CORE Electric Cooperative Company Overview
- Headquartered in Sedalia, Colorado
- 180,000 members | 375,000+ customers
- 5,000 sq mi service area along Colorado’s Front Range
Project Highlights
Project Duration: 04/2024 – 08/2025
Objective: Electric Distribution Utility Network Migration
UDC is excited to continue collaborating with CORE on the cooperative’s journey towards modern grid management and an operational advanced distribution management system (ADMS). Following the conclusion of a data readiness assessment to determine the effort required to move from Esri’s ArcMap/Schneider Electric’s ArcFM Electric Model to ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS Utility Network (UN) data model, CORE and UDC are working together to fully migrate CORE’s electric distribution data to the new ArcGIS Enterprise. This marks UDC’s fourth engagement with CORE for its grid modernization initiative.
CORE’s Goals
CORE’s overall goals for grid modernization include improving the resilience and efficiency of its grid, enhancing outage operations and response times, supporting connection to renewable energy sources for its members, refining customer demand response programs, and implementing condition-based asset management.
In the UN migration phase of this effort, CORE aims to achieve higher fidelity data, more efficient applications, and improved performance and user experience. This migration supports CORE’s larger goal of implementing a fully operational ADMS by requiring more standardized and complete data and creating a connected electrical distribution model to serve as the system’s foundation.
By migrating to UN, CORE’s GIS will be supported on the ArcGIS Enterprise for the next two decades.
UDC’s Role
For the UN Migration project, UDC is conducting workshops to gather workflow and data requirements, creating the application design, developing test plans, and migrating the data. UDC’s HEIDE and auto-migration tools will be used to create missing junctions and connectivity rules, configure terminals, import subnetwork controllers, and automate the subnetwork update process. UDC will provide remote support for two months following the successful completion of the project.
Contact UDC for more information and read about our Utility Network Transformation solutions and services to learn how we can help you on your journey to network management.
To learn more about CORE’s journey, see the following publications:
Phase One: The Modern Grid Management Journey at CORE
Lessons from ADMS & DERMS Roadmap Implementation
Improving Grid Resiliency at CORE
Phase Two: Preparing for ADMS – Next Steps at CORE