New Energy Sources, New Market Participants and Technology Modernisation are driving the traditional power grid away from a centralised, linear system to a distributed one with multi-directional flow, market disruptors and changing consumer demands. There is an impact on Generation, Transmission and Distribution companies dealing with Demand Optimisation, Grid Balancing and Re-dispatch, Asset maintenance, OT/IT integration, Cybersecurity, real time data management in an effort to deliver a Resilient, Sustainable and Affordable Energy System.

Working with key partners across the grid ecosystem, Dell Technologies is delivering modern, standardized infrastructure for Advanced Distribution Management and Substation Automation, with Utility Security Compliance for Cybersecurity. The Digital Integration Platform for the Data-Centric Utility delivers efficient grid operations, helps to optimize business processes and deliver new revenue models.

Leveraging the Innovation Lab (based in Limerick, Ireland), I will bring you on a Journey to the Edge, going through some of the Challenges and Requirements for edge deployment specific to utilities, showcasing some of our partners solutions in this space.