At Enlit Europe, Schneider Electric has announced its powerful new capabilities that will help grid operators minimize the risk of outages, manage supply and demand flexibility, and improve operational and energy efficiency.
As the frequency of climate-linked severe weather events intesify, Schneider Electric delivers innovative, new software solutions designed to enable greater grid flexibility from distributed clean renewable energy (Electricity 4.0), maximize reliability and resilience, and improve operational efficiency of grid management. Decentralized generation is the future, with a joint Schneider Electric -Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) assessment indicating that solar is a major under tapped opportunity, with the potential of 167 million households and 23 million businesses worldwide hosting their own clean power generation by 2050. These deployments will unlock major decarbonization benefits, but policy and tariff design will be critical to enable them.
All roads to decarbonization rely on distribution utilities (DSOs) that manage the essential infrastructure for the energy transition. Only a data-driven grid overhaul allows the ‘prosumer revolution’ – the ability of consumers and businesses to generate their own renewable energy through solar and microgrids and sell excess back to the grid – that we are all counting on to decarbonize the biggest CO2 emitters, including buildings, homes and personal transportation. With EcoStruxure Grid software and services, Schneider aims to equip distribution utilities with data gathering, data management and advanced analytics solutions that let digital speed up the hard work of decarbonization.
