Innovation

Iberdrola’s start-up programme - PERSEO - in collaboration with La Asociación Agraria de Jóvenes Agricultores (ASAJA) and WOLARIA, is looking for technological solutions that enable the decarbonisation and electrification of the agricultural and livestock sector.

Hyperion, a 3D printing company, and Sensohive, which makes sensors for monitoring concrete curing, are the winners of the Start-up Challenge, the contest launched to find solutions to optimise the construction of electricity transport facilities by boosting efficiency and process productivity.

A device that emulates a predator has been the winning solution of the Startup Challenge Bird Protection on Electricity Grids, which seeks to minimise the impact of power lines on the environment, especially on birdlife.

The company, which has experience in more than 50 research and development projects in Brazil, has been selected in the Public Lighting and Cabling Detection Startup Challenge thanks to its Imagery platform. The aim of this challenge was to find solutions to independently detect and validate unregistered public lighting and cabling.

Two very different companies have won the first 2020 Startup Challenge for Collaborative Charging Solutions: Char.gy and Homyhub. The challenge targeted collaborative charging solutions for users of electric vehicles looking to share a charging point and/or make use of other people's charging points.

Swedish company Skyqraft has won the Startup Challenge: Resilience to natural disasters — launched by Iberdrola group in May through its international startups program. The initiative aimed to find proposals to reduce the impact of infrastructures to a minimum and speed up reconnection in case of natural disasters, as well as solutions for addressing these risks.