The company has developed an interactive map that allows you to consult the network capacity and identify the location of the connection points.

i-DE connects more than 5,300 self-consumption installations in Castile and León

• Iberdrola's distribution company and the Ente Regional de la Energía (Regional Energy Entity) have organised an information day on the application process for access and grid connection permits for these facilities.
• The Director General of Energy and Mines of the Junta of Castile and León, Alfonso Arroyo, has stressed that "the development of self-consumption in our community is beneficial for the competitiveness of companies, the economy of families, as well as for the very fabric of local installation companies"
• The director of i-DE in the community, Óscar Villanueva, stressed that "they have been able to respond to the strong increase in self-conspumtion thanks to the investments made in recent years that have allowed the company to have an increasingly robust, flexible and inteliggent electricity grid.”

i-DE, Iberdrola's distribution company, has reached 5,300 self-consumption installations connected to its electricity grid in Castile and León, which have contributed a total of 50 new megawatts (MW) of green generation fully integrated into the low and medium voltage grids.

To facilitate the processing of accesses, the company has developed an interactive map, available on the i-DE website (www.i-de.esExternal link, opens in new window. ), which allows you to consult the capacity of the distributor's network and identify the location of the connection points.

During the course of an information day, which was opened by the Director General of Energy and Mines of the Junta of Castile and León, Alfonso Arroyo, within the framework of the Self-consumption Board in Castile and León, i-DE and the Regional Energy Agency, together with the Associations of Installers and Professional Associations, have acted as facilitators in the application process for access and grid connection permits for self-consumption installations in order to clarify and shed light on their processing.

The Director General of Energy and Mines of the Junta of Castile and León and Director of the Ente Regional de la Energía, Alfonso Arroyo, stressed that "the development of self-consumption in our community is beneficial for the competitiveness of companies, the economy of families, as well as for the very fabric of local installation companies; having experienced exponential growth in the last three years".

The director of i-DE in the region, Óscar Villanueva, stressed that now is the time for self-consumption and distributed generation and highlighted "the 50 megawatts of self-consumption power and the 5,300 installations connected to the distribution grid in Castile and León, which has been able to respond to the strong increase in self-consumption without saturation or overload thanks to the investments made in recent years.300 installations connected to the i-DE distribution grid in Castile and León, which has been able to respond to the strong increase in self-consumption without saturation or overload thanks to the investments made in recent years that have allowed the company to have an increasingly robust, flexible and intelligent electricity grid, and we must continue to promote it as it is the real backbone for decarbonisation".

They also discussed the importance of stable and predictable regulation to ensure investment in grids to transform the local distribution grid in cities and towns into a smart grid. "The digitalisation of the grid will increase its available capacity to integrate more renewables as well as enable the penetration of electric mobility," said Villanueva.

Innovation and digitalisation of electricity grids will continue to improve the quality of supply and service to citizens, making the energy they consume more efficient. 

Clean energy for a Healthy planet

i-DE is immersed in a process of digitalisationExternal link, opens in new window.  of the electricity distribution network that will allow more information to establish criteria for energy efficiency and sustainability, in a way that is committed to ambitious and urgent climate action. 

The deployment of the smart grid will make it possible to incorporate the 'neural trace' of the grid to offer a better service to citizens. In addition to Iberdrola's commitment to the decarbonisation of the economyExternal link, opens in new window.  and its substantial investments in innovation and renewable technologies, its climate action plan seeks to actively foster a culture that promotes the efficient and responsible use of energy and to promote climate awareness in the broadest sense.

In Castile and León, i-DE manages more than 43,810 km of low and medium voltage lines and more than 6,410 km of high and very high voltage lines. It also has 15,697 transformation centres in service and 246 substations. The company maintains a level of service quality in the region above the national average, with the best year-end value in history.