is nothing to be done. We know that there must be a way to make this possible, as demonstrated by the more than a thousand social water meters installed since 2015: what they lack is the will to find it. That is why we have decided the time has come to leave them with no excuses, and that is why we need your support.
As well as covering the cost of the fine and being able to continue the campaign for social water meters, we need to raise money to commission a legal report that analyses the current regulations and demonstrates that the mechanism is fully viable on a large scale. In the face of their blockade, we are organising ourselves to guarantee our rights.
Every euro contributed to this campaign will be used to stand up to Endesa. The abuses of the energy oligopoly and the irresponsibility of the public administration leave us with only one option: to fight, fight and fight. At the APE, we work every day to ensure that access to water and energy is universal, dignified and affordable. There are many struggles we are involved in. But we are clear on this: at present, in our territory, social tariffs are the most urgent and fundamental measure.
That is why we need your support, as much as you can and in whatever way you can. If you can make a financial contribution, however small, it will be very welcomed. Likewise, if you can't contribute, any sharing is a great help. Share with your circles and take part in future mobilisations.
The Alliance against Energy Poverty (APE) is a social movement founded in 2014 to defend universal access to basic water and energy services. To achieve this, we exert pressure on the government to guarantee these rights and on the major utility companies to assume their responsibility in the various situations of energy poverty.
In 2015, thanks to a People's Legislative Initiative, we pushed through Law 24/2015, which prohibits supply cuts for vulnerable households in Catalonia. Years later, in March 2021, we succeeded in getting Endesa to sign an agreement with the Generalitat containing key measures against fuel poverty. This is how we achieved one of our greatest victories: the cancellation of debt accumulated since 2015.
The major struggles we lead are fuelled directly by our collective advice, our assembly. Every two weeks we meet at the FAVB headquarters (c/ Obradors, 8, Barcelona) from 5 to 7 in the evening (you can find more information and the calendar here), to collectively address the different cases of energy poverty that come to us.
We are running this Goteo campaign with the support of Engineering Without Borders, an organisation that advocates for access to water and energy worldwide, with which we maintain a close collaboration.
Universal access to water and energy. Every family, even if they cannot afford to pay, must be guaranteed access to utilities to enable them to live with dignity.
Stop the disconnection of utilities. Let the authorities fulfil their role as guarantors of human rights and not leave this decision to the utility companies.
Let the oligopoly bear the financial burden. The costs of providing these basic services must be borne by the large companies with their multi-billion-pound profits.
Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality.
Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity.
Self-defence kit against the oligopoly
You will receive, in digital format, the ultimate APE guide to standing up to the big companies of the energy oligopoly.
You can claim tax relief on up to 80% of your donation
> 00 Co-financiers
Symbolic lighter
‘Fire at Endesa!’ Do you want the little flame that will light your dreams? As a thank you for your contribution, we'll give it to you. You can collect it at the APE anniversary (on April 11th at Can Vies, Barcelona) or at any of our drop-in sessions. We can also post it to you (this isn't included in the price, but it will be cheap).
You can claim back up to 80% of your donation
> 00 Co-financiers
Self-defence kit against the oligopoly
You will receive, in digital format, the ultimate APE guide to standing up to the big companies of the energy oligopoly.
You can claim tax relief on up to 80% of your donation
> 01 Co-financiers
Notebook and pen
The new APE pen and the last remaining units of our old notebook make this pack an exclusive offer. Be warned, once they're gone, they're gone for good! You can collect your reward at the APE anniversary (on April 11th at Can Vies, Barcelona) or at any of our drop-in sessions. We can also post it to you (postage not included).
You can claim tax relief on up to 80% of your contribution
> 00 Co-financiers
> 15 units left
Popular dinner
On April 11th, we'll be celebrating our 12th anniversary at Can Vies (Barcelona), with a super-strong programme that will include an Anti-Oligopoly Olympics. Fight yes, party too! To thank you for your contribution, we'll treat you to dinner on the day.
You can claim back up to 80% of your donation
> 00 Co-financiers
Complete pack
The symbolic “Fire to Endesa!” lighter, the new APE pen and the last remaining units of our old notebook make this pack an exclusive offer. Be warned, once they're gone, they're gone for good! You can collect your reward at the APE anniversary (on April 11th at Can Vies, Barcelona) or at any of our advice sessions. We can also send it to your home (postage not included).
You can claim up to 80% of your contribution back
> 00 Co-financiers
Popular dinner + 4 drinks
Premium version of the popular dinner! On April 11th, we're celebrating our 12th anniversary at Can Vies (Barcelona), with a super-strong programme that will include the Anti-Oligopoly Olympics. To thank you for your generous contribution, we'll treat you to a meal on the day (lunch/dinner) and four drinks (beer or a soft drink).
You can claim up to 80% of your donation back
> 03 Co-financiers
Self-defence kit against the oligopoly
You will receive, in digital format, the ultimate APE guide to standing up to the big companies of the energy oligopoly.
You can claim tax relief on up to 80% of your donation
> 00 Co-financiers
Self-defence kit against the oligopoly (for organisations)
Your organisation will receive 5 printed copies (and the digital version) of the ultimate APE guide to taking on the big companies of the energy oligopoly.
See the tax benefits of your donation here
> 00 Co-financiers
Workshop (for organisations)
Want to organise a talk or workshop on how to read your bills, how the social tariff works, or how to stand up to the big energy companies? Want us to run a community advice session in your neighbourhood? Count on us!
If you'd like to do something similar, but can't afford such a large reward, that's no problem. Write to us at contacta@pobresaenergetica.es and we can have a chat.
See the tax benefits of your donation here
> 00 Co-financiers
