The Future of Virtualization in Substations

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PT

Location: CC - 203 A

Speaker(s)

Michael Carbary

Senior Principal Engineer
Salt River Project

PDF
Wes Openshaw

Sr. Principal Engineer
Salt River Project

Moderator(s)

Kyle Cormier

Director, Telecommunication Systems
Salt River Project
Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Abstract Description: While the use of virtualization has been common for decades in Information Technology (IT), the utilization of this technology within the Operational Technology (OT) domain has been more recent. One particular area where the technology is being explored to solve several challenges is within the substation for protection, automation and control. This presentation will dive into work going at SRP and other power utilities, related to the virtualization within this space. A portion of the presentation will dive into details around how virtualization can help overcome several challenges in the system protection domain, and a portion will cover how this technology would impact the Telecommunications component within substations to support virtualization.