Exelon Innovation Expo: Rapid Deployment Linework

Last year’s Exelon Innovation Expo was enormous with thousands of Exelon employees and hundreds of employee teams competing for the innovation awards.  But this year’s, that took place at the D.C. Convention last Thursday, broke the record.  Four thousand Exelon employees and guests including three of us from Public Utilities Fortnightly spent the day peering into the future.  Let me take that back.  Those four thousand spent the day inventing the future. 


Check out this cool brief video:

Exelon Innovation Expo Exhibitor: You're looking at our rapid overhead deployment trailer. This is basically a stand-in and temporary pole. It's used to quickly get overhead wire back in service immediately. And then come back later with a bucket truck and a crew when you're good and ready to get the job done, in the daylight, when it's safer, with less overtime.

PUF: What's different about it?  What's innovative?

Exelon Exhibitor: You can take this out with a pretty light truck and a two man crew to restore wire straight away.

PUF: What do you do, actually?

Exelon Exhibitor: I work at Sauber Manufacturing Company and wear all kinds of different hats. We're a small business. So everyone plays a different role.

PUF: You guys built it?

Exelon Exhibitor: We built it and designed it. And we worked with ComEd, who approached us with the idea.