Overview
- Iberdrola declared Plan il·lumina finished on Tuesday after nearly two years of work that restored more than 108,000 smart meters, rehabilitated about 20 substations, renewed 940 transformer centres and rebuilt roughly 460 towers.
- The emergency‑driven programme mobilised around 1,000 workers and has cost more than €100 million so far with Iberdrola now committing about €2 billion more to Valencian networks through 2031.
- Engineers said the rebuild raised equipment, reinforced enclosures, increased interconnections, reduced dependence on third‑party telecom fibre and tripled the grid’s remote‑control capacity to speed fault response.
- Regional leaders credited a Generalitat emergency decree with accelerating local reconstruction and said some work still remains while criticizing slower action from the central government.
- Beyond technical fixes, Iberdrola funded local recovery projects including school and playground repairs, market electrical upgrades and psychosocial support delivered with groups such as Cruz Roja and Nuevo Hogar.