Digital solutions play a key role in meeting the challenges of the energy transition

The electrification of more areas of the economy, including transport, building systems and industry will drive a substantial increase in power demand by 2050.

As the world transitions to a low-carbon future, utilities are looking to new digital solutions to help them meet their sustainability and reliability goals and manage a more dynamic, complex grid.

While great progress has been made in supporting decarbonisation efforts, it has created other challenges for the power industry, including the need to improve quality of service to utility customers while also addressing other business challenges such as load growth, budget optimisation and return on assets.

While the industry has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to improve reliability in many areas, the metrics aren’t improving. What’s needed to improve reliability? A commitment to operating differently, including a new approach to the role of data in grid management.

Moving from a passive grid to one that is more responsive requires situational awareness at the grid edge and decentralised decision-making.

This move from a centralised to a decentralised approach to managing the grid is driven by a need for greater visibility where the disruption is happening – at the grid edge. By leveraging new solutions to track and monitor secondary substation fleets, utilities can discover new opportunities for remote management and control.

Utilities can use digital grid edge solutions to increase situational awareness by monitoring grid edge primary and secondary assets, as well as implementing control such as wide-area protection schemes.

By capitalising on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalisation, Eaton is accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy sources, helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges, and building a more sustainable society for people today and generations to come.

Visit Eaton at Enlit Europe in Milan at Stand 7.H40 to learn more about our digital solutions to address some of today’s toughest challenges: situational awareness and control, managing data from edge devices and monitoring of performance in transformer vaults.

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