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The 2015 Paris Agreement set the net zero emissions global goal, and now with the United States re-entering the accord, a blueprint on how to achieve this objective may have just presented itself. The end goal will be a carbon neutral infrastructure that only needs maintenance, but the branches below consist of constructing transmission and pipelines for cardon dioxide and hydrogen gas and increasing solar and wind capabilities for energy harvesting. And finally, you reach the root of it all, constructing new buildings containing the latest energy producing hardware based on sound, strict energy efficiency and no-loss generation principals. Resource, crew, contractor, and work management within a single platform is possible and can keep utilities advancing toward the zero-emissions goal.

This summer, ARCOS® LLC, the market leader for utility and critical infrastructure resource-management solutions, will roll out its ARCOS Callout and Scheduling Suite for Minn.-based cooperative Great River Energy, a provider of wholesale electricity to 28 member-owned cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin, so the co-op can automatically identify available employees after business hours and direct them to restoration work. Automating callouts will save time for our control center staff, so they can focus on their core responsibility, operations.” With Great River Energy’s manual, after-hours callout process, control center operators search (one call at a time) for available employees. A recent winter storm sped up the decision by Great River Energy to take the chore of manual callouts off the operators, so they could automatically launch calls with ARCOS and focus, instead, on front-end analysis linked to restoring substations, identifying transmission infrastructure damage, or starting peaking generation. According to Great River Energy, managers will measure the success of automated callout in two ways: First, the number of people reached through the system (versus a manual process) and the success rate for each call; second, how much time automation shaves off the callout process per event.

ARCOS’ Jim Nowak penned an article for T&D World Online that talks about how Grant County, Wash. , Public Utility District using Mobile Workbench to streamline operations

Workforce and emergency management have both evolved past whiteboards, sticky notes, and manual phone calls that cause confusion, mistakes, and are demonstratable time-wasters. Software companies like ARCOS have helped hundreds of businesses and thousands of individuals by automating processes and speeding up response and restoration intervals in any situation. Solutions like ARCOS Callout, Crew Manager, and Mobile Workbench terminate manual callouts during emergencies and daily operations, all while being able to track and manage crews remotely, even from your mobile device. ’s requirements with solutions like ARCOS Incident Manager.