As tornado season ramps up and hurricane season looms, utility companies are taking proactive steps to minimize and prevent grid failures. Visability from Activu is empowering utilities to prepare for and respond to severe weather faster than ever before.
Grid Resilience through Seamless Situational Awareness
To enhance grid resilience, utilities are implementing strategies such as underground power lines, elevated flood-prone substations, microgrids, and battery storage. Technological advancements are further reducing outages and downtime, with key innovations and emerging technologies, including:
Smart Sensors & AI
Predictive analytics detect grid vulnerabilities and anticipate failures before storms strikeAutomated Switches & Self-Healing Grids.
Automated Switches & Self-Healing Grids
These intelligent systems reroute power automatically, maintaining service for as many customers as possible.
Drones & Robotics
Rapid post-storm inspections minimize risks for human crews and accelerate restoration efforts.
Satellite Monitoring
Real time imagery tracks damage and guides response strategies with precision.
Grid-Forming Inverters
Maintain grid stability and integrate renewable energy even when infrastructure is compromised.
Floating Solar Farms
Continue generating power when land-based plants are offline.
High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Grids
More resilient than traditional systems, enabling swift power rerouting.
Real-Time Information Management
Critical alerts and insights are instantly shared with teams via a centralized, dynamic dashboard that integrates key apps, cameras, and monitoring tool.
Managing multiple monitoring systems can be overwhelming. Visability simplifies operations by unifying all essential tools into a single, cohesive platform. This eliminates the need to switch between applications or search for crucial data during an emergency. Visability automatically ensures the most important information is in front of you, when it’s most imperative.
Real-time insights ensure decision-makers have immediate access to actionable information, keeping teams aligned and ready to respond—whether in a control room, conference room, or remotely via laptop or mobile device.
Activu is leading this transformation with visability, a groundbreaking software platform that breaks down silos and delivers a collaborative, flexible, and unified operational view across critical functions. Prepare for severe weather with confidence—choose visability to keep your grid secure and responsive.
Security Solutions for Today’s Threat Landscape
Furthermore, visability stands as the only NERC/CIP-compliant video wall and collaboration platform that has also earned approval for use in the U.S. government’s highest-security facilities. Designed to meet the most rigorous cybersecurity and operational standards, visability provides unmatched reliability for critical infrastructure protection. As a proud U.S. company, Activu upholds the highest standards of security and compliance, reinforced by our ISO 27001 certification, ensuring robust data protection and risk management.
Storm-Proof Your Grid
Ensure uninterrupted power and protect your community during extreme weather. Contact us today or request a demo to see how visability can transform your operational resiliency.
Utility Case Studies
- Future-Proofing Power: Transforming MTE’s Control Room for Unparalleled Efficiency
The largest electric cooperative in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region, faced challenges with antiquated technology. - DTE Energy: Storm Resilience Revolutionizes a Utility Control Center
Challenge It all started with an unprecedented windstorm in March of 2017. Windspeeds peaked at 68 miles per hour throughout… Read more: DTE Energy: Storm Resilience Revolutionizes a Utility Control Center - Integrated Operations Center: Flexibility & Security Across Critical Operations
A large Northwestern U.S. power utility is leading the nation in innovation, and a seamless operating picture, through a unified approach across functions through vis/ability. - EnXchange: Virtual Power Plants, Digital Twins, and a More Connected World
Users of enx vis/ability collect a more detailed view of their operations than ever before, gain exclusive analytics, and easily share insights with teams in the control room, another facility, or in virtual command centers, accessible anywhere. - PGE’s Video Wall & Control Room Add Resilience & Collaboration
The Integrated Operations Center is part of the nerve center of PGE’s smart grid. At the IOC, we centralize PGE’s… Read more: PGE’s Video Wall & Control Room Add Resilience & Collaboration - How an Award-Winning Municipal Utility Enhances Power Restoration Efforts
Challenge Despite being recognized repeatedly as a Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3®), Marietta Power wasn’t content to rest on its… Read more: How an Award-Winning Municipal Utility Enhances Power Restoration Efforts - Keeping Alabama Warm
Challenge When Alagasco began planning their new operations center, they had two goals: create an improved job environment where employees… Read more: Keeping Alabama Warm - Aiding one the largest co-ops in the U.S. to reliably supply power
Activu system provided Cobb EMC with capabilities beyond their expectations. - Keeping the lights on for 19.8 million customers
An ISO chose Activu’s software-based system to help them monitor critical operations and improve incident response and decision making.