Grid modernization

Our role is to plan today, for tomorrow. We plan decades ahead with our investments driven by our customers' ever-changing energy needs.

We know the answer to meeting our city’s growing electricity demand requires more than simply installing more poles, wires, and substations. While these are important, and we will continue to use them, we are innovating with new technologies and fresh ways of thinking. Here’s how we’re doing this:

Preparing for renewable energy
Renewable energy will play an important role in supporting our community’s growing electricity needs.

As your local electricity provider, we are committed to facilitating this transition by modernizing our grid technology and system office - essentially the brains of our distribution system. This will allow us to better manage distributed energy resources, like solar and storage.

Moving towards a smart energy grid
A smart energy grid represents the future of energy systems. It is an advanced system that is innovative and responsive to evolving energy needs.

Using new technologies and real-time data, a smart grid can accurately assess how customers use electricity and react accordingly. It enables demand response programs, empowering consumers to adjust their energy usage based on grid conditions. It also allows us to find and identify issues causing outages, and restore power to customers faster.

But the smart grid of the future goes even further. It provides an ecosystem of smart technologies and automation to facilitate a transition from a traditional centralized energy model to a decentralized one.