Enhancing the Modern Grid for Resiliency by Terry Nielsen: For over a decade, utilities have focused on modernizing the grid. Amazingly, technologies are available that can enhance the smart grid to improve the grid’s resiliency, specifically wildfire-related resiliency. Typical approaches used by utilities to make the grid smart often include: Installing smart or advanced meters. […]
Improving Grid Resilience Through Situational Awareness by Eric J. Charette: The nation’s reliance on the electric grid has never been higher than today. With threats to the grid increasing in frequency and impact, the pressure is on utilities to ensure they are making the most prudent improvements to provide the availability of electricity. Traditionally, these […]
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The pandemic taught the world to do more with less. As companies and organizations embrace lean concepts and look to their employees to wear many proverbial hats in their day-to-day, the number of skills we need to have some level of confidence in continues to grow. The old refrain of “not my job” has given […]
by Travis Rouillard: BetterGrids has produced a concept whitepaper for ‘OpenCIP’ outlining how the utility industry can use End-to-End Encryption technology for Secure Grid Integration. This paper is oriented to energy industry leaders and policymakers responsible for addressing emergent cyber-security risks related to inter-enterprise data exchange. It assumes a basic working knowledge of external data […]
The power industry is always learning and improving on itself, even during times of limited business travel and in-person meetings. Standards continue to be adopted and training for those standards will always be essential to stay current and maintain excellence in our field. Beginning March 1-5, 2021, QualU will offer a new training on the […]