GE Digital has entered into an agreement to acquire Opus One Solutions Energy Corporation (“Opus One”), a software company that helps electric utilities optimize energy planning, operations, and market management. Opus One’s renewable energy planning capabilities combined with GE Digital’s network management and optimization portfolio will help utilities make decisions about how to integrate renewables and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) at scale across the electric grid. Transmission, Distribution, and Market Operators will benefit from the combined software solutions, providing the ability to plan, onboard, manage, optimize, and trade renewables and DERs to enable a modern grid that is reliable, sustainable, and affordable for all. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Electric utilities around the world face new obstacles with the rapid growth of renewables and DERs,” said Jim Walsh, General Manager of GE Digital’s Grid Software business. “With increased demand for renewable energy and electric vehicles in every region, challenges for grid and market operators are more acute every day.”
Ontario, Canada-based Opus One Solutions Energy Corporation is an innovator in software solutions with its advanced model-based software platform – GridOS® — that enables the digital utility. Through multi-year collaborations, GE Digital and Opus One have supported customers transitioning to an intelligent and sustainable energy network with an integrated software portfolio that improves DER scheduling, dispatch, switching, and operations planning. The result is an end-to-end solution for utilities to deliver a resilient and sustainable grid.
“GE’s century of continuous grid innovation combined with Opus One’s energy-focused team will bring together the brightest minds to build the new energy ecosystem with our customers,” Walsh said. “This acquisition reinforces GE Digital’s commitment to helping our customers transition to a sustainable grid.”
“We’ve heard clearly from our utility partners that they need an integrated end-to-end platform to plan, operate, and transact with DERs on their grids. We look forward to becoming an integral part of GE Digital, combining our complementary strengths in best-in-class software solutions,” said Joshua Wong, President & CEO of Opus One. “Our commitment is to empower grid operators with the best strategies and technologies, as they solve some of the world’s toughest challenges and greatest opportunities around distributed energy. It’s an exciting time in our mission to enable the energy transition and the grid of the future.”