Transmission & Distribution
Polaris Transmission & Distribution program
| Established: |
1989 |
| Participants: |
90 electric, gas and water utilities from program inception |
| Diversity: |
Canada, United States, South America, South Africa, Europe |
The Polaris T&D program explores an extensive range of operational activities. The program addresses issues and practices surrounding safety and reliability to determine optimal performance initiatives. Input from sponsor utilities into the questionnaire keeps the Polaris program on the leading edge of changes in the industry. The program evaluates the cost drivers impacting the T&D business (ie business objectives), the enablers for change (ie inventory levels) and the resulting outputs (ie safety and business improvement).
Areas of emphasis include, but are not limited to:
 Automation and technology |
Operations dispatch |
| Contracting |
Outage and reliability management |
| Emergency response |
Process area best practice maturity charts |
| Engineering and design |
Process costing models |
| FERC cost data |
Reliability |
| Field construction |
System availability |
| Field maintenance |
Vegetation management |
| Industry standard metrics |
Work management processes |
| NERC-TADS metrics |
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