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How Sault Ste. Marie PUC, with Survalent, Is Leading the Charge in Smart Grid Innovation
Excerpted from Survalent's Exploring the Utiliverse podcast, featuring Robert Brewer, CEO of Sault Ste. Marie Public Utilities Commission (PUC). As [...]
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Is there such a thing as the right offline environment? You bet there is!
Have you tried jogging in dress shoes? You can do it, but not without hurting your feet. Same goes with [...]
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Not everything is better with a human touch. You need automation.
You might have heard that a human aspect makes a company better. Although that might be true in most cases, [...]
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Six Reasons to Choose Survalent
Reason # 1: Customer centricity is the core of our business Tired of chasing down your vendors, vying for [...]
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7 Important Reasons to Attend the Survalent Global User Conference
On the fence about attending this year’s user conference? We’ve put together the top 7 reasons you should register today [...]
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Schematic Generator for Faster, Easier Switching Operations
Time is a precious commodity in the control room. Minutes can be particularly critical when switching and load transfer operations [...]
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Expensive, complex, and time-consuming? Dispelling the myths about FLISR and LOV.
Utilities throughout the world are under pressure to ensure a reliable supply of high-quality power to their customers. Deploying Fault [...]
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It’s Time to End your Reliance on Vendors for Upgrades, Configurations, and Implementations
Systems upgrades and grid modernization plans came to an abrupt and prolonged halt for many utilities recently, as an unexpected [...]
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Remote ADMS Implementations – Myth or Reality?
Pandemic response measures have had a massive impact on SCADA, Outage Management System (OMS), and Distribution Management System (DMS) application [...]
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Reducing Residential Outages Has Never Been So Critical
Never before has it been as important to reduce the impact of outages on your residential customers. Because of the [...]
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Is Your ADMS Ready To Meet The Needs Of Tomorrow?
The world of power distribution is constantly evolving. Decarbonization, digitalization, and decentralization are forcing utilities to adapt their distribution networks. [...]
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Modernize Your Network With A Single Platform Solution
As mentioned in our featured article, ADMS should deliver a shared network model and a single user experience. Many utilities [...]
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Restore Power In Your Network During Outages And Storms
Outages are an undesirable and unavoidable part of maintaining a distribution network. When they occur, utilities leveraging older ADMS can [...]
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You Don’t Have To Be At Your Desk To Be In-The-Know
You can’t always be in the control room but that doesn’t stop issues from happening. Whether you don’t have a [...]
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Three Ways Polaris Improves your Outage Management System
For utilities, an Outage Management System (OMS) is an important application for managing outages effectively. OMS, when integrated with SCADA [...]
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Centralized versus decentralized FLISR – what’s right for your network?
Fault location, isolation, and service restoration (FLISR) is a software application that reroutes powers in the event of a fault [...]
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Can A 2-Hour Outage Last Just 20 Seconds? You Bet It Can.
That’s the magic of a self-healing grid. Thanks to advancements in distribution automation, what would normally be a sustained outage [...]
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5 Reasons You Need an Offline Development Environment
Did you know that human error is responsible for 70% of all data loss? That’s a particularly disturbing statistic for [...]
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Bring on the Renewables: Ensuring Grid Stability in the Era of Decentralization
From demanding renewable energy options to generating their own electricity, customers are taking an unprecedented interest in the source of [...]
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Tips & Tricks for optimizing alarms in SurvalentONE SCADA
Whether it’s an open circuit breaker or a tree on a line, unplanned issues are always going to crop up [...]
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Smart devices and DERs: how will their data impact utilities?
Without question, some of the greatest challenges faced by the utility sector in the last decade have been brought by [...]
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Change is coming: standards and regulations in the age of DERs
Change is coming: standards and regulations in the age of DERs New opportunities and new challenges. Thanks to the rapid [...]
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The road to renewable: how and why the power industry is changing
The road to renewable: how and why the power industry is changing Renewable energy is an undeniable force of change [...]
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The rise of DERs and the decentralized grid
Utilities around the globe have reached a critical juncture. New, increasingly accessible technologies have challenged the traditional electricity distribution model. [...]
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Tips & Tricks for using SmartVU’s Trend Graphs
The surest way to prevent outages is to address issues before they occur. That requires access to real-time feeder data, [...]
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Tips to help you quickly generate reports in SurvalentONE SCADA
Utilities run on information. Every day, millions of data points are recorded from a wide range of devices and everyday [...]
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Cost is king & reliability is expensive
It’s exciting time to be in the electric utility industry with all of the technology advancements that are available today. [...]
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Proactively resolve outages with advanced outage management capabilities
Outages may be a fact of life but that doesn’t mean you’re powerless against them. With the right information and [...]
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Collaborate, update, visualize, and share data for optimum system performance
Behind every well-functioning control room, you’ll find two critical factors: comprehensive data and good coffee. While we can’t help you [...]
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Conserve, reduce, and optimize with demand response applications
Customers today take power for granted … and that’s a good thing. It’s proof that you’re delivering a steady flow [...]
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Put the ‘control’ back into your control room
It’s a challenging time to be a utility. Severe weather events are increasingly common and technology is placing more demands [...]
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