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Corinex Teams Up with Plexigrid for Enhanced Network Solutions

In a groundbreaking move, Corinex Corp. and Plexigrid S.L. have joined forces under a strategic partnership to introduce a state-of-the-art solution called Corinex Plexigrid Intelligence. This innovative platform leverages highly precise energy data to significantly improve transparency and flexibility in low and medium voltage networks.

Addressing Modern Challenges

As the world grapples with the increasing demand for energy-intensive technologies like AI, alongside the rapid electrification of industries, transportation, heating, and cooling, network operators face unprecedented challenges. They must manage a decentralized, intermittent, and bidirectional power system encompassing millions of decentralized energy sources in real-time. The anticipated solution aims to provide a new level of real-time transparency, intelligence, and control needed to tackle these challenges effectively.

Complementary Strengths Combined

Corinex’s advanced products monitor and interact with the physical network, while Plexigrid’s software excels in modeling and optimizing these networks. This collaboration merges their complementary capabilities by connecting real-time field data with digital twin analyses, capacity planning, and flexibility measures.

For energy providers, the integrated solution enables real-time assessment of voltage conditions in the network, identification of available capacities, and responses to network limitations. Building upon Corinex’s Broadband Power Line (BPL) architecture and Edge computing capabilities, the solution seamlessly distributes sensors, processing, and intelligence throughout the grid. This connectivity ensures that Plexigrid's digital twin acquires extensive and accurate insights from various network components.

Breaking New Ground in Network Monitoring

With a focus on enhancing the value derived from digital twins, Corinex and Plexigrid are advocating for a more manageable approach to network modeling and monitoring. While traditional transmission networks require sophisticated equipment at each node, this collaborative effort seeks to democratize access to accurate network data by employing a digital twin empowered by Bayesian AI. This setup reconstructs electrical topology and network state information from existing systems like GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure).

This synergy creates unprecedented transparency and control over parts of the electrical grid that have historically remained opaque, utilizing data from systems not originally designed for real-time observability and monitoring. Although Bayesian digital twins bring substantial advancements, they still don't match the temporal resolution and precision of traditional transmission control systems – a gap that Corinex’s BPL seeks to close.

Elevating Performance with Real-Time Insights

Corinex’s BPL advances the capabilities and inference quality of these digital twins by adding a layer of low-latency, high-resolution instrumentation and control. This architecture complements the existing understanding of network operators concerning utility meters, feeders, transformers, and other monitored installations. As a result, energy providers can achieve a previously unmatched level of temporal resolution, accuracy, and real-time responsiveness within distribution networks.

Moreover, Corinex introduces a Grid Intelligence Node installed on low-voltage lines to increase the number of measurement points. This innovation delivers supplementary detailed data regarding network load, voltage, quality, and emerging constraints, enabling the digital twin to present a clearer snapshot of current conditions.

Revolutionizing Distributed Intelligence

Designed for edge and distributed intelligence, Corinex and Plexigrid are employing BPL as a foundational architecture for their distributed grid intelligence platform. This approach allows data processing close to substations, feeders, and grid installations, integrating network intelligence into both Corinex and Plexigrid solutions. This integration ensures that distribution service operators (DSOs) access optimal performance and maximum benefit from their systems.

Real-time data validation, local analysis, and advanced abnormalities alerts become practical, facilitating comprehensive modeling, forecasting, planning, reporting, and connectivity to other utility systems. The resultant decentralized intelligence layer harmonizes field conditions with digital models and energy supplier decisions.

A Mutual Vision for Modern Energy Supply

Peter Sobotka, Founder, and CEO of Corinex Corp., highlights the need for energy providers to go beyond mere connectivity and cloud-based grid views. He underscores the critical requirement for an intelligence layer capable of observing the physical grid, comprehending changing conditions, and executing necessary actions with the rapidity that today’s distribution systems necessitate. In parallel, Alberto Méndez, CEO and Co-Founder of Plexigrid, notes that this partnership allows continual enhancement of models grounded in high-resolution insights from the physical grid.

The synergy between Corinex and Plexigrid stands to revolutionize not only operational efficiency but also the foundations upon which planning, flexibility, and daily operations are built. This collaboration represents a significant leap forward in tackling the complexities of modern energy distribution, ultimately leading to superior decision-making regarding capacity, investment, and operational strategies.