2027 Event Agenda

While often overlooked, momentary outages can serve as a positive indicator of grid performance—signaling that protective devices successfully isolated faults and prevented longer, sustained interruptions. In recent years, utilities have accelerated deployment of intelligent reclosers across their distribution systems to localize faults, reduce customer impact, and avoid costly restoration activities.

However, when these devices are not SCADA-enabled, their operations are not captured in traditional Outage Management Systems (OMS), creating a significant visibility gap. As a result, utilities are unable to fully quantify the reliability benefits these assets provide.

Southern Company has deployed reclosers at scale across its operating companies while simultaneously advancing its AMI footprint. Through a targeted data science initiative to address this challenge, Southern Company piloted the use of AMI event data and machine learning to detect and reconstruct non-SCADA recloser operations—effectively closing this visibility gap. The solution operationalizes these insights by generating momentary event records within its Reliability, Analytics, Metrics, and Performance (RAMP) platform, enabling Power Delivery teams to monitor trends, identify recurring issues, and proactively address issues.

In this session, Southern Company and its partner E Source will present an overview of the non-SCADA momentary analytics application deployed across its operating companies, including its use of graph database technology. The session will also highlight key insights, lessons learned, and the demonstrated value delivered to both the organization and its customers.