Survalent Category: Distribution Automation

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 the country’s first community-wide smart grid initiative, the Sault Ste. Marie Public Utilities Commission (PUC) smart grid offers invaluable insights [...]

Six Reasons to Choose Survalent

Reason # 1: Customer centricity is the core of our business Tired of chasing down your vendors, vying for their attention to get resources allocated to your upgrade or implementation? Need your voice to be heard amongst the sea [...]

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 Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR) is one of the most reliable ways to do so. With FLISR, you can [...]

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 COVID-19 crisis, the majority of society is working, learning, and sheltering at home without any immediate end in sight. In [...]

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 often find themselves fighting an uphill battle. Older ADMS software with restricted functionality can inhibit restoration operations and increase downtime, [...]

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 to restore power to as many customers as possible, as quickly as possible. Service restoration times range from sub-second to [...]

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 can now be just a flicker of the lights. The secret is deploying Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR) [...]

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 on your utility than ever before. At the same time, customer expectations for reliable power have never been higher. We [...]