Schneider Electric and Microsoft have deployed what they describe as India’s first fully autonomous solid oxide electrolyzer and after 6,000 hours of operation alongside green hydrogen producer h2e Power, it’s delivering results: up to 10% lower electricity consumption.
The system combines Schneider’s EcoStruxure Automation Expert platform with Microsoft Azure’s AI and edge computing stack.
The AI monitors thermal balance, hydrogen flow, energy inputs, and equipment health in real time. For a 10 MW plant, the efficiency gains work out to roughly €500,000 in annual savings. Engineers using the built-in industrial copilot tool report cutting control configuration time by half, with production line changes that once took weeks now done in hours.
