Allie Schwertner works as an Industry Sales Engineer for Rockwell Automation in Cleveland, Ohio, with a focus on Power & Energy, Food & Beverage, and the Chemical industry. Allie works with companies to help improve manufacturing productivity and global competitiveness by capitalizing on the Industrial Internet of Things. As it relates to Power & Energy, she works with manufacturers to reduce energy consumption by leveraging renewable energy and Rockwell solutions targeted to optimize building manufacturing processes and utilities. She also leads Micro Grid sales pursuits to integrate data from desperate sources and visualize in meaningful ways for different stakeholders.
Schwertner believes in the power of connecting and bringing people together to accelerate change. Her curiosity, challenging status-quo, social selling capabilities, strategic relationship building, and passion for helping customers were all part of the reason she was awarded the 2017 Rookie of the Year in North America for Rockwell. She’s also been noted for one of the most inspiring quotes of 2017 in a global publication magazine, Plant Services. In addition, Allie was chosen to be a technical presenter at the national 2017 Master Brewers Association of America on the topic of creating a strategy to optimize your brewery. Schwertner graduated from The Ohio State University in 2016 with her degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
What is the future of microgrids? Are they ready for large scale adoption? This panel will discuss the reasons why microgrids are desirable and financially feasible today.
As microgrid deployment has moved from universities and military applications to energy intensive industries the need for integrating diverse energy systems and supporting infrastructure security is at a critical state. Companies in the pulp and paper, petrochemical and life science industries as well as mission-critical institutions like hospitals require enhanced resiliency, energy security and operational flexibility to keep their operations running.
Microgrids integrate multiple local generation and storage assets whether connected to the grid or islanded. Historically providing onsite power has been expensive and primarily delivers benefits during utility outages. Today with diverse energy technologies and lower engineering and financial hurdles, it has become easier to provide improved resiliency and greater value through simplified design and more efficient use and integration of diverse resources. Built-in redundancies and advanced controls can help avoid prolonged outages while improving generation efficiency.
During the discussion you’ll hear each panel member discuss why the future of microgrids is bright through efficient collaboration, faster deployment and increased cybersecurity.
The need for energy systems and supporting critical infrastructure security has existed and been supported for years in a number different industries. The pulp and paper, petrochemical, hospitals, life sciences industries, and others have required secure, resilient, and high up time power for years, however, providing that power has been expensive and provided benefits only during utility outages. Now, the technology, engineering, and financial hurdles are lower, and through simplified design and grouping resources, consumers can increase resiliency economic value. Listen, as each panel member discusses how the future of Microgrids is now with “Better, Faster, Stronger” microgrids. Better: collaboration, Faster: deployment, Stronger: cybersecurity.
We will have four panelist to go over why the future of microgrids is NOW for them. The following four technology disrupters will share their point of view: Rockwell Automation, First Solar, AEP and Green Strategies.
