These services help utilities minimize outage impacts, protect critical infrastructure, and build a more resilient grid capable of maintaining safe, reliable service despite growing system vulnerabilities and external pressures.
Typical services include:
- Vulnerability assessments for substations, feeders, and critical infrastructure
- Storm hardening strategies, including undergrounding and structural upgrades
- Vegetation management planning and risk mitigation analysis
- Pole loading, structural, and asset condition assessments
- Modeling and evaluation of system performance under extreme weather scenarios
- Development of resiliency improvement programs and capital investment plans
- Critical load identification and prioritization for service restoration
- Coordination with emergency response and outage management planning
- Evaluation of sectionalizing, automation, and smart grid technologies for improved resiliency