Start-Up Challenge
We challenge start-ups to come up with innovative, competitive and sustainable solutions
With PERSEO, Iberdrola Group promotes different challenges addressed to emerging technology companies with the aim of finding innovative solutions that enable its operation to be improved and its environmental footprint to be minimised.
Latest start-up challenges
PERSEO launches an average of ten challenges per year. Here you can consult the most recent ones at any time:
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PERSEO selects the solution presented by the Norwegian company Spoor to integrate design solutions that include nature into offshore wind farm infrastructure and achieve a net positive impact on biodiversity.
The Spanish company SubSea Mechatronics (SSM) has developed an underwater ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) called PIPEYE that will allow Iberdrola's team to inspect and clean the large pipelines of our power plants, under the highest quality and safety standards.
- Facebook PIPEYE: the remotely operated underwater vehicle to improve pipeline cleaning at thermal power plants
- Twitter PIPEYE: the remotely operated underwater vehicle to improve pipeline cleaning at thermal power plants
- Linkedin PIPEYE: the remotely operated underwater vehicle to improve pipeline cleaning at thermal power plants
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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.
- Facebook We are looking for innovative solutions for the electrification of the countryside and the promotion of renewable energies in rural areas
- Twitter We are looking for innovative solutions for the electrification of the countryside and the promotion of renewable energies in rural areas
- Linkedin We are looking for innovative solutions for the electrification of the countryside and the promotion of renewable energies in rural areas
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.
- Facebook Real-time monitoring and 3D printing solutions for optimising electric transport installations
- Twitter Real-time monitoring and 3D printing solutions for optimising electric transport installations
- Linkedin Real-time monitoring and 3D printing solutions for optimising electric transport installations
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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.
- Facebook An autonomous predator emulator to improve the coexistence of overhead lines with fauna and flora
- Twitter An autonomous predator emulator to improve the coexistence of overhead lines with fauna and flora
- Linkedin An autonomous predator emulator to improve the coexistence of overhead lines with fauna and flora
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.
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