ComEd's Field Workforce Modernizes the Grid

摘要

By 2018, Com Ed will have installed 4 million smart meters and 5,300 distribution automation devices in northern Illinois. Up until six years ago, ComEd was operating an analog grid in a digital age. Once the utility secured funding for grid modernization, it began installing smart meters and accelerated attaching distribution automation devices to poles and upgrading underground and overhead infrastructure. The utility first started its smart grid journey in 2009 by installing 130,000 smart meters as a pilot project in its Maywood operating area. Two years later, the Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act (EIMA) authorized $2.6 billion in grid modernization with half of the funding directed toward infrastructure improvements and the remainder allocated to smart grid investments such as installing smart meters and smart switches and modernizing substations.