DRˣ: Distribution Reliability Excellence

Deep Insights and Actionable Strategies for Reliability Improvement and Savings in Our Changing World

DRˣ helps utilities turn outage, circuit, asset, cost, work, weather, and load data into actionable reliability insights. By combining enterprise system data with ISL Analytics’ proprietary databases and machine learning models, DRˣ enables executives, managers, and reliability engineers to analyze performance, manage key metrics, target improvement programs, reduce O&M costs, and allocate investment where it delivers the greatest reliability value.

Benefits of DRˣ

ENHANCE DATA VISUALIZATION AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

Correlate individual asset types to outage history, outage cause codes, or the level of work or cost incurred in corrective maintenance

Integrate with external data sources such as weather data, traffic data, or differentiated zones for fire risk, corrosiveness, insulation requirements, wind intensity, heat severity, and even insect infestation areas

LEVERAGE DISCRETE DATA THROUGH INTEGRATION

Migrate data and information contained within separate and disparate systems into a repository for reliability, productivity, and performance analyses

Create and export new data (i.e., risk factors, vulnerability, predictive outcomes, priorities, etc.) for use in other systems

MEASURE SYSTEM RESILIENCY

Quantify how much more resilient the system is today as a result of investments made over the past several years

PREDICT WEATHER VULNERABILITY

Define which circuits/segments are most vulnerable to incoming weather and forecast number of outages that can be expected

Decide whether to hold over crews on overtime and where to station crews before the storm to reduce travel time for restoration

IMPROVE DATA QUALITY, ACCELERATE CORRECTIVE ACTION

Improve the quality of data and information through use of “outlier identification protocols”

Determine anomalies and send alerts/notifications to system operators or dispatchers to investigate and correct

ENHANCE ASSET MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS

Improve targeting of capital investments

Create end-to-end network models for analysis of customer impact

Determine if you realized expected benefits (savings, etc.)

REDUCE RISK FROM WORST PERFORMING CIRCUITS

For Problem Circuits, implement interventions commensurate to the underlying causes of outages/reasons for extended restoration times

For Poor Performing Circuits, apply statistical analytics to narrow focus of direct intervention to a subset of these circuits

IMPROVE STORM HARDENING EFFECTIVENESS

Identify the best place on the system to make certain investments, quantify the projected benefit of each strategic initiative, and later measure the return on each investment

INCREASE AGILITY AND SPEED OF REPORTING

Facilitate “deep-dive” analyses at the segment and device level, thus streamlining and reducing the time from problem identification to well-targeted interventions

Automate much of your current effort in regulatory reporting of reliability results

REDUCE COSTS

Calculate risk factors for each circuit based on reliability trends, timing of its trim cycle, presence of reclosers/tie points, number of customers served, timing since the last I&M patrol, etc. and then prioritize and safely defer low priority expenditures

DRˣ – Taking You to the Next Level of Data-Driven Insights

The entire DRˣ platform is a highly flexible/configurable operational analytics tool suite built around pre-structured analytics based on industry best practices and benchmarks.

Reliability optimization functionality combined with AI and ML support predictive analytics in:

Weather Vulnerability
Storm Hardening Priorities
Outage Forecasting
Optimum Budget Allocation Across Reliability Improvement Programs
Risk-based Allocation of Funding for VM, Inspections, and Other PM Work

Weather Vulnerability and Outage Forecasting

Storm Hardening Priorities/Resiliency Expenditures

Reliability Improvement Programs – Identifying Performance Gaps and Optimum Budget Allocation

Risk based Funding Allocation for VM Work

DRˣ is Modular – Learn More About the Areas Most Relevant to You

DRˣ WEATHER GUARD©

Enhance outage predictions, optimize resource planning, and proactively dispatch to high-risk areas. Reduce restoration times, lower costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

DRˣ FIREGUARD©

FireGuard blends real-time fire-weather intelligence with historical ignition data, GIS asset insight, and asset condition indicators to pinpoint where wildfire risk is highest.

DRˣ EV PROPHET©

Leverage AI and external data to forecast EV load growth, ensuring proactive planning, regulatory compliance, and grid stability. Prevent overloads, mitigate investment delays, and optimize resources for reliable, efficient infrastructure.

DRˣ FOR RELIABILITY OPTIMIZATION

Streamline reporting metrics for management and regulators, improving decision-making, reliability, and cost-efficiency while optimizing resource allocation for maximum investment value.

Examples of Value Achieved By DRˣ Users

Assess the risk of new and repeat worst performers, up-to-date and at-a-glance

Visualize your assets in new ways

Benchmark your individual circuits against other companies

Client Feedback

“DRˣ has provided us a large interactive repository for historical weather data. We can now use that data for analysis of Climate Change and correlating impacts on the Distribution system. This has been useful for focusing our reliability strategies and investments.”

– Manager Reliability Strategies, Large Midwestern Electric Utility

Client Feedback

“DRˣ has allowed us to more easily visualize the proximity of circuits and substations to new loads from EV Charging. It has significantly upgraded the accuracy and credibility of our forecast for when “EV Make Ready” system reinforcements will be needed.”

– Director Distribution Asset Strategy, Large East Coast Combination Utility

Client Feedback

“DRˣ has allowed us to quantify the impact of resiliency investments on the distribution system. We are now able to judge the value of different investment options to maximize customer value derived.”

– VP T&D, Mid-sized Southwestern Electric Utility

Client Feedback

“The sophisticated customer demographic/psychographic modeling of DRˣ revealed that early adopters of EV’s would be clustered on the distribution system. In our case, 85 to 90% of the first 20% of all EV’s would be on 1/6th of our feeders. This meant that significant system reinforcements will be needed 6 to 8 years earlier than we had thought.”

– Director Distribution Asset Strategy, Large East Coast Combination Utility

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DRˣ: Distribution Reliability Excellence

Deep Insights and Actionable Strategies for Reliability Improvement and Savings in Our Changing World