Announcements
E4SAlliance Expands Grid Digitization Ecosystem
Today, Gridspertise is joining the Edge for Smart Secondary
Substations (E4S) Alliance, created to develop a standard, flexible, manageable
and interoperable platform for next-generation Smart Grids. Having some of the
largest distribution system operators in the world partnering with technology
providers to co-develop an entirely new solution will revolutionize the energy
transition and help achieve a climate-neutral economy. The E4S Alliance is helping
digitize the grid and make it data driven in order to meet carbon neutrality.
Distribution System Operators (DSOs) will benefit from an
open standard based secure and highly scalable platform to monitor, protect and
control the electrical grid. Virtualization of applications, in combination
with edge computing leads to lower total cost of ownership, faster time to
market for new applications and more efficient management and delivery of
electricity.
About Gridspertise
Gridspertise offers grid intelligent devices, end-to-end
cloud-edge platform solutions and services to accelerate the digital
transformation of electricity distribution grids across three main areas:
metering and grid edge digitalization, network infrastructure digitalization,
field operation digitalization. The Company’s portfolio is designed as an open
ecosystem, easy to integrate with Distribution System Operators' existing
infrastructure, combining intelligent and automated grid devices with
ready-to-use modular applications, running at central level as well as on the
edge. The Company was set up in 2021 as a carve-out of Enel’s twenty-year-long
experience in developing, testing, and scaling up digital technologies to
transform legacy distribution networks into smart grids. Gridspertise is today
jointly controlled by the Enel Group and the leading global alternative
investment manager CVC Capital Partners. The Company has inherited a
significant intellectual property portfolio of over 430 patents and combines
its expertise in grid digitalization with cutting-edge solutions from leading
technology partners to tackle the evolving digitalization needs of the energy
market. Gridspertise is headquartered in Italy with subsidiaries in Spain,
Brazil, India and the United States. Current target markets include Europe,
Latin America and North America, expanding towards Asia-Pacific and Africa,
where investments in power grids will drive infrastructure upgrade projects in
the near future. For further information, visit gridspertise.com
About E4S
The Edge for Smart Secondary Substations (E4S) Alliance is a
technical working group formed by ABB, Ariadna Grid, Capgemini, Circutor, Dell,
Enedis, E-REDES, Gridspertise, Iberdrola, Intel, Kalkitech, Landis+Gyr,
Merytronic, Minsait, TTTech Industrial, VMware and ZIV Automation. E4S is working
to accelerate the creation of a
standards-based, open, interoperable, and secure architecture that addresses
both the technical and business challenges faced by DSOs around the globe.