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Features 30-08-2024

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Hitachi Energy spotlights its top-notch digital and sustainable transformers solutions at CIGRE 2024 Paris Session

The company presented 70+ scientific papers, with 16+ focused on the latest transformers technologies and innovations in a record-breaking session. Over 40 of the company’s leading transformer experts participated across multiple sessions sparking insightful discussions to continue co-creating the energy future.

Hitachi Energy concludes a historic and remarkable participation at the CIGRE Session 2024 in Paris, France. With over 70 scientific papers submitted, 16 of them focused on transformers, company experts shared their efforts on the most relevant topics of the energy sector, giving testimony of the company's pioneering spirit and technology leadership.

At the forefront of developing innovative solutions that transform how the global energy system is designed, planned, operated, and maintained, the company collaborates with customers and partners to enable a sustainable energy future – for today’s generations and those to come.

These are exciting times in the energy industry, marked by an unprecedented system growth driven by electrification and decarbonization We must challenge conventional thinking, build partnerships, and co-create technologies, new business models and regulatory frameworks to achieve the net-zero goal. Discussions like those happening at CIGRE accelerate this mission that is transcending companies and borders and create a positive impact on society.

Bruno Melles
Managing Director of the Transformers Business Unit
Hitachi Energy
 

Hitachi Energy transformer papers presented in CIGRE Session 2024 provide expert insights and perspective around this year's preferential subjects:
 

  • Design of resilient transformers, prepared to deal with the stress coming from the power system and optimized to have best-in-class sustainable performance.
  • Advances in transformers analytics, enabled by digitalization, paving the way for artificial intelligence.
  • Reliability of transformers for renewable energy applications, with new design, manufacturing concepts, and life cycle considerations to reduce the transformers’ environmental impact.

During the event, the authors engaged in interactive transformer conversations at Hitachi Energy's in-booth theater, creating a vibrant atmosphere of knowledge and ideas sharing, with topics covering sustainability, diagnostics, asset management, collaboration for innovation, and partnering with Universities, renewables, digitalization, application of Artificial Intelligence, circularity and life extensions, design for reliability, alternative fluids and other exciting topics.

"CIGRE is an excellent opportunity for our teams to discuss ideas, seek opportunities for collaboration, and unlock the potential of new innovative solutions. Their remarkable contributions to CIGRE 2024 Paris Session reinforce the company's commitment to seeking excellence in the industry, attracting talents and cocreating the next generation of sustainable energy solutions," says Lorenzo Prieto, Head of Technology from the Business Unit Transformers at Hitachi Energy.

Check out the Theatre Sessions presentations from our Transformers' experts

Driving Sustainability in Transformers

Carlos Martín Gutiérrez

Application Engineering Lead, Europe

Transformers Business, Hitachi Energy