Grid & Utilities

Where I started: distribution management, outage systems, SCADA integration — and the software-defined substation now rewriting all of it.

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01August 13, 2026

The substation is becoming a server, and the grid is becoming a platform

I started my career writing software for electricity distribution utilities, where the substation was hardware you configured. Two launches this February make clear that assumption is inverting — and the hard part is the same one it has always been.

Grid & UtilitiesArchitecture· 7 min