Why MSHIP?
The goals of the energy transition have been set, the energy landscape is changing rapidly and the proportion of electricity generated from renewables is expected to exceed 80% by 2050. The constantly growing number of wind power plants as well as biomass and photovoltaic systems is making electricity generation decentralised and difficult to plan. More and more residential households are using heat pumps and electric cars. Consumers are thus actively shaping the transition and sharing important data and information with other users and grid operators.
This decentralized energy system calls for new, flexible solutions. Working together is the key success factor for driving digital transformation and therefore to achieve the energy transition.
This is why the energy transition also means massive changes to the way our systems and plants are operated. Our forecasts for feed-in and consumption are becoming more short-term, we need to integrate renewables into the grid, expand the technology we use to transport electricity and get existing power plants ready for the new challenges.
Walking on water and developing software would both be easy if these elements were in a fixed state. But they are not. Because the overall conditions are constantly changing, we have to remain adaptable – and that is precisely our approach and what we are trying to achieve with MSHIP.
Matthias Wolf, TransnetBW
What is MSHIP?
We started MSHIP to jointly rethink our approach to grid operation and our digital solutions. We are developing and operating our own, fully flexible IT system. MSHIP uses cloud-native architectures, which have been proven, tested and used reliably for decades which make them a quasi-standard. We use small software modules which can be combined in a flexible way thanks to a high degree of automation.
In MSHIP, people with different backgrounds work closely together to break new ground. MSHIP is being built up step by step, so we can keep adjusting our direction.
We need to increase the pace even more for the energy transition. To achieve this, we want to set up real-time systems and efficiently connect innovative operating resources to the grid so we can solve the urgent challenges of energy supply in a sustainable way. That’s what moves me, that’s what moves us all, and that’s why I’m part of MSHIP.
Falko Ebe, TransnetBW
How does MSHIP work?
At the heart of MSHIP, we are building a blackout-resilient OT/IT cloud-native platform in our own data centers. This is how we can fulfil the requirements of the energy transition while simultaneously ensuring full flexibility to react to changes and make adjustments during the process.
Definition
OT/ICT-Cloud-native means fully developing and implementing applications using cloud technologies. In the case of MSHIP, “cloud-native” refers to the operation of our own in-house platform. OT stands for operational technology and refers to the hardware and software used to directly monitor, control and secure assets of critical infrastructures. ICT is the abbreviation for information and communication technology and includes electronic data processing and the associated hardware and software.
For this platform, individual or standard software for managing the electricity grid are integrated, built and docked.
With MSHIP, we are also sustainably building up our own expertise in order to be able to control the grid infrastructure of the future using our platform. The MSHIP team is therefore shaping the entire MSHIP life cycle, including design, architecture, development, testing and operation.
The challenge we face over the next few years is to maintain the existing systems and refine parts of them, while simultaneously establishing IT systems in the new MSHIP structures. We want to work in partnerships with international manufacturers, service providers and other grid operators on technical and technological issues. Together, we can speed up the energy transition even more.
The same way we are working together as an interdisciplinary team consisting of experts in IT, specialist fields and methodology, we are building the technologies to ensure security and stability in the face of increasing demands on the transmission network.
Dr.-Ing. Dominik Geibel, TransnetBW
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