About Xanthus

Xanthus Consulting International provides consulting services to the electric power industry, focusing primarily on communications, information technologies, and security issues for power system operations, which include SCADA, substation automation, distribution operations, distributed energy resources, customer metering infrastructure, and energy market operations.

Frances Cleveland, founder and president of Xanthus, is formerly of Utility Consulting International (UCI) and ECC (now Kema). She brings 30 years of power system communications consulting experience to Xanthus, and offers a broad range of expertise in international information technologies and standards, including EPRI’s IntelliGrid Architecture, IEC 62351 security standards for power system operations, IEC 61850 standards for substation automation, distribution automation, and distributed energy resources, IEC 61968/61970 Common Information Model, and OpenAMI.

Xanthus will seek mutually beneficial joint projects with other firms to leverage our expertise with other areas of expertise.