Smart grids start with smart planning
From hosting capacity and interconnection to long-term grid investment, leading utilities globally trust envelio planning software to meet the demands of today and tomorrow.
Deliver customer excellence with advanced hosting capacity maps and more
Shorten your queue by automating and streamlining the interconnection process
Invest effectively by identifying and prioritizing short- and long-term grid expansion needs
Selected electric utilities who trust envelio
Today, grid planning for a total area with more
than 35,000,000 electric customers worldwide
is accomplished using envelio’s Intelligent Grid Platform.
Smart Grid Planning: Tackling Load Growth & DER Integration
Today’s utilities face a myriad of challenges simultaneously: load growth, integrating DERs, grid transformation, adapting to new regulations, balancing volatility with flexibility, and more – all while delivering affordable and reliable energy to customers.
These challenges are interdependent and cannot be solved in isolation. A holistic approach is required.
Grid planning is at the core, providing the foundation to connect all the dots and address them successfully.
Why Intelligent Grid Platform?
envelio’s Intelligent Grid Platform is the key tool for utilities to connect all the dots and make end-to-end grid planning a reality.
The IGP’s modular architecture ensures a tailor-made setup that fits exactly your needs.
The platform offers comprehensive support across various stages of grid management and expansion. It seamlessly integrates data orchestration to facilitate the entire process from siting and evaluation to strategic planning.
Engineers and planners benefit from powerful simulation and analysis tools, enabling them to model different scenarios and optimize grid performance. End customers experience enhanced reliability and efficiency in power delivery, while decision makers can leverage detailed strategic planning capabilities to ensure the grid meets future demands.
Whether you are planning new infrastructure or expanding existing networks, the Intelligent Grid Platform provides the necessary insights and tools to achieve a resilient, efficient, and future-proof power grid.
Grid Hub: The Backbone of Holistic Grid Planning
The Grid Hub is the basis for our holistic grid planning approach and introduces the next-level of network model management.
Leverage your data instead of replacing it. Grid Hub connects to your data integrating seamlessly into your existing IT architecture. Plus, the automated data shippers make manual model refresh a task of the past.
Consistency is key. Model orchestration ensures that all planners, processes, and applications work in one model. Customizable quality algorithms enable full connectivity at all times down to the meter.
The Grid Hub’s open approach enables you to use the data within your application landscape thanks to extensive APIs, integrations, and export in standard formats.
The Intelligent Grid Platform stands for:
Seamlessly synced
Connect and model all of your data automatically with transparent outputs
Automation that works
Automate modelling, technical study processes and validations – to focus on what really matters
Open and consistent
Collaborate based on consistent data across all processes and share data with other apps in your organization
Proactive assistant
Proactively consider contingencies, either-or decisions, and flexibility options with the click of a button
Cost-effective grid expansion
Identify optimised grid expansion options to get more return on your investment
Advanced power-flows
Model complexity such as seasonality and regulatory requirements with advanced time-series based power flows
We currently process approximately 10,000 connection requests per month to medium and low voltage grids through our web interface for non-binding determination of the nearest possible grid connection points. The automatic connection determination by envelio (OCC) enables our customers to quickly identify potential connection points on their own. This significantly improves the quality and the implementation rate of the projects. At the same time, we were able to substantially reduce the overall processing time of connection requests. The OCC is therefore a crucial component in achieving the climate protection targets in our grid area.
After automating the technical evaluation of the available grid capacity, we were able to significantly speed up our connection request processes. We have reduced our workload in the areas of grid planning and grid connection services, and our customers are happy their requests are now processed faster.
In some cases, it would not have been possible to anticipate the high load without the IGP. The IGP provides calculation results which already take existing as well as approved but not yet installed generators into account. That is why we were able to visualize a rapid concentration of assets set to be put into operation and based on this information, we can already initiate grid expansion measures at an early stage.
We are preparing our grids for reliable supply in a complex energy system. By designing and applying automation to eliminate congestion using the IGP, we implement a key element for grid-oriented management of flexibilities in low voltage grids.
Like all grid operators, we are facing a significant increase in grid connection requests. With the IGP, we consider ourselves optimally prepared for this challenge and other aspects of the energy transition. In addition to the technical grid connection assessment, which has been smoothly integrated into the registration process at TraveNetz, we can, for example, use future grid scenario analyses created with the ‘Grid Study’ application as an important aid in investment decisions for grid expansion.
Convincing everyone in the company about the importance of digitalization wasn’t always easy, and we faced significant challenges with our data quality. However, the experienced team at envelio consistently provided friendly and helpful support. With the introduction of the Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP), we can now pull data from various systems for grid calculations, enabling us to evaluate the utilization of our entire network for the first time.
In cooperation with envelio, we managed to deploy two digital solutions in our IT landscape – Online Connection Check and Connection Request.
Online Connection Check has been used by more than 80,000 of our customers since the beginning of the year, and this confirms the great interest in connecting renewable sources to our distribution system. This is also why we are happy to offer our customers an online, intuitive tool.
Connection Request, on the other hand, is used for faster processing of customer requests, and here we found that the new process is twice as fast as our previous system thanks to Connection Request.
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