Top Innovators
Eric Nunnally is Senior Manager for Asset Data Solutions & Implementation at Southern California Edison.
Southern California Edison won the Fortnightly Top Innovator 2025 award ''Lewis Latimer Top Innovator in Technology or Process Design'' for its STORM — Standard Tracking for Operations Restoration Management Tool.
PUF's Lori Burkhart: Describe the STORM Tool innovation and its positive impact.
Eric Nunnally: Two major wildfire events happened concurrently in the Los Angeles area last January. What was different about those two events was the sheer scale.
Typically, in a storm event, there are a few dozen, maybe a few hundred assets are damaged that we must immediately respond to, but in this case, thousands of assets were damaged. The second major aspect was that many scenario-specific events were triggered that required an unusual tracking of work being performed.
The way our normal BlueSky tools were set up to respond to an event like this didn't support handling injects from the side after the fact. The tools weren't allowing us to manage the event response as well as we had hoped.
We went from normal enterprise work management solutions and tools — both for field operations and then in the office — to each department using spreadsheets and switching to paper-based documentation. Work was getting done, but only the individuals located where the ground operations were taking place had knowledge of what was being done at what point in time.