Schneider Electric Makes Announcements on eMobility in Buildings, PaS, Grid to Prosumer, and Digitally Enabled Switchgear

Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxure for eMobility in buildings, an end-to-end EV charging solution for sustainable all-electric mobility

Schneider Electric announced the launch of a new EV charging solution designed to help provide more efficient, resilient, and sustainable electric mobility and net-zero buildings.

With this launch, Schneider Electric continues its pursuit to help make buildings smarter and more sustainable overall by adding EV charging infrastructure in the facilities.

What is EcoStruxure for eMobility in Buildings?

Combining all end-to-end solutions helps to enable Schneider Electric to offer more reliable and energy efficient technology for implementing EV charging infrastructure in commercial, industrial, and residential buildings.

EcoStruxure for eMobility provides, in addition to EV chargers, an end-to-end connected solution that is designed to be easier to install and maintain building power reliability, while providing a more convenient experience for EV drivers.

EcoStruxure for eMobility includes three main elements:

• EVlink Pro AC is designed to be a more reliable, sustainable, and connected charger that is faster to install and easier to operate and maintain, which helps to further minimize costs and downtime.
• EcoStruxure EV Charging Expert is an on-site load management system that dynamically distributes real-time available power in the building to charge EVs, avoiding peak hours and integrating renewable energy. When procured via a subscription, it also helps to ensure access to advanced analytics services.
• EcoStruxure EV Advisor is a cloud-based operations software that will help to enable partners to supervise remotely and more easily commission, monitor, and control the EV charging infrastructure. This will be launched later in the year.

Schneider Electric Announces Grid Operations Platform as a Service on Microsoft Azure

Schneider Electric announced its Grid Operations Platform as a Service as part of its EcoStruxure Grid portfolio. Backed by Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing platform, Schneider Electric is offering a deployment environment that helps to enable grid planning and operations solutions to be hosted and managed on the cloud.

Schneider Electric’s Grid Operations Platform as a Service was designed to help address the challenges that grid operators face today. While cloud solutions continue to demonstrate value across industries, grid operators can gain value with more simplified deployments, incremental enhancements, increased scalability, and reduced maintenance, all while enabling managed and advisory services. More simplified, stepwise, and cybersecure approaches are in greater demand for many aspects of grid management for both IT and OT. Schneider Electric is delivering Grid Operations Platform as a Service on Azure in collaboration with Microsoft to help address the demands of critical energy infrastructure for the energy industry.

Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Grid solution portfolio further demonstrates the company’s commitment to providing solutions for a more digital and electric world, and together with Grid Operations Platform as a Service helps to support the growth of distributed energy resources, microgrids, energy communities, and other flexible resources across digitally planned, designed and operated lifecycles.

Schneider Electric Optimizes Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Management with Grid to Prosumer End-to-End Approach

Schneider Electric announced Grid to Prosumer, an end-to-end approach to DER management to help maximize the connection and value of renewable energy, energy storage and electric vehicles.

Schneider Electric’s new Grid to Prosumer approach helps manage the lifecycle of DER management with simple to complex workflows and use cases that better optimize DER across energy market needs, grid constraint requirements and prosumer priorities.

Schneider Electric has also expanded its EcoStruxure Grid portfolio for Grids of the Future with strategic partners AutoGrid for flexibility services and Virtual Power Plants, and Uplight for prosumer engagement and demand-side management. With this continued focus toward helping to solve the challenges the industry faces, the Grid to Prosumer approach offers an end-to-end solution to DER management that coordinates across business functions with a more comprehensive view of grid data management that is value-based and use-case driven.

End-to-end Integrated DER Management Approach

• Modeling – Types, sizes, locations, and availability of DER are shared so that critical business functions, such as customer service, asset management, and planning and operations, have the latest view. This includes adding and removing DER, updating availability status, and reconciling network reconfiguration.
• Situational Awareness – Visibility can now include DER status and event schedule for demand management activities. For example, when a demand curtailment event is scheduled, details such as timing, duration, and scale of the event are integrated into planning and operations systems.
• Planning – Increases efficiency of processing new customer connection requests and enables the assessment of available hosting capacity for grid locations. Assess options to increase capacity including non-wire alternatives.
• Real-time & Look-ahead Constraint Management – Detects constraints in real-time, predicts future constraints and specifies mitigation parameters and schedule for grid optimization: group of DER for affected area, load/production increase/decrease, and timeframe. Flexibility services then dispatches assets, directly or through aggregators, via prioritization and optimization parameters to meet the request.
• Dynamic Operating Limits – Provides upper and lower bounds on the import or export of power for each DER or group of DER. This more dynamic approach integrated with flexibility services adjusts upper and lower limits in shorter, more precise time intervals.
• Flexibility Markets – Requests for DER optimization are integrated with flexibility markets to facilitate a bid process with prosumers. The result is a list of available resources to meet that request. When the scheduled time arrives, DER are dispatched according to the awarded bid conditions.

EcoStruxure Grid integrated solutions for Grids of the Future directly supports the Grid to Prosumer approach, including EcoStruxure DERMS for grid optimization, AutoGrid Flex for flexibility services and Virtual Power Plants, Uplight Orchestrated Energy and Energy Profiler Online for prosumer engagement and demand-side management, and EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor for microgrid management.

Schneider Electric Launches Digitally Enabled SureSeT MV Switchgear and EvoPacT Circuit Breakers

Schneider Electric announced the launch of its new SureSeT MV switchgear offering for the North American market. This new and improved solution, backed by the EvoPacT circuit breaker, replaces the Schneider Electric Masterclad solution for primary switchgear applications with a smaller, stronger and smarter solution for managing digital day-to-day operations.

SureSeT and EvoPacT combine to offer a range of benefits over traditional equipment, including:

• Digitally “Active”: Newly integrated digital features offer insights into day-to-day operations for remote access, monitoring and control of equipment health, predictive maintenance and operational efficiency
• More compact design: Better optimize space in commercial and industrial buildings with MV switchgear that’s up to 25 percent smaller than standard designs
• Longer lifetime: Built to last for up to 40 years and through 30,000 operations, which can be up to 3x industry standard lifetimes
• Greater uptime: Embedded sensors detect problems earlier and help to predict potential issues based on real-time asset insights, so maintenance is based on condition rather than time without service interruption
• Enhanced operational safety: Helps to minimize potential equipment issues with a complete 360° insight into digital operations from a safe working distance
• Design Awarded: Recipient of the iF 2022 Design Award for EvoPacT in the Building Technology/Product category

The EvoPacT circuit breaker is key to SureSeT’s integrated condition monitoring capabilities, allowing operators to better manage, prioritize and triage impending equipment issues, which helps to increase facility uptimes. This also helps to enable technicians to remain at a safe working distance by using native wireless communications to operate equipment and gather data. In addition to accessing data from remote devices, it can also be shared via cloud connection to digital services, such as EcoStruxure Asset Advisor, to better optimize system interoperability.

EvoPacT breakers are equipped with digital technology that leverages the latest capabilities that provide insight into electrical distribution systems, which combines sensors, apps, services, and a digital logbook.

Digital insights from the SureSeT and EvoPacT Active ranges help to empower facility managers to more proactively manage potential issues that may arise in real-time, helping to reduce risks, lifetime costs and downtime to operations, which is a major step for businesses that rely on large amounts of power for critical work, including manufacturers, hospitals, and data centers.