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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Power Dispatchers

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Coordinate, regulate, or distribute electricity or steam.

Power Distributors and Dispatchers · O*NET 51-8012.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

8 of 29tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

16 matched to the tools power distributors and dispatchers use. Showing 16.

The tools this job actually uses

29 documented for this occupation. Showing 29, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • SAP softwarehot
  • ABB MicroSCADA Pro DMS
  • ABB MicroSCADA Pro SYS
  • ABB PSGuard
  • Catapult Software iPower SCADA
  • Distribution automation system software
  • Distribution management system DMS
  • Energy management system EMS
  • Geographic information system GIS software
  • Milsoft DisSPatch
  • OSI monarch/SGP
  • Outage management system OMS
  • Radius NetMan
  • Radius Uni-View
  • Siemens Energy and Automation
  • Siemens Spectrum Power TG
  • Siemens Spectrum PowerCC Distribution Management
  • Substation automation system software
  • Substation monitoring system software
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
  • Telvent Responder Outage Management System OMS
  • Wide area monitoring system WAMS software
  • Wide area remote control system software

What this job involves

14 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 14.

  1. Coordinate with engineers, planners, field personnel, or other utility workers to provide information such as clearances, switching orders, or distribution process changes.
  2. Respond to emergencies, such as transformer or transmission line failures, and route current around affected areas.
  3. Control, monitor, or operate equipment that regulates or distributes electricity or steam, using data obtained from instruments or computers.
  4. Direct personnel engaged in controlling or operating distribution equipment or machinery, such as instructing control room operators to start boilers or generators.
  5. Distribute or regulate the flow of power between entities, such as generating stations, substations, distribution lines, or users, keeping track of the status of circuits or connections.
  6. Manipulate controls to adjust or activate power distribution equipment or machines.
  7. Prepare switching orders that will isolate work areas without causing power outages, referring to drawings of power systems.
  8. Monitor and record switchboard or control board readings to ensure that electrical or steam distribution equipment is operating properly.
  9. Implement energy schedules, including real-time transmission reservations or schedules.
  10. Calculate load estimates or equipment requirements to determine required control settings.
  11. Inspect equipment to ensure that specifications are met or to detect any defects.
  12. Track conditions that could affect power needs, such as changes in the weather, and adjust equipment to meet any anticipated changes.
  13. Tend auxiliary equipment used in the power distribution process.
  14. Record and compile operational data, such as chart or meter readings, power demands, or usage and operating times, using transmission system maps.
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