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Semantic Modeling for your Data Architecture to Reduce Cost of Analytics

What we see with our clients are that they want to gain more business value from their data. However, the initial direction they take make differ. Some clients focus on technologies while others focus on building their data…

Michael CovarrubiasSeptember 19, 2022

Asset & Workforce Strategy Technology

Geospatial Identification of Disadvantaged Communities – A Decision Support Strategy

One of the most common questions utility clients ask is, “How can we identify our disadvantaged customers and tailor our services to meet their unique needs?” As state legislatures, regulators and investors call on utilities to improve energy…

Dr. Shawn BodmannSeptember 19, 2022

Asset & Workforce Technology

Change Management: Preparing Your Teams for the Grid of the Future

Change has become the new normal in the utilities industry. The following trends are rampant. Rapid growth in renewable energy sources. An uptick in climate-related emergencies. Escalating customer expectations. Expansion of distributed energy resources (DERs) and microgrids. An…

Peggy Agress and Beau PlatteAugust 30, 2022

Asset & Workforce Grid Technology

Is Your Data Use Reflecting Your Organizational Truth?

Four steps to enterprise data management for climate-challenged utilities From megadroughts to rapidly intensifying hurricanes, tornado outbreaks and record-breaking temperatures, our public infrastructure is being stressed to the extremes of its original designs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Jonathan D. Glassman & Therice MorrisAugust 8, 2022

Asset & Workforce Grid Technology

A Dual Benefit: How GPU-Accelerated Analytics Solves Challenges for Utility Asset Management and Climate Change at the Same Time

Utilities can combat climate change while enhancing their own service operations and bottom line by leveraging data from graphics processing unit (GPU) systems for next-generation GPU-accelerated analytics. Climate change is a growing concern that needs every available tool…

Dr. Mike FlaxmanJuly 13, 2022

Asset & Workforce

Health of Power Grids Increases When Existing Data is Properly Harnessed

When asset managers figure out how to harness existing high-quality data, they increase the health of power grids. Consider for a moment an analogy of your utility’s power grid as a living, breathing human being. Grids and human…

Xavier LoinOctober 27, 2021

Asset & Workforce Technology

EPRI Develops AI Model to Reduce Wind Turbine Operations Costs

EPRI has been working with utilities in the United States to digitalize wind assets and develop a physics-based machine-learning hybrid model to identify gearbox damage and extend the life of gearboxes. Wind turbine gearbox replacement cost can be…

Raja V. Pulikollu, Jeremy RenshawSeptember 14, 2021

Asset & Workforce Technology Uncategorized

Building the Foundation for Utility Asset Analytics Part 2

Asset analytics can help make the shift from run-to-failure to predictive and condition-based maintenance. This is the second part of a two-part series. Read part one here. Process and tool challenges The ability to collect and organize data…

Eric Henderson, Kevin Hade, Kojo SefaJanuary 5, 2021

Asset & Workforce Technology Uncategorized

Building the Foundation for Utility Asset Analytics Part 1

Predictive analytics can help utilities realize value through improved reliability, decreased O&M costs, improved safety, and developing a coherent, systematic approach to asset base replenishment. Using analytics for asset management within utility operations is far from a new…

Eric Henderson, Kevin Hade, Kojo SefaDecember 28, 2020

Asset & Workforce Strategy

Climate Risk is Investment Risk – What Utilities Need to Know: An Introduction

Investors will be looking more closely at utilities’ exposure to climate risk as an input to their investment decisions. Climate risk has shareholders, bond holders, insurance companies and ratings organizations worried. Note the recent statement by Larry Fink,…

Jill FeblowitzDecember 8, 2020

Asset & Workforce Grid Sponsored Technology

Improving Asset Risk Mitigation by Making Data a Top Priority

Risk mitigation is the key reason to know the probability of failure of utility assets. Unfortunately, the utilities that know that best, are the ones that have had one or more catastrophic asset failures that jeopardized the safety…

Caitlin Frank, Adrian Larreal (Manager), and Debra Henderson (Principal Consultant)October 21, 2020

Asset & Workforce Technology

The Trouble with Tons – Tons of Image Data That is

PG&E recently received a CIO 100 Award for Excellence for its creative approach to wildfire risk. The utility applied machine learning to aerial images of transmission towers – PG&E has 2 million - to shorten the time it…

Jill FeblowitzSeptember 29, 2020

Asset & Workforce

Semantic Modeling for your Data Architecture to Reduce Cost of Analytics

Geospatial Identification of Disadvantaged Communities – A Decision Support Strategy

Change Management: Preparing Your Teams for the Grid of the Future

Is Your Data Use Reflecting Your Organizational Truth?

A Dual Benefit: How GPU-Accelerated Analytics Solves Challenges for Utility Asset Management and Climate Change at the Same Time

Health of Power Grids Increases When Existing Data is Properly Harnessed

EPRI Develops AI Model to Reduce Wind Turbine Operations Costs

Building the Foundation for Utility Asset Analytics Part 2

Building the Foundation for Utility Asset Analytics Part 1

Climate Risk is Investment Risk – What Utilities Need to Know: An Introduction

Improving Asset Risk Mitigation by Making Data a Top Priority

The Trouble with Tons – Tons of Image Data That is

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