Survalent Category: Reliability & Resiliency

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 [...]

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, for electric utilities facing massive storms, nothing beats automation. A control room can feel like a war zone during storms. [...]

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 [...]

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 are already migrating away from obsolete ADMS solutions to future-proof their operations. Often, they’re looking for a centralized ADMS that [...]

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, [...]

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 and the customer service centre, can help you better coordinate outage response activities, resolve outages faster, and increase transparency to [...]

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) [...]

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. The challenge, though, is how to filter through the many choices to make wise selections that ultimately meet the needs [...]

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 communication capabilities in your outage management system, your control center can play an active role in minimizing their frequency, duration, [...]