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Fortnightly Magazine - October 2024

PG&E: Remote Grid Architecture

Top Innovators

Edith Clarke Top Innovator in Reliability of Utility Service: “It’s a grid in a remote location that serves one or a few customers and removes the distribution power line so there is no risk of that power line sparking wildfire. It comes with other benefits of reducing maintenance and vegetation management in that area.”
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PG&E

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PG&E: Managed Charging and Vehicle-to-Everything Technology

Top Innovators

Mabel McFerran Top Innovator in Storage: “Because PG&E is in California, which is experiencing the extreme effects of climate change and wildfires, our constrained grid has pushed us to be innovative with ways to leverage electric vehicles to address some of these issues. That’s put us out front.”
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PNM Resources: New Service Delivery Workforce Redesign

Top Innovators

Lewis Latimer Top Innovator in Technology or Process Design: “We decreased timelines for customers. When we launched, we were down to thirteen days to get Simplified customers from the date we had their application to the date they were scheduled for energization.”
Byline: 

PNM Resources

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PPL: The Renewable Energy Research Facility

Top Innovators

John Beggs Top Innovator in Energy Transition: “We’re proud that we have completely automated the facility. It’s running now, and we’ve developed a basic dispatch program that makes decisions for itself and programs the battery when to store power, when to dispatch power, et cetera.”
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PPL

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PSEG: Outage Management System Deployment

Top Innovators

Lewis Latimer Top Innovator in Technology or Process Design: “The Outage Management System project has been a catalyst for change. It has brought changes in operator mindset, distribution technology integration, and operational processes.”
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PSEG

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Puget Sound Energy: GIS Mapping Tool

Top Innovators

Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator in Grid or Network Solutions: “We can pair our gas planning process with our electric planning process, and that’s unique to this project. This was the first time we’ve tried to coordinate both our gas and electric planning into one coordinated system.”
Byline: 

Puget Sound Energy

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Southern Company: GridRaptor

Top Innovators

Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator in Grid or Network Solutions: “We took a conventional regulating loop and applied it to a renewable facility. That was the beginning. It started out as a reactive voltage controller for renewable facilities and grew into a full-blown power plant controller with frequency response, among other things.”
Byline: 

Southern Company

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