Power utilities

Deploy intelligent, intuitive and responsive solutions to evolve your grid and power your next business model

Empowered for the new energy future

Realize your smart grid vision. Optimize power distribution. Adapt to changing energy demands. Support new business models. Achieve your critical objectives with our solutions for power utilities.

Increasing microgeneration, storage and energy conservation mean the power sector is facing lower demand and flatter revenues. As a power utility, you have three main options for addressing these trends:

Remain a transmission or distribution system operator and automate, improve operational efficiency and optimize asset lifecycles.
Expand your portfolio by entering the renewables market.
Use your assets to offer smart city services, plus 5G small cell backhaul and broadband services.

Our solutions help you succeed with your chosen path by making your grid smarter, more reliable and more responsive to new demands. They enable you to realize the full potential of digitalization and Industry 4.0 automation so you can operate more efficiently, reduce your costs and get the most from your assets. And they help you evolve your business so you can seize new opportunities.

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Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard Grid

Nokia ranked as leader in industrial IoT networking solutions

Download the executive summary

Discover the powerful opportunities in the new energy market

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Use case

Optimizing distribution automation with private LTE networks

Build a converged FAN that uses IP/MPLS and LTE to enable intelligent distribution automation and renewables integration.

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Converged field area network (FAN)

Learn why a converged IP/MPLS and FAN is the key to improving grid monitoring, intelligence and automation.

Harness the power of IP/MPLS for power grid communications

eBook

Harness the superior power of IP/MPLS for grid communications

Modernize your network for better resiliency, security and sustainability.

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The case for community broadband

Discover how high-speed broadband creates wealth, equality and opportunity for citizens.

Case study

Empowering the citizens of Chattanooga

Learn how a Tennessee utility used a new smart grid to create a gigabit city.

Ebook

Ensuring cyber-security for utility mission-critical communications

Protect your grid with best-in-class technology and services from our certified security professionals.

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Network group encryption

Ensure seamless, end-to-end security for your mission-critical grid communications.

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Security Risk Index

Let us help you measure and improve your readiness to defend your grid against relevant security threats.

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Wind farm analytics

Use machine learning to lower operating costs, boost revenue and optimize return on assets.

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Advancing wind farm communications for the Industry 4.0 era

Learn how seamless connectivity can help you use the full power of Industry 4.0 to optimize wind farm operations

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Industry vertical

Renewable energy

Empower wind and solar construction and operations with private LTE/5G communication networks.

Network communications

Use case

Optimizing distribution automation with private LTE networks

Build a converged FAN that uses IP/MPLS and LTE to enable intelligent distribution automation and renewables integration.

Video

Converged field area network (FAN)

Learn why a converged IP/MPLS and FAN is the key to improving grid monitoring, intelligence and automation.

eBook

Harness the superior power of IP/MPLS for grid communications

Modernize your network for better resiliency, security and sustainability.

Utility broadband

Information security

Wind farm operations

Our solutions in action

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NYPA: Driving utility operations into the digital future

New York Power Authority is using our private LTE solution to build a modernized critical communications foundation for new utility applications.

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Eskom and Nokia: Experience and collaboration make the difference

Our solutions and experience are helping South Africa’s Eskom boost productivity by accelerating its journey to substation automation and full digitalization.

Case study

REN: Modernizing power transmission networks for the digital era

We’re helping Portugal’s energy transmission system operator upgrade its optical network to keep pace with new operational communications demands.

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How utilities are powering Denmark’s digital revolution

Our GPON solutions enable utilities to provide broadband services that create opportunities for people and businesses throughout Denmark.

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RTE partners with Nokia to transform operational telecom network

Our grid communications solutions are helping France’s electricity transmission system operator support critical grid protection applications and embrace the digital future.

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Communications fit for tomorrow

SA Power Networks uses our IP/MPLS Mission-Critical WAN solution to meet the communications needs of its modern grid.

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Modernizing grid communications in the heart of South America

We helped Bolivia’s ELFEC build a fully redundant IP/MPLS network that increases grid reliability and provides a platform for digital transformation.

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Achieving greater reliability and sustainability in the grid

Ameren will use our private IP/MPLS fiber network solution to improve grid management and support emerging applications such as FAN and analytics.

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Empowering the citizens of Chattanooga

Learn how a Tennessee utility used a new smart grid to create a gigabit city.

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Providing modern grid communications for New Zealand’s National Electricity Grid

We helped Transpower build a reliable communications network that can optimize the management of its modern power system.

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Iberdrola-Elektro: Building a more reliable power grid in Brazil with private LTE connectivity

Elektro is improving electric service in the state of Sao Paulo with South America’s first private LTE network for power grid automation.

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Creos Luxembourg saves time and money with IP/MPLS network

We helped Luxembourg’s national electricity and gas distributor deploy an advanced IP/MPLS network to improve reliability, performance and cost savings.

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OG&E’s smart grid revolutionizes network control

A Nokia multi-tiered IP/MPLS communications network enables OG&E and its customers to modulate power demand while increasing efficiency and savings.

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Tata Power-DDL builds next-gen smart grid communications network

We helped Tata Power-DDL deploy a converged IP/MPLS communications network to support mission-critical applications and future digital transformation.

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Nokia Network Services Platform for power utilities

Our NSP provides converged network services management that makes it easy for utilities to plan, deploy and troubleshoot IP/MPLS and private LTE networks.