1st place at the IE Business School Datathon. The challenge, proposed by Iberdrola, was to design the optimal electric vehicle charging network for Spain's interurban routes for a 2027 operational horizon, subject to electrical grid capacity constraints.
Spain's interurban road network needs a strategically placed EV charging infrastructure to support mass EV adoption by 2027. The placement must respect:
- Existing electrical grid capacity at candidate locations
- Driver range anxiety (maximum distance between chargers)
- Budget and installation constraints
- Data collection – road network topology, traffic flow data, grid capacity at candidate sites
- Optimization model – formulated as a facility location / set cover problem
- Solver – mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) with coverage and capacity constraints
- Validation – simulated EV trips across major Spanish corridors
- Achieved optimal coverage of interurban routes within grid constraints
- Solution selected as best among all competing teams
Python · PuLP / OR-Tools · pandas · geopandas · matplotlib