By ESS News
San Vicente del Monte, a small village in Cantabria with around 200 inhabitants, was the only city in Spain that was not influenced by the Blackout in April. The resilience was due to a pilot project from the 2020 era developed for the Utility Viesgo, which was taken over the same year by the Portuguese energy giant EDP.
As part of the initiative, ZGR supplied four Turnkey pilot projects in Northern Spain, in areas where EDP-Viesgo manages the distribution for around 700,000 customers. According to José Antonio Grande, director of ZGR of Business Development, these were specifically used in rural areas at the end of the distribution lines; Locations usually more vulnerable for malfunctions and voltage drops.
“The Spanish distribution network is generally stable and robust,” Grande said PV -Magazine Spain. “But final-of-line branches in rural zones require specific technical measures to strengthen reliability. That is why we have developed these four projects, two in Cantabria and two in Galicia, to improve the energy quality and to guarantee the backup offer during malfunctions. In the case of San Vicente, the goal was to maintain the energy supply.”
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