Case Study: Wake Electric Membership Corporation improves crew safety and cuts travel time with SurvalentONE SCADA from Survalent

Wake Electric Membership Corporation reduces line worker travel time by 30–50% with Survalent

Wake Electric Membership Corporation, an electric cooperative serving over 49,000 members in North Carolina, sought to improve field crew safety and confidence during storm events. Their challenge was to reduce the need for manual, potentially dangerous device closures and ensure workers could always identify the direction of energization. To address this, they partnered with vendor Survalent for their SCADA solution.

By implementing SurvalentONE SCADA and its WebSurv mobile component, Wake Electric integrated the system into its core safety procedures. The solution enabled remote device control and a new policy requiring digital hot line tags on all downline devices, which field crews can check on their phones before starting work. Survalent's technology resulted in a dramatic increase in crew confidence and safety. It also led to a 30-50% reduction in line worker travel time and saves an average of 1.5 hours of drive time per incident.

Wake Electric Membership Corporation