Data Orchestration and Autonomous Restoration to Enhance Community Resilience

Immediate event detection and automated restoration following an event are indispensable for resilience enhancement. Realizing those requires: 1) data-driven outage detection, fault location, asset condition identification to minimize or avoid manual assessment, 2) robust and instant information-sharing platforms to inform and coordinate different community stakeholders, and 3) advanced controls to manage utility assets, solar, and other DERs in communities in an automated way for optimized performance. In this panel, we will have presenters from industry, national lab, and university to discuss about their cutting-edge solutions and past successful applications to improve system situational awareness and grid restoration strategy for enhancing resilience.