Sascha Janssen

Looking at autonomous fleets as a solutions architect, I see one decision that belongs to three systems: dispatch, energy management and the grid connection. This is how I would bring them together — and test whether the integration pays.

The AI Act asks for human oversight where automation can affect physical systems faster than operators can assess individual actions. Every industry that hit this wall solved it with architecture, not vigilance. The grid can too — and it has already built much of the foundation.

For a century, grid engineers designed the whole feeder around one customer: the last one. Rooftop solar broke that rule — and took the industry's easiest fairness answer down with it.

Fifty thousand batteries, one algorithm, no human in the dispatch path. If you want AI dispatching your assets, read the EU AI Act as architecture, not legal text.

AI data centres are the grid’s most significant new load. They’re also its least verifiable flexibility participant.

A minimum viable architecture for flexibility market verification exists in pieces. Here is how they fit together.