Depsys Chief Commercial Officer Anja Langer Jacquin talks about the major challenges the grid operators have to manage when they move from a carbon world into a renewable world
The operational environment gets complex, moving from a centralized into a decentralized production in a heavily regulated environment with growing expectations from consumers.
The answer is digitalisation. It is clear that better knowledge based on data leads to better decisions. The big question is where to start. Rather than collecting tons of data and then asking what to do with it, the operators first need to find out what business decisions they need to make, what insights they need to have to make them, and what data they need to gather to be able to get there.
An advanced smart grid solution, such as GridEye that depsys presents at European Utility Week 2019, contains hardware, software, and an analytics engine for daily operations, such as fault management, power quality analysis, network planning up to the control of DERs (distributed energy resources). GridEye promises a smart grid in just one day. Its simplicity should remove the initial fear that grid operators show when they think about the future of electricity and digitalisation.
