Iberdrola launches cleantech 'Start-up Challenge' to protect grid from climate impacts

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Energy giant is on the hunt for UK entrepreneurs with solutions to keep electricity grid running in face of extreme weather caused by climate change

Spanish energy giant Iberdrola yesterday launched a new 'Start Up Challenge', a hunt for new ideas to help protect the UK's electricity grid from the impacts of more extreme weather. Climate change...

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