Siemens Xcelerator software for grids helps the Azores island of Terceira reduce CO₂ emissions by more than 3,600 tons per year: Siemens Smart Infrastructure, in partnership with Fluence, a market leader in energy storage established in 2018 by Siemens and AES, has successfully completed and handed over a sustainable energy project on the Azores island of Terceira to the Portuguese energy provider EDA – Electricidade dos Açores. The project combines software that forecasts energy consumption and production with a powerful battery-based energy storage system, allowing for greater and more reliable integration of renewable energy sources such as wind or solar into the power grid. The microgrid management software implemented for EDA is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio which supports the digital transformation of power utilities worldwide. The Azores have nine isolated autonomous energy systems with great potential for renewable energy, mainly from wind, solar, and geothermal sources. The challenge was to find the right balance between energy production and consumption in the face of sharply fluctuating feed-in and demand cycles in order to ensure a more secure power supply for the island residents while steadily increasing the share of renewables in the electricity mix to up to 50 percent.

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