Advanced Grid Reliability

The Advanced Grid Reliability solution delivers business value by impacting grid reliability metrics, such as contributing to a 10% reduction in outage minutes and a 20% increase in asset utilization and capacity factor. This solution is enabled by real-time, system-wide visibility and analytics that optimize grid operations, improve resiliency and safety, and support fault prevention while providing performance guarantees.

The Advanced Grid Reliability solution addresses challenges like inaccurate GIS data, lack of real-time substation visibility and aging infrastructure by providing full visibility at every point of service every minute, enabling high-confidence outage detection and rapid restoration. Key solution areas include grid awareness, fault prevention and outage awareness.

• Grid awareness enables more effective volt-var optimization, network reconfiguration and faster control room response while reducing premature asset failures.
• Fault prevention identifies early fault indicators from high frequency meter waveforms, enabling proactive mitigation of equipment, vegetation and weather related risks before outages occur.
• Outage awareness includes faster, more accurate outage detection and fault location—including nested outages—and accelerated response, leading to improved customer satisfaction via more accurate notifications and shorter outage duration.

The Advanced Grid Reliability solution utilizes distributed intelligence applications such as Location Awareness, Advanced Transformer Load Monitoring, Advanced Transformer Voltage Monitoring, Pattern Anomaly Classification, and High Impedance Detection, all of which support early issue identification and fault prevention.