The power shift: Why the future of the electric grid will be software-defined

Continue the grid modernization conversation at Red Hat Summit OT automation, industrial safety, predictive MLOps and more… The electric grid is no longer just a feat of physics and copper; it’s becoming a sophisticated data engine. For decades, substation secondary equipment, the relays and controllers that protect the expensive primary equipment, was seen as auxiliary. Today, it is the primary driver of grid innovation: if you can’t compute at the substation, you can’t innovate the grid.But here’s the challenge: modern digital secondary equipment must rely on modern IT or the innov