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Why Satellite-Informed Vegetation Management is Rapidly Becoming the New Industry Standard

Satellites offer the utility industry enormous opportunities in the area of vegetation management. Students graduating from universities today most likely have never used a paper map to find their destination. The advent of GPS navigation, in combination with…

LiveEOApril 5, 2021

Grid Strategy Technology

Using Data Visualization to Realize Return on Smart Grid Investments

Data visualization software can help utilities visualize the return on smart grid investments and show how much change smart grid technologies bring. Data visualization is the graphical representation of data and information using visual elements such as maps,…

Live EarthMarch 31, 2021

Grid Strategy Technology

Three Problems Data Can Solve for Utilities—And One it Can’t

Apply data and analytics to solve these common challenges No utility has a perfect data and analytics strategy. There are simply too many problems to solve. From cybersecurity to asset inventory to customer experience, utilities are stretched way…

Robert LakeMarch 22, 2021

Strategy Technology Uncategorized

Outsourcing and Analytics: Foresight Makes the Difference

Outsourcing has emerged as a way to support utility analytics activities, but it comes with trade-offs. Outsourcing IT and business processes is not new to utilities. With the increased popularity of analytics, outsourcing has emerged as a way…

Jill FeblowitzMarch 12, 2021

Grid Strategy Technology Uncategorized

For T & D Leaders, Change Is NOT on the Horizon. It’s Here NOW.

The increasingly dynamic nature of the grid means platforms need to handle all aspects of the analytic modelling process in an integrated and seamless fashion to rapidly get from analytical model development to business decision-making. The proliferation…

Mike Smith, George MathewMarch 10, 2021

Customer Strategy Uncategorized

Portfolio Optimization Via More Surgical Customer Resource Acquisition and Evaluation

Blending customer-centricity and utility priorities is the art of portfolio optimization, but doing so can be perfectly scientific. In the first two articles of this series, I detailed how utilities can 1) use data science to break down…

Tom MartinFebruary 23, 2021

Strategy

REPORT: Reimagining the Utility Analytics Roadmap, Executive Summary

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A lot has changed over the past four years. There is more clarity about alternative organizational models, useful process methodologies, technology architecture and tool options, and the skill sets needed to develop and implement an analytics…

Utility Analytics InstituteFebruary 16, 2021

Strategy Technology

Valuating Digital Liabilities

Most power utilities create more or less the same data types as their peers, but what differentiates them is how some are better at extracting value from their data. If data is a company’s most valuable asset, why…

Stuart RavensFebruary 16, 2021

Grid Strategy Technology

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Why Utilities Need the Right Data to Empower Action While data can be an invaluable tool for utility companies, what happens when there’s too much of a good thing? Many utilities have vast amounts of asset data. This…

Kristen EllerbeFebruary 15, 2021

Strategy Technology

UAI and IBM Virtual Roundtable: State of Cloud Adoption in Utilities–Executive Summary

An executive summary on a virtual roundtable with eight investor-owned utilities discussing the state of cloud adoption. Purpose UAI and IBM hosted a virtual roundtable with eight Investor-owned utilities including, AEP, Avista, Duke Energy, Oncor Electric Delivery, Xcel…

Utility Analytics Institute, IBMFebruary 2, 2021

Customer Strategy Technology

Utilities and Data Science: Unlocking Portfolio Potential with an ‘Audience of One’

It has never been more urgent for utilities to understand their customers in vivid detail to unlock the full potential of programs and portfolios. Electric utilities have seen a large increase in low-to-moderate income (LMI) and small-and-medium-sized business…

Tom MartinFebruary 1, 2021

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

Strategy

Why Satellite-Informed Vegetation Management is Rapidly Becoming the New Industry Standard

Using Data Visualization to Realize Return on Smart Grid Investments

Three Problems Data Can Solve for Utilities—And One it Can’t

Outsourcing and Analytics: Foresight Makes the Difference

For T & D Leaders, Change Is NOT on the Horizon. It’s Here NOW.

Portfolio Optimization Via More Surgical Customer Resource Acquisition and Evaluation

REPORT: Reimagining the Utility Analytics Roadmap, Executive Summary

Valuating Digital Liabilities

Too Much of a Good Thing?

UAI and IBM Virtual Roundtable: State of Cloud Adoption in Utilities–Executive Summary

Utilities and Data Science: Unlocking Portfolio Potential with an ‘Audience of One’

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

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