Noemí Valiente, new Head of Ávila Sector at Iberdrola España

• I-DE, Iberdrola España's distribution company, strengthens its presence in this key province for the development of smarter grids, electric mobility and self-consumption.
• The company has improved the quality of service it offers its customers in Castile and Leon, with the best year-end value in history.
• In Castilla y León, i-DE manages more than 50,000 km of power lines, has 15,697 transformation centres in service and 246 substations.

i-DE, Iberdrola España's distribution company, appointed Noemí Valiente as the new head of the Ávila Sector. Iberdrola España thus strengthens its presence in this key province for the development of its business strategy based on deploying smarter electricity grids and promoting new electricity consumption models, such as sustainable mobility and self-consumption. 

Noemí Valiente, a civil engineer who graduated from the University of Salamanca with a master’s in High Voltage electrical infrastructures, has spent a large part of her professional career at Iberdrola España. From 2001 to 2004, she worked at Iberinco, which was once the Group's engineering company, in the Hydraulic Engineering and Dam Regulation Department. In 2004, she joined the Liberalised Business in the management and innovation area of the Technical Service for the Operation of Large Dams. Then, in 2014, she took charge of the Large Dams Technical Service for the Tagus basin. In 2020, she joined i-DE Redes Eléctricas Inteligentes as head of Maintenance of the distribution network in Ávila and its province, and has recently taken over as head of the sector.

"Noemí brings an extraordinary knowledge of this province and its local institutions as well as her global business vision thanks to more than 20 years' experience in the company. She shares Iberdrola España's goal of being an active part of a necessary energy transition, which will bring with it opportunities, both from an environmental point of view and for the industrial and business fabric of the province of Ávila. We are confident that her contribution will add to the work that the company’s entire team has been carrying out for decades", explains Elsa García, head of the Grid business in Ávila, Salamanca and Zamora.
 

Best supply quality 

The company has improved the quality of service it offers its customers in Castile and León, with the best year-end value in 2023 in its history. In Castilla y León, i-DE manages more than 50,000 km of power lines, has 15,697 transformer stations in service and 246 substations. 

In recent years, the company has undertaken an ambitious plan to digitise its electricity grids, converting its more than 1.5 million meters in the region and the infrastructure that supports them into smart meters, incorporating remote management, supervision and automation capabilities. 

The digitisation of the electricity distribution grid will allow for more information to implement additional energy efficiency and sustainability measures in a way that is committed to ambitious and urgent climate action. The deployment of the smart grid makes it possible to respond to new models of grid use and offer the public better service.