Schneider Electric, ENGIE Lab and Nanyang Technological University will develop a renewable micro-grid demonstrator in Singapore

Schneider
Electric, ENGIE Lab and Nanyang Technological University will develop a
renewable micro-grid demonstrator in Singapore

·         An initiative to
address the energy access challenge in off-grid areas and islands by
integrating various renewable sources and storage systems

·         A partnership to test
innovative solutions and services in electricity and mobility

Singapore, March 27,
2017 – Schneider Electric, the global specialist in
energy management and automation, has signed a tripartite agreement with ENGIE
Lab and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to address the energy access
challenge for off-grid areas in Singapore state and more globally in Southeast
Asia and Asia Pacific. The agreement was signed today at The Innovation Forum,
Biopolis (Singapore), as part of French President Francois Hollande’s visit to
Southeast Asia, covering Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, from March 26 to 29,
2017.

Micro-grids can meet
the need for electrification of hundreds or thousands of islands in the
Southeast Asian region that are not connected to the public grid. This joint
initiative is part of the existing REIDS(Renewable Energy Integration Demonstrator in Singapore)
project located on Semakau Island (Singapore).Led by NTU with a consortium of
partners, including ENGIE Lab and Schneider Electric, the REIDS aims to
develop a micro-grid demonstrator to address the energy access challenge in
off-grid areas and islands by integrating various renewable sources and storage
systems. The collaboration will bring together operational excellence and
planning capabilities from ENGIE and energy management expertise and innovative
offer from Schneider Electric. The partnership will integrate and test innovative solutions
providing a package of services including electricity and mobility. Key
innovations of the project include:

·  Scalability and
ability to start from both greenfield system and brownfield system through a
plug and play approach;

·  A power control module
allowing up to 100% intermittent renewable integration thanks to a cutting-edge
technology of algorithms associated to virtual synchronous generator;

·  A multi-fluid
optimisation module to enhance synergies between different decentralised energy
resources to provide cheap and reliable electricity with low environmental
impact.

Beyond this highly
innovative project, Schneider Electric strategic intent is to set up and
develop highly skilled competencies in Singapore to help their customers facing
growing demand of clean energy in the country but also at the end to duplicate
the initiative within the Asia Pacific region.