Grupo AIA and Instituto de Ciencias Fotónicas (Institute of Photonics), ICFO, have signed a renewable 4-year collaboration agreement to establish the framework for continuous team-up collaboration.With this agreement, Grupo AIA becomes a member of the Corporate Liaison Program of ICFO to strengthen synergies between both organizations aiming at fostering cooperation for achieving common goals. (more…)

iTesla (Innovative Tools for Electrical System Security Within Large Areas) is a collaborative I+D project of European scope funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
iTesla Project’s purpose is to develop a set of tools that will help the future operation of pan-European electricity transmission. This toolkit will step forward in innovation: it will perform dynamic operational simulations following a probabilistic approach, going beyond the current focus on “N-1? and optimising the capabilities of network traffic at different scales, both spatial (national, regional, pan-European) and time (two days away, a day view, intraday real-time).
This toolkit will be available through a flexible IT platform allowing operators to perform simulations addressing both network, regional or pan-European in its own network, coordinated regional systems or completely pan-European system
The other project partners are:
- RTE (France) (Project leader)
- Elia (Belgium)
- NGC (UK)
- REN (Portugal)
- STATNETT (Norway)
- IPTO (Greece)
- CORESO (Belgium)
- ARTELYS (France)
- BULL (France)
- PEPITE (Belgium)
- QUINARY (Italy)
- Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
- INESC Porto (Portugal)
- KTH (Sweden)
- KU Leuven (Belgium)
- RSE (Italy)
- DTU (Denmark)
- TRACTEBEL (Belgium)
- TECHNOFI (France)
Grupo AIA‘s role in the project is twofold:
- Building a common data model for the dynamic exchange of information between TSOs (Transmission System Operator).
- Evaluate defence plans and develop methods for grid restoration at Pan-European level.
The project is being carried out between 2012 and 2015.







