Global society is immersed in a strategic moment in which the energy transition is the key to moving towards a model that allows alleviating the risks derived from the climate emergency. A change in which the consumer must be aware that they play a leading and active role. Under these premises, the traveling exhibition of Redeia, Red Eléctrica’s parent company, Connected to the Future: The Energy Transition, has arrived in Tenerife, and can now be visited, until next March, at the Museum of Science and the Cosmos of La Laguna.
“We seek a triple objective: to raise awareness about the effects of climate change, to publicize the challenges of the energy transition and the sustainability commitments in the 2030 Agenda and that the visitor becomes aware of the active role that they will have within the transition energy”, affirms the delegate of Redeia in the Canary Islands, Ainara Irigoyen.
Three objectives that are developed throughout an exhibition tour made up of five modules that bring these concepts closer in a didactic and interactive way, through tests, experiments and games.
“We want to bring the world of electricity and telecommunications in general closer together, at a time that is also transcendental in the fight against climate change, of a transition that is going to bring with it a great technological revolution that is going to affect us all. And we believe that it is very important that society get involved in this transformation and that the consumer knows that they are the protagonist and that, in addition, they have to be an ally to be able to achieve it”, explains Ainara Irigoyen.
To generate an interactive experience, the visitor will participate through a personalized QR code that they receive via email when registering at the beginning of the exhibition, and with which they activate the contents and games of each module.
In the first module, dedicated to electricity and connectivity, the aim is to introduce the visitor to the history and world of energy and telecommunications through a series of games and experiments aimed at acquiring basic knowledge about the properties of energy. or the transmission of data and images, all in a very interactive way.
The second stop leads to the central space of the exhibition and has a large model on which the different scenarios of the path of light are projected in order to explain the operation of the electrical system. “Everything is complemented with interactive games to better understand how the electrical system works, how electricity comes from power plants, both renewable and from all types of technology, and how it reaches consumption points through the networks. Here, for an electrical system to work, a constant balance between generation and demand is very important”, points out Ainara Irigoyen.
In addition, through a virtual tour, the viewer will be able to learn about the operation of the Electrical Control Center (Cecoel), an infrastructure from where Red Eléctrica operates the electrical system to guarantee a quality and safe electrical supply at all times. “It explains the different functions of the Control Center at all times, how, in addition, within our functions we maximize the integration of renewable energies. In fact, in 2006 Red Eléctrica created the first renewable energy integration control center, which was a pioneer worldwide and achieved very important milestones. And the Canary Islands also have their Control Center, operational 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, ”he points out.
Next, the third module addresses the challenges and commitments that the energy transition implies, explaining key aspects such as the integration of renewables or the digital transformation. “Why is it necessary and what are the tools and challenges ahead to achieve it, to decarbonize the economy. It is also a very interactive module, which counts the vectors we need, such as the integration of renewables, storage, self-consumption, electric vehicle, energy efficiency, the active consumer who becomes aware that he is the protagonist. The digital transformation associated with all these tools and submarine interconnections is also very important, because the more interconnected the network is, the easier it is to integrate all that energy into the electrical system and share those resources”, explains Ainara Irigoyen. In this regard, in the exhibition you can also see a piece of the submarine cable that currently connects the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
The fourth stop shows the relationship between the actions of the energy transition and its connection with the contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals. The main element is an interactive game to become familiar with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, emphasizing the commitment of society and as individuals to achieve them.
The exhibition tour ends in the fifth module, in which the visitor becomes aware of their active role in the new electrical system, focusing on the tools and technological advances that can help this energy transformation, through a panel in which different daily scenes of a kind of house of the future adapted to the changes of the energy transition are recreated, with, for example, solar panels and storage batteries or electric vehicle recharging, among others.
The experience culminates with a virtual escape room in which “the clues are found in each of the modules, which will lead you to a final solution of the case that is exposed, related to the energy transition,” says Ainara Irigoyen.
The exhibition was inaugurated on the 8th at the Museum of Science and the Cosmos, after its success at the Elder Science Museum in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where it was relaunched ten years later incorporating the technological and qualitative leaps of recent redea evolution. Around 30,000 people have already visited an exhibition that has received very positive reviews.
