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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…

Lauren CallawayJune 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…

Lauren CallawayJune 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…

Lauren CallawayJune 20, 2018

Grid Strategy Technology

Assuring Reliability in an Evolving Utility Landscape

The electric grid as we know it is changing. The generating resource mix is shifting with the retirement of natural gas, coal and nuclear plants combined with the introduction of renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar…

Ryan D. QuintJune 4, 2018

Strategy Customer

Should Utilities Outside of Europe be Worried about GDPR?

Data Privacy is top of mind across markets, due in part to the mandatory implementation of GDPR to all companies that do business within the European Union, in addition to the accumulation of headlines involving high-profile privacy violations (Red…

Lauren CallawayMay 24, 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…

Lauren CallawayMay 22, 2018

Customer Strategy

How Dangers of Imprecise Thinking Could Increase as T&D Data Accuracy Increases

Some folks may be surprised to learn that a utility with millions of customers could have a 100% accurate billing system which associates each customer address correctly with each meter, while having a much less accurate mapping of…

Peter ManosMay 22, 2018

Strategy Sponsored

Analytics Strategy is Like Military Intelligence

Utility analytics and I have had a very long, sometimes frustrating, sometimes rewarding relationship. Having started as a SCADA (Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition) market analyst nearly three decades ago, and SCADA being arguably an early version of…

Mike SmithMay 18, 2018

Strategy Technology

Bridging the Gap Between Analytics and Business: Southern California Edison’s Story

Last month at the Utility Analytics Summit, four data scientists provided examples and realistic perspective on how they’ve optimized model-building for their internal customers at Southern California Edison (SCE). Two key aspects of model-building emphasized by the SCE…

Peter ManosMay 16, 2018

Customer Strategy

1+1=4: What Synergies Will be Created by California’s May 2018 Initiative to Have PV Installed on All New Homes?

What unexpected synergistic benefits will be created, based on the announcement this week that California plans to have solar photovoltaic panels installed on 100% of new homes in the state? The announcement represents a tremendous vote of confidence…

Peter ManosMay 14, 2018

Grid Strategy Technology

Show me the Money—High-Profile for Advanced Analytics in Utility Project Finance

Advanced analytics will likely play a front-and-center role in the majority of goals associated with a drive toward operational excellence which American Electric Power highlighted in a recent publicly-available presentation to a major investment bank. Well-prioritized advanced analytics…

Peter ManosMay 9, 2018

Strategy

How Smarter Customers Can Make Smarter Grids: Using Lessons from Behavioral Science in Utility Marketing Programs

nalysts involved in building new Demand Response, Home Energy Network, and Energy Efficiency programs may find the following analogy of interest, especially if they work at utilities seeking to improve upon low (often single-digit percentage) participation levels currently…

Peter ManosMay 4, 2018