Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative Accelerates Outage Response with Oracle® Utilities Network Management System

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.

News Facts
Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative Inc. (MCEC), a not-for-profit electric distribution utility headquartered in Lexington, S.C., has upgraded to the latest version of Oracle® Utilities Network Management System to improve network reliability, reduce outage durations and increase member satisfaction.
A long-term Oracle customer using Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server, MCEC upgraded to accelerate outage response and restoration. MCEC can now better identify and resolve power outages by predicting the location of faults. This helps dispatchers and repair crews manage and resolve issues quickly and efficiently. The utility can also now identify “priority groups” – small groups of members in need of life-support – experiencing outages and respond immediately.
In addition, MCEC has reduced call time in its service centers. Now, when a member calls to report a problem, MCEC’s customer service representatives automatically receive outage status information via Oracle Utilities Network Management System and are better equipped to provide accurate and real-time information.
MCEC is also using Oracle Utilities Business Intelligence to compile its monthly outage reports. In the future, the utility hopes to use the business intelligence system to analyze trends related to outage calls by identifying problematic areas and circuits.

Supporting Quotes
“Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative continues to have a stable, high-performance technology infrastructure for its network operations function. We are pleased to continue to work with the utility to meet its unique needs and provide the organization with a state-of-the-art outage management system that helps it to better serve its members,” said Quentin Grady, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities.

“We selected Oracle Utilities Network Management System because it is one of the best offerings in the outage and distribution management market with a proven track record. Now, we are able to identify priority areas during the event of an outage and respond quickly to meet our members’ needs,” said Lee Ayers, system engineer, Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative.

Oracle Utilities delivers the proven software applications that help utilities achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware and database technologies. Oracle Utilities enables its customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands, and deliver on commitments to environmental conservation. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/industries/utilities.

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