A public power utility’s distribution system is its most visible and valuable asset. It is essential to business success and connected to every customer. In addition to delivering energy safely, affordably, and reliably to a traditional electrical load base, today’s distribution system must be robust in its capacity and resilience to support an increasingly electrified economy. This includes connection points and capacity for large data center loads, throughput for distributed energy resources, and infrastructure for communications and information management systems. This seminar will cover both technical and business aspects of strategic planning and proactive investment necessary to manage the system’s capacity for growth, reliability, and resilience to achieve the vision of a fully supported local economy at the lowest total cost of ownership.
Topics
- Trends in distribution system management (e.g., reliability, automation, costs)
- Best practices for analyzing system performance
- State-of-the-art planning approaches and tools
- New technologies in infrastructure condition assessment and life extension
- Overhead and underground component lifecycle management
- Economic models to support financing system updates
