Software-Defined Protection, Automation & Control in Energy
The grid needs to handle more — more renewables, more DER, more demand. Virtualized PAC is how it gets there.
Existing grid infrastructure was not designed for the energy system we have today, let alone the one we're building. Substations and protection systems need to evolve — handling greater volumes of renewables and distributed energy resources while maintaining the reliability, flexibility, and cybersecurity that utilities and their customers depend on.
Virtualized Protection, Automation and Control represents the fourth generation of PAC technology — reducing hardware requirements at substations, lowering total cost of ownership, and bringing significant operational improvements to grid management.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Why flexibility, infrastructure development lead times, and quality are all at risk without virtualized PAC
How vendors can innovate their grid management offering using software-defined approaches
How acceptance of virtualized PAC has grown and what's driving it
How Critical Software supports grid product vendors in proof-of-concept development, quality assurance, and beyond