A recent Bloomberg report highlights a striking reality: Europe could waste around 40 TWh of solar electricity this year — enough to power Greater London for an entire year — simply because grids cannot absorb the renewable energy being generated.
This is no longer just a generation challenge.
👉 It is a flexibility and energy management challenge.
As solar penetration increases across European power systems, facilities and grids are facing:
- → Grid congestion on peak generation days
- → Negative electricity prices
- → Renewable curtailment at scale
- → Peak instability
- → Lack of real-time visibility at the load side
- → Poor coordination between loads, storage, and on-site generation
👉 The next phase of the energy transition is not about installing more PV panels.
It is about making energy systems smarter — starting at the edge.
And this is where advanced monitoring and control platforms become essential.
Managing energy in a high-renewable, volatile grid requires far more than basic metering.
Facilities need real-time visibility across processes, departments, utilities, storage systems, and on-site generation. But visibility alone is no longer enough.
👉 The real value comes from the ability to react dynamically:
- → Identify demand peaks before they occur
- → Control non-critical loads automatically
- → Coordinate PV production and storage
- → Respond to energy price fluctuations in real time
- → Improve self-consumption strategies
- → Maintain power quality and operational continuity
⚡ At Electrex, this is not a future roadmap — it is what our solutions enable today, directly at the edge, through:
- ✓ Multifunction energy analyzers
- ✓ Distributed submetering across processes and departments
- ✓ Embedded PLC logic for local automation
- ✓ Built-in communication gateways
- ✓ IoT connectivity and cloud integration
- ✓ Real-time alarm, event, and control management
- ✓ AI-driven EMS optimization
👉 This enables industrial and commercial facilities to transform energy data into operational decisions and automated actions.
The renewable transition does not stop at generation capacity.
It depends on intelligence at the edge of the grid.
📩 If you’re working on energy flexibility or EMS projects and want to explore what Electrex can enable at the edge, let’s connect: calendly.com/skender-musaj/electrex-1h-meeting
Contact me to schedule a call! I will be glad to answer any questions you may have.
About us
Since 1993 Electrex designs, develops, manufactures and markets, Made in Italy, instruments and software for energy management and control.
The Electrex solutions are used in the Energy Efficiency and Energy Automation applications, for the industrial, commercial, public, civil, and renewable energy sectors allowing a rapid return on investment.
The solutions provided up to now allow the management of over 530,000 measuring points and more than 960,000 points are controlled via Energy Automation applications.
Electrex, one of the first companies to operate in these sectors, has acquired over the years a considerable experience and competence that few other companies can claim to have. With over 40% of the staff dedicated to R & D, we demonstrate our strong commitment to innovation and continuous improvement in order to anticipate the needs of our customers.
