Nokia Blog: Pioneering 5G for utilities: Band 106 standardization in North America

The utility industry conducts mission-critical work around the clock, requiring advanced and future-proof network connections. These connections enable essential functions such as access to emergency services, remote monitoring and control of infrastructure, including power lines, transformers, and pipelines. The first successful data call using Band 106 (B106) marks a significant step toward addressing the challenges of…

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Solution Overview: Security

Every utility is diligently striving to safeguard the grid against continuously evolving cyber and physical security threats. Utilities face the challenge of integrating more devices, including existing devices with limited security features, as well as new connected devices—sensors, control systems, smart devices, electric vehicles, and distributed energy resources. The growing device landscape increases utilities’ need…

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Solution Overview: Wildfire

Solution Overview: Wildfire

Addressing extreme weather and natural disasters is a major goal of grid modernization initiatives. In many regions across the country, the need for utility wildfire mitigation solutions has become increasingly urgent.

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White House Chronicle: Local Electricity Regulation versus National Need

AI and the electrification of transportation are dramatically increasing the national demand for electricity. But new transmission and generation are hard to come by. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this dilemma with Karen Wayland, CEO of the GridWise Alliance, and Chris Guttman-McCabe, chief regulatory and communications officer at Anterix.

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