“This academy is dedicated to training professionals in new digital skills”
We promote the "Smart Grids Academy" in collaboration with Iberdrola and GAIA
The Global Smart Grids Innovation Hub is an initiative launched in 2021 by Bizkaia Provincial Council and backed by GAIA and Iberdrola, in which TECNALIA participates as a strategic partner.
The SGA training programme revolves around four programmes that are aligned with our Strategic Focus of Excellence in Network Digitalisation:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Smart Grids
- Industry 4.0
Our experts have participated in the development of the contents of the cybersecurity and Smart Grids programmes, generating a double impact on the objectives of the Smart Grid Academy:
- Consolidate a transformational country initiative around smart grids.
- Attract, nurture and develop talent in this industrial sector.
Comprehensive training in cybersecurity with practical experience in a real environment
TECNALIA has developed much of the theoretical and practical content in the Cybersecurity Programme.
- The theoretical contents introduce students to the essential foundations of cybersecurity: regulations and standards, risk management, secure architectures, identity management, digital certificates, detection of cyber-attacks in electrical networks, development of secure software and design of cybersecurity governance.
- These contents are complemented with practical exercises that enable the acquired knowledge to be applied.
- The training culminates with laboratory practice in TECNALIA's real cybersecurity environment . Students will form part of an electricity company's cybersecurity team, managing incidents and analysing the security of a substation to identify vulnerabilities.
Smart Grid Training
Similarly, in the Smart Grids Programme, in addition to reviewing and validating the contents of some of the theoretical modules, TECNALIA has developed gamified practices that help to reinforce the theory: basic principles of electrical engineering and grids, the impact of distributed generation on the grid, grid flexibility and associated markets, substation components and communications, transformer stations and advanced metering infrastructures (AMI), etc.
- The Smart Grids Programme is rounded off with a final on-site internship in TECNALIA's Electricity Grids Laboratory and Smart Metering Laboratory.
- Over the course of two days, students will work in groups on the microgrid's Power Hardware-in-the-Loop system and on various smart meter configurations, analysing their functionality and interoperability.
