ENGIE Smart energy management. Smart grids are intelligent power distribution networks managed automatically in real time to deliver more effective management of energy consumption and generation. This video explains how they work.
Energy efficiency is a major challenge of the energy transition. For consumers, the aim is to manage energy more effectively in order to consume less and better. For GDF SUEZ, it's a way of adapting to the fast change of pace in power usage and needs. So to respond to these new constraints, distribution grids must become smarter. And that's possible thanks to information and communication technology developments that allow grid status to be monitored in real time so that action can be taken whenever necessary to avoid outages, for example.
In practice, smart networks are based on a number of systems. The first smart grid building block is the smart meter installed in the consumer's home. Smart metering allows consumers to monitor their energy consumption on a daily basis and, for example, to identify areas where power is being wasted or those that are most expensive in order to take appropriate action.
On the scale of an entire city, smart grids make it possible to match power generation and demand to the actual needs of residents. It also opens up the opportunity to organize energy storage to deliver security of supply and guarantee that power is available to everyone even at peak consumption times.
The energy efficiency is a priority for all, to consume less and better. While innovating GDF SUEZ wishes to assure a service always more successful. And this innovation crosses by the "smart grids", by putting intelligence in networks. The GreenLys project is so the first French demonstrator to experiment the intelligent solutions of energy management, involving the different players of electricity market from producer to consumer, in Lyon and in Grenoble.
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