Keeping an eye on nearly 2,000 miles of power lines, 12 substations, tons of equipment in the field, and keeping in touch with customers takes a lot of communications technology.
Doing things the old way just wasn’t working out. It was really expensive and not as secure as a state-of-the-art system needs to be. A patchwork of phone lines and copper data circuits really doesn’t do the job when you need to keep an eye on a modern electricity distribution system.
For security and system reliability, we built a high capacity, fast and reliable fiber optics communications network to monitor substations, power lines and other equipment. We estimate that we’re saving millions of dollars each year by managing our own system.