GLOBAL clean energy software company, Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS), and SSE’s Distributed Energy business have signed partnership to develop an “energy as a service” platform.
The new system will bring together SGS’s distributed energy resource management system software and SSE Enterprise’s capabilities in distributed energy generation, electric vehicle infrastructure, private electricity networks and heat networks under a single platform.
This platform will optimise energy usage to generate revenue, deliver enhanced security of supply and meet carbon reduction targets, building upon SGS’s existing smart grid platform, ANM Strata, which controls energy assets and load to manage constraints in the underlying network to which they are connected.
The capabilities will be enhanced, in time, to provide functionality to generate revenues from a number of UK markets, as well as enabling behind-the-meter and building energy optimisation.
The platform’s algorithms and fast-acting, control capability will be further enhanced by SSE Distributed Energy.
Graham Ault, director at Smarter Grid Solutions, said: “We have exciting projects already under way to manage electric vehicle charging, renewable energy, and flexible loads and look forward to developing these opportunities much further with SSE Enterprise and so enable a wide range of energy consumers and generators to benefit from the low carbon transition.”
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Stephen Stead, director of digital services for SSE Distributed Energy, said: “Real time control of local energy generation and consumption is playing an increasingly vital role in decarbonising our economy. As energy demand increases through the electrification of services, such as transport and heat, so too will the need for responsive energy asset control.
“This exciting new SGS-SSE partnership is a huge step in our ‘smart cities’ vision and will support local authorities, large energy users, and building and estate owners to deploy and manage low carbon technologies in order to meet the UK Government’s net-zero target by 2050. It will also help consumers to minimise energy costs.”
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