The Switch Episode 7: Modernizing the Grid Starts at the Utility With Digaunto Chatterjee
By EPE Team
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The grid is changing quickly. But modernizing the power system requires more than new infrastructure and technology; utilities must also adapt how they plan, build, and operate the grid.
In this episode of The Switch, Julieta Giraldez speaks with Digaunto Chatterjee, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Eversource Energy, about what it takes to prepare a utility for a period of increasing demand, aging infrastructure, electrification, and rapid technological change.
Digaunto shares why the workforce may be one of the most vulnerable parts of today's power system, why utilities need to think differently about planning under uncertainty, and why innovation has to move beyond specialized teams and become part of everyday engineering.
The conversation also brings these challenges back to the physical realities of the grid: storms, control rooms, cables, substations, critical customers, and the people who show up when the system is under its greatest stress. For Digaunto, success ultimately looks remarkably simple: creating a power system that works so seamlessly that customers can simply flip a switch and never have to think about what it took to turn the power on.
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