Trailblazer has been named a World Broadband Award Finalist for our project “Estes Park’s Fiber-Enabled Smart Grid”! ⚡️🌐 We’re honored to be recognized for innovation and impact in the broadband industry, and grateful to our community for making bold progress possible. 💡🏔️
Town of Estes Park – Power & Communications (P&C) operates the municipal electric utility and Trailblazer Broadband, a town-owned FTTP network, developed Estes Park’s Smart Mountain Community project that integrates municipal fiber, advanced metering, and grid-edge automation to enhance reliability, wildfire resilience, public-safety communications and critical-load protection. The initiative supports regional non-carbon transition roadmap while delivering community broadband and smart grid capabilities.
Key Contributions:
• Reliable and Resilient Infrastructure: Built a redundant fiber backbone supporting smart grid and broadband needs with a 49.3% take up rate and 100% municipality facilities on fiber.
• Wildfire Mitigation: Leveraged AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) analytics for targeted maintenance and risk reduction.
• Sustainability Goals: Advanced in supporting the regional community’s goal of achieving 100% non-carbon by 2030, with a roadmap that includes storage/DER orchestration (Distributed Energy Resources).
Read Trailblazer’s Full Award Submission starting on Page 18 of the booklet below. NOTE: Click “Controls” and [ ] to enlarge the PDF.