Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) is a multi-service utility owned by the City of Gainesville, Florida. As the state’s fifth largest municipal electric utility, GRU provides electric, water, wastewater and telecommunications services to approximately 93,000 retail and wholesale customers in Gainesville and surrounding areas.

The GRU team wanted to improve outage management operations to better prepare for hurricane season and provide safe, reliable, competitively priced utility services in an environmentally responsible manner. By partnering with UDC and AspenTech^®, GRU was able to achieve this goal.

Join experts from GRU, UDC and AspenTech as they discuss:

• Even and reliable distribution of electricity across the network to avoid overloading any part of the system, outages or blackouts
• Responsiveness plan to address equipment failures, vegetation or animal issues, crew dispatch and safe, prompt service restoration
• Distribution infrastructure maintenance for improved efficiency and reliability, including integrating new technologies such as smart meters or distributed energy resources