Digitalizing a critical, highly distributed infrastructure company
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Elia Group is building a sovereign private cloud that treats 800 Belgian and ~100 German substations as distributed data centers (5–10 MW centrally, hundreds of kW at edges), using Kubernetes, CRDs and Kafka operators to expose infrastructure and data tech as services. An MVP ships with 22 products and managed Kubernetes, plus Postgres schema as a service and table-level products, aiming GA 2026 to run forecasting, ML and keep the lights on.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:52Energy transition purpose
- 3:42Climate change importance
- 4:46Five country aspects
- 6:53Power system challenges
- 9:46Intelligent grid
- 11:56European grid coordination
- 12:19Elia Group topology
- 14:31Operational to information technology convergence
- 15:37Digital substations
- 16:19Grid and digital convergence
- 17:43Sovereign digital platform
- 19:33Every company software
- 20:38Private cloud framework
- 23:39Infrastructure as service
- 25:50Service mesh framework
- 27:37Service consumption
- 29:04Service management engine
- 30:54Data product thinking
- 32:20Data platform building
- 34:08Elia tech stack
- 35:11Sovereignty principles
- 35:32Tech for sustainability
- 35:57Closing remarks
- 37:46Q&A
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