Enabling Smart Grid Applications Over a Multi-Application IPv6 Network

BC Hydro serves 1.9 million electricity customers across 365,000 square miles in British Columbia, Canada. The utility recently migrated its entire smart metering network to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), resulting in a network that is faster, more agile, adapts quickly to network changes, and constantly optimizes network paths.

The IPv6 network also standardizes the way that grid devices connect and the way that applications are added. Leveraging the network's interoperability, BC Hydro is using the system to support outage restoration, voltage optimization, revenue protection, and distribution monitoring. This winter, the network will enable a demand response pilot utilizing IP-based load control devices as well as testing streetlight controls.

By migrating to an IP-based network, BC Hydro has access to many new capabilities that will further improve business operations and ensure that the utility meets its customers’ electricity needs. 

In this webinar, David De Yagher will highlight the tangible and quantifiable benefits BC Hydro has realized from its multi-application network.