Collaboration key to grid innovation says Elia Group

Irid Bufi, Innovation Manager at Elia Group, talks to Jonathan Spencer Jones about the grid innovations the TSO group is developing and its approach to these.

In an exclusive Studio interview at Enlit Europe, Bufi referred to the ‘three pillar’ approach Elia Group has adopted for its innovation drive.

She refers to three main clusters of innovation – the maintenance of an ageing grid infrastructure spread across various geographical locations, the implementation of new assets and the underlying “fusion of data”.

“It’s about how this comes together to give us the right insights to take the right decisions at the right time.”

And the ‘how’ are the longer-term projects generally with universities and demonstrators, smaller scale six to 12-month pilots with start-ups and a co-sharing with utility peers through a newly established cross-industry ecosystem.

“We don’t want to reinvent the wheel and at the end, we all want to test the same technologies,” said Bufi.

Watch the whole interview, originally published on Enlit World, to get detailed insights:

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