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UTC surveys our members, other utilities and subject matter experts from around the world to provide meaningful industry research reports.
Ongoing research efforts allow us to keep growing and refreshing our offerings. UTC Research Reports are available to purchase at a large discount for our member utilities and at full price for non-members. Click each image below to learn more about the research and pricing options.
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The UTC Joint Use Study
The UTC Joint Use Study is aimed at utilities that are preparing for or already in the midst of a surge in joint-use requests, and for other industry stakeholders that need to understand the utility mindset to be successful.
The study identifies many useful trends among utilities as they deal with joint use including: safety, reliable supply of power, measuring power consumption, and preventing overloaded poles. The goal of this report is to help readers understand the pole-attachment issues that utilities encounter and how utilities manage those issues. The report concludes with key lessons learned that were cited by our respondents.
Cutting Through the Hype: 5G and Its Potential Impacts on Electric Utilities
This paper, commissioned by UTC and its global affiliates, focuses on the emergence of 5G communications and whether and how utilities—particularly electric—will be impacted.
The new paper—“Cutting Through the Hype: 5G and Its Potential Impacts on Electric Utilities”—frames the numerous issues and challenges electric utilities across the globe confront in adapting as the wireless industry transitions to 5G services. The paper was authored by the Joint Radio Company Ltd. of Coventry, England and was commissioned by UTC and its global affiliates: Africa UTC, European UTC, and UTC America Latina.
Utility Uses for Wireless Spectrum
Evaluating the Importance of Spectrum in the Utility Sector
This report examines the current state of play for utility spectrum access: what spectrum is available, how utilities use it, and recent trends in utility spectrum needs. Detailed case studies look into the telecommunications approach at two large and sophisticated utilities.
Reliable energy delivery is fundamental to all critical infrastructures. Energy delivery can only be reliable if the telecommunications are reliable. And utilities need a stable and clear spectrum to achieve their telecommunications, without which reliable energy delivery will become nearly impossible.
Cyberready: Protecting Mission-Critical Utility Communications
It’s a date those in the energy sector know well: August 14, 2003. On that day, more than 50 million people in eight states and portions of Canada lost power when a high-voltage line in Ohio softened, sagged, and brushed against some trees. The fault, combined with a cascading series of technical issues, caused the largest blackout in North American history.
From Smart Grid to Neural Grid: Industry Transformation and the Top Five Technologies Poised to Bring the Grid Into the Cloud
Today’s smart grid enhances the traditional transmission and distribution network with pockets of automation, connectivity, and centralized IT systems. But the grid of tomorrow, the Neural Grid, represents a vastly more powerful platform of hard and soft assets that leverage ubiquitous connectivity, the cloud, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, and pervasive sensing to perform a variety of energy and non-energy applications.
UTC Associate Member Navigant Research has provided its latest white paper defines this next-level grid and identifies the critical components expected to transform legacy infrastructure into a platform that will eventually support a fully mature Energy Cloud environment.
For more info: https://www.navigant.com/insights/energy/2018/from-smart-grid-to-neural-grid
Selecting A Private Mobile Radio Technology To Solve Critical Machine to Machine Communications Needs
Utilities and other critical infrastructure (CI) industries around the globe are being challenged to improve service delivery while at the same time deal with security threats that aim to take down their operations. Compounding these challenges are the pressures from investors and regulatory agencies to streamline operations and reduce costs all while dealing with the complexities of a retiring workforce. To conquer these formidable challenges, critical infrastructure industries require greater visibility into their operations and are looking to leverage Machine to Machine (M2M) communications technology & communications to provide the means to increase the automation of their operations.
Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management For Utilities — Roadmap For Implementation
This paper provides a roadmap tailored to the utility space on how to successfully organize supplier management activities while addressing associated security risks. It is based on practical experience, numerous discussions with utilities and vendors, and recently published standards and best practice documents.
ConVergence Salt River 700 MHz Field Test Report
White Paper on Upper 700 MHz A Block Spectrum
Sharing 700 MHz Public Safety Broadband Spectrum With Utilities
Quality of Service in Power Utility Telecommunications Networks.
This paper details the challenges many power utilities are facing as they transition critical services from legacy TDM to IP/Ethernet core networks, thereby combining IT and OT traffic onto a single, converged network. While Quality of Service (QoS) is a crucial requirement that must be considered from the beginning of such a migration, this paper explains why it becomes more critical when traffic has to go through lower bandwidth links.