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Aspen's (AZPN) DGM Solution Leveraged by AES El Salvador

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Aspen Technology (AZPN - Free Report) announced that AES El Salvador has selected its digital grid management (DGM) solution to improve the delivery of electricity to more than 1.5 million residential and commercial customers from local power plants.

The DGM solution will support AES El Salvador's goal to transition from a traditional one-way electricity distribution network operator to a distributed system operator, which simplifies interconnections with alternative energy sources and new power loads.

AES El Salvador will leverage Aspen’s advanced distribution management system (ADMS) and distributed energy resources management system to provide an energy-efficient distribution platform to meet its green energy goals. The central control system will enable AES El Salvador to detect and isolate electrical outages, reduce recovery time during emergencies and increase overall reliability for its customers.

The above-mentioned solution provides high-performance enterprise automation technology to energy customers worldwide. Its ADMS offers advanced applications like advanced DSCADA, distribution power flow, switch order management, distributed energy resources management, fault location etc.

Overall, Aspen will assist AES El Salvador in fulfilling its reliability, security and sustainability goals. The implementation of Aspen’s DGM solution will help AES El Salvador meet the demands of its large customer base and tackle future technical challenges with sustainability imperatives.

Aspen Technology provides asset optimization software solutions that assist in optimizing process manufacturing by supporting real-time decision-making, predicting equipment failure and providing the ability to forecast and simulate potential actions.

The company continues to invest heavily in research and development as well as form strategic partnerships to meet sustainability goals.

In December, the company announced a collaboration with Aramco to help capital-intensive industries develop new solutions for Carbon Capture and Utilization. The partnership was aimed at reducing carbon emissions and identifying the most viable pathway for carbon capture and utilization by considering economics, process design and operations constraints and carbon-dioxide reduction.

Prior to that, the company announced that India-based ACME Group had selected AspenTech’s Performance Engineering solution to design the hydrolysis process and optimize assets at the green hydrogen and green ammonia plant in Rajasthan.

Aspen currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). In the past year, shares of the company have lost 11.7% compared with the sub-industry’s decline of 1.3%.

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