Navigating a rapidly evolving global grid code landscape
Around the world, power generation and storage is shifting from centralized to distributed models, integrating new sources of power and technologies that empower greater energy resilience, including solar and wind, battery energy storage systems (BESS) and microgrids.
Grid code compliance (GCC) is a growing challenge for energy companies
Monitor evolving and expanding code requirements
As the energy sector advances toward decentralized energy systems powered by renewable sources, the grid is becoming more technically complex — and grid codes are escalating to manage stability, reliability and safety.
Bridge gaps and differences in codes
Understand how to overcome challenges in the fragmented code environment and how to streamline compliance activities — including testing and certification — to access more markets efficiently.
Showcase more advanced technical compliance
Today’s grid codes outline rigorous performance requirements for attributes, such as the rate of change of frequency (RoCoF), reactive power control and fault ride-through, demonstrated through complex modeling, simulation and field testing.
Streamline compliance strategy and activities
Grid codes vary by operator, utility, region and country, and they all have unique documentation requirements that add to compliance burdens and can create rework and delays when not followed meticulously.
Avoid significant business impacts
Capacity needs to grow rapidly to meet the demand for a more resilient grid, and issues with grid code compliance can lead to commissioning delays, redesign and grid connection denials that impact profitability and reputation or cause significant safety issues.
Strengthen capacity of internal teams
Managing grid code compliance across a range of markets simultaneously requires significant background knowledge, specialized tools and ongoing investments of time that can be difficult to balance with business priorities.
Grid code compliance and GCM
Global Compliance Management (GCM) is a centralized platform that facilitates compliance activities in your target markets, with extensive support for grid codes around the world.
As grid code regulations grow in number and complexity, GCM offers compliance professionals a single-source software solution that helps bring grid-connected products and systems to market more quickly and cost-effectively, helping anticipate and track changes across different locations and product types.
Accelerate market access through GCM grid code support
We’ll help you swiftly navigate grid code regulatory requirements in your target markets, leveraging our software tool, GCM. Additionally, you can gain compliance support through our modeling and simulation, testing, inspection and certification services.
Save time and streamline activities
Move away from manual tracking of regulatory updates. Get automated regulatory news applied directly to your product portfolio and act now.
Expand and enrich regulatory knowledge
Our grid code compliance experts can help your team gain — and maintain — a solid understanding of regulatory requirements and streamline compliance activities.
Find comprehensive, timely services
Accredited for 60+ grid codes worldwide, we offer end-to-end GCC advisory, testing and certification, software-based grid simulation and a real-time simulation environment.
Three key areas of grid code compliance support
Regulatory intelligence
Connect proactively with real-time grid code knowledge and insights that impact the entire product life cycle to drive market access.
Compliance management
Manage grid code compliance activities across multiple regions with ease and anticipate evolving regulatory change.
Regulatory advisory
Access expert guidance and support to guide more cost-effective and time-efficient compliance activities, refine your processes and measure progress.
Frequently asked questions
- What are the typical regulatory requirements of grid codes?
Grid codes define the technical, testing, and documentation requirements for equipment such as power generating units and grid-connected systems. They cover topics including safety and performance metrics that support grid reliability, stability and responsiveness. Increasingly, regulators require modeling and simulation via power system studies as well as field- or laboratory-based testing.
- How do grid code requirements vary between countries and regions?
Grid code compliance varies widely among countries in terms of regulatory maturity, centralization or decentralization and fragmentation. Even when some harmonization exists (such as the EU’s common Requirements for Generators (RfG) framework), each country has its own specific interpretation and compliance requirements. In many other markets, such as across North America and parts of Asia, compliance pathways lack standardization and vary by utility, operator and region.
- Which products are impacted by grid code regulations?
Grid code regulations impact any grid-connected generation, conversion, storage or bidirectional energy system. As the power grid decentralizes and incorporates inverter-based technology, the scope of products covered by grid codes has broadened to include renewable power generation equipment, power conversion equipment, energy storage systems, electric vehicles and charging systems, power generating units, and distributed energy resources and microgrids.
- What are the benefits of using Global Compliance Management (GCM) for managing grid code compliance?
Global Compliance Management (GCM) is a centralized, purpose-built platform that simplifies and streamlines regulatory compliance activities, including grid code compliance. Use GCM to access regulatory intelligence, gain visibility into grid codes across target markets, and proactively track regulatory changes. This platform helps customers manage and mitigate compliance risks, coordinate testing and certification activities and bring grid-connected products to market efficiently.
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