Lake Worth Beach new Electric System Operations Center

City of Lake Worth Beach's new Electric System Operations Center

The City of Lake Worth Beach is excited to announce our new Electric System Operations Center (ESOC) is now officially completed and has been placed in service. This new facility significantly modernizes our operations and allows us to better serve our customers.

“Our new Electric System Operations Center (ESOC) is now officially completed and has been placed in service”, says Ed Liberty, Lake Worth Beach’s Electric Utility Director. “Housed within an existing City facility, this long-awaited new facility is the culmination of years of planning and preparation by various Lake Worth Beach Electric Utility departments. Team members from our System Operations, the Power Plant team, Engineering, Operational Technology, and Project Management Office helped design the facility and coordinated efforts to successfully transition all operations from the prior location.”

The new ESOC provides our electric utility with a modern, storm hardened and secure environment from which to monitor all aspects of the operation of our electric transmission and distribution system. Staffed around the clock, seven days per week, by a rotating team of Electric System Operators who monitor our electric system and dispatch crews to respond to power outages, direct network switching by field personnel, and issue work requests.

“Our new ESOC incorporates all of the technologies we’ve updated and installed over the past few years on a readily viewable and configurable interactive wall of monitors and smart boards that give us a broad overview of the electric system. A wall of interactive monitors tied to servers and multiple system sensors and meters gives us the ability to drill down in detail block by block and more quickly assess problems with our system and rapidly initiate corrective actions. This new facility significantly modernizes our operations and allows us to better serve our customers”, adds Jason Bailey, Assistant Director Electric System Operations.

The project was funded using proceeds from our Series 2020 Consolidated Utility Revenue Bond and is an element of our System Hardening and Reliability Improvement Program.

🔌Congratulations and Thank You to everyone who was involved.

Ed Liberty, Electric Utility Director