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Enline collaborated with Red Eléctrica de España (REE) to optimize power line management in mainland Spain and Ibiza, a highly touristic area with fluctuating energy demands. Facing ampacity challenges due to weather variations, Enline's specialized consulting service, utilizing sensorless Dynamic Line Rating (E-DLR) software, accurately evaluates and quantifies maximum power transmission capacity since 2021. By integrating electrical and meteorological data, Enline empowered REE to optimize energy transmission on the lines without exceeding maximum admissible cable temperatures, ensuring reliable supply despite dynamic demand fluctuations.

The initiative is already a commercially available product and is deployed, deploying, or in negotiation with DSOs in Northern Europe, Australia and USA. It leverages digitisation and its aim is to automate one of the most pressing use-cases faced by DSOs: congestion management.

Westnetz is the largest electricity DSO in Germany by geographical area with approximately 7 million customers, maximum load and a number of other parameters. The service area of the 110 kV grid covers an area that is about the size of the Netherlands. With approx. 1,5 million customers Avacon also is one of the largest DSOs in Germany being responsible for another large chunk of the 110 kV grid in Germany and for an area that is characterized by heavy investments in wind.

National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) serves 8 million customers in the UK (East & West Midlands, South West England and South Wales). The aim of the SMITN project is to extract additional value from smart meter data by providing more visibility on the low voltage grid connections to customers.

Dutch DSO Alliander has a long history of digitalisation projects. Faced with limitations to grid capacity, Alliander took a holistic approach to increase effective capacity. This integral approach is being called 'Capacity Management'. Digitalisation was fundamental to this effort and therefore full digitalisation and automation was taken as a starting point for new processes, rather than incrementally digitising existing processes. Without readily available software solutions digitalisation was achieved through in-house agile software development.