SwitzerlandEnergy and utilities2024 – ongoingSwissgrid
AI forecasting and automatic activation of balancing energy
Swissgrid reported around EUR 20 million in balancing-energy savings from its AI system in 2025
Problem
Swissgrid needed to balance electricity supply and demand while limiting spending on expensive control energy. Short-term system imbalances and market prices affected which reserves it should activate.
Approach
Swissgrid developed an AI-supported optimizer that forecast imbalances and selected balancing-energy activations. It entered use in May 2024 and autopilot operation in April 2025. Automatic activation operated within a defined threshold.
Results
Takeaway
Forecasting was connected directly to reserve activation within operating limits. Swissgrid attributed the savings to its own system.
Categories
- Industry
- Energy and utilities
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and MLOptimization
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Swissgrid reported around EUR 20 million in control-energy savings during 2025. Its in-house AI software forecast requirements and automatically activated the preferred product within a threshold.
Swissgrid dated the optimizer's initial use to May 2024 and autopilot operation to April 2025. It described near-real-time activation using forecasts of imbalances and market prices.
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