The energy ecosystem, Cuerva, founded in Granada, Spain in 1939, is transforming more than 85 years of knowledge about the energy system into new solutions for industry and the digital economy. Its differentiator combines experience in generation, grids and electrical infrastructure with technology, data, and applied innovation, enabling it to support companies and organizations beyond energy supply or the traditional execution of energy projects.
Through Smart Solutions, Cuerva translates these capabilities to organizations to improve energy management and advance efficiency, flexibility, resilience, and competitiveness. Energy remains the starting point, but not the end point of its value proposition.
This capacity rests on real, diversified activity. The company has undertaken more than 160 projects in the last year and is currently involved in 21 R&D projects (17 active and four granted) related to smart grids, flexibility, storage, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure.
This transformation starts from a solid operational base. Through its four distribution companies, Cuerva manages more than 900 kilometers of power lines, serves more than 18,000 service points, and supplies more than 50,000 people. Operating these infrastructures directly enables it to generate knowledge about planning, digitization, power quality, flexibility, and integration of an increasingly electrified and decentralized demand.
From infrastructure to smart management and new models
In the business sphere, Smart Solutions turns that energy and operational knowledge into intelligent, adaptable solutions based on technology, data, and digitization. Within this area, Smart Solutions for Industries focuses its offering for industrial environments, where energy management has a direct impact on efficiency, operational continuity, and competitiveness.
The model combines renewable generation, storage, monitoring, control systems, advanced analytics, and intelligent energy management to understand how energy is produced, consumed, and used within each operation and to make better decisions. This approach is complemented by Cuerva’s innovation ecosystem, which includes initiatives such as Gridfy, Adaion and Vergy, created to transfer knowledge and technology to areas such as grid digitalization, advanced data management, and new collaborative energy models.
These capabilities gain particular relevance in the face of growing new electrical demands tied to industry and the digital economy. An example is SP01, the future AI-focused data center that Cuerva and Alto Infrastructure are driving at CITAI, in Escúzar (Granada), with a potential investment exceeding €3 billion and a redundant electrical demand of up to 100 MW. The collaboration combines Cuerva’s knowledge of energy infrastructures, grids, and complex electrical systems with Alto Infrastructure’s specialization in next-generation data centers, including the development of the energy infrastructure required for the project.
“Energy remains our starting point, but today the challenge also lies in how we can manage it and add value on top of it. Our experience across the entire energy value chain, combined with technology and data, enables us to support organizations and industrial, technological, and critical projects that are increasingly complex, so they are more efficient, resilient, and competitive. For us, that means going beyond energy,” says Ignacio Cuerva, CEO of Cuerva.
