GE Vernova Acquires Greenbird to Accelerate GridOS® Innovation and Help Utilities Reduce the Complexity of Energy Data Integration
14 Agosto 2023 - 2:11PM
Business Wire
- Acquisition highlights GE Vernova’s commitment to invest
strategically in technologies and talent that help accelerate the
sustainable energy grid
- Greenbird’s utility-focused technology and data integration
experts will expand the capabilities of the company’s GridOS®
software portfolio, allowing grid operators to more easily connect
systems and integrate data at scale
- Reducing the complexity of big data integration for utilities
creates more opportunities for AI-driven grid automation and
enables them to move at speed to meet decarbonization targets and
electrification demand while managing climate-related
disruptions
GE Vernova’s Digital business today announced it has acquired
Greenbird Integration Technology AS, a data integration platform
company focused on utilities. This acquisition highlights GE
Vernova’s commitment to investing in technologies and talent that
help accelerate the sustainable energy grid. The platform will
accelerate GridOS®, the world’s first software portfolio designed
specifically for grid orchestration, adding new capabilities for
connecting systems and integrating data across the grid more easily
and at scale. The financial terms of the acquisition are not being
disclosed.
“Utilities have an urgent need to connect data from multiple
sources to gain visibility and effectively automate their grid
operations. Fragmented data is a major obstacle to modernizing the
grid and is holding the energy transition back,” said Scott Reese,
CEO of GE Vernova’s Digital business. “The Greenbird acquisition
brings the proven ability to connect multiple data sources and
accelerates our vision for GridOS that is making energy security a
reality for many of the world’s leading utilities. Data and AI are
key to helping utilities run a reliable and resilient grid and this
acquisition is a massive accelerant to making that vision a reality
for utilities of all sizes.”
The GridOS orchestration software platform and application suite
enables secure and reliable grid operations while delivering
resiliency and flexibility needed by utilities worldwide. GridOS
delivers these tools with the cloud service provider and system
integrator partner ecosystem necessary to accelerate grid
modernization and the energy transition. The software portfolio
uses a federated data fabric to pull together energy data, network
modeling, and AI-driven analytics from across the grid. The
Greenbird acquisition will expand the capabilities of the data
fabric, eliminating data silos to make it faster and easier to
connect and aggregate energy data, reducing the time and expense of
data integration projects. This also better connects modern
software like Advanced Energy Management System (AEMS), Advanced
Distribution Management Solutions (ADMS), and Distributed Energy
Resource Management System (DERMS), creating new opportunities for
grid automation.
“Having access to utility data in context gives grid operators
an opportunity to better leverage AI for automation and potentially
enables the grid to be self-describing and self-healing in the
future,” said Mahesh Sudhakaran, General Manager, Grid Software at
GE Vernova’s Digital business. “This is the vision we have for grid
orchestration enabled by the GridOS portfolio, and this acquisition
provides both the technology and the talent to help us get
there.”
“We started in 2010 with a mission to simplify data integration
for utilities, helping them leverage data to run smarter, more
efficient analytics-driven services to accelerate the energy
transition,” said Thorsten Heller, CEO of Greenbird Integration
Technology. “Our technology platform is purpose-built to support a
distributed data and IT architecture and aligns perfectly with GE
Vernova’s vision for the GridOS federated grid data fabric and one
network model, providing the data foundation utilities need to
transform their operations.”
An example of the need for more connected and integrated data is
evident in the exponential growth predicted for electric vehicles
(EVs) – there are expected to be 77M EVs on the road by 2025 and
229M by 2030 – that will both draw from and possibly contribute to
the grid as “rolling batteries” that can be tapped when demand is
high and supply is low. Integration of data from multiple sources
like charging stations as well as operations, forecasting, billing,
and other systems can support the success of future use cases such
as vehicle-to-grid (V2G) while keeping the grid safe.
Data integration is also key to solving renewables connection
challenges. Approximately 1,350 gigawatts of additional, mostly
sustainable power capacity is waiting to be constructed and
connected to the grid. This large-scale interconnection backlog
results in wasted capacity and unutilized investment. Scenario
planning and grid simulations can provide an opportunity to
increase line capacity and drive deeper visibility into the impact
of such assets on the grid, allowing capacity to be connected
faster and helping to reduce hundreds of millions of dollars of
traditional back-up generators. Such use cases require the
integration of forecasting, simulation, historical grid OT, sensor,
line, and inertia data.
The Greenbird integration platform is delivered as a service
(iPaaS) and is built with containerization and a suite of cloud
services, which will accelerate the availability of key GridOS
components. In addition, GE Vernova welcomes Greenbird’s innovative
team to the Grid Software group, including data specialists skilled
in developing and deploying distributed data processes at scale for
utilities. The acquisition will advance the AI- and data-driven
vision for GridOS that GE Vernova’s Digital business believes will
solve grid orchestration challenges while cultivating an energy
data ecosystem that advances decarbonization and electrification at
scale.
Learn more about GridOS here.
About GE Vernova’s Digital Business
GE Vernova’s Digital business is putting data to work to
accelerate a new era of energy. We deliver the platforms and
intelligent applications necessary to accelerate electrification
and decarbonization across the energy ecosystem – from how power is
created, how it is orchestrated, to how it is consumed. More than
20,000 customers around the globe use our software to help plan,
predict, manage, and optimize operations today for a sustainable
tomorrow. For more information, visit www.ge.com/digital.
About Greenbird Integration Technologies
Greenbird is an international solution and technology company
with roots in Norway. We simplify the complexity of Big Data
Integration to help organizations unlock the value of their data
and mission critical applications. Our flagship innovation,
Utilihive, is a cloud-native platform combining enterprise
integration capabilities with a data lake optimized for energy use
cases. We founded Greenbird in 2010 with a mission to revolutionize
how the energy industry thinks about enterprise system integration.
Today, Utilihive is used by more than 230 utilities across Europe,
Middle East and Asia serving more than 50 million consumers.
Greenbird is headquartered in Oslo and has around 50 employees,
comprising primarily of senior developers and consultants and
specializing in technology development and customer onboarding of
the Utilihive platform. To learn how you can unleash the value of
data while removing silos, explore more at www.greenbird.com.
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