Flexibility is the answer for the power system – either to prevent or limit the consequences of those situations under normal operation and planned disturbances.

You can create flexibility by having the consumers become “prosumers” where you can deal with them in a flexible way by either ramping up and down the demand profiles or even by completely disconnecting and reconnecting them after some time without losing the power/electricity supply to those customers.

A really effective solar utilization only comes together with a strong connection to the total power system.

Inside a power system, a renewable generation mix of solar and wind gives a very healthy complementation. With the combination of battery storage plus other types of longer-term storage (e.g., pumped hydro), you have a fantastic combination that the power system can leverage.

It’s important that we always look at a combination of physical and digital aspects when talking about hardening and resilience. That’s why we at Hitachi Energy develop those concepts with our customers and partners together.

This article was originally published in the November 2023 issue of the A Rapidly Changing Landscape magazine.

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