Optimizing the energy grid

About white paper

Understanding the impact of energy transition including the electrification of transportation, and fluctuating demand driven by technologies like AI and cryptocurrency are creating unprecedented challenges for utilities in planning and operating such increases and the need for coordination due to the distributed nature of the assets in the medium voltage (MV) and low voltage (LV) network.

This white paper explores three foundational components to address the challenge of distributed system operation and proposes a reference architecture for large and small utilities to tackle the complexity of this new reality.

• Communication is a requirement for any measurement, monitoring or control in the grid.
• Edge compute provides efficiency in utilization of IT/OT infrastructure
• Real-time intelligent orchestration provides the automation that will be required to manage the flexibility in an increasingly complex, multi-stakeholder grid.

The paper acknowledges outstanding challenges and offers actionable solutions to move from innovation to business as usual.