Grid Modernization in North America

Recent events throughout North America have demonstrated that the current electricity infrastructure must change. Over the last 15 years, there has been a concentration on an evolving Smart Grid for improving our energy delivery and monitoring while adding intelligence to our network operations. This has now developed into a more holistic and transformative view of our energy network via Grid Modernization.

Grid Modernization deals with the fact that we are evolving from a one-way energy delivery system to a bi-directional and integrated infrastructure composition. Where once the flow of electrons went from generation, through the transmission and market operations, into distribution networks and eventually to a load of our homes and businesses, there is now a need to control and monitor these flows from distributed energy resources, home or business-owned generation and storage, and islanded microgrids.

The goals of this evolution are to improve the reliability of our energy delivery, incorporating more sustainable, greener, and sometimes decentralized generation, while always seeking to meet or exceed the expectations of customers. The latter has evolved at exponential rates due to their experiences in other service models over the last few years.

The following materials discuss some of the key elements of Grid Modernization, including the importance of Advanced Metering, Distributed Energy Resources, Grid Hardening, and Cybersecurity. It also introduces the new services and solutions within demand and supply-side energy management and how all this increased information will require robust and insightful analytics and data management.

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