Substation Risk Modeling & Reliability Investment Planning
Risk Models · Failure Analysis · Resilience
West Coast IOU 2 · 2025 – 2026
Challenge: The utility’s Substation Asset Management department needed stronger risk-based tools to guide reliability and resilience investment across a very large substation fleet.
Approach: I supported several department initiatives: putting substation asset risk models into practice, analyzing equipment failures, and developing investment planning roadmaps.
Result: Risk models and failure analysis linked directly to investment roadmaps, giving the department a data-driven basis for reliability and resilience decisions. 100+ substations evaluated and thousands of transformers and circuit breakers with total planned budget of over $300 millions.