Eversource Company Overview
- Operates in 3 States
- 4.3 million electric & natural gas customers
Project Highlights:
- Eversource Western Massachusetts
- 220,000+ electric customers
Project Duration: 04/2021 – 12/2021
Objective: Eversource would like to enhance and update GIS data currently in place in preparation for designating the GIS as their System of Record to support the implementation of an Enterprise Outage Management System and future grid modernization initiatives.
UDC is delighted to be working on the Field Connectivity and Phase Verification project at Eversource to provide the utility with the overhead field data required to implement a robust, enterprise Outage Management System (OMS) and Distribution Management System (DMS) for Western Massachusetts. The project is entering full field production phase beginning in April 2021 and will run through the end of 2021.
Eversource is New England’s largest energy delivery company, serving electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. To obtain the accuracy requirements for an OMS and DMS, UDC is conducting a field review of the overhead distribution connectivity from substation to customer. The utility has approximately 152,000 customers fed from an overhead transformer in Western Massachusetts. The enhanced GIS data derived from the project will benefit the functionality of future outage restorations, customer notifications, engineering designs, and subsequent grid modernization projects by validating all Western Massachusetts’ customers are recorded, attached to the correct transformer, and connected to the correct phase.
For the Field Connectivity Survey and Phase Verification, UDC will validate the customer to transformer connectivity for every Eversource overhead transformer including phasing, GPS locations, and the size if stamped. UDC will also survey the “Secondary Path,” including the GPS locations of all secondary and service poles and the routes of the secondary and service paths from transformer to customer. An Extract Transform Load (ETL) Tool will be used to extract the GE Smallworld GIS and customer information system data for verification and then import the field-surveyed data back to the source GIS.
UDC designed tools being utilized on this project include Digital Utility Compliance Manager, to spatially schedule, assign and track work on the project, and a communications dashboard, developed using our DyAN application, to provide status reporting via Portal for ArcGIS to Eversource.