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Energy & Utilities

A Day in the Life with Hermes

Watch how field and operations teams collaborate seamlessly with an AI teammate living inside the apps they already use.

Type
Substation and transmission corridor
Span
200+ miles, 6 substations
Schedule
Multi-year capital program
Setting
Remote and semi-rural terrain

Natively Supported Channels & Protocols

Microsoft Teams
Slack
Discord
Telegram
Signal
Webhooks
Email & SMS
  1. Resources
  2. A Day in the Life: Energy & Utilities
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MarcusField Crew Lead
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ElenaOperations Manager
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PriyaCompliance Officer
4
DavidAsset Manager
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TomLandowner and Stakeholder Liaison
SMS / Text 5:42 AM

Marcus, Field Crew Lead

at Ridge Valley Substation, hard hat on, thermal camera in hand

Marcus pulls up to the substation before sunrise. Normally he would log conditions in the truck at the end of a ten-hour shift. Today he just texts Hermes and the condition moves before the morning ops call.

What Hermes Handled

  • Thermal condition logged with trend analysis
  • Maintenance work order opened
  • OEM spec and lead time retrieved
  • Operations manager alerted with structured summary

The Impact

The morning ops call started with a vetted condition, not a discovery exercise. Marcus logged the finding and moved to his next inspection. Elena walked into her day managing the grid, not chasing a field report from a text thread.

Hermes Assistant
SMS / Text
Hot bushing on T3 at Ridge Valley. Photo attached. Temp reading 15 degrees above baseline.
1 photo attached
Hermes
Marcus flagged an elevated temperature on T3's primary bushing at Ridge Valley. I checked the last three IR inspection reports. The bushing has shown a slow-rising trend for two quarters, now accelerating. Current reading is 15 degrees above seasonal baseline. I drafted a condition report with the trend data and alerted Elena in Slack with a priority flag. Want me to log this as an open maintenance work order?
Yes. And what's the OEM spec for that bushing? Replacement lead time?
Hermes
Bushing is a Westbrook Type 42E, rated 138kV. OEM lead time is 14-16 weeks for standard procurement, 6-8 weeks expedited. I pulled the installation procedure from the asset library as well.
Source: Westbrook OEM Catalog rev 7, Asset Library doc A-T3-042
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Slack 7:15 AM

Elena, Operations Manager

at the control center, three screens, morning operations call in 45 minutes

Elena runs the regional control center. Before she checks her screens, Hermes has already assembled a morning grid status brief from overnight field reports, asset health data, and crew locations across six substations.

What Hermes Handled

  • Overnight grid status roll-up
  • Outage event summary with root cause
  • Crew deployment tracking
  • Morning ops brief drafted

The Impact

Elena walks into the 8 AM call fully briefed in two minutes, every issue already flagged and assigned. The call moves from "what happened" to "what we are doing about it."

Slack
Hermes · 6:30 AMApp
Morning, Elena. Overnight across the Ridge Valley corridor: 1 open condition (T3 bushing at Ridge Valley, work order opened by Marcus), 2 outage events restored on schedule, all 6 substations clear. 3 crews deployed today including the vegetation team at the Northeast Corridor. Weather: clear, winds under 15 mph. Want the full morning brief?
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Elena
What's the status on that feeder trip from Millbrook last night?
HermesApp
Millbrook feeder 7 tripped at 11:42 PM, auto-reclosed successfully at 11:43 PM. The event log shows a likely tree contact during a wind gust. The vegetation crew is already scheduled at Millbrook today. I tagged it for inspection priority and updated the outage log. No customer minutes lost.
E
Elena
Good. Draft the morning ops brief for the 8 AM call and include the T3 condition as the lead item.
HermesApp
Morning brief drafted. Lead item: T3 bushing condition with trend data and work order status. Also included: Millbrook feeder trip summary, crew deployment map, weather outlook, and 3 compliance items due this week. Ready in your briefing folder.
Slack 9:30 AM

Priya, Compliance Officer

Thursday, quarterly vegetation management report due to the regional operator

Priya is responsible for NERC and FERC regulatory reporting across six substations. Thursday is filing day. In the old workflow, Thursday meant pulling data from three systems and reconciling crew notes. Today Hermes has already assembled the draft.

What Hermes Handled

  • Inspection data pulled from multiple systems and cycles
  • Clearance measurements reconciled
  • Crew notes standardized
  • Submission template pre-filled with anomaly flags
  • Approval routing configured

The Impact

A six-hour compliance assembly became a forty-minute review and approval cycle. Priya submitted the report at 2:15 PM instead of scrambling at 5:30 PM. The submission quality improved because Hermes cross-referenced everything systematically.

Slack
Hermes · 9:00 AMApp
Morning, Priya. The quarterly vegetation management report for the Northeast Corridor is ready for your review. I pulled inspection data from the last two cycles, reconciled the clearance measurements across all six substation corridors, and pre-filled the regional operator's submission template. Two items need your attention: (1) Section 4 includes a clearance variance at the Mountain Creek easement that may need a footnote, and (2) the Millbrook corridor shows one inspection gap from a weather-delayed drone flight that I flagged as rescheduled. The draft is in your compliance folder.
P
Priya
Show me the Mountain Creek variance. Is this new or was it in the last filing?
HermesApp
The Mountain Creek variance is new since last quarter. Clearance dropped from 14.2 feet to 11.8 feet at easement marker 7. The last crew note attributes it to rapid growth after heavy spring rain. I pulled the rainfall data for that corridor: 40 percent above seasonal average. Want me to draft a footnote explaining the variance and recommending an accelerated trim cycle?
P
Priya
Yes. Add the footnote and the rainfall data. Then prep the approval routing for Brian and Elena.
HermesApp
Footnote added with rainfall data and accelerated trim recommendation. Approval routing configured: Brian (technical review), then Elena (operations sign-off), then you (final submit). Draft is locked and ready for your first review.
Slack 3:38 PM

David, Asset Manager

Friday, reviewing capital replacement plan for the next budget cycle

David owns the five-year capital replacement plan across a fleet of transformers, switchgear, and line equipment spanning two hundred miles. On Friday afternoon, Hermes catches something the quarterly review would have missed.

What Hermes Handled

  • Predictive health threshold monitoring
  • Dissolved gas trend analysis
  • OEM failure curve comparison
  • Forced-outage cost modeling
  • Capital replacement timeline with scenarios
  • Planning committee memo drafted

The Impact

A capital plan risk that would have surfaced in the next quarterly review was escalated immediately. David moved the replacement from 2031 to the current budget cycle with a fully costed business case, avoiding a potential $8.7M forced outage. Three weeks of analysis compressed into an afternoon.

Slack
Hermes · 3:30 PMApp
David, the predictive health model for the West Creek substation's primary transformer (asset T-7, installed 2011) crossed the threshold this morning. Dissolved gas analysis shows an accelerating acetylene trend over the last six weeks. Current health score is 62 out of 100, down from 78 in January. I pulled the OEM failure curve, and at this trajectory the probability of a forced outage within eighteen months crosses 40 percent. The current capital plan schedules replacement for 2031. Want me to draft a replacement timeline analysis with cost scenarios?
D
David
Draft the timeline. Include the forced-outage cost model we used on the East Barrington case.
HermesApp
Replacement timeline drafted with three procurement scenarios. Standard procurement: $2.1M, 16-week lead, install in Q3 2027. Expedited: $2.6M, 8-week lead. Emergency: $3.4M plus regulatory penalties. Forced-outage exposure modeled at $8.7M including unserved energy penalties and crew mobilization. I also aligned the installation windows with the seasonal load curve: recommend Q3 2027 for lowest grid impact.
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David
What would the planning committee need to see this quarter to approve the budget shift?
HermesApp
I drafted a capital adjustment memo with the health score trend, failure probability curve, cost comparison, load-curve-aligned windows, and the East Barrington precedent. It is in your asset planning folder. Want me to add it to the next planning committee agenda?
SMS / Text 10:15 AM

Tom, Landowner and Stakeholder Liaison

Tuesday, vegetation management cycle starting across twelve landowner parcels

Tom manages access permissions and landowner relationships across the corridor. The vegetation management crew needs access for the quarterly trim cycle, and twelve landowners need notification, permission tracking, and concern routing. Normally this is two days of phone calls and spreadsheets.

What Hermes Handled

  • Access notifications drafted and sent to all landowners
  • Response tracking and non-response flagging
  • Landowner concern routing to the right crew lead
  • Monthly access status roll-up
  • Compliance access log updated

The Impact

Tom manages the relationships instead of becoming the notification system and spreadsheet tracker. The vegetation crew gets access faster, landowners feel heard, and the compliance log is current and audit-ready without manual data entry.

Hermes Assistant
SMS / Text
Hermes, we need access across 12 parcels for the Northeast Corridor vegetation trim. Start the notifications and track responses.
Hermes
Access notifications drafted for all 12 landowners on the Northeast Corridor parcel list. Each notification includes the trim dates, crew size, equipment list, and a reply option for concerns. Want me to send these now and track the responses?
Send them. And flag me if anyone pushes back or doesn't respond by Friday.
Hermes
All 12 notifications sent. I am tracking responses and will alert you on any pushback or non-response. Three landowners have already replied with confirmation: parcels 4, 7, and 11. One concern from parcel 9: the landowner wants the crew to avoid a new irrigation line. I routed that to the vegetation crew lead and flagged it for you.
Good. What's the overall access status look like for the month?
Hermes
Across all corridors this month: 34 of 41 parcels confirmed for scheduled work. 4 pending response (reminders sent), 2 with concerns routed to crew leads, 1 denied access due to seasonal wetland restriction (re-routed crew to alternate corridor). Compliance access log is updated and audit-ready.
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Behind the magic

The exchanges above look simple by design. What makes them trustworthy in real utility operations is the engineering underneath, and it is exactly what a disciplined rollout is built to get right.

Meets people in their channels

Seamless integration across SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Signal, Telegram, Discord, email, and custom Webhooks. No new app, no training curve, which is why it actually gets used at remote substations.

Grounded in your operational data

Connected to asset records, maintenance histories, inspection reports, compliance templates, and outage management systems so answers come from real records, not a generic model.

Cites its sources, admits limits

Asset condition answers point to the inspection report, date, and reading they came from. When Hermes is not sure, it says so and routes to the right person.

Permissions and audit trail

Who can ask and do what is set by role and operational boundary. Every exchange is logged for compliance and regulatory review.

Human in the loop

A condition report, a compliance filing, a capital adjustment memo: drafted by Hermes, approved by a person. The human always has the final say.

Proactive, not just reactive

Hermes pushes the morning grid brief, the asset health trend, the compliance deadline, and the overdue inspection so the team is told before they have to ask.

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Illustrative concept. Characters, dialogue, figures, and the operational corridor are composite and for demonstration only, and do not represent a specific engagement or a guaranteed result.