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title: 5B wins Iberdrola's 'Start-up Challenge' 2022
description: 5B awarded Iberdrola start up challenge 2022
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# [5B wins Iberdrola's 'Start-up Challenge' 2022](https://5b.co/discover/news/5b-wins-iberdrolas-start-up-challenge)

 Written by [5B](https://5b.co/discover/news/author/5b) | October 13, 2022 1:00:00 PM Z

5B is one of five companies worldwide to win [Iberdrola's Start-Up Challenge](https://www.iberdrola.com/innovation/international-startup-program-perseo/innovative-structures-large-photovoltaic-plants) for innovative structures optimising the cost of large photovoltaic plants.

Iberdrola recognised the benefits of 5B's solar solution in its search for sustainable structures that allow cost optimisation either because they are made of alternative materials to steel or because their ratio of steel per MW built is lower than that of conventional structures.

[Full details here.](https://www.iberdrola.com/innovation/international-startup-program-perseo/innovative-structures-large-photovoltaic-plants)

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