PENELEC TAKES PROACTIVE APPROACH USING EXACTER TECHNOLOGY
PENELEC TAKES PROACTIVE APPROACH USING EXACTER TECHNOLOGY
2 PagesPENELEC TAKES PROACTIVE APPROACH USING EXACTER TECHNOLOGY PENELEC Penelec partnered with Davey Resource Group to employ predictive asset health analytics to prevent outages from equipment failure. THE CHALLENGE Penelec, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy, serves approximately 600,000 customers in 31 Pennsylvania counties. With the responsibility to bring those customers reliable electric service, Penelec wanted to stay one step ahead of any outages from equipment failure. Davey Resource Group (DRG) had partnered with Penelec on other small scale projects in the past, employing Exacter, DRG’s strategic partner used to assess the condition of overhead distribution equipment. Those smaller projects helped widen the scope for the latest initiative, covering 1,800 miles of three-p
