Available in 2025, the One Digital Grid Platform equips utilities with the foundation needed to navigate modern energy challenges.
Schneider Electric has introduced the One Digital Grid Platform, an integrated, AI-powered solution designed to improve grid resiliency, reliability, and efficiency. The platform enables utilities to integrate independent software solutions, supporting grid modernization and more efficient energy management while reducing overall costs.
One Digital Grid Platform: the foundation for a more resilient, flexible and secure grid
Many utilities operate legacy grid systems that lack the scalability, automation, and integration needed to meet growing electricity demand, extreme weather challenges, and the expansion of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as rooftop solar, EV charging, and battery storage. The One Digital Grid Platform offers an interoperable solution that integrates mission-critical software into a secure, scalable ecosystem. It provides real-time insights, predictive analytics, and automation to enhance grid efficiency and resilience. The platform aims to reduce outages, streamline DER interconnection, and accelerate application deployment. It will be available to utilities later this year.
Schneider Electric supports grid modernization by providing technology solutions for utilities worldwide. Its solutions create an interoperable network that aligns with industry standards. As the energy landscape evolves, Schneider Electric develops new technologies to meet the demands of a digital-first grid ecosystem.
A holistic approach to grid modernization
The One Digital Grid Platform uses a hybrid cloud architecture to support three core use cases, helping utilities manage current challenges and plan for the future:
- Grid planning and asset management – Helping utilities optimize infrastructure investments by integrating advanced design, validation and data management tools. This ensures long-term grid reliability while reducing capital and operational costs.
- Grid operations and resiliency – Providing real-time and go-forward awareness by leveraging operational and third-party data and utilizing first-party predictive analytics and advanced solutions from industry leaders, like AiDASH, to deeply understand climate risk. These capabilities improve disaster response, maximize efficiency and enhance grid flexibility, even during extreme weather events.
- Grid flexibility and customer engagement – Empowering utilities to seamlessly integrate DERs while enhancing customer experiences. The platform supports a more dynamic, consumer-driven energy ecosystem by streamlining interoperability with solutions from partners like leading prosumer engagement platform provider, Uplight.
The One Digital Grid Platform is built to innovate alongside the energy industry, providing utilities with the flexibility and security needed to adapt to emerging challenges. Leveraging Microsoft Azure, the Platform ensures seamless, end-to-end connectivity while enabling interoperability with external systems for rapid insights and enriched operational capabilities. Its robust, multi-layered cybersecurity measures protect critical infrastructure from evolving threats, while plug-and-play integration simplifies the deployment of new technologies, accelerating time to value.
Schneider Electric supports utilities in modernizing their grids, improving efficiency, and transitioning to cleaner, cost-effective energy. To enhance these efforts, Schneider offers advancements in protection and control technology, including:
- PowerLogic P7Â high-end relay platform is designed to meet the demands of the most complex electrical systems. With dual capability, it can be used as a traditional embedded hardware platform or as a software-defined solution, integrating seamlessly with other functions like merging units, controllers and bay control units. This adaptability ensures that utilities can future-proof their operations while maintaining the highest reliability and security standards. The key to its design is a focus on cybersecurity, with built-in functionality that defends against evolving threats, ensuring grid resilience.
- PowerLogic T500Â is redefining substation automation. As the next-generation replacement for our legacy Sage offer, the PowerLogic T500 is engineered to meet the high demands of modern utility markets, particularly in the U.S. It serves as a primary substation remote terminal unit, data concentrator and communications processor, offering a single, modular platform that integrates operational technology systems seamlessly. This integration is critical for utilities looking to enhance operational efficiency while maintaining robust cybersecurity. The T500’s modular design allows for flexibility in hardware, firmware and software configurations, making it a versatile solution for a wide range of applications.
A vision for the future
Schneider Electric’s strategic partnerships, including collaborations with Microsoft, Esri and Uplight, drive advancements in automated grid intelligence, situational awareness and customer engagement. These partnerships enable innovative solutions that enhance grid modernization efforts, ensuring a smarter and more resilient energy infrastructure.
As part of this effort, Schneider Electric has joined EPRI, an organization that conducts research and development to improve the energy industry and their global initiative to solve growing demand for data centers. This collaboration focuses on creating flexible data center architecture and demand response programs that enable faster interconnection to the grid. By partnering with utilities and data center providers, Schneider Electric brings deep domain expertise to help overcome capacity bottlenecks while ensuring sustainable growth in digital infrastructure.
To further reinforce its commitment to the evolution of the electrical grid as a driver for growth, Schneider Electric also announced today its plans to invest over $700 million in the U.S., supporting energy & AI sectors and job growth. This underscores Schneider’s regional focus to support growing digitalization, automation and manufacturing demand as well as its position to meet the evolving needs of U.S. customers and the broader community.
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