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Contact

Name: Dr. Jörg Klose

email id: Joerg.Klose@de.ibm.com

website: IBM

Intelligent load management solution for grid operations

The problem

Electrification to meet the climate target by 2050, causing massive changes to energy grids worldwide. There’s a need to proactively manage the power flow and predict outages.

This requires a highly flexible data acquisition solution with a specific focus on the low-voltage range, capability provided by Cumulocity.

AI models incorporating IoT data hosted in IBM Watsonx.ai can help predict the failure in advance giving load manager time to react and manage. ML model integrated with a Gen AI chatbot can help query operations info, and provide guided operations recommendations to load managers.

Challenges

  • Increasing ectrification causing massive changes to energy grids worldwide. There’s a need to proactively manage the power flow and predict outages.
  • Need to manage millions of sensors and data profiles in real-time.
  • Due to the small scale and the large numbers of DERs as well as the weather dependency, large fluctuations can occur in the grid, which need to be managed.
  • Utilities are forced via regulations to manage highly volatile electricity loads with high local granularity at all voltage levels and millions of connected distributed energy resources (DER).

Solution

  • A highly flexible data acquisition platform with a specific focus on the low-voltage range which can manage real time time data comprising of varying data profiles.
  • Holistic AI models incorporating such IoT data with varying profiles predict the failure in advance giving load manager time to react and manage situation.
  • ML model integrated with a Gen AI chatbot in Cumulocity platform can help query operations info, provide guided operations recommendations to load managers.

Benefits

  • Existing network can be utilized better.
  • Flexible tariffs can be handled.
  • More load stations can be connected.
  • Network resilience increases.
  • With Gen AI capabilities productivity of front line workers can be increased significantly and increases the quality of decisions which can be made.

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