Last week we announced a collaboration with Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a US multinational semiconductor company specialized in data conversion, signal processing and power management technology. By joining forces, we will be able to advance smart grid resilience and electrification worldwide. This collaboration will lead to the development of new hardware and software to support distribution grid self-healing and adaptation in response to the significant changes in energy supply and demand as renewable energy sources are brought online.
Our joint effort is built on the long-term smart meters and grid digitalization solutions collaboration between ADI and Enel over the last fifteen years.
ADI is a NASDAQ-listed US company that serves 125,000 customers worldwide with more than 75,000 products in the industrial, communications, automotive, and consumer markets. Now we will work together to deliver even more precise and accurate measurement and monitoring capabilities, improve resilience, delivering a higher quality of service to customers. Simultaneously, this will also enable utilities to increase their operational efficiency and rapid transition to clean energy while allowing flexibility of services. Our technologies developed with Analog Devices’ support are suitable for the enhancement of legacy infrastructures of different geographies and life stages, and do not require costly rebuilds. Moreover, they minimize the environmental impact of the assets and making digitalization a key driver for more sustainable power distribution grids.
As noted by our CEO Robert Denda, “Leveraging an open innovation approach, we collaborate with key players from different sectors to industrialize and deliver the most advanced hardware and software solutions in the market for the digitalization of power distribution grids, supporting DSOs around the world to accelerate the energy transition.”
Patrick Morgan, Corporate Vice President of Automotive Electrification and Sustainable Energy at Analog Devices, added: “ADI technologies span across the electrification ecosystem, from vehicles to energy storage to charging stations, and today they are becoming even more important for the electric power distribution grids, where precision measurement and digitalization are essential for ensuring greater flexibility and resilience. We are pleased to expand our collaboration with Gridspertise into our next generation of advanced energy measurement, isolation, sensing, and control solutions.”
Analog Devices’ power and precision technologies also deliver enhanced analog-to-digital conversion, protection, precise measurement, metrology, and isolation capability for the QEd - Quantum Edge® device, our groundbreaking solution at the heart of the digitalization of secondary substations. This solution is a first in the industry to fully virtualize the physical components of secondary substations, turning them into customizable edge applications, while enabling new use cases and improved management of key grid functionalities.