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Schneider Electric and Kraken announced a strategic partnership to help utilities and DSOs improve grid visibility, forecast congestion, and manage demand flexibility in real time.
Schneider Electric and Kraken announced a strategic partnership to help accelerate global adoption of additional electricity demand flexibility. The partnership will help support new solutions for Distribution System Operators (DSOs) and utilities, providing additional capabilities to monitor the grid, forecast congestion, and shift demand in real time.
By improving demand flexibility and increasing the use of existing network capacity, these capabilities can help to support faster connections for data centers and large industrial loads. They can also help to delay the need for expensive grid upgrades, which can lower overall system costs and reduce pressure on consumer and industrial energy bills.
The partnership is intended to help households and businesses contribute to a more flexible and efficient electricity system. Optimizing electricity demand across electric vehicles, home batteries, solar PV, industrial loads, and utility-scale energy resources can help to:
Reduce network congestion
Balance the grid in real time
Create value across the energy system
Schneider Electric will provide real-time visibility of network constraints through its One Digital Grid Platform and EcoStruxure DERMS. The company’s broader EcoStruxure™ ecosystem will help to support predictive optimization, energy intelligence, distributed control, and flexible load management.
Kraken’s AI-powered platform helps to complement this approach by coordinating distributed energy resources, including electric vehicles, home batteries, heat pumps, utility-scale storage, generation assets, and industrial loads. This coordination is intended to help shift consumption and balance the grid in real time.
The partnership helps to address growing grid pressure as electricity demand rises and distribution networks face congestion. For utilities and DSOs, improved visibility and real-time demand flexibility can provide an alternative to relying only on capital-intensive infrastructure upgrades with long lead times.
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