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*	improved operator effectiveness and enhanced system protection and restoration.
✔✔ optimized transmission assets
*	ensured flexibility and efficiency by optimizing the
utilization of transmission assets
*	reduced congestion and bottlenecks, which lessen the
costs of operation- and maintenance-related tasks
*	reduced risk due to old equipment or necessary downtime, which increases system efficiency.
✔✔ optimized generation assets
*	automatic controls and predictive maintenance cycles on
existing generation facilities to maximize performance.
✔✔ the integration of bulk renewables
*	the development of bulk renewables that meet environmental policy requirements by using intelligent
monitoring, climate microforecasting, protection
and control technologies, storage technologies, and
advanced information and operational technologies
integrated with the underlying assets.
✔✔ the integration of distributed generation
*	the ability to manage distributed generation and storage to help balance the intermittency of renewable
resources and provide grid support

*	advanced system protection to manage intermittency
and bidirectional power flow
*	an advanced energy management system that integrates distributed generation with central resources.
NYPA's digital transformation revolves around the im--
plementation of projects that support five fundamental
steps. These steps are typically common across many smart
grid deployments:
✔✔ deploying a dedicated utility-owned and controlled
high-speed communications platform
✔✔ installing sensors and other intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) across the grid, which are used for collecting system and equipment sensory data
✔✔ rolling out enhanced grid control devices
✔✔ effectively using analytics, computational algorithms,
and simulations for asset performance optimization
✔✔ ensuring secure deployment of all the aforementioned
components.
NYPA is planning to deploy a variety of technical solutions that will create a range of benefits for both the company
and New York State at large by following these five steps. To
prioritize the most beneficial, cost-worthy elements of smart
grid technologies and to ensure that the investments made

St. Lawrence-FDR
Project
Massena
Plattsburgh
16 Generating Facilities
One Energy Control Center
Hundreds of Miles of
Power Lines That Deliver Energy

Niagara Project

Watertown

Jarvis Plant

Rochester

Buffalo

Syracuse

Clark
Energy
Center

Vischer Ferry
Plant

Crescent
Plant
Albany

Blenheim-Gilboa
Project
Binghamton
Ashokan
Project

NYPA Locations
NYPA Power Lines
Major Cities

White Plains

Riverhead
Small Clean Power Plants
Flynn Plant
(City of New York: Six;
Zeltmann Project
Suffolk County: One)
City of New York

figure 1. NYPA's generation and transmission assets within New York State. (Source: NYPA; used with permission.)
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