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Grid edge

The new dimension between intelligent grids, smart buildings and prosumers is opening up space for new business opportunities.

White Paper: Driving the Energy Revolution

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New momentum Solutions at the grid edge enable buildings, infrastructures and industries to optimize their energy efficiency. They empower customers to intelligently integrate renewables and to take control of their energy supply. Grid edge technologies support infrastructure for eMobility expansion. They help us to enhance the way we live and work – creating environments that care.

What will your story be at the grid edge?

The global energy system is being transformed, becoming more decentralized, utilizing more renewables and turning consumers to prosumers. But this change creates challenges at the interface between the grid and consumers – the grid edge.

By working at the grid edge, we redefine the relationships between consumption, production and storage. Through digitalization and new business models we are helping manage complex energy flows and the interplay between production and consumption – and to increase the energy system’s flexibility and reliability.

We are accelerating the transition towards a zero-carbon future and transforming today’s energy landscape to create a more caring environment.

Global virtual conference, Jun 16 - Jun 17

Grid Edge Summit 2021

Join our two-day virtual conference to stay on top of emerging trends and opportunities around the grid edge. Be inspired by expert speakers and practical examples from around the world! We’ll discuss the many possibilities of grid edge solutions: from microgrids, local energy solutions for industries and buildings, to eMobility to battery storage and the seamless connection to infrastructures and industries.

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Co-creating at any scale The grid edge affects a variety of companies and stakeholders – on the grid side and on the building and consumer side. Siemens has experience on both sides and understands the needs of each customer set as well as the technologies that meet them.

Municipalities and DSOs

Municipalities and utilities can benefit extensively from the energy transition. Technologies at the grid edge optimize energy use and cost while ensuring energy availability and power quality. Solutions range from renewables integration and aggregation to microgrids in the distribution grid to decentralized energy solutions as a service.

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Grid edge technologies for eMobility charging

Campuses

How will commercial or public institution campuses take control of their energy future? Grid edge solutions can help control energy usage effectively across a wide area with multiple buildings. It can take campus eMobility infrastructure to the next level or achieve zero-net energy with renewables integration and a microgrid.

Beyond the smart campus

Grid edge technologies for smart buildings

Commercial and smart buildings

Grid edge is the interface where the intelligent grid meets smart buildings. Technologies at the grid edge help buildings make the best use of their energy – with side-based decentralized generation and storage, intelligent fleet charging systems, optimization of energy efficiency, operations and maintenance, and innovative business models.

Grid edge technologies for discrete and process industries

Process and discrete industries

The digital transformation has taken industry processes to a higher level. Now grid edge opens new opportunities. From optimization of energy use and cost, to optimization across energy sectors (sector coupling) and microgrid management systems that enable grid resilience, reliable power quality and island ability.

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Residential

The transition of our energy systems enables consumers to become prosumers and take control of their energy. This will fundamentally change our residential areas, for example, by effectively connecting households to a sustainable eVehicle charging ecosystem or by empowering customers to effectively integrate solar energy for self-consumption.

Grid edge solution partners

The grid edge solution partner program from Siemens enables our partners to stay ahead of technological innovations and opportunities at the grid edge – through simple integration of the tools in our partner portal, direct purchase and training for applications, energy efficiency service, and partner financing solutions.

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Nothing will drive the transition of our energy systems more sustainably than the innovative technologies at the grid edge. It's the dimension between the intelligent grid, smart buildings and active prosumers where new business opportunities and stories are born. Learn what these stories are about and become a protagonist in of one of the most radical transformations in human history.

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Learn how customers successfully applied solutions at the grid edge - creating environments that care.

Wildpoldsried, Germany

Pebbles demonstrator, Germany

100% renewable energy
peer-to-peer energy trading at the grid edge
blockchain technology

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Espoo, Finland

Sello Shopping Center, Finland

More than a building - a community
Finland's most visited and most sustainable shopping centre
125.000 € heat and electricity cost savings (2017, compared to 2016)

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Blue Lake Rancheria, North California, USA

Blue Lake Rancheria microgrid, USA

Native American reservation took control of its energy
200 k $ of energy savings per year
200 t of CO₂ savings per year

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PV panels on the rooftop of the Siemens Campus microgrid

Vienna, Austria

Siemens Campus microgrid, Austria

Intelligent system for optimizing electricity and heat demand
Integration of electric mobility into the existing local distribution network without the need for further grid infrastructure expansion.
Around 100 tons of CO2 savings per year

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Keele, Newcastle, UK

Keele University, UK

An international test-bed for new low-carbon energy technologies
25+ key research projects ignited
Saving 4.000 t of CO₂ per year

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The grid edge revolution

Learn how innovations at the grid edge helping to drive the transition from a centralized energy system to one that is more decentralized, more local and more efficient.

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Driving the energy revolution

This white paper defines a powerful index to assess the relative need and readiness of a country for grid edge solutions.

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Addressing decarbonization at the grid edge

Discover how decarbonization affects consumers in the commercial & industrial sector and what measures you should take now.

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Building technology

As a trusted advisor and reliable partner, as a system integrator, service provider and a product vendor, Siemens offers energy-efficient, safe and secure buildings and infrastructure.