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network, making it easier for operators to decide how to restore the power and clear the faulty area quickly.
Zaphiro’s offering is key for DSOs looking to integrate distributed energy resources into their network as part of their decarbonisation strategy, allowing them to reduce emissions while ensuring grid stability and resilience.
Optimising energy storage assets Battery energy storage systems (BESS) provide a powerful tool for grappling with the increasing complexity – and decentralisation – of the grid. By allowing energy to be stored for prolonged periods and released on demand, battery energy storage systems offer an effective way to absorb and manage fluctuations in supply and demand, better accommodating unplanned outages and preventing the revenue losses associated with power cuts. It’s no wonder that BloombergNEF (BNEF) forecasts that the global energy storage market will grow 15-fold by 2030.
While global providers can supply the battery systems themselves, collaborations with startups have the potential to add another layer of digitalisation, allowing operators to better respond to evolving energy requirements. For example, the most recent winner of the Distribution Solutions category of the ABB Electrification Startup Challenge is Danish startup Hybrid Greentech. Its proposed new
control logic software for ABB’s battery energy storage systems could create a fully AI-driven virtual power plant, improving the return on investment for batteries by ten years or more, and increasing the revenue and performance of energy storage installations.
While optimising the operations of energy storage assets, the system can deliver savings, better performance, and increased lifetime, allowing longer lifetime with increased performance.
Virtualised protection and control The shift to electrification also requires new technologies and systems that can be used alongside fundamental equipment such as digital-enabled switchgear to provide the regulation and control needed to manage variable energy generation.
This means protection and control systems must be more flexible than ever before, so they can reconfigure fast enough to keep pace with the continuous introduction of new energy sources, from solar power to energy storage systems, and electrical loads, such as electric vehicles.
One of the ways to achieve this and deliver optimised operation and maintenance processes is, again, through digitalisation. Smart control and protection systems for substations have already been on the market for several years. However, ABB has developed
its digitalisation offer further, building the first fully virtualised substation, which means DSOs can simply order control and protection software and install it on the hardware of their choice. As the software is fully modular, it offers substations the flexibility to change with the evolving grid, handling new network functionalities as required.
Moving the needle with digitalisation
Energy insecurity and a global focus on decentralising the grid are profoundly shifting the way we generate, distribute and consume electricity. Demand is growing for resilient, efficient, and sustainable power systems, and operators are in desperate need of technologies and innovation that can help them achieve that. Digital technologies have the potential to significantly move the needle in supporting DSOs in the challenge of moving towards decarbonisation. ABB is working both on enhancing its control and protection technologies and on collaborating with startups and integrating their innovations. We have a greater chance of bringing our most ambitious ideas to fruition when we think outside the box. It is this broader collaboration that will inject new energy, innovation and ideas into our industry, helping DSOs address their greatest challenges on the road to a low carbon future.
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