Laura Fleming, Country Managing Director at Hitachi Energy UK & IE, explains how energy security, grid resilience and digital innovation are shaping wind power integration in the UK and Ireland, and why collaboration across the sector is critical to meeting future energy challenges.
PES: Welcome back to PES Wind, Laura. Grid resilience and energy security have become more central. How have these priorities shifted within Hitachi Energy’s strategy, especially in relation to wind integration?
Laura Fleming: Energy security has become increasingly prominent in the thinking of governments and regulators since the disruption to energy supplies following the invasion of Ukraine. The situation in the Middle East has unfortunately heightened these concerns again.
At Hitachi Energy, our solutions have always strengthened energy security by integrating secure, local sources of electricity generation into reliable and resilient grids. The increased focus on security has not changed the solutions we provide, but it has shifted the perceived hierarchy of their benefits in the minds of our stakeholders. Our secure solutions also deliver resilience, enable low-cost renewable generation and support sustainability.