Iberdrola Group invests in innovation, sustainability and smart grids at Startup Olé Salamanca

• Iberdrola's Global Smart Grids Innovation Hub in Bilbao, a world centre of innovation and knowledge in smart grids, is taking a trip to Salamanca to help respond to the challenges of the energy transition.

Iberdrola, the Group that controls Iberdrola España, has reaffirmed its commitment to innovation, sustainability, digital transformation and knowledge in smart grids at the Startup Olé Salamanca, a major global event for tech entrepreneurship.

The head of Iberdrola's Grid business in Salamanca, Ávila and Zamora, Elsa García, and the head of Perseo – Iberdrola's Open Innovation and Investment Programme with Startups –, Óscar Cantalejo, presented this morning in the space set up by the company at Startup Olé, one of the most important international events in the entrepreneurial ecosystem being held this week in the city of Salamanca, the main innovations Iberdrola Group is working on and investing in.

Cantalejo stressed the company's commitment to entrepreneurs: "We’ve investing and working with start-ups since 2008 to promote a more sustainable and forward-looking industry around the energy transition, creating high quality jobs and making progress. This collaboration with start-ups is key to continue pushing the decarbonisation and electrification of the economy forward and also allows us to support Iberdrola's growth with agile and dynamic technology partners".

Find out more about the company's participation in Startup Olé Salamanca, one of the leading tech events in Europe.