The alliance will see the colourful metropolis of Bilbao host the Enlit Europe convention and exhibition in 2025 on the Bilbao Exhibition Centre. Earlier than then, the 2 organisations will collaborate to highlight the challenges and alternatives dealing with the European vitality sector.
This alliance kicks off at Enlit Europe in Paris this yr, when Elena León Muñoz, networks CEO of Iberdrola Group, and Nicolas Arcauz, Good Grids director at Iberdrola Spain, will probably be among the many high-profile audio system.
Asís Canales Abaitua, director of individuals and companies at Iberdrola, stated that the collaboration “aligns completely with our mission to advertise sustainable vitality options and contribute to the worldwide vitality transition”.
“We’re excited to deliver Enlit Europe to Bilbao in 2025.”
Paddy Younger, director of Enlit, hailed the partnership with Iberdrola as “a big milestone”.
“It showcases the belief and credibility our model has garnered in a brief interval.”
This yr’s Enlit Europe in Paris would be the third iteration of the occasion, which subsequent yr will journey to Milan earlier than arriving in Bilbao in 2025.
Evolving vitality transition
Younger stated Bilbao will “present an distinctive backdrop for this occasion, and the involvement of Iberdrola will undoubtedly improve the expertise for each exhibitors and guests.”
He added that the collaboration will leverage Iberdrola’s in depth experience and community within the vitality sector to bolster Enlit’s dedication to delivering high-quality content material programmes in sync with the evolving vitality market.
Historically, there has all the time been a profitable public-private collaboration in Basque Nation. Regional authorities, together with the Basque Authorities, Bizkaia Area Council and Bilbao Metropolis Council, are collaborating and dedicated to the success of the end-to-end vitality occasion.
Canales stated “Iberdrola is devoted to wash vitality options and sustainable grids and is keen to affix forces with Enlit to form the way forward for vitality dialogue and innovation”.
He added: “Iberdrola’s World Good Grids Innovation Hub, positioned in Bilbao, is consolidating its place as a worldwide centre of innovation and information in sensible grids to assist reply to the challenges of the vitality transition.
“The centre acts as a driving power for innovation, combining Iberdrola’s technological capability with that of greater than 80 collaborating entities and corporations.”
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