The Positive Energy+ platform has selected 14 projects from the 396 proposals received after the launch of its urgent call to tender last April. The proposals, which offer solutions to alleviate the economic and social impact of COVID-19, were presented at the Positive Energy+ Demo Day event, held virtually yesterday afternoon and organised by the corporations promoting the initiative: Enagás, Elewit, CLH, Iberdrola, bp, EIT InnoEnergy, Acciona, Capital Energy and DISA.

This pioneering initiative in Spain was launched on April 7 in search of projects related, on the energy side, to environmental sustainability, mobility, social impact, digitalisation, telecommunications and 4.0. The ‘decarbonisation and sustainability’ category has received the largest number of proposals.

La iniciativa #innovacionfrentealvirus es un proyecto puesto en marcha por la Consejería de Educación - Castilla y León y Startup Olé Accelerator. Esta comunidad que pretende aliviar los efectos de la crisis provocada por la COVID-19 y generar oportunidades y sinergias. Expertos de Elewit y del Grupo Red Eléctrica acompañarán como mentores a las startups que presenten sus ideas y proyectos.

Several companies in the Spanish energy sector have joined forces to combat the effects of the crisis caused by the coronavirus in Spain. Together they have created Positive Energy+, a pioneering initiative in Spain that uses innovation as the main tool to offer effective responses to help alleviate the economic and social impact of COVID-19.

More voices every day are calling for changes in the way we move around in our cities to make them more sustainable. For this reason, Elewit, representing the Red Eléctrica Group as a key player in energy transition and telecommunications development has allied itself through RETIT with the urban mobility hub Madrid in Motion to imagine the future of mobility for our country.

Energy transition implies a transformation of society on the fundamental premise of decarbonising the economy for a drastic reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. All economic sectors must commit to change and adapt to the new model, but especially transport, which faces the largest upheaval in its history.