02:37
Summit Electric
Feeder 120 lockout
- Fault isolated.
- Three alternate restoration paths are available.
- The closest tie is available.
Distribution operator training
Practice the decisions before they happen on the desk.
Scenario-based proficiency training for electric distribution operations.
GridOps Labs gives developing and experienced operators repeated practice working through restoration, abnormal conditions, conflicting information, loading, system configuration, and competing priorities.
Why repetition
Some lessons shouldn't depend on waiting for the right outage.
Operators learn an enormous amount on shift: from real events, from mentors, from on-the-job training. That experience can't be replaced.
But the abnormal, rare, and high-value situations don't arrive on a training schedule. An apprentice might go a year without seeing the event that would have taught them the most.
GridOps creates that exposure on purpose, as a repetition layer alongside the training utilities already run.
Public Decision Lab
Take the desk for one event.
A feeder locks out on a fictional system. You assess, isolate, restore, and decide. Then you see what your decision did, and why. About 2–4 minutes. No account.
GridOps Field Test
DL-001 — The Easy Tie
Public beta
Summit Electric
02:37
Feeder 120 lockout
Storm cell over the east service area.
CB-120 has tripped, reclosed, and locked out.
2–4 minutes · No account needed · Fictional system
The scenario library
Practice the problems that don't happen often enough to train on.
50+ scenarios planned across eight operational domains and three difficulty levels. One grid, Summit Grid, with dozens of distinct operating problems — so a rare event isn't the first time an operator reasons through it.
Restoration & Switching
Isolation, sectionalizing, alternate-source restoration, and returning to normal.
SCADA & Telecommunications
Stale indications, telemetry loss, failed control, and SCADA-vs-field disagreement.
Field Communication & Coordination
Conflicting or incomplete reports, device identification, and crew coordination.
Alarm Management & Situational Awareness
Alarm storms, buried critical alarms, and recognizing system-wide patterns.
Loading & System Configuration
Post-transfer loading, equipment limits, and electrically possible but operationally poor moves.
Protection & Abnormal Conditions
Lockouts, relay targets, recloser behavior, and protection that changes the plan.
Concurrent Events & Workload
Simultaneous events, competing priorities, interruptions, and triage.
Information Quality & Operational Judgment
Missing or conflicting information, uncertainty, and when not to operate.
How GridOps works
Learn the concept. Practice the decision. Debrief the reasoning.
01
Learn
Foundational concepts, terminology, and equipment behavior — delivered as structured digital learning built with Articulate 360 and Rise 360.
02
Practice
Apply those concepts on the desk inside a Decision Lab: grid state, SCADA, field reports, alarms, loading, and a real operating decision.
03
Debrief
See what changed and why — the information available, what was assumed, the consequence, and the competency the scenario exercised.
Concept learning can be delivered through Articulate 360 and Rise 360; the Decision Labs and Summit Grid are GridOps Labs' own practice environment.
What we train
Six areas of operating judgment.
Each Decision Lab looks for evidence in a few of these. No single scenario measures any of them on its own.
- System awareness
- Understanding sources, topology, energized and de-energized state, and configuration.
- Electrical awareness
- Considering loading, equipment limitations, voltage, protection, and source-path consequences.
- Information awareness
- Distinguishing what is known, indicated, reported, inferred, or assumed.
- Operational judgment
- Choosing an appropriate course of action based on available conditions.
- Execution discipline
- Verifying, communicating, maintaining state awareness, and confirming outcomes.
- Workload & prioritization
- Determining what matters first when multiple events compete for attention.
The training environment
Summit Grid
Summit Grid is GridOps Labs' fictional electric distribution training environment, operated by a fictional utility, Summit Electric.
It's intentionally simplified where simplification helps learning. It isn't based on any one utility's SCADA, ADMS, maps, procedures, or equipment identifiers.
That's what lets the reasoning transfer. Complexity is added progressively: training views first, then more realistic operating views with ratings, alarms, and competing information.
We don't teach one utility's control system. We train the thinking behind the work.
Information provenance
Every piece of information says where it came from.
GridOps labels information by how the operator knows it — not as a ranking of trust, but to make it obvious what a decision is actually resting on. It's a habit that holds up on a bad night.
- KNOWN
- Established by record or direct confirmation
- INDICATED
- What the control system shows
- REPORTED
- Someone told you
- INFERRED
- Worked out from other information
- ASSUMED
- Taken as true without checking
GridOps doesn't replace experienced operators. It makes their experience easier to transfer.
Experienced mentors provide
- Local context
- Procedure
- Nuance
- Judgment
- Coaching
GridOps provides
- Structured repetition
- Scenario exposure
- Consistent practice
- Replay
- Feedback
- A common training environment
For utility training teams
Where GridOps fits in a training program.
Developing operator training
Give apprentices repeated exposure to situations they might not see on shift for months.
Recurrent proficiency
Keep qualified operators practiced on the decisions that don't come up often.
Abnormal-condition practice
Work through equipment that doesn't behave as expected, without the system at stake.
Facilitated scenario workshops
Run a lab as a group, pause at the decision, and let the room argue it out.
Training-program supplementation
Add a repetition layer alongside your existing qualification path.
Readiness during modernization
Keep operator judgment moving with the new tools, not a step behind them.
Between full simulator sessions
Short, focused practice in the weeks between scheduled simulator time.
Mentor and apprentice discussion
Use the replay as a shared starting point for a real conversation.
You're the operator