The timing could not be better for electric utilities to redefine their role in driving the modern digital economy. The pandemic reemphasized the importance of infrastructure for human society to survive the upcoming decades.
It is not going to be an easy ride, though. There are many complications, disruptive trends, and shortcomings on electric utilities’ way to rule.
- The modernisation of assets, networks, and technology to deal with the dilemma of reliability
- The climate crisis and demand for green sources of energy
- Proliferation of new services powered by IoT, AI, machine learning and smartification of everything
- The urge for broadband ubiquity and community empowerment
- The call for operation enhancement to deal with natural disasters and state compliance
- The need for closing the gap between office and field for a real-time communication and collaboration
In the electric utilities’ evolution model, you can realise the contextual elements and driving factors calling for fundamental changes in the infrastructure, assets, and approaches of electric utilities in the upcoming years.
Read our latest blog, Master Electrical Utility Networks and Infrastructure Transformation – Enghouse Networks to learn more.
