Thoughts on persistence, grid modernization, and the iterative journey of energy transition.
Your utility already practices Site Reliability Engineering. FLISR is failover. Reclosers are retry-with-backoff. The missing piece is making it systematic.
Utilities already practice core SRE concepts. FLISR is failover, reclosers are retry-with-backoff, storm drills are chaos engineering. The missing piece is making it systematic.
Read Part 1 →The power grid and the internet share the same architecture. BGP maps to FLISR, CDNs map to DERs, load balancers map to dispatch. The internet already solved the reliability problem.
Read Part 2 →N-1/N-2 contingency planning gives binary pass/fail results for a probabilistic world. The 2003 blackout proved every component can pass and the system still fails.
Read Part 3 →Controlled failure injection for power systems. Storm replay, protection miscoordination drills, and DER disconnection tests that find weaknesses before they find you.
Read Part 4 →SRE and IEEE 1366 operate at different timescales and are complementary. Error budgets derived from SAIDI targets give operators a leading indicator months before the annual report.
Read Part 5 →A 30-minute SAIDI improvement avoids $10 million per year in outage costs. A typical SRE program costs $2 million to run. The math is not complicated. The hard part is believing it.
Read Part 6 →The technical case is strong. The economic case is compelling. But neither matters if the organization cannot adopt it. The transformation takes 18 months. Here is how to execute it.
Read Part 7 →Let's talk about how these approaches can accelerate your grid modernization efforts.
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