EDP Spain Innovation Partnerships: what's new in 2021?
Within the Spanish Technological and Innovation Platform for Future Networks, Futured, EDP Networks Spain leaders since 2021 a new Work Group of Energy Storage. This Work Group has set itself as goal for 2022 the elaboration of different documents that show cases of the energy storage use in the area of electricity networks. The leadership of this Work Group is coordinated with the presidency of the Spanish Technological and Innovation Platform for Energy Storage, Batteryplat, that EDP Spain holds.
EDP leaders in Spain the Spanish Technological Platform for Energy Storage, BatteryPlat, which comprises more than 90 Spanish entities that intend to boost the development of these technologies. In 2021 Batteryplat has elaborated a map of technologic capacities of energy storage in Spain. Given the contribution of these works for the Spanish strategy development of energy storage, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge included Batteryplat in the presentation of the PERTE ERAH of Renewable Energies, Green Hydrogen and Storage of December 15, 2021.
In 2021 EDP Spain has become a member of the board of trustees of the Cantabrian Components Technology Center, strengthening the bond that Viesgo already had with this entity. The Technology Center CTC was founded in 2000 as a private and non-profit foundation. Since 2008 it has been recognized by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness as a technology center and has been since then the only entity in Cantabria that holds this distinction that recognizes those non-profit entities which main goal is to improve the competitiveness of their companies through the generation of technology knowledge, carrying out R&D&I activities and developing their application.
EDP Spain renewed in 2021 the agreement with the University of Oviedo Foundation, by virtue of which EDP Spain will financially support students from the Oviedo Mining, Energy and Materials Engineering School and the Gijón Polytechnic Engineering School who complete their master's thesis on topics proposed by EDP Spain. The company will suggest at the beginning of the course the topics in which it is interested in supporting final projects and the maximum number of projects it will support. EDP will select the candidates of interest. The amount of support for each student is 2 000 euros.
