Ormazabal will supply more than 100 SF6-free units to Enel to boost an efficient and sustainable grid.

The electrification of the economy demands an electricity distribution network capable of supporting the integration of an increasing number of players, while minimizing its carbon footprint.

Enel Grids, the world’s largest private distribution network operator, is part of the Enel Group, whose long-term ambition is to achieve zero direct and indirect emissions by 2040, including through the modernization of its networks and infrastructure.

For its part, Ormazabal, an expert in customized, high-tech electrical solutions, contributes to decarbonization by constantly investing in R&D to develop and manufacture digitally native products with a lower environmental impact.

The environmental commitment and the search for more innovative technological alternatives of both companies has led them to collaborate again to promote a more robust, reliable, efficient and sustainable electrical grid. To this end, Ormazabal has been one of the successful suppliers in the tender launched by Enel Grids for the acquisition of hundreds of new generation SF6-free units over the coming years.

In addition to this important supply, the two companies promote greater efficiency of the low-voltage grid and, soon and for the first time, will begin the installation of around twenty automated low-voltage switchboards with single-phase switches, which will allow better management of the grid in Italy and Spain, thanks to the tenders promoted by Enel Grids in both countries.

In this way, Ormazabal and Enel Grids take another step on their path towards sustainability and the digitalization of the electricity grid of the future.

Open Power Grids Association (OPGA)

This collaboration is consolidated with the integration of Ormazabal into the Open Power Grids association, born from an Enel initiative to promote collaboration and the exchange of specifications and standards for sustainable electricity distribution networks.

The association now has 31 members, more than double the number registered by the end of 2022, and is working to define functional specifications for grid components with reduced or zero environmental impact, around the following areas: transformers, high voltage (HV) lines, HV switchgear, medium voltage (MV) lines and low voltage (LV), MV/LV equipment, protection and control devices, emergency switchgear, HV systems, MV/LV systems.