Working together to ensure our future power supply

With power from renewable energy sources accounting for an ever growing share of the energy mix, there is increased fluctuation in power feed into the grids. Not every producer of wind and solar power consumes the electricity it generates, making the task of maintaining power quality increasingly more complex.

A growing number of end customers are themselves becoming power producers, for example by operating photovoltaic systems installed on the roofs of their homes. These "prosumers" must be integrated into the existing business processes and maintained in the grids in an economically sensible way.

Progress achieved in communication systems enables economically sensible integration of local distribution substations, for example, into grid management. Increasingly compact devices and more economical processes can extend the service life of operating equipment and significantly simplify the integration of prosumers.

Digitalizing many of the processes involved facilitates a number of tasks, including identifying and locating disturbances and faults in power grids, automated generation of reports for regulators, dynamic management of processes, and analysis of load and power generation. At the same time, end customers also expect greater transparency in their electricity bills.