Digitalisation
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ABB is expanding medium-voltage manufacturing capacity across several European markets.
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Skeleton Technologies has secured a €33m first close in a pre-IPO funding round. The company is expanding high-power storage for AI data centre and grid infrastructure applications.
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Siemens and Alliander are using Gridscale X to support more active distribution operation. Alliander has migrated 85 applications and expanded medium-voltage grid coverage to 100%.
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ENTSO-E has examined data centres as both large loads and potential flexibility assets. Its report sets out grid security risks around rapid demand growth, voltage control, and renewable integration.
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First Bus is using electric depots to support grid balancing. The trial adjusts charging schedules in response to system conditions, giving fleet infrastructure a new operational role in the electricity network.
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IN Power’s April issue asks whether the grid is ready. Coverage connects automation, OT cybersecurity, demand flexibility, data centres, autonomous industrial sites, and contracting competence as electrification pressure moves from policy target to operational test.
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Pure Energie has selected Kraken to manage and optimise wind, solar, battery storage, and customer load across the Netherlands through an integrated energy management platform connected to TenneT.
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National Grid Electricity Distribution has published its latest Network Development Plan, setting out a ten-year view of distribution-network development, headroom, constraint management, flexibility, and reinforcement as electricity demand and low-carbon connections increase.
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Energy Networks Association has developed a common flexibility dispatch standard with Elexon, NESO, and the OpenADR Alliance, using OpenADR 3.1 to support interoperable flexibility services across Britain’s electricity networks.
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SP Energy Networks and Keen AI have launched IConn, a digital tool designed to speed up early-stage transmission connection assessments by modelling routes, capacity, costs, power flows, and technical constraints in seconds.