GRID20/20 Recognized: Top 10 Asset Management Solution Provider – 2021

Fire Mitigation and Public Safety Defense Solution

GRID20/20 has developed its versatile GRIDWIDE FIRE-SPY solution to directly assist utility operators and First Responders. Early Detection, Auto Alerts, Prevention, and Situational Awareness benefits are now attained by this fast-to-install solution. By enhancing its Advanced Transformer Infrastructure (ATI) offering with added Outdoor Smoke, Fire, and related conditions detection capability, GRID20/20 now postures operators to successfully address the overwhelming market demands and regulatory mandates being placed upon them. GRIDWIDE FIRE-SPY presents a huge advantage for operators by proactively revealing unknown intra-grid problems, providing emerging asset failure recognition, and availing detailed intra-grid visibility. Facilitating a proactive understanding of the endless array of unplanned, ongoing grid-edge impacts that burden distribution assets. This series of benefits results in critical fire/wildfire Prevention Data being delivered to operators. GRIDWIDE FIRE-SPY simultaneously presents operators and First Responders with critical information to improve public safety protections during grid and non-grid induced events.

Decades ago, when most transformer fleets were deployed, operators were unable to foresee today’s rapidly-changing, substantial grid-edge load impacts (e.g., EV charging stations, DER/ Reverse Energy, etc.). Nor could they anticipate today’s notable climate change impacts. Now, an aging grid infrastructure combined with unplanned grid-edge activity, climate change, and insufficient intra-grid awareness presents a myriad of problems for all stakeholders. Recent wildfire catastrophes have validated this reality.

Today’s utility leadership is severely saddled with a difficult situation. Fire and wildfire mitigation is now paramount. However, operators are simultaneously required to improve grid reliability, increase clean energy adoption, decrease GHG emissions, and safely absorb limitless grid-edge impacts that routinely extend beyond their awareness (until a trouble call or costly outage results).

That’s why technology innovations are now required; to provide critical intra-grid data, protect operators from liability risk, protect the public at-large from needless catastrophic events, protect the environment, and facilitate a series of Clean Energy/Climate Change/Grid-Edge initiatives.

Enter GRID20/20.

Delivering Community-wide Grid Asset Guardian Solutions

GRIDWIDE FIRE-SPY provides an “Always-On” outdoor overhead monitoring and auto alerts protection solution by leveraging existing transformer fleets. Sensor networks create a unique combination of unparalleled intra-grid data access for Asset Failure Prevention while simultaneously providing community-wide Early Detection, Auto Alerts, and ongoing Situational Awareness; whenever grid and/or non-grid induced fires, wildfires, and public safety events unfold.

By cost-effectively enabling operators to address critical Reliability, Fire Mitigation, Public Safety, and Environmental value propositions, GRIDWIDE FIRE-SPY presents a game-changing Asset Management Solution. In turn, operators will further enhance their community-centric commitment and value, while also reducing liability risk. “We are presently on course to build our clean energy/climate change solutions on an increasingly inefficient, aging, less- reliable foundation... aka, the aged distribution grid. But, technology innovations such as GRIDWIDE FIRE-SPY are now available to resolve this problem,” says Alan Snook, President, GRID20/20. “GRIDWIDE FIRE-SPY aligns with a myriad of challenges and expectations now facing our electric operators, local and state authorities, government officials, first responders, the public at-large, and our environment.”