> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.adriadefense.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # NATO Innovation Fund Backs Laki Power’s Dual-Use Grid Tech With €6M Round - URL: https://www.adriadefense.com/nato-innovation-fund-backs-laki-powers-dual-use-grid-tech-with-eur6m-round/ - Published: 2026-09-22T00:27:54.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-22T00:27:54.000Z - Description: Icelandic company Laki Power is developing technology that turns high-voltage transmission lines into self-powered nodes for sensors, communications and, eventually, autonomous drone operations. - Author: AdriaDefense Desk - Tags: NATO, Industry, Laki Power, Iceland The NATO Innovation Fund has led a €6 million Series A investment in Icelandic technology company Laki Power, backing a dual-use platform designed to provide persistent monitoring and communications along high-voltage electricity networks. Existing shareholder ReykVC also participated in the round, announced on September 17\. The investment represents the NATO Innovation Fund’s first investment in Iceland. Laki Power’s core technology addresses a relatively simple but operationally significant problem: providing reliable power to sensors and communications equipment installed along remote transmission lines. Its LKX-MULTI system is installed directly on a high-voltage conductor and harvests electricity from the line itself. According to the company, its patented technology can provide up to 300 watts of power, allowing a single station to support cameras, weather and line sensors, onboard computing and satellite communications without relying on solar panels or conventional battery installations. The system has primarily civilian applications, including detecting ice accumulation and wildfire risks, monitoring conductor conditions and determining how much electricity a transmission line can safely carry under changing environmental conditions. However, the same infrastructure also has clear security applications. Persistent cameras, edge computing and satellite connectivity positioned along transmission corridors can provide operators with continuous visibility around infrastructure that is otherwise difficult to monitor. That capability has become increasingly relevant as electricity networks face physical sabotage, extreme weather and other threats to critical infrastructure. The NATO Innovation Fund described electricity transmission networks as critical infrastructure that remains largely unobserved between substations and highlighted Laki Power’s ability to place sensors, computing and communications directly on the grid. ### Power lines as infrastructure for autonomous drones Laki Power is also developing a second application that pushes the technology further into the dual-use domain. Its LKX-DRONE concept is designed to create charging points for unmanned aircraft directly along electricity transmission corridors. Rather than returning to a conventional base for power, drones could dock at stations positioned along power lines, recharge and continue operating. Laki Power says the concept is intended to support missions including post-storm infrastructure inspections, wildfire reconnaissance and security patrols. The company describes a potential configuration using seven charging stations per 100 kilometers of transmission line to support continuous operations. Unlike LKX-MULTI, which is already being deployed commercially, LKX-DRONE remains a next-generation platform under development. Laki Power said part of the new financing will be used to accelerate its development and distribution. The distinction is important: the immediate capability being scaled is a self-powered monitoring and communications platform, while autonomous drone infrastructure represents a potential extension of the same underlying technology. ### Scaling beyond Iceland Laki Power says its systems are already being used by transmission operators in several international markets, including Iceland’s Landsnet, Norway’s Statnett and Canada’s Hydro-Québec. The new capital will be used to expand manufacturing and increase deployments of LKX-MULTI across Europe, North America and Australia. The investment also reflects a broader focus by the NATO Innovation Fund on technologies that sit between conventional commercial infrastructure and defense requirements. The fund is backed by 24 NATO countries and has more than €1 billion available for investments in deep technologies related to defense, security and resilience. Its portfolio increasingly includes technologies whose initial commercial markets extend beyond traditional military procurement. For Laki Power, that overlap is particularly direct. Electricity transmission infrastructure already spans thousands of kilometers across NATO countries. Adding persistent sensing, computing, satellite communications and potentially autonomous drone support could allow part of that existing civilian infrastructure to perform a second role as a distributed security and monitoring network.