The whole electricity market is undergoing fundamental transformation driven by De-carbonisation and De-centralisation, which is aligned with the “Net Zero” goals set by the Government and Electricity Market operators in different countries.
However, the mass deployment of the DERs is introducing major operational challenges for the Electricity System Operators (ESO), Transmission Network Operators (TNOs) and Distribution Network Operators (DNOs)/ Distribution System Operators (DSOs) for the planning & scheduling, real-time Balancing and maintaining the safety of the network, primarily due to lack of visibility & control of the DERs and reliant on weather dependent intermittent energy sources.
The traditional Electricity Grids wasn’t originally designed to connect the huge number of DERs – leading to a major backlog.
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