Funding Opportunity / 

RFP: Safeguarding Biodiversity Prior to the Installation of Electric Distribution Assets


The multinational energy company Enel is requesting proposals for partnerships related to a no-net-biodiversity-loss goal around their power infrastructure:

"We are engaged in a very challenging project that concerns the impact minimization of electric assets. These include overhead lines (high voltage and medium voltage, often with bare conductors) and substations crossing urban/rural/forest areas. The general framework is the No Net Biodiversity Loss approach: this is in order to estimate the effect on biodiversity and to promote its protection during the installation of electric infrastructure. The aim is to restore the areas involved and to offset the residual impacts, so that no loss remains. Our goal is to collect ideas/methodologies for minimizing the effect on biodiversity in the construction of the new asset and to optimize the offsetting in terms of land occupancy and economic effort."

https://innocentive.wazoku.com/challenge/7f2fc2ad9ca4413ea0b2cd021ec9bdf3