How Private LTE Can Help Utilities Hit Their Decarbonization Goals

How Private LTE Can Help Utilities Hit Their Decarbonization Goals

April is Earth Month, so what better time for Industry Insights to focus on the importance of modern communications in helping utilities fight climate change by transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources?  Importantly, there’s a direct link between utilities’ ability to meet emissions reduction targets and their adoption of private LTE networks for grid management.

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Creating More Resilient Communities

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A discussion about the technologies and strategy that will add resilience to the energy grid and community infrastructure of cities and spaces across North America. Featured Speakers:– Chris Guttman-McCabe, Chief Regulatory & Comms Officer, Anterix– Nicolas Koehler, Director Transmission Planning, AEP Moderated By:– Jason Rodriguez, CEO, Zpryme

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Women Leading Utilities Discussing Grid Modernization

With the influx of federal infrastructure funds and ever-increasing attention to decarbonization and integrating renewable energy resources, focus on grid modernization grows ever sharper. Join a panel of accomplished utility executives as they discuss the grid modernization challenges that confront their organizations and the essential role they see for communications networks generally–and private LTE specifically–in addressing them.

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Expanding on the Utility Guide to Private LTE

As discussed in Energy Central’s recently released special issue, Utility Guide to Private LTE, now more than ever, utilities are being asked to deliver greater resilience, intelligence, and security to support grid modernization. The rapidly growing requirements for utilities to support all these changes while transforming to withstand extreme weather conditions, the adoption of DERs, and more has shifted how utilities need to think about their communication networks.

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Xcel Energy’s Journey to 900 MHz PLTE

Industry Insights Episode 17

What is the value proposition for deploying a utility-controlled private LTE network? What are the key use cases it can support? How does a multi-operating company utility move forward with a transformational project like private LTE? Why is beneficial to the communities that utilities serve?

Rewatch the session with Jeff Levy, Xcel Energy’s VP of Infrastructure and Shared Services and Ryan Gerbrandt, Anterix’s COO as they discuss Xcel Energy’s 900 MHz private LTE journey, the rationale for its decision to adopt that solution, the enhanced value opportunities that it may unlock, and how its comprehensive evaluation process can help other utilities efficiently reach their own decisions.

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