Next-Gen Grid Resilience: The vPAC Alliance Software-Defined Architecture for Virtualized Substation Automation
The vPAC Alliance architecture delivers a highly technical, standards-based approach for virtualizing protection, automation, and control (PAC) systems in power system substations, enabling utilities to achieve next-generation digital transformation, security, and scalability at the edge.
Speaker(s)
Brant Heap is Director of Protection, Automation and Control at Salt River Project (SRP), a community-based not-for-profit utility serving more than 2 million customers in central Arizona. With over two decades of experience in the electrical industry, Brant leads the transformation of SRP’s protection, automation and control systems to support a smarter and more resilient grid that meets growing customer demand. He is guiding SRP’s substation virtualization initiative, a foundational element of the utility’s digital evolution. Beyond SRP, Brant is shaping the future of the industry as Chair of the vPAC Alliance (Virtual Protection, Automation and Control), advancing secure, open and interoperable architectures that redefine how utilities deploy protection, automation and control technologies.