
Souheil Sabbagh, P.Eng., MBA
Vice-President, Digital Expertise
Digitalization is becoming a critical strategic lever as global energy demand continues to rise and decarbonization targets place increasing pressure on power systems. By implementing digital power systems and proven solutions, industrial companies can turn their data into significant gains, enhancing grid reliability and better visibility into their energy consumption and optimizing decision-making.

With the growing demand for energy and increasing electrification, your infrastructures face more pressure and may reach their limits. If your infrastructures are aging, meeting these new demands will require additional modernization and maintenance efforts. To minimize these challenges, strategically integrating renewable energy sources is essential. When fully integrated into the protection, automation and control (PAC) system, renewable energy will help increase capacity while guaranteeing performance and resilience across your operations.
Your objectives to meet current and future power system needs:

At BBA, we focus on reducing total costs (CapEx and OpEx) throughout the power system life cycle, improving data availability and protecting operational continuity. Our goal is to provide strong support for our clients in their digital projects. As technology integrators, we combine technical expertise with proven solutions to make it easier to integrate renewable energy, optimize energy efficiency and assist your teams in adopting new technologies. By leveraging equipment interoperability, we test solutions upstream in our integrated laboratories, reducing commissioning time and offering you remote monitoring and maintenance of your digital assets.
At BBA, our first priority is to establish a solid foundation that ensures the reliability, security and resilience of your power systems. By strengthening your protection, automation and control (PAC) systems, we create the ideal conditions for efficient and reliable power system management. Our measures focus on improving stability, optimizing power distribution and minimizing interruptions, even under the most demanding conditions. The result: a reliable, secure system that supports the performance and sustainability of your operations.
Electrical substations:
Hybrid or off-grid systems:
Distribution systems:
All types of systems:
Our solutions for integrating renewable energy ensure a stable energy supply, even with intermittent energy sources such as solar or wind power. By seamlessly harmonizing existing systems with new technologies, we provide flexible and resilient energy management that meets both current and future needs. Our strategies include storage options to better manage demand fluctuations and maximize efficiency.
By leveraging real-time data, we identify energy optimization opportunities and implement automated processes that reduce consumption and associated costs. Our approach uses predictive analytics to anticipate needs and streamline the use of fossil-fuel-dependent resources, ensuring sustainable and uninterrupted efficiency.
Our solutions simplify engineering processes, standardize practices, accelerate deployment and reduce project costs while upholding the highest standards of quality and safety. By leveraging advanced tools, such as digital twins, we help you simulate and optimize processes in a secure virtual environment, reducing risks before production deployment. This enables you to remain agile, take advantage of cutting-edge technology and better plan each phase of your infrastructure modernization. Our solutions anticipate energy needs, adjust resources in real time and strengthen the stability and resilience of your infrastructures.
Our approach allows for advanced, proactive management of operations, even remotely, ensuring uninterrupted performance and enhanced safety for your teams. With connected monitoring tools and intelligent diagnostics, we optimize work by reducing the need for onsite visits, minimizing worker risks and improving operational efficiency.

At BBA, our five integrated and secure laboratories play a key role in developing and deploying reliable, proven systems. These advanced test environments allow our teams to simulate and test solutions under ideal conditions, guaranteeing faster, more efficient onsite commissioning. By enabling interoperability testing and proof of concept, our laboratories support the adoption of new technologies and help build confidence in the systems.
Our laboratories position BBA at the forefront of digital power system innovation, offering the technological flexibility and compatibility needed to adapt to the evolving needs of your infrastructure.