• Vantage Towers Spain and Gridle have agreed on a collaboration to strengthen the resilience, value and sustainability of Vantage Tower's telecom infrastructure in Spain.

Vantage Towers, one of Europe’s leading tower companies, and Gridle, Elisa Industriq’s energy optimization business, have agreed on a collaboration to strengthen the resilience, value and sustainability of Vantage Towers’ telecom infrastructure in Spain. The initiative aims to lay the foundation for a virtual power plant on Vantage Towers’ infrastructure and begins with an initial deployment at selected radio base station sites where AI-powered Gridle will optimize the company’s battery systems.  

“In moments when storms, power cuts and hybrid threats challenge the resilience of communications networks, it becomes our duty as an industry to explore all avenues that can help strengthen continuity of service. Through this collaboration, we contribute technologies that support operators in keeping networks running not only for hours, but for days when circumstances demand it,” said Nicolas Mahler, Interim CEO and CFO, Vantage Towers. 

Gridle was originally developed to optimize Elisa’s own extensive fleet of batteries across Finland and Estonia. Today, leading telecom companies, including DNA Towers Finland (part of Telenor Group), use the service to optimize charging, reduce emissions and participate more efficiently in energy markets. Gridle charges batteries during low cost, low emission periods, discharges them during price peaks, and trades available capacity in balancing and wholesale electricity markets. This intelligent optimization reduces energy costs and carbon emissions, contributes to the communications and energy networks’ resilience, and unlocks new revenue opportunities.

“Batteries are essential in protecting nationally critical telecom infrastructure. The blackout in Spain and Portugal last year reminded us how quickly society is disrupted when networks go down. We are pleased to collaborate with Vantage Towers to demonstrate how battery investments can turn resilience into operational excellence and financial gains when managed with intelligent systems like Gridle,” said Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita, Managing Director of Gridle and VP of AI at Elisa.

Vantage Towers Spain becomes the southernmost deployment of Gridle to date. Across Northern Europe, Gridle optimizes a wide range of assets—from telecom batteries to industrial, residential and grid scale energy storage systems. This collaboration marks an important step in extending these capabilities across Europe.

More information & interview requests:
Elisa Industriq Mediadesk, [email protected] , tel. +358 50 305 1605

Vantage Towers, [email protected]

The Gridle team will attend Mobile World Congress, schedule your meeting here: https://www.elisaindustriq.com/resources/events/meet-gridle-at-mwc-barcelona-2026