How can a utility executive, under constant budget constraints, keep the lights on now while building the grid of the future? How can that executive balance the demands of customers, politicians, regulators and his own engineers?
With a reliability and asset management strategy. But making one requires executives to grapple with critical choices and trade-offs, from traditional replacements, upgrades and hardening, to smart grid and other modernization initiatives. This article explores a series of important decisions utility leaders must make, and offers a road-map for creating a reliability strategy.
