Adnan Chaudhry, Aleksander Mervar and Aleš Prešern (photo: ELES)
Slovenia’s operator of the combined transmission and distribution network ELES has signed a memorandum of understanding and entered into a strategic partnership with energy equipment and advanced energy solutions company Siemens Energy.
ELES and Siemens Energy will cooperate on the development of advanced digital technologies and sustainable solutions for the international electricity sector, according to ELES.
As part of the partnership, the two companies would develop a new digital world, augmented and virtual reality, as well as robots for inspections of distribution substations. They will also work on advanced solutions for sensor monitoring of energy infrastructure and create digital twins of high-voltage transmission lines and distribution substations, according to the announcement.
ELES and Siemens Energy intend to contribute to reducing the carbon footprint by developing advanced solutions, ELES said.
Mervar: Siemens Energy was looking for a partner and chose ELES
ELES’s CEO Aleksander Mervar stressed that the signing of the memorandum represents a step towards a greener and more sustainable future. He pointed out that his company is considered one of the most advanced grid operators, STA reported.
Siemens Energy has been looking for a partner and it chose ELES because it is one of the few grid operators with a functioning diagnostics and analytical center, Mervar stressed and added it has been involved in digitization for more than a decade. Now it is trying to reach an even higher level of development, according to the head of the Slovenian state-owned company.
Chaudhry: Partnerships like this are key to fostering innovation
Adnan Chaudhry, senior vice president for the digital grid at Siemens Energy, said the signing represents a historic milestone.
In today’s fast-changing energy sector, partnerships like this one are key to fostering innovation to address future challenges, he underscored. The two companies, in Chaudhry’s words, could achieve not only a rapid but also a safe and sustainable green transition.
According to him, cooperation with ELES will enable Siemens Energy to develop and implement state-of-the-art solutions for electricity transmission, equipment condition monitoring, and advanced detection and analysis platforms.
Prešern: The agreement is for advanced solutions to control and manage networks in a safe and reliable way
Siemens Energy’s Vice President for South East Europe Aleš Prešern said that the energy transformation runs through the global energy transmission grids.
With their increasing volatility, projected growth, and complexity, these intricate and extremely vital networks need advanced solutions to control and operate them in a safe and reliable manner, he added.
For Siemens Energy in Slovenia, it comes as a next step after the recent announcement of an agreement to acquire Gridpulse, a Slovenian firm specializing in power line monitoring systems, according to Prešern.
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