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The latest ENTSO-E report on “Flexibility from Renewable Energy Sources (RES)” highlights a critical issue for Europe’s energy transition:
➡️ Legacy monitoring systems alone are no longer adequate.
As renewable penetration grows, grids need far more than data collection.
They require real-time controllability, automation, and fast-response capabilities to ensure stability, power quality, and integration of distributed assets.
🔧 Possible Directions Identified in the Report
ENTSO-E recommends several evolution paths for RES plants and distributed assets, including:
✅ Advanced controllability – the ability to dynamically adjust active and reactive power.
✅ Automated grid support functions – voltage control, frequency response, fault ride-through.
✅ High-resolution, reliable, continuous monitoring – moving beyond basic SCADA data.
✅ Standardised communications for grid operator interaction.
✅ Cybersecure, event-driven architectures suitable for future flexibility markets.
👉 In short: Monitoring is essential, but control is Indispensable.
⚡ How Electrex Helps — Example: The Italian Market with Libra CCI
To address these needs, Electrex has developed solutions that go beyond monitoring, providing the intelligence and control required by the new energy
landscape.
A concrete example is our Electrex Libra CCI UPS — widely adopted in the Italian market as a Power Plant Controller (PPC) / Central Controller for renewable plants and hybrid systems.
What Libra CCI delivers:
✔️ Dynamic regulation of active and reactive power, compliant with DSO/TSO requirements.
✔️ Voltage and frequency support modes (Q-V, P-f, Q-f curves).
✔️ Event-driven automation via built-in PLC (Ladder logic).
✔️ High-resolution power quality monitoring (measuring THD, harmonics 51°, PQ events sag, swells, interruptions, over-current…).
✔️ UPS-based continuity for grid-code-critical applications.
✔️ Secure multi-protocol communication (Modbus TCP/RTU, HTTP APIs, MQTT, etc.).
✔️ Integration of process and environmental data into a unified control environment.
This transforms a renewable plant from a “data producer” into a fully controllable, grid-supporting asset, exactly aligned with ENTSO-E’s directions.
🌍 Why This Matters
As Europe accelerates RES deployment, solutions that combine monitoring + automation + control will be essential—not only for compliance but for unlocking future flexibility markets and ensuring grid stability.
Electrex is ready to support system integrators, EPCs, and plant operators who want to evolve from simple data logging to true energy orchestration.
📩 Let’s Talk
If you’re working on RES plants, hybrid systems, or flexibility-ready energy infrastructures and want to upgrade from simple monitoring to full controllability and automation, let’s connect.
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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.
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