Resilience Planning Needs Smarter Grid Visibility

Grid resilience is becoming a technology and planning challenge.

Utilities are facing a more complex operating environment as load growth, extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and modernization needs place new pressure on the grid. Meeting those challenges requires more than adding equipment. It requires clearer visibility into where risk is building and how systems can adapt over time.

 Renewable Energy World highlighted a conversation with Joe Matamoros of S&C Electric Company on utility-grade AI and future grid resilience: https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/grid-modernization/enabling-utility-grade-ai-and-future-grid-resilience-with-joe-matamoros-from-sc-electric-company/

 For utilities, the broader issue is how advanced technologies connect to real planning and operational needs. AI, automation, and digital tools can support resilience, but only when they are tied to asset priorities, reliability goals, field operations, and long-term infrastructure planning.

 The opportunity is not only to modernize. It is to build systems that help utilities understand changing grid conditions, prioritize the right investments, and prepare for new reliability challenges before they become operational constraints.

 As the grid becomes more dynamic, resilience planning will depend on how well utilities connect technology, data, infrastructure, and execution.