Reliability & Operations

Improving the efficiency and reliability of the electric power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure is vital to meeting increasing market demand while supporting environmental goals. Automation and monitoring have been put into practice for many years, with varying degrees of success.

Various studies point to the fact that passive, reactive automation systems focusing on disturbance events are only the beginning of improving reliability. Today, utilities need a more proactive and comprehensive solution to cope with a wide array of challenges:

• Ever-growing electricity demand
• Environmental concerns including greenhouse gas emissions
• Increasing costs of traditional fuel sources
• Aging infrastructure

Projected spending for smart grid solutions that provide benefits including enhanced power quality, reliability and efficiency for the power distribution system is estimated to be $165 billion over 20 years (Source: EPRI).

The smart grid vision points to the need for a highly intelligent system that will address all these challenges in a more coordinated fashion across the energy delivery value chain with predictive, instead of reactive, capability.

BPL Global^® offers a suite of smart grid solutions, products and services based on our Power SG^® software platform and Serveron^® monitoring and automation technologies. Our offering helps utilities improve the efficiency and reliability of energy delivery from generation to the customer.