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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 duration. Outage prevention is even more important during the COVID-19. Until recently, storm-related…

Jill FeblowitzApril 4, 2020

Technology Grid

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 Are DER Heavy Utilities Being Held Captive by Technology Limitations?, posited that analytical…

Jill FeblowitzMarch 24, 2020

Grid

National Grid, Eversource Propose Transmission Solutions to Enhance Reliability (Via T&D World)

Solutions to provide Greater Boston with enhanced electric reliability and clean energy capacity. National Grid and Eversource are preparing to meet the energy shortfall expected to be caused by the eventual retirement of the Mystic Generating Station. New…

T&D WorldMarch 24, 2020

Grid

Hydrogen: The Other “Natural” Gas (Via T&D World)

Government agencies, environmental organizations, and manufacturers around the globe hold high hope for a green H-based economy. During my time as a young engineer at an electric utility, the standing joke we shared internally about the gas…

David ShadleMarch 10, 2020

Grid Strategy

A Journey, Not an End Point: A Case Study in Utility Digital Transformation (Via T&D World)

One of the world’s largest energy companies, ENGIE, is committed to being the world leader in the transition to a zero-carbon future. Achieving that goal led to a digital transformation of the business. The digital transformation of…

Kelly JamesMarch 10, 2020

Grid

Software Enhances Operational Performance of Transformers (Via T&D World)

ABB Power Grids recently launched its Asset Performance Management Edge solution for power transformers. ABB’s Power Grids business has launched its APM Edge solution for transformers. This technology accommodates the growing complexity of grid operations to safeguard…

T&D WorldFebruary 25, 2020

Technology Grid

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 distribution has not achieved maturity. The good news is that analytics infrastructure -…

Jill FeblowitzFebruary 24, 2020

Technology Asset & Workforce Grid

Artificial Intelligence: Smart(er) Front and Back Office Energy Operations

The use of AI in energy operations has picked up the pace in recent years and is now moving beyond back office automation It’s no secret that participating in energy markets and developing strategies requires processing massive amounts…

Jason KramNovember 13, 2019

Technology Grid

What Deep Learning Can Teach Utilities

How Duke Energy is gaining insight from self-organizing maps, a form of deep learning. Duke Energy has a reputation for deploying analytics to solve business problems. The Data Science role at Duke was defined in 2014, with the…

Jill FeblowitzNovember 8, 2019

Technology Customer Grid Strategy

Top Analytics Trends and Use Cases Showcased at Utility Analytics Week 2019

Overall utility industry analytics maturity has increased substantially when compared to the first Utility Analytics Week nine years ago. This year’s presentations covered the use of machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), deep learning…

Kim GaddyNovember 1, 2019

Grid

Is Your Utility Ready for Smart Inverters?

Smart inverters are getting more attention these days with utilities looking to mitigate voltage instability and variability on the system brought forth by distributed energy resources (DER). As the penetration of DERs increases, autonomous operation of smart inverters…

Jill FeblowitzSeptember 27, 2019

Strategy Grid Technology

CapX2020 utilities to study transmission grid’s ability to support ambitious carbon reduction goals

Upper Midwest regional utilities are embarking on a cross-state effort to establish a transmission investment approach. Midwest consortium CapX2020 utilities announced yesterday that they will study the Upper Midwest transmission network to identify system improvements and infrastructure upgrades…