Energía 4.0: Innovation, Resilience, and Intelligence
Digitization of the power grid to modernize it, ensure its safety, strengthen its governance, and drive decarbonization
Concern about global warming continues. Faced with the threat of climate emergency, how we consume energy is vital to slowing the wear and tear on our environment.
The ENERGÍA 4.0 project seeks to digitize and secure the power grid through the most disruptive technologies. This makes the entire energy value chain safer and more accurate and responds to the new challenges of consumption and decarbonization.
According to a report published by the consulting firm Deloitte in 2019, in Spain alone, the energy transition will mean investments in networks of between 46,000 and 55,000 million euros until 2030. Among the types of projects is the increase in substation capacity or the replacement of equipment (such as lines and transformers) before their useful life.
This is happening simultaneously with the proliferation of local power stations, such as those supplying electricity for electric cars. Thus, while citizens are trying to curb the disaster, energy companies must also update their infrastructures to do so when these nearby power stations are proliferating.
Improving energy production, supply, or consumption contributes to curbing the climate emergency.
Digitizing the power grid serves to care for the environment, make process management more efficient and ‘smart,’ and improve the value chain’s security with cloud and data technologies.
- Full project title: Innovation, Resilience, and Intelligence at the Service of Energy 4.0.
- Project file code: AEI-010500-2022b-110
- Project funding agencies: Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism of the Government of Spain, AEI Cluster, Next Generation Program of the European Union, and Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan
Initiative financed by the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism within the program of support to the AEI to contribute to the improvement of the competitiveness of the Spanish industry, and with the support of the European Union through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan