Consumer demand for water and electricity is rapidly increasing. Conserving resources and reducing costs while continuing to meet consumer demand means utilities need alternative, renewable energy sources, and more effective ways to manage and reduce real-time consumption.

Electric and water companies worldwide use the OSIsoft^® PI System^® to provide the real-time data infrastructure and collaboration tools they need to meet key challenges, including:

• Maximizing asset performance
• Optimizing production
• Mitigating risk
• Enabling the Smart Grid

Maximize asset performance through real-time monitoring.

• Prevent outages and safety hazards, and reduce maintenance costs, by identifying and preventing equipment problems before they occur.
• Implement alert systems to monitor imbalances and problems in transformers, high-voltage capacitor banks, power lines, and other field equipment, and schedule planned repairs to avoid service disruptions.
• Prolong asset life with regularly scheduled maintenance checkups, condition-based maintenance, and better capacity planning.
• Track warranty information with unbiased asset performance data.
  
   

Optimize production and increase efficiency.

• Route power on the safest, most efficient and cost-effective path by having real-time visibility into capacity levels across the value chain.
• Increase generation and transmission system stability by empowering operators and dispatchers with real-time information to monitor, control, and optimize system performance and make necessary adjustments.
• Monitor processes and identify root causes of problems to reduce unaccounted-for losses.
• Predict and minimize unplanned outages and implement conservation procedures based on real-time usage level information. 
• Receive performance trending and analysis for process automation and data centralization to improve grid, water, and waste water operations.
  
  
   

Mitigate risk and comply with regulations more efficiently.

• Ensure compliance with industry regulations including NERC, CIP, and FERC through complete, timely, and secure reporting processes.
• Automate regulatory compliance reports and reduce the risk of error.
• Receive exception-based alerts to better ensure that quality is maintained.
  
  
   

Join and support the Smart Grid.

• Improve power grid efficiency, reliability, safety, and resiliency by transforming obsolete electricity transmission networks into robust, two-way communications grids.
• Provide real-time visibility into electricity and water usage from the household to the control center to support informed decisions that reduce consumption and lower costs.
• Enable green energy initiatives to continuously measure point-of-use demand.
• Allow real-time load balancing and resource optimization.