Dominion Energy – Planning for a New Tomorrow – Forecast-Driven Outage Planning

Joshua Mellen, Product Manager, Dominion Energy

Bhawuk Luthra, Engineering Consultant, Dominion Energy

Dominion Energy is facing considerable growth across its operating territory – much of it stemming from non-conforming load produced by technology and the EV sector. The need for improved forecasting is becoming a mandatory part of our operations and company decision making in outage planning. In this session, we will discuss strategies and tactics around long-term load forecasts (LTLF) for area, substation and transformer-level forecasting, including the development of an operating framework utilizing Seeq. We will also explore real world case studies on managing and reprioritizing outages, thus enhancing system reliability and operational efficiency.