Optimal solutions across power business with broad lineup and flexible system scalability
SOLUTIONS
To align with the global developments and changes in the power industry, Mitsubishi Electric offers a series of self-developed and packaged software products “BLEnDer”, for the power market and designed to comprehensively address power trading and supply-demand control.※1
Since its launch in 2003, new functions have been added to each package and new packages to the lineup. Today we offer a total of 20 packaged software products with a supply record for numerous customers.※2
BLEnDer will keenly align with the changes in power market and industry and support our customers to contribute to their smarter operation of the power transmission and distribution network and growth of the power industry.
- Stands for “Bid Liaison and Energy Dispatcher” to express the core operations in the power market.
- As of March 2024
Digital Energy ICT Solutions
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| Category | Solution | Package Name | Function | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrated Platform | Common | BLEnDer DEP Digital Energy Platform |
Digital energy platform | Realizes centralized management of DERs with various communication cycles and control methods as well as smart meter power information. |
| INFOPRISM | IoT platform for social infrastructure | Offers operation and maintenance solutions for social infrastructure by utilizing IoT, AI, and security technologies. | ||
| Packaged Software | Distributed Energy Resource Management (for Utilities) |
BLEnDer AN Active Network Management |
Distributed energy resource management for utilities | Manages grid congestion by visualizing and using the flexibility of DERs. |
| Distributed Energy Resource Management (for Consumers) |
BLEnDer DR Demand Response |
Demand response | Performs DR commands, monitoring, and settlement for consumers in accordance with the Open ADR standard. | |
| BLEnDer AC Aggregation Coordinate |
Aggregation coordination | Coordinates DERs by monitoring and controlling to maximize asset value. | ||
| Battery Energy Storage System | BLEnDer RE Renewable Energy |
Renewable energy management | Monitors and controls renewables and storage battery systems. | |
| Supply-Demand Operation | BLEnDer LF Load Forecast |
Load forecast | Predicts short-term loads from weather forecasts and historical data. | |
| BLEnDer PM Portfolio Manager |
Portfolio manager | Dispatches supply-demand plans that maximize revenue while taking into account constraints and power trading. | ||
| BLEnDer BP Business Protocol |
Business protocols | Submits supply-demand plans to the “Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators“ in accordance with business protocols. | ||
| BLEnDer BM Balance Manager |
Balance manager | Monitors real time supply-demand balancing for retailers and generators. | ||
| BLEnDer CM Contract Manager |
Contract manager | Manages a master data repository for contracts, asset information, and generator models. | ||
| BLEnDer Trader BLEnDer Trader for MMS Trader |
Power trading support | Supports online trading in the wholesale power market and balancing reserves market. | ||
| BLEnDer PI Performance Indicator |
Financial manager | Calculates monthly and daily income and expenditure statuses based on supply-demand plans, generation results, and demand results. | ||
BLEnDer GD |
Gathering dispatcher | Provides a platform to collect actual power consumption data disclosed by utilities and openly distribute it to specified recipients. | ||
| AMI * Advanced Metering Infrastructure |
BLEnDer AH Advanced Head-End |
Communication network management | Manages and controls smart meters that support various types of next-generation communication. | |
| BLEnDer AM Advanced Meter Data Management |
Meter data management | Realizes advanced operations of the distribution grid by collecting and analyzing next-generation smart meter data. | ||
| BLEnDer MESH MESH |
Wireless mesh communication | Realizes secure and reliable wireless multi-hop communication. | ||
| BLEnDer ICE Intelligent Communication Edge |
Wireless terminal for sensor networks | Realizes the remote monitoring and controlling of various sensors and automated co-meter readings for water and gas. | ||
| Transmission Access and Rate Management | BLEnDer BP |
Information disclosure | Realizes the disclosure of wheeling information and acceptance of wheeling applications in accordance with business protocols. | |
| BLEnDer TS Transmission Service |
Wheeling settlement | Calculates the wheeling fees of transmission and distribution networks. | ||
BLEnDer RS |
Balancing reserves settlement | Enhances processing precision and achieves labor savings for balancing reserves settlement operation. | ||
| Environmental Added Value Management | BLEnDer CN Carbon Neutral |
Environmental added value management | Manages environmental added value in a green certification portfolio. | |
| Asset Management | INFOPRISM-AMS | Equipment risk evaluation/Maintenance planning support | Quantitatively evaluates various risks associated with equipment failure and supports the formulation of optimal asset investment plans. | |
