Newsletter November 2021
DMRC Continuing to Set Higher Standards and Benchmarks for Their Peers by Achieving Peer Gold Certification of Pink Line. A day (November 12, 2021) when Delhi was choking due to air pollution, DMRC’s Line 7 achieved yet another PEER certification by meeting the requirements on resilien...
Read MoreThe Utility Business Model (UBM) Working Group is sponsored by EPRI (https://www.epri.com/), SEPA (https://sepapower.org/), Grid Forward (https://gridforward.org/), and the GridWise Alliance (https://gridwise.org/). The working group involves information sharing and discussions about issues and tech...
Read MoreThe panelists shared their views on the rise of digitalization and the challenges that come with it. Nanang R. Perjmana (ABB) shared ABB’s solutions for implementing distribution grid automation and smart substation control. Yohanes Sukrilismono (PT PLN) presented PLN’s willingness to sh...
Read MoreAt a recent discussion amongst former US utility CEOs, the above term came up as an expression to burying the last mile overhead distribution wires to climate-proof the electric grid. In my view, this term has an even broader meaning (both philosophical and historical) as it relates to the evolution of our current grid. Perhaps, it does require an introspection. In some ways it may already be happening. “Burying Grandpa’s Grid” can be interpreted in several ways, (a) undergrounding overheard wires; (b) reducing or eliminati...