Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, announces EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex, an industry-first, innovative standardized microgrid solution designed to significantly reduce project timeline across the journey, delivering a greater return on investment for the system.
With distributed energy resources projected to account for 40% of US electricity generation by 2050, the demand for microgrids is growing to meet these needs. Microgrid systems currently require a sizeable sum of engineering hours and intense attention to the configuration, planning and deployment of the system.
EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex expedites the completion of microgrid system projects from specification to design and build in months instead of years. It has a profoundly positive impact on customer return on investment, as it dramatically reduces the number of engineering hours required, resulting in significant cost savings. “By producing electricity with renewable resources, microgrids drive increased sustainability, electrification and resiliency for our customers and across the U.S.,” asserted Annette Clayton, CEO, Schneider Electric North America. “This groundbreaking standardized microgrid solution accelerates decarbonization and market adoption, allowing more facilities to leverage renewables and manage costs through energy source optimization,” Clayton continued.
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“Our new EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex empowers businesses to take the future of sustainability into their own hands with a solution that considerably reduces downtime, greenhouse gas emissions and energy waste,” said Bala Vinayagam, SVP, Microgrid Line of Business at Schneider Electric. “And as a configured-to-order offer, customers will achieve greater optimization of on-site renewables connected to the microgrid.”
Once commissioned, the solution is optimized through a data-as-a-service model where the microgrid’s data plugs into the AI-powered AutoGrid VPP (Virtual Power Plant) platform. This solution can also plug into a third-party VPP network, DERMS (Distributed Energy Resource Management System), or directly with Schneider Electric’s microgrid software and analytics suite.
SOURCE: PR Newswire