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Prepare. Respond. Recover.

Engineering resilience means preparing for disruption, enabling intelligent response, and recovering quickly with minimal impact.

As demand grows, infrastructure ages, and weather becomes more extreme, resilience depends on more than reliable equipment. It requires a distribution grid intentionally engineered to prepare for changing conditions, respond intelligently, and recover quickly when disruption occurs.

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Prepare

Build resilience before disruption occurs.
The strongest distribution grids are engineered long before an outage begins. Planning for advanced protection, intentional system design, and proven distribution strategies helps identify vulnerabilities, reduce risk, and strengthen system performance before disruption occurs.

Lightning striking near a residential neighborhood during a severe thunderstorm, illustrating a potential source of power outages.

Respond

Enable intelligent response.
When conditions change, resilient distribution systems can detect emerging issues, provide greater operational visibility, and act automatically. Intelligent protection and control help isolate faults, reroute power, and reduce the impact of disruption.

Utility crews working from bucket trucks to repair overhead power lines along a roadside following a service disruption.

Recover

Restore power safely and quickly.
Purpose-built technologies reduce outage duration, improve crew safety, and help utilities and critical power operators restore service and return critical infrastructure to normal operation with minimal disruption.

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2026 State of Grid Resilience

Only 48% of respondents agree that current reliability metrics adequately capture performance during major disruptive events.

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Explore Resilience Solutions

Every resilience challenge is different. Explore the solutions that strengthen distribution system performance before, during, and after disruption.

Automate Fault Response

Isolate faults and reroute power automatically to keep more customers connected.

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Extend Distribution Intelligence

Bring intelligent protection and control to more points across the distribution system.

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Protect Critical Operations

The same distribution expertise trusted by utilities helps critical power operators, including hospitals, manufacturers, campuses, and data centers, improve resilience where uninterrupted power is essential.

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Designed. Built. Tested. Proven.

Extreme weather is getting more frequent, electricity dependence is growing, and our grid is aging. That’s why a focus on grid hardening is more important than ever. We’re dedicated to building a grid that can withstand the toughest weather and avoid outages even in the eye of the storm.

Improving Grid Resilience in the Eye of the Storm

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The Energy Transition

As we transition to cleaner, more sustainable energy sources, resilience becomes more critical. A resilient grid means communities can count on the power staying on, no matter how the energy landscape evolves.

Resilience Success Stories

Eliminating Momentary Outages and Isolating Faulted Line Segments

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Improving Storm Resilience With Self-Healing Technology

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Reducing Outages Through Data-Driven Lateral Protection Strategy

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Restoring Power to C&I Customers 99% Faster

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Automatically Finding and Isolating Faults Without Communications

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Keeping Temporary Outages from Becoming Permanent

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Ready to Engineer Greater Resilience?

Whether you're modernizing the distribution grid or strengthening critical electrical systems, S&C brings more than a century of distribution expertise to every resilience challenge, helping you prepare for disruption, respond intelligently, and recover quickly.

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