Grid systems worldwide become increasingly digital and distributed. Utilities are challenged to fulfill their core obligation of providing safe, reliable and cost-effective service while keeping pace with the new demands being put upon their networks. Of unique importance is the wealth of data now relevant to achieving adequate system awareness. Utility managers must identify, for the benefit of their entire organizations, technologies capable of managing the growing wealth of data we are encountering in power systems today and into the future.

This whitepaper provides data solution examples from three utilities challenged with managing the rapidly growing volumes of data needed to optimize their systems and grow their business.