Case Study: Duquesne Light Company improves grid resilience and planning efficiency with UrbanFootprint

Duquesne Light Company cuts map update time from 30 days to 2 hours with UrbanFootprint

Duquesne Light Company, an investor-owned utility serving southwestern Pennsylvania, faced the challenge of modernizing its aging energy grid infrastructure. To build long-term resilience, the company needed better data to prioritize critical upgrades and investments. They turned to vendor UrbanFootprint and its Grid Resilience Insights solution to gain a holistic, data-driven view of their grid, climate hazards, and community vulnerabilities.

The UrbanFootprint solution integrated vast datasets into a single platform, enabling DLC to conduct composite resilience assessments and make informed decisions. This eliminated the need for time-consuming manual map creation and data reformatting. As a result, the time required to update map imagery was reduced from over 30 days to just two hours. UrbanFootprint empowered more productive, data-driven discussions across the organization and provided a documented approach for equitable community engagement and future planning.

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