Electric Utilities
Accelerating Grid Modernization
Delivering energy transition and decarbonization with virtualized substations
Our team of industry experts is committed to accelerating the energy transition and advancing decarbonization of the grid through partnerships with electric utilities and market leading vendors. The following solution brief specifically addresses our co-delivered Virtual Protection, Automation, and Control (vPAC) industry solution, which provides a reference architecture and structured approach to deploying a modernized substation to support the demands of the dynamic power system.
Virtual Protection, Automation, and Control solution overview.
Virtual Protection, Automation, and Control solution overview
This video highlights the Dell Technologies Virtual Protection, Automation, and Control (vPAC) energy industry solution for the digital substation.vPAC integrates advanced protection and automation functionalities into a virtualized platform, enabling faster deployment, reduced hardware dependencies, and seamless scalability.
Sustainable energy management
Enscryb (A Nokia Venture) developed a Sustainable Energy Management (SEM) tool that leverages advanced digital twin technology and edge computing from Dell Technologies to optimize energy grids and support net-zero transitions, aligning with substation management platform common design architecture by enhancing grid orchestration, scalability, and adaptability through integrated digital solutions.
Energy & carbon management for AI data centers
Context Labs’ Decarbonization-as-a-Service™ (DaaS™) is a comprehensive, integrated solution to measure, monitor and report GHG and criteria air pollutant emissions. DaaS leverages Context Labs’ trademarked Asset Grade Data™ (AGD™) technology to create the most accurate picture of a customer’s emissions profile. Using an array of public and private data and unstructured and structured information from all sources, AGD™ technology powers DaaS™ and creates a ground source of truth customers can use to advance their decarbonization programs.
Dell Technologies and Phoenix Contact: Partnering to support decarbonization through best-in-breed solutions
Utilizing their respective strengths in engineering and product development, Dell Technologies and Phoenix Contact collaborate to help electric utility companies accelerate the adoption of the vPAC environment with industry-leading technology. These flexible, resilient and scalable systems improve how energy is reliably managed on grid, lowering the overall cost of ownership for utilities, and making a measurable impact towards sustainability.
Connect Across the Electric Utility Ecosystem
Connected workforce
Monitoring transformer and other grid assets are a challenge. Field Workers need a comprehensive solution that monitors and analyzes transformer health to optimize maintenance, enhance reliability.
Leverage AI-powered Analytics and Security
Advanced computing and analytics platforms for electric utility companies
The partnership between Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and Domino has yielded a single enterprise platform with purpose-built functionality for each step of electric utility data science projects. This joint solution increases data scientist productivity by offering self-service workspaces and allowing data scientists to configure their own environment to help electric utility companies set up and operationalize an effective data science environment in weeks rather than months.
Edge technology to support the Grid
The energy industry is managing increasingly complex grids by performing analytics at the source of data collection, using edge technology. This is enabling real-time demand forecasting, affordable and reliable service delivery, enhanced security, and increased customer satisfaction.
Cybersecurity integration
Electric utility companies struggle with deploying cybersecurity due to the complexity of integrating it with aging infrastructure and ensuring visibility across both IT and operational technology systems. Dell’s Zero Trust framework with IT/OT security tools enables ultra secure remote access for operators to reliably connect and manage edge workflows.
Automated Electric Utility asset inspection with cloud-based AI/ML
Dell Technologies, Noteworthy AI, and NVIDIA work in partnership to provide a solution that automates distribution asset inspection and inventory using vehicle-mounted hardware, proprietary computer vision technology, edge computing, cloud software, geospatial databases, and AI. This solution helps electric utilities ensure the reliability, resiliency, and safety of the distribution grid.
Strengthening cyber resilience in mission-critical situations
Lafayette Utilities System enhanced its cyber resilience and data protection by implementing Dell's PowerProtect Data Manager and Cyber Recovery solutions, ensuring critical data remains secure and recoverable during natural disasters and cyberattacks. This integration significantly reduced backup windows and exchange server recovery times.
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