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24/03/2025 - 14:29 UTC +01:00His Majesty King Felipe VI, King of Spain, awards the Iberdrola Scholarships The commitment to new generations’ educational excellence, talent and employability was the central focus of the award ceremony for the company’s scholarships for 2024–2025, which was presided over this morning by His Majesty King Felipe VI at the Iberdrola Campus in San Agustín de Guadalix (Madrid). With this programme, Iberdrola Group, of which Iberdrola España forms part, seeks to identify, promote and incorporate highly skilled young people in areas such as electrification through electricity grids , renewable energies and storage, digitalisation and AI, all of which are essential to achieve a more secure, self-sufficient, competitive and sustainable energy model. The event, which was also attended by the Spanish Minister for Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, included a lecture by professor Jarillo-Herrero, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the internationally prestigious centres affiliated with the Iberdrola Universities Programme (Iberdrola U), along with Yale and Harvard in the United States, Oxford and Strathclyde in the United Kingdom, the University of Salamanca and the Pontificia Comillas University in Spain, the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, the University of Qatar, and the University of Queensland in Australia. Ignacio Galán, chairman of Iberdrola, stressed the importance of creating bridges between education and employability, especially in sectors of strategic importance such as energy, and thanked His Majesty the King for his continued support for this initiative. ‘Every year, around 13,000 people pass through this centre to adapt to new technologies. In this way, they can continue working, transferring knowledge and providing a service to a society that increasingly demands more electricity, better services and more skills. This is what we intend to do with these scholarships, with which we ensure that the best people always have all the means to be able to develop’, he said. In the last three years alone, more than 400 people have benefited from the Iberdrola International Scholarship Programme, and many of them have joined the company's team. This initiative is also part of a comprehensive commitment to young talent, which has led Iberdrola Group to onboard more than 30 k young people in the last decade. These programmes are: * Iberdrola International Master's Scholarships: This programme drives education in strategic areas to transform the energy industry, such as engineering, mathematics, digital marketing, environmental sciences and big data at universities in Spain, the United Kingdom and Mexico, to add the very best talent to the company. * Energy for Future: This is an initiative aimed at postdoctoral researchers to add to knowledge and innovation and thus contribute to the growth of an energy development model based on electrification. These grants last for three years and are carried out in collaboration with 15 prestigious international universities. * Iberdrola Fulbright Scholarships: These scholarships offer postgraduate training for two years at universities in the United States in key areas for sustainable energy and technological development. * Fundación Carolina Scholarships: Aimed at students who have already graduated from Latin America and Portugal and who are seeking to deepen their energy and environmental specialisations at Spanish universities. * ICAI Scholarships: Supporting high-potential, high-achieving undergraduate students with a focus on energy disciplines. Likewise, diplomas have been awarded for other specialised training and employability programmes: * Restoration Scholarships at the Prado National Museum and the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, which, with a duration of two years, are aimed at young specialists in the conservation of artistic heritage and restoration. * ADOP scholarships, which, through university and postgraduate training, accompany Paralympic athletes in their transition to a professional career outside the field of sport, in collaboration with the Spanish Olympic Committee. * Start by Educating (STEM 4 GRLS) scholarships, which train educational leaders to generate real impact in vulnerable environments and foster scientific and technological vocations among girls. Committed to its workers Iberdrola Group considers talent a strategic foundation of the company and is firmly committed to offering quality jobs and ongoing training. It is recognised as one of the best companies to work for in the world and recently received the international ‘Top Employer: Large Enterprise 2025’ seal. READ MORE
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07/03/2025Iberdrola launches its International Master's Scholarship Programme Today, Iberdrola opens a new call for applications for its Master's Scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year , aiming to promote excellence in the education of new generations and foster young talent. The company offers the opportunity for students to engage in activities related to electrification and renewable energy . This is undoubtedly a development opportunity for society and the health of our planet. The Iberdrola International Scholarship Programme is aimed at graduates and final-year university students. In total, it will have an investment of €1,200,336. Through this initiative, the company seeks to enhance the professional qualifications of young people in the energy sector, with special emphasis on areas such as engineering, renewable energies, information technologies, sustainability, and big data. Applicants can choose from around twenty top universities or technological institutes. These institutions include the University of Edinburgh, University of Strathclyde, and Imperial College London in the UK; the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and the Polytechnic Universities of Madrid, Valencia, and the Basque Country in Spain, among others. The registration process for this new call began on Wednesday and will remain open until April 4. Interested individuals can consult all conditions on Iberdrola's corporate website and complete the application form in the 'Work with us' section. In selecting candidates, factors such as academic records, language proficiency, CV, interest in the study project, and letters of reference will be considered. To date, nearly 1,000 young people have had the opportunity to boost their professional careers by pursuing master's and postgraduate studies and conducting research at prestigious international centers with the support of the Iberdrola Group. This edition's scholarships will be awarded to students in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Information and Communication Technologies, Business Administration, and Digital Marketing. Supporting a new generation with top skills The Iberdrola International Master's Scholarship Programme aims to develop a generation of professionals equipped to tackle the challenges of a green future, including the development of a sustainable energy model. This initiative also promotes youth employability in a sector expected to generate thousands of new jobs related to the energy transition and digital transformation . Upon completing their studies, participants in this program will have the opportunity to undertake internships with the company and apply for positions published by the Iberdrola Group that match their profiles. READ MORE
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05/03/2025 - 15:36 UTC +01:00Iberdrola, leader in the energy sector in attracting and retaining talent in Spain Iberdrola España in the top two on the list of 200 companies with the greatest capacity to attract and retain talent according to Merco Talento España 2024. We came in first in energy, gas and water , and have now been in the top positions for 19 consecutive years. Our company's attractiveness is the result of a firm commitment to equal opportunities, work–life balance, and training. Iberdrola is also a leader in the Merco Digital ranking for its ability to retain talent in the digital sphere. Merco 's objective is to work towards improving human resources management in companies and since 2000 it has been releasing one of the most important indices worldwide: the Merco Talent ranking. The list, based on a multi-stakeholder methodology with various metrics and evaluations, offers a better understanding of the aspirations of employees, and aligns personal and corporate values and objectives. Merco Talent is as such a barometer of visibility and attractiveness for companies, measuring the opinion of their target audiences. READ MORE
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17/01/2025 - 13:10 UTC +01:00Iberdrola obtains international 'Top Employers Enterprise' seal of approval for its excellence in people management, the only energy company in the world to do so The 'Top Employers' seal is a certification based on an exhaustive and rigorous analysis of people management practices and metrics and their impact on the organisation as a whole (strategy and results), as well as on talent engagement, attraction and development. Iberdrola was certified in Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Australia and Greece. It is unusual for a company to obtain this recognition in so many countries, thanks to which Iberdrola will have both European and international certification and be the only company in the industry to have this international 'enterprise' seal. The company was assessed in 225 of its practices, distributed across 20 categories and six dimensions that include people strategy, talent attraction, training, professional development and growth, leadership, well-being and diversity and inclusion. Only those practices that have been implemented with at least 80% of the workforce have been considered "consistent" (or "scoreable"), which demonstrates not only the seal’s requirements, but also the robustness of the people policies implemented in the different countries. Each local certification, importantly, is independent, i.e. Iberdrola has passed 10 different certifications, with each country having to justify and explain each of them within its own strategy and analysing local impacts and scope in each geography. Founded 30 years ago, the Top Employers Institute has certified more than 2,300 organisations in 121 countries, impacting more than 12 M employees around the world. None of Iberdrola's international competitors has so many certified countries. Only one other company in Europe besides the electricity company, and only on the continent, has a similar certification. Furthermore, Amadeus, Santander, Inditex, Meliá and Iberdrola are the only Ibex companies with certification in Europe. READ MORE
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17/12/2024 - 18:02 UTC +01:00Iberdrola continues to train technicians at its National Training Centre in the US Iberdrola, through its US subsidiary Avangrid , just graduated the second class of technicians trained at Avangrid's National Training Center (NTC), who are now ready to begin their careers in renewables. Recently graduated and recently hired by the company, they are a vivid example of the opportunities provided by innovative and specialised training in green jobs . In this case, they are professionals from wind projects operated by the energy company in three different states, who have attended two and a half weeks of technical and safety training at the facility in Sherman County, Oregon. You can read the full story at the Avangrid Communications Room . READ MORE
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22/10/2024 - 16:19 UTC +02:00Iberdrola presents Smart Grids Academy, an international training platform on smart grids Iberdrola, together with the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the GAIA Cluster, presented the Smart Grids Academy (SGA) project at the Iberdrola Tower in Bilbao, the first academy with an international vocation to train professionals in new digital skills, which aims to develop the specific talent required by the energy transition and the future of smart grids . Smart Grids Academy responds to the urgent and important need for specialised professional profiles to address the digital and energy transformation because, as highlighted today, "without smart grids there is no energy transition, and without trained people, there will be no smart grids". Smart grids use digital technology to distribute electrical energy and are a key element in addressing the digital transition towards the decarbonisation of the economy through electrification. The need for specialised profiles is a priority for the Global Smart Grids Innovation Hub , an initiative launched in 2021 by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and Iberdrola, to anticipate the revolution in the sector and make Bizkaia a benchmark in innovation in smart grids and a territory that generates local talent with the capacity to attract international talent. The centre acts as a driving force for innovation, combining Iberdrola's technological capacity with that of the more than 100 collaborating entities and companies. You can read the full story at Iberdrola España's Communications Room . READ MORE
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17/10/2024 - 10:00 UTC +02:00Start-up Plexigrid wins Iberdrola's challenge to optimise grid capacity through data and AI Iberdrola's global innovation and smart grid centre in Bilbao continues to advance proposals to maximise the potential of smart grids to electrify the economy and create jobs and to contribute to the development of the next generation of these smart grids . The Iberdrola group’s distributor, i-DE , proposed a technological challenge of innovation in smart grids through PERSEO , a platform that aims to facilitate access to the technologies and businesses of the future while fostering a global ecosystem of start-ups with a focus on sustainability. The winner was the Asturian start-up Plexigrid, based in Gijón, Spain and Stockholm, Sweden. In collaboration with the BAT B Accelerator Tower –Bizkaia International Entrepreneurship Centre–, a search and selection process was carried out for the best solutions globally. It culminated with the B Acceleration Week, the largest innovation and entrepreneurship event held to date in northern Spain. During the event, i-DE's technical team was able to learn first-hand about 6 of the 30 solutions presented by the different companies participating in the challenge, as well as to exchange knowledge and experiences with other innovation companies in the region. As the chosen start-up, Plexigrid will have the opportunity to deploy a pilot test within the challenge with i-DE, will become part of the BAT Community, and will be invited to participate in a personalised acceleration programme to boost its growth, within the framework of collaboration between Iberdrola and BAT. The challenge launched through PERSEO consisted of planning new scenarios in the electricity grid , making the most of the available capacity of the digitised grid, using data and AI techniques. Digital solutions were sought to model new demand scenarios (consumption and generation) in the grid with self-consumption, storage and access flexibility to forecast its operational behaviour and then plan its investments, guaranteeing grid capacity, assuming reasonable demand for electricity distribution, with a five to ten year time horizon. Among others, these scenarios had to take into account the evolution and geolocation of: * Current electricity demand, generation and self-consumption * Electrical storage (domestic, industrial, utility, BESS, etc.) * New emerging demand (short term): electric mobility, heating and cooling, decarbonisation of current industrial processes, etc. * New demand in the medium and long term: digital electrification, new consumption and generation associated with technological developments and/or emerging business models (e.g. artificial intelligence, e-fuels, green hydrogen, etc.). GSGIH AND PERSEO Iberdrola Ventures The Global Smart Grids Innovation Hub (GSGIH) is a pole to attract talent and promote emerging technologies that will enable the energy transition, maximising the use of renewables, fully integrating energy storage systems and optimising access to new uses of electricity, such as mobility and air conditioning. Iberdrola and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, which together with the energy company is promoting this public–private collaboration framework, have so far brought together the capacities of more than 100 industrial companies, universities and technology centres, which contribute their technological capacity, industrial character and research experience. Iberdrola's commitment to a sustainable energy model is part of its PERSEO programme to promote the development of start-ups and innovative industrial companies working in new areas of electrification. Since its creation in 2008, PERSEO has invested more than 200 million euros in businesses that develop innovative technologies, focusing on those that improve the energy sector’s sustainability through greater electrification and decarbonisation of the economy. Through Perseo Venture Builder, industrial initiatives are launched in energy transition to create new business models that contribute to electrification in sectors that are difficult to decarbonise. About the BAT B Accelerator Tower and the B Acceleration Week BAT B Accelerator Tower is the spearhead of a national project that aims to put Bizkaia on the international entrepreneurship map. The backing of major Basque institutions aims to make BAT B Accelerator Tower a unique centre in the world, capable of bringing together public tools at the service of entrepreneurship and innovation, together with the differential services and international network of PwC and collaborations with international partners such as Talent Garden and Impact Hub. Aiming to be the most important innovation hub in Southern Europe and the best connected, B Accelerator Tower is a point of concentration and traction for entrepreneurial talent and open innovation, where start-ups, corporates, investors and the administration work together. The B Acceleration Week, after its first edition, has positioned itself as the most important entrepreneurship and innovation event held to date in BAT B Accelerator Tower and one of the most important on the national scene. This meeting marked a milestone in the field of start-ups and innovation in the Basque Country. It has all been possible thanks to collaboration with strategic members of the BAT such as Iberdrola, as well as other international agents such as Pegasus Tech Ventures and Google, which have made it possible to generate a high-impact event for the regional ecosystem, in which + 500 participants from + 100 companies and + 30 nationalities were able to exchange knowledge and generate new opportunities for innovation and business. READ MORE
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15/10/2024 - 11:49 UTC +02:00Iberdrola invests in innovation with students in Mexico Iberdrola, a través de su filial en México, Iberdrola México , y la Escuela de Ingenierías y Ciencias del Tecnológico de Monterrey organizaron un hackathon, en el que participaron más de 150 estudiantes con la misión de encontrar soluciones innovadoras para facilitar la adopción masiva de vehículos eléctricos en las ciudades, promover el acceso a energía renovable en comunidades vulnerables e impulsar la producción, almacenamiento y distribución de hidrógeno verde. Tras dos días de intenso trabajo y con la asesoría de mentores de Iberdrola México y docentes del campus Monterrey, los equipos presentaron 22 proyectos enfocados en los tres retos principales. El hackathon tuvo como objetivo incentivar el interés de los estudiantes en las energías renovables mediante retos específicos que incorporan tres componentes: innovación, compromiso social y soluciones energéticas sostenibles, proporcionando herramientas para fortalecer su formación. Puedes leer la noticia completa en la Sala de Comunicación de Iberdrola México . READ MORE
