Your Underground Distribution System Is a Sleeping Giant. Here’s How to Wake It

Your underground distribution system is a sleeping giant.

Yes, it is currently providing you important benefits, including a hardened grid and improved reliability. But it has more to give—if you equip it with the right technology.

Consider some of the challenges you may be facing:

• You have extremely limited visibility into the health of your equipment.
• You’re reacting to issues instead of proactively avoiding them.
• You’re spending precious time manual switching.

Now, consider a solution.

How Remote Supervisory PME Gear Helps Unlock Your System’s Potential

After you add Remote Supervisory PME gear to your switchgear lineup, you will quickly notice the difference.

By adding S&C Remote Supervisory PME gear at key points on your grid, you can awaken the sleeping giant that is your underground distribution system.

The remote sensing devices that are built into this gear will increase visibility into your system’s operations. This will help you:

• Make more informed decisions using the data you collect from these devices
• Monitor the health of your grid assets and proactively address potential problems within your system
• Save time using more accurate fault location information—no more time wasted hunting for faults

Simplify and Improve Your Segmentation and Operations for Greater Reliability

Segmenting your underground system protects customers from outages and improves your reliability metrics. Remote Supervisory PME gear offers one of the best and most efficient ways to improve segmentation.

By adding switchgear where none currently exists, you create additional segments for your system, helping you save customer outages.

When you replace manual pad-mounted switchgear with Remote Supervisory PME gear, you still have the same number of segments, but your system becomes immediately smarter and more resilient.

Remote Supervisory PME gear allows you to switch remotely, with no need to roll a truck. This allows you to get more out of segmentation and results in quicker, simpler, and more efficient operations.

Perhaps the best part of all: You don’t need to overhaul your entire switchgear lineup. Adding just one Remote Supervisory PME unit to each circuit can significantly improve performance and visibility across your system operations.

Make the Smooth Switch to Remote Supervisory PME Gear

Replacing manual pad-mounted switchgear with Remote Supervisory PME gear is relatively simple and cost-effective, thanks to S&C’s proven switchgear design. The gear’s footprint and cable location follow typical industry practices, so the swap to Remote Supervisory PME gear should not require large upfront costs or a laborious installation process.

After you add Remote Supervisory PME gear to your switchgear lineup, you will quickly notice the difference: You now have a smarter, more informative underground distribution system that saves you both time and money while helping you make better decisions for your grid.