Know Your Trees – Storm Management
Getting better at storm-related outage prediction Utilities need to know the “ground truth” One of the utility’s primary missions is to minimize outage frequency and
Resource Planning Continues to Get More Complicated – What You Should Know
Resource planning has changed a lot over the last five years, with the increase in intermittent renewables and distributed energy sources. In 2018, the piece
Enterprise Analytics for Optimizing & Personalizing Utility Programs
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is becoming ubiquitous throughout the utility industry, providing many sources of value for both utilities and ratepayers as utilities unlock previously
The Fleets are Coming, The Fleets are Coming – Electric Trucks, That is
Amazon made big news last September when it announced a deal with well-funded startup Rivian[1] to deploy 100,000 medium-duty electric box trucks by 2030. There
California Wildfires: Snapshot of Utilities’ Mitigation Plans (Via T&D World)
Utilities shared their plans for wildfire mitigation at recent workshops organized by the California Public Utilities Commission. With the risk of wildfires increasing in
Wisely Managing Vegetation at the Distribution Level
Ever since the 2003 blackout, vegetation management has improved, largely due to FERC regulation. Still, improvement has been mostly in transmission. The “last mile” of
