Case

Grid Cutover

Moving a live distribution network to a new control plane without a blackout window.

Energy operations 2024

Problem

The operator ran two control systems in parallel for years because nobody trusted a single cutover night. Engineers carried paper runbooks to every substation.

What we built

We shipped a parallel-run bridge with shadow telemetry, a cutover rehearsal mode, and a runbook that lives beside the switch it describes.

Outcome

The network cut over in eleven staged evenings with zero unplanned outages and no paper runbooks left in the field.