Siemens partners with GIS software provider to level up grid planning
Siemens Smart Infrastructure has partnered with Esri, a geographic information systems (GIS) and location intelligence platform, to expand its ecosystem of partners for its grid software business.
The partnership hopes to enhance capabilities for the planning, operations and maintenance of power networks at grid operators by combining Esri’s mapping and spatial analytics software and Siemens’ electrical topology expertise.
Esri’s geodata will be combined with Siemens’ modelling and simulation software to boost the creation of a holistic digital twin of the grid for planning, simulation and real-time operations to accelerate the energy transition.
The companies are aiming to upgrade the data flow between applications for increased planning accuracy and for better operations of the distribution grid. Their objective is to improve the admission of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) to the grid and thereby expedite net zero.
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“With the strategic partnership, Siemens and Esri will jointly innovate in the grid software space by bringing together the best of our two worlds,” stated Sabine Erlinghagen, CEO Grid Software at Siemens Smart Infrastructure.
Jeff Rashid, global director for Infrastructure at Esri, added: “Combining a major source of data such as GIS with Siemens’ grid modelling and simulation software will significantly elevate the quality of grid models for utilities.
“We are working on streamlining the data transfer between our GIS and the Siemens software resulting in a much higher performing system, a much more reliable data exchange between systems and a reduction in overall cost for data management.”
This news comes in as the rapid growth in DERs and e-mobility charging infrastructure fundamentally transforms the energy system.
According to Siemens, this cooperation is hoped to support Transmission System Operators (TSOs) and Distribution System Operators (DSOs) find answers to increasing challenges across their geographic power networks.
