Beyond the Data: Making our Grid Smarter and Nimble with Intelligence and Action
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Social awareness around Smart Grids has been high since the 2000s, but the big question remains: Have these technologies transformed grids to enable more reliable, resilient, and efficient energy access for all? Or are we still waiting for these promises to materialize?
In the recent Power magazine article “Delivering on the Promise of Smart Grid — Transforming Grid Operations with Improved Intelligence and Action,” S&C Chief Technology Officer Ernst Scholtz discusses how innovations and technological advances are making this transformation possible now. Here are a few excerpts:
“Smart Grid technology arrived with a bang over two decades ago, but the first implementations often overpromised and underdelivered. Smart Grid 2.0, however, integrates new technologies to provide actionable intelligence, coupled with advanced automation and actuators that can dramatically improve grid performance.
These provide actionable information and the ability to understand what is needed to quickly restore power, make rapid repairs, and prevent future outages, achieving a more reliable and resilient grid.
Once those goals have been met, the focus can turn to improving efficiency and operating the grid at or near its design potential….This will help continue building the grid needed to serve future generations and make an outage-free, sustainable, and secure energy future possible.”
Read the full article here.