Substation Best Practices Consortium
Facilitating Communication and Collaboration
The Substation Best Practices Consortium is a community of industry professionals led by a Utility Steering Group for exchanging ideas and sharing innovative and leading edge practices across the industry.
It brings together the leading North American electric utilities to solve common industry problems and understand how to achieve superior business outcomes.
The program promotes a web of working and networking channels between members to support ongoing sharing of data, information, technology and practices.
For more information, contact us by email at substation@umsgroup.com or by phone atĀ +1-973-335-3555
Substation Best Practices Virtual Conference
The Substation Best Practices Consortium is the cornerstone of our program. This is where sharing and collaboration are at its best. The standard program starts with on-site interviews of the Member to identify practices, processes and technology that members are using to address the below topic areas. These interviews are used to create an agenda for the conference. During the conference the members will select follow-up activities or the rest of the year including the identification of three topics be included in a more Detailed Study to be part of the program report.
Background of the Consortium
In 2013, UMS Group was engaged by PG&E to conduct an industry study on Substation Inspection practices. The intent behind the study was to understand the opportunities that existed for more efficient and effective inspections in order to drive change in practices at the utility. The results of the study were compelling enough that UMS Group was further engaged to facilitate a two-day forum in which the participants were brought together to share their practices and discuss issues related to driving performance improvement.
The following year, UMS Group performed a similar effort around circuit breaker and power transformer maintenance. At the conclusion of the forum for this study, several of the other utilities, who had participated in both studies, expressed a desire to form an ongoing group focused on sharing around Substation Maintenance, Construction, and Asset Management. This resulted in the establishment of what is now known as the Substation Best Practices Consortium.
Member Engagement
Networking and Information Sharing
A key benefit to program participation is the ability to leverage the experience and knowledge of our utility subject matter experts
Industry Practice Sharing
Industry benchmarking is a significant component of the model, allowing participants to stay informed of the latest developments and issues in the industry
Collaborative Deep Dive Projects
Collaborative projects bring participating utilities together to work across all phases of the deep dives project from study ideas creation to submission of final report and results review
Portal and Electronic Library
Knowledge Management. The Substation Best Practices Consortium supports the exchange and management of experience and data via secure, effective program tools:
ā¢ Reports Database ā Reports library, advisories, and alerts, lessons learned
ā¢ Metrics and Analytics ā Metrics database, reports, peer benchmarking
ā¢ Surveys ā Formal, member-wide questions and responses
Participating Companies
Facts & Figures
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Years of Service ā 9 years
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Steering Group Members ā 5 including AES, PG&E, SCE, Evergy and BG&E
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Number of Participants ā 25 to 30 annually
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Number of Participants at Conference ā 50 to 60
Resources
Substation Best Practices Consortium Tear Sheet
Webinars
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