The electric power industry is rapidly transforming as it responds to growth in distributed generation, the deployment of electric vehicle charging stations, increased reliability and resiliency requirements, and more. These developments are driving large-scale investments in power distribution systems, and your team needs to prepare for the challenges they entail. We have the industry-leading experience to help you navigate this evolving landscape.
Strong, Smart, Sustainable: Modernizing the Grid
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Grid Modernization: Strong, Smart, Sustainable
1898 & Co.
The electric grid was based on the requirements of an earlier society. In today’s always-on world, outages of even a minute can anger customers who work from home, have life support equipment or just want their social media. Utilities must develop strategies that result in a strong, smart and sustainable grid.
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Resiliency and Reliability
The pressures of electrification and frequency of extreme weather events are putting a premium on reliable and resilient electrical systems. Assessing, expanding and reinforcing your grid is key to maintaining a strong foundation.
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Make It Strong: The First Step in Modernizing the U.S. Grid
1898 & Co.
The grid is undergoing more change today than it has seen in the last 60 years. A typical household’s load in the 1960s was less than half of what it is today — 60 amps compared to 200 amps. Safety measures built into the grid allowed it to absorb load changes without serious issues until recently, and now utilities must develop strategies that will keep the grid strong into the future.
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Grid Modernization: Changing the Way the Grid’s Future Is Planned
1898 & Co.
The way we consume electricity is changing, placing demands on the electric distribution grid that its creators never envisioned. To address evolving needs, the grid is in need of transformation. Yesterday’s grid planning methods must yield to holistic, data-driven distribution planning to optimize the investments of limited capital resources into grid infrastructure and maximize the effectiveness of transformative technologies.
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Reimagining the Electric Grid
1898 & Co.
The world’s electrical needs are evolving — the electric distribution grid must evolve with them. Entergy is using a bold new holistic planning process to jump-start this transformation.
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Smart Grid Technology Enhances Storm Hardening Efforts at Utilities
Burns & McDonnell
By improving asset visibility and reliability for customers, smart technologies can enhance storm hardening efforts for utilities and energy providers.
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Making a Strong Case for Utility Infrastructure Hardening
1898 & Co.
As required by a new Florida statute, Tampa Electric Company (TECO) needed to provide a 10-year storm protection plan. A list of projects and their calculated benefits was developed in alignment with the statute using an innovative analysis tool to establish overall budget levels and prioritize projects to provide the maximum benefit to customers.
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Upgrading and Expanding Underground Infrastructure
Burns & McDonnell
Locating power lines underground has many benefits. Because underground distribution makes for more attractive streetscapes, the public prefers it, too. Utilities face multiple challenges as they upgrade, update and extend their underground distribution networks. A plan that works within existing organizational and infrastructure frameworks is a good place to start.
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Optimize Your Electrical Distribution Asset Replacement Schedules
Burns & McDonnell
As distribution systems age and failures become more likely, utilities must explore strategic asset replacement strategies for maximum impact at minimal cost.
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Managing Aging Infrastructure
1898 & Co.
Safety and operational issues often go undetected in urban secondary networks. A large electric utility tackled the problem head on by completing a thorough analysis of its system.
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Innovative Software Solution Streamlines Cost Estimating for Entergy
1898 & Co.
As distribution system upgrades surge, utilities need a more accurate efficient, and transparent way to scope and estimate these projects. A digital cost estimating and project scoping application built for Entergy transformed a cumbersome and inefficient process into a streamlined, data-driven methodology that provides critical insights needed for developing and monitoring billion-dollar-plus capital programs.
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Grid Technology
Your grid modernization initiatives can make your assets more responsive and enable proactive decision-making. Strategic deployment of smart devices and automation technologies enhance the efficiency and reliability of your network.
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Building Resilient, Self-Healing Grids Starts With Careful Analysis of Feeder Layouts and Load Distribution
1898 & Co.
Electric utilities are facing a grim horizon of rapidly aging distribution system assets at a time when extreme weather events and natural disasters are increasing in frequency. Though smart protection devices and other advanced technologies can give utilities the means to upgrade and better protect their systems, cost can be a significant obstacle. An analytical approach utilizing system data can supplement a utility’s grid modernization plans, prioritizing the most critical needs so they are addressed first in a cost-effective implementation.
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4 Key Grid Modernization Factors for Co-ops and Municipalities
Burns & McDonnell
Co-ops and municipalities can build a cost-effective plan for grid modernization by focusing on four factors that reflect their challenges and priorities.
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Coordinating Distribution Automation and Communications Strategies
Burns & McDonnell
As utilities add intelligence and self-healing capabilities to their distribution grids, they need to make decisions regarding distribution automation schemes and communication networks.
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Distribution Grid Operators Face Increasingly Complex Dynamics as Electrification Ramps Up
1898 & Co.
The adoption of photovoltaic (PV) solar and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at residential and commercial locations is a trend that has come to be broadly called electrification. This ongoing trend presents significant opportunities and threats to power utilities as PV and EV adoption increases. Conventional and next-generation solutions will need to be leveraged in order to manage the electrification impact.
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A Tool for Modernizing the Grid
1898 & Co.
Patience has long been a virtue of those interested in connecting their distributed energy resources (DER) to the grid. Approval for these projects has been slow, with utilities lacking ways to identify feasibility and costs for interconnections. Hosting capacity analyses can solve for these challenges.
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Energy Transition
The practical realities of an electrified world brimming with distributed energy resources can challenge any organization. Much of our electrical infrastructure will need rethinking or reworking to reduce risks and create sustainable systems.
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Evaluating the Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Distribution Systems
1898 & Co.
Consumers and transportation companies are embracing the electric vehicle transformation, but electric utilities across the U.S. will need to prepare for increased demand. To avoid costly upgrades and mitigate the downstream effects of increased energy consumption, utilities should implement thoughtful standards and business practices.
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A Road Map for Successful Conversion to a Fully Electric Fleet
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Electric utilities and transit agencies may not know how to complete an efficient conversion when it comes to electrifying their vehicle fleets. Following a comprehensive road map allows them to identify challenges and quantify benefits while still meeting their business needs.
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Renewables’ Ripple Effect on the Grid
Burns & McDonnell
Managing a massive influx of widely distributed decarbonized energy sources, large and small, will involve rethinking — and reworking — much of our electrical infrastructure.
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Distribution Implications of DER Aggregation Under FERC 2222
1898 & Co.
FERC Order 2222 opens the door for distributed energy resource (DER) aggregations to access wholesale markets. This will have implications for the grid.
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Meghan Calabro, PE
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