How Baltimore Gas & Electric enables the future grid with real-time cable monitoring
A joint DistribuTECH 2024 session on what a real deployment taught BGE about the gap between vendor promises and a live network.
Lessons taken from a live deployment, not a laboratory trial
Presented jointly by the operator and the engineering team behind the technology
BGE's own verdict: the technology proves it can prevent failures before they occur
About Baltimore Gas & Electric
Baltimore Gas & Electric is a distribution operator in Maryland, United States. Reliability and resilience of power grids are paramount as the sector transitions to cleaner and more distributed energy systems.
The challenge
A great many vendors promise that they can prevent failures before they occur. Establishing whether continuous cable monitoring actually does that means running it on a live distribution network, not in a vendor presentation — and then being willing to say publicly what happened.
Our contribution
Real-time cable monitoring on BGE’s distribution network, with the deployment and its lessons presented jointly at DistribuTECH 2024 as a Lunch & Learn session.
The session brought together Hamid Abdurrahim, Manager of Distribution Automation & Technology at BGE, and Smart Cable Guard engineer Jeff Rea, to discuss the transformative potential of real-time cable monitoring and the lessons learned from BGE’s own deployment.
The benefits
BGE’s assessment, in its own words, is that the technology does what the category claims: it prevents failures before they occur, on a real network, measurably.
“There are a lot of vendors out there that promise they can prevent failures before they occur. This technology proves it can.”
Originally published as a DNV case study.
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