The City of Lake Worth Beach, Fla., recently announce that its new Electric System Operations Center is officially completed and has been placed in service.
“This new facility significantly modernizes our operations and allows us to better serve our customers,” the city said in a LinkedIn post.
“Housed within an existing City facility, this long-awaited new facility is the culmination of years of planning and preparation by various Lake Worth Beach Electric Utility departments,” said Ed Liberty, Lake Worth Beach’s Electric Utility Director.
“Team members from our System Operations, the Power Plant team, Engineering, Operational Technology, and Project Management Office helped design the facility and coordinated efforts to successfully transition all operations from the prior location,” he said.
The new ESOC provides the city’s electric utility with a modern, storm hardened and secure environment from which to monitor all aspects of the operation of our electric transmission and distribution system.
The ESOC is staffed around the clock, seven days per week, by a rotating team of Electric System Operators who monitor the city’s electric system and dispatch crews to respond to power outages, direct network switching by field personnel, and issue work requests.
“Our new ESOC incorporates all of the technologies we’ve updated and installed over the past few years on a readily viewable and configurable interactive wall of monitors and smart boards that give us a broad overview of the electric system,” said Jason Bailey, Assistant Director Electric System Operations.
“A wall of interactive monitors tied to servers and multiple system sensors and meters gives us the ability to drill down in detail block by block and more quickly assess problems with our system and rapidly initiate corrective actions. This new facility significantly modernizes our operations and allows us to better serve our customers,” said Bailey.
The project was funded using proceeds from a Series 2020 Consolidated Utility Revenue Bond and is an element of the city’s System Hardening and Reliability Improvement Program.
