As a Critical Power user/operator you are facing more and more challenges with increasing speed of change for operating, maintaining and evolving your electrical network.
As a non-exhaustive list the following items could be mentioned:
1. Changes in the grid are more unpredictable and frequent than in the past, leading to new protection and control schemes
2. Smaller multi skilled (less specialized) workforce with new mindset has to be integrated in planning, operation and maintenance of protection and control systems
3. Maintaining profitability while facing more and more pressure on CAPEX and OPEX
4. Ensuring people safety in a more complex, hazardous electrical environment
5. Improve resilience of the installation (remote upgrade, 24/7 connectivity, protection against cybersecurity threats)
6. Improve Sustainability and environmental footprint (example: space constraint)
7. Multi vendor Interoperability challenges
Presently, Protection, Metering and Control are split in different devices, providing various level of integration. This could result in complex architectures which are difficult to commission, operate and maintain.
Please provide your view about the importance and impact of the challenges for your organization.