Customer Success: Advanced Distribution and Voltage Variation Management
How LimePoint deployed a real-time voltage management system for an energy distributor, enabling dynamic grid control as solar adoption rises through smart meter data streaming and near real-time analytics.
Key Highlights
- ✓Real-time data streaming for dynamic voltage management across the distribution network
- ✓Low-latency pipelines processing and enriching smart meter data with voltage network context
- ✓Analytics and monitoring to strengthen governance and ensure regulatory compliance
- ✓Scalable foundation to support future smart grid innovations and clean energy transition
Transforming Energy Reliability with Advanced Distribution and Voltage Variation Management
Deploying an Advanced Distribution and Voltage Variation Management System that seamlessly integrates and delivers near real-time insights into energy resources helps optimise operations, enhance reliability, and provide customers with a higher quality, more resilient energy supply.
Challenge
As more customers add solar and battery storage to their homes, the electricity distribution network becomes increasingly complex to manage. Rapid rise in rooftop solar is projected to exceed 1.1 million households by 2030, with growing risks of reverse power flow and voltage fluctuations across the grid. Excessive electricity feeding back into the network can cause voltage to increase, impacting customer services and threatening compliance with regulated voltage thresholds.
Impact
Potential barriers to further solar uptake if unmanaged, higher infrastructure investment costs to stabilise the grid, and risk of breaching regulated voltage thresholds threatening compliance and service quality.
Solution
Using the smart meter network, LimePoint implemented a real-time data solution to monitor customer voltages and send adjustments to substations when voltage is too high or low. We built low-latency pipelines to process and enrich smart meter data with voltage network context, integrated data across operational and enterprise systems for smarter automation, and enabled analytics and monitoring to strengthen governance and ensure regulatory compliance.
Result
Dynamic voltage control in near real-time ensuring grid stability as solar adoption rises. High-quality data shared seamlessly across multiple systems without added complexity, faster decision making through real-time insights, and a scalable foundation to expand and support future smart grid innovations. The network is future-proofed, accelerating digital transformation and enabling the clean energy transition.
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