The objective is to guarantee an optimal service to the clients.
MADRID, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
UFD, the electricity distributor of the Naturgy group, will invest 1,320 million euros until 2025 to digitize the network, strengthen its infrastructure and improve its quality of supply in Spain, as reported by the energy company in a statement this Friday.
The ultimate goal of the planned actions is to optimize the service to customers and integrate the increase in renewable generation into the electricity grid.
The planned investments will be destined mainly to innovation and the application of new technologies, to advance in remote measurement and remote management of supply points, in remote control and sensorization, as well as in the strengthening of infrastructures.
In 2022 alone, the company will invest 335 million euros in advanced low-voltage supervision projects, medium and high-voltage actions, cybersecurity and advanced asset management, among others.
As explained by Naturgy, the investments in sensorization and digitization of its infrastructures will allow it to continue increasing the quality of the electricity supply, which currently already exceeds the average quality in Spain by 35%.
The General Director of Energy Management and Networks at Naturgy, Pedro Larrea, has indicated that this investment effort will contribute “decisively” to the objectives of the energy transition, since it will allow the constant increase in renewable generation, self-consumption and distributed generation.
UFD currently provides service to almost 3.8 million supply points, through a network of 114,000 kilometers of high, medium and low voltage lines.
Among other improvement actions, UFD also plans to build a new electrical substation and a new high voltage line in Fuentepelayo (Segovia), install a new transformer in the Norte substation, in Madrid, and repower the Alcalá I substation, in Alcalá of Henares (Madrid).
In Galicia, it will build a new park at the Triacastela substation (Lugo) and will bury various overhead power lines in the surroundings of the Carballo substation (Coruña), connecting them with a new park to be built at said substation.
In this region, it will also build a new park and a new transformer at the Lalín substation (Pontevedra), and it will install a new high-voltage line, with an underground section, between said substation and the Irixo substation (Ourense).
