Stan Hoptroff, Author at Utility Analytics Institute

Advancing Risk-Based Posture through Platform Alignment: NERC’s ERO Enterprise CMEP Technology Project

Stan Hoptroff, VP, CTO, and Director of Information Technology at the North American Electric Reliability Council, discusses the use of NERC's ERO Enterprise CMEP technology to streamline compliance monitoring and reduce risk. Maintaining reliability across the bulk power system…

Stan HoptroffJuly 5, 2018

Strategy Technology

Technology to Culture: Evergy’s Enterprise Analytics Toolset

Andy Kapp, lead enterprise architect at Evergy, discusses how the right approach to technology can help to create an analytics culture. What types of benefits and ROI has your utility observed from adopting analytics? A data driven culture,…

Andy KappJuly 2, 2018

Asset & Workforce Strategy Technology

PG&E’s Agile Asset Analytics Teamwork

Jen Owens of Pacific Gas & Electric's Digital Catalyst Group discusses how agile product development teams at PG&E have developed tools to optimize asset management via data science and advanced analytics. How did your agile product development team…

Peter ManosJune 28, 2018

Webinars Asset & Workforce Strategy Technology

Data: The Renewable Resource for Digital Reinvention

It’s undeniable - analytics provide utilities with opportunities to realize significant cost savings in work and asset functions. Additionally, improvements in network reliability, regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction and safety can be achieved. Obtaining these benefits requires a focused…

Sandi JoralemonJune 27, 2018

Grid Strategy

Optimizing Your Grid of the Future Means Optimizing Your Data

Each month, UAI members gather to discuss the role of data analytics in grid optimization. This is a report out of recent discussions. It’s not 2008 anymore, but there is something in the air in terms of utilities…

Sandi JoralemonJune 20, 2018

eBooks Strategy

The Future of Utility Analytics: Insights from Leading Utility Companies

The energy industry is evolving at a rapid speed, and utilities are embracing data and analytics to counter challenges and create new opportunities. But, with their unique regulatory structure and the complexity of managing energy resources, utilities have…

Sandi JoralemonJune 20, 2018

Strategy Technology Webinars

Analytics as Strategy: Integrating Analytics to Drive Customer Value and Operational Excellence

Integrating Analytics to Drive Customer Value and Operational Excellence While many utilities understand that the analytics discipline offers many benefits, crafting an actionable analytics strategy has proven more difficult. In this session, Joe Tellez and Andrew Braeger of…

Sandi JoralemonMay 22, 2018

Asset & Workforce

Ameren Loss Analysis

Increasing use of distributed energy resources drives development of real-time system loss analysis. Whether a utility generates its own power or buys power on the wholesale market, one certainty is the amount of electricity the utility puts into…

Kieth P. HockApril 3, 2018

Webinars Technology

The Future is Now

Over the last decade, utilities have pushed the envelope on analytics. Moving from an era where industry publications ran cover stories on the “data deluge,” we see utility analytics leaders today re-shaping business operations across the utility enterprise…

Sandi JoralemonApril 3, 2018

Webinars Customer

Minimizing Customer Fraud through a Collaborative Analytics Approach

In 2017, Southern California Edison (SCE) centralized its process for addressing customer complaints for payment scams and fraud. This centralization allowed SCE to develop a process for data collection and analysis, leading to targeted education and outreach. This…

Sandi JoralemonMarch 7, 2018

Webinars Asset & Workforce Customer Grid Strategy Technology

Centerpoint Energy’s Response to Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey was a record-breaking storm inundating southeast Texas with 51.88 inches of rainfall, breaking the single-storm record of 48 inches set in 1978. The hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph at landfall. There were more…

Sandi JoralemonJanuary 22, 2018

Webinars Strategy Technology

Empowering Collaborative Advanced Analytics Across Utility Operations

This webinar will discuss the emergence of the Data Science Platform as an integrated and collaborative environment for empowering advanced analytics across the utility enterprise. A successful Data Science Platform enables the proliferation of data, opening up new…

Sandi JoralemonJanuary 17, 2018