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Schneider Electric announced some of its latest innovations and progress towards accelerating grid modernization at DISTRIBUTECH International® 2024, the annual transmission and distribution event for utilities, technology providers, and industry participants.
Schneider Electric is advancing its grid intelligence and efficiency solutions with its system architecture and ecosystem that is designed to be more open, interoperable, scalable and IoT-enabled. This extends the history of Schneider Electric being an operations platform provider, which is demonstrated with its latest enhancements and solutions in advanced distribution management from EcoStruxure ADMS, as well as strategic investments, as demonstrated in Schneider Electric's collaboration with Itron. Collaboration is paramount to solving emerging challenges to further maximize grid capacity in response to the growth of DER and electrification, and utilities are motivated to partner with trusted and innovative technology vendors.
Grid Optimization for Distributed Energy Resources and Distribution Management
Schneider Electric’s Grid to Prosumer portfolio provides more secure, end-to-end digitalization with its latest advancements for utilities and prosumers, including:
EcoStruxure ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management System) delivers new capabilities to help boost efficiency, reduce costs, improve reliability and increase grid efficiency. The new ADMS release furthers Schneider Electric’s position and foundation for ongoing investments and solutions in ADMS.
Flexible deployment: modular cloud and on-premise deployment provides higher flexibility in deploying mission-critical solutions, catering to the evolving cloud business model transformation in the smart grid industry.
Seamless integration: Native integration with EcoStruxure ADMS, EcoStruxure ArcFM, EcoStruxure DERMS and/or EcoStruxure Energy Transmission Operation adds value with the ability to manage the grid data model in a more adaptive and automated way.
Future-ready and evergreen: Software development kit (SDK) libraries, such as quality, and automated deployment and testing simplify software upgrades and enable extensions by certified partners, expediting software access, deployment and upgrades.
Harnessing the power of AI: Building on AI use cases for load/generation forecast and load profile generation, the new release delivers more accurate estimated time of restoration (ETR), leveraging the power of AI to vastly improve grid operations, utility efficiency and customer satisfaction.
EcoStruxure ArcFM XI, the geographic information systems (GIS) suite of applications offers a map-centric, more intuitive way to model, design, maintain, and manage facility and land-based information, and more seamlessly integrates with EcoStruxure ADMS for real-time, two-way communication. A recent implementation at a large electric utility showcased over 99% data accuracy, setting the foundation of best practices guiding utilities through a streamlined data migration to Esri's ArcGIS Utility Network.
ION 7400 facilitates more reliable metering and more seamless integration of DER assets onto the grid, and has been enhanced with new feature-sets, more easily upgradable in the field without any hardware replacement: (1) Advanced: simpler and cost-effective Class 1 PQ panel-mount or DIN rail meter; (2) Essential: offering additional flexibility to customers to install a more cost-effective revenue meter at lower metering points in the energy supply chain, while maintaining the power of ION programmability.
EcoStruxure Power Automation System with PowerLogic P7 protection relay offers a digital twin to create a virtual representation of a substation that spans its lifecycle for more reliable electrical grids, reduced maintenance costs, and optimized power management. It supports the transformation of today’s electrical grids with greater flexibility to optimize energy from distributed resources and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of the electrical substation.
The Value of Collaboration and Open Systems
Schneider Electric continues to help its customers with their challenges in collaboration with technology partners and portfolio companies and with the breadth of its broad portfolio and ecosystem. With Uplight’s acquisition of AutoGrid, Schneider Electric extends its grid to prosumer momentum for flexibility services, Virtual Power Plants, and prosumer engagement as a single pane of glass solution.
Schneider Electric is platforming grid software solutions with a data-centric architecture that places data and analysis at the heart of decision-making. Supporting and driving industry standards helps to enable flexibility, interoperability, and security across the architecture, and integration through industry open standards establishes Schneider Electric’s commitment to helping to ease data management, influencing, and promoting adoption of distributed energy resources and end-to-end solutions for a digitalized, optimized, and modern grid.