The BBVA Foundation awards a project made by researchers from the GAEI
group of the DEEEA to strengthen the electricity grid and reduce the risk of
future blackouts. The GAEI researchers Àngel Cid, Carlos Olalla, and Oswaldo
López have received funding from the BBVA Foundation to finance their t
ACES-GRID project. The aim of the research in this project is to strengthen the
grid with smart inverters capable of preventing a certain type of power failure
before it become a blackout. The project will receive a grant of 250,000 euros.
An innovative technology capable of shielding the electricity grid against the risk
of another ‘major blackout’; urban planning that better protects cities against
cut-offs, fires and other climatic extremes; the study of the mechanism that
leads a healthy cell to lead to childhood leukemia; a novel strategy to combat
bacterial resistance to antibiotics; new superconducting materials that drive the
construction of quantum computers; catalysts that open the door to more
efficient and sustainable chemistry; Light ‘chips’ that optimize both the power
and efficiency of computing...
These are the main objectives of some of the 12 innovative projects selected by
the Fundamentals Program, designed by the BBVA Foundation to support
exploratory, fundamental and interdisciplinary research on central questions of
basic science.
After evaluating a total of 633 applications, the committees of expert evaluators
have awarded 12 grants of up to 250,000 euros each or in three major areas of
knowledge: Physics and Chemistry; Biology and Biomedicine; and Engineering.