So they identified areas where relatively minor operational improvements could yield major cost savings and enhance service. Their first target? Outage management. Identifying, confirming and repairing outages can be a labor-intensive job –– especially if service crews have to be dispatched. So Greg Wolven, Director of Engineering at WIN, began looking for ways to more accurately pinpoint power interruptions and fine tune the cooperative’s approach to “rolling trucks.” The GridstreamTM PLC system proved to be just the right tool. Powerful communication Because Landis+Gyr’s PLC technology is “always on” and communicating with endpoints, the system provides unsolicited outage detection and restoration notifications. WIN uses its outage management system to provide

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