Technical visit
DPSP Europe 2025 will include the option of a technical site visit to the Global Smart Grids Innovation Hub at Ibedrola. Please sign up for your place on the tour when you register.
Date and time
The tour will take place on the morning of Thursday 3 April 2025, the day after the main conference concludes.
The visit will last around 60 minutes, plus travel time. A shuttle bus will collect delegates from Iberdrola Tower, next to the conference venue.
What you will see on the tour:
The tour through the laboratories will show the hub as the ideal environment to design the smartgrids of the future.
The hub is a tool that Iberdrola uses to streamline, promote and coordinate innovation projects on smart grids.
The facilities you will see will include:
Smart Cities Laboratory: Network digitalization
MV and LV network digitalization is the basis for building the Smart City of the future and to achieve in the most efficient way the decarbonization goals related with the electrification at the client level, such as the urban mobility.
Digital Factory laboratory: The connected worker and the automation/robotization of the operations
The digitalization of the network is complemented with the Smart Worker who will carry out the work in the field with a greater safety and efficiency level, connected and using robotic tools.
Smart Substation laboratory
Smart and sustainable substation.
The new smart substation consists of the development of a pioneering comprehensive substation control system, based on IEC 61850, which guarantees safety and efficiency in the complete cycle, from design and construction to operation and maintenance.
