Optimizing Operations with CIM: Today's Grid Relies on Network Analysis (and a Lot of Data)

Yesterday?s power grid was overbuilt to achieve reliability. Today?s grid depends on automation to operate at tighter margins and under a wider range of supply and demand patterns?with network analysis as a cornerstone of this automation. The future is clearly toward more and more critical business processes relying on network analysis to operate more closely to system limits. The data management required to support these network analysis processes is very challenging and, as currently implemented, requires too much valuable senior engineering time to assure necessary accuracy.