Andrei Berechet, Chief Commercial Officer at Adrem and member of the Romanian Energy Center (CRE) was present at the Digitalization of Romania conference organized by Ziarul Bursa.
Article taken from Ziarul Bursa
Digital transformation is an element of “to be or not to be”…
“The goal of sustainability in energy means decarbonization. This implies accelerating the production of energy from clean, renewable sources, which immediately leads us to manage a multitude of unpredictable or difficult to control decentralized sources (wind, sun). This means that classical energy systems cannot correctly manage such a situation, and the only solution is the digital transformation of processes.”
Andrei Berechet reminds that Adrem has SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) digital systems that have been implemented on a large scale for over ten years, including in Romania.
The Adrem official adds: “These systems take the first step towards the optimal functioning of the process, but once you have renewable energy and you have two ends – producer and consumer – they need to work paired. That is why the system of smart grid concepts and smart metering has been developed. This way it can be produced efficiently.”
A third important component, where the developments are more recent, is the asset management area – the optimization of capex (capital expenditures) and opex (operating expenses), respectively the optimization of the total investment of the energy infrastructure operator so that it plans to better use the financial resource and obtain a higher economic efficiency, says Andrei Berechet, mentioning that this is very important given that the price of energy has increased a lot.
“We are glad that this year we are approaching the completion of two important projects of this type for energy infrastructure,” says Andrei Berechet.
In his opinion, the integration, standardization and assurance of the cybersecurity component in the energy sector is a success story in Romania because, in this field, “we are not in as disadvantageous positions in the European rankings on digitalization as in other fields.”
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