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Utilities May Be Key in Broadband Expansion to Underserved Areas

As broadband service rolls out to rural America and to other remote and underserved areas, it is increasingly clear that utilities will have important roles to play. Municipal, cooperative and investor-owned utilities all will have opportunities to be…

Tony TarvinJune 15, 2021

Grid Strategy Technology

Growing Analytics to Meet Current and Future Needs: NYPA’s Approach

NYPA is committed to becoming an end-to-end digital utility. At UA Summit 2021 they laid out how they developed their data analytics strategy, process, and architecture. The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has taken a disciplined approach to…

Jill FeblowitzMay 26, 2021

Strategy Technology

Three Things to Know About Power System Flexibility

Utilities in the United States have increasingly recognized the many benefits of power system flexibility and are developing their own services. Flexibility market development has been fastest in Europe I have been writing about the development of power…

Stuart RavensMay 13, 2021

Strategy Technology

How effective is your Data Model in supporting Enterprise Analytics?

An enterprise data model will help utilities drive value out of the data platform in fulfilling the holistic approach of semantic reconciliation, sourcing and data governance, as well as the application of data transformation rules and metadata enrichment.…

Michael CovarrubiasApril 29, 2021

Strategy Technology

Bringing Automated Inspection From Concept to Scale by “Closing the Loop”

Computer vision and the quickly evolving field of drones and robotics for inspection have become key figures in the race to realize automated operations across generation and grid. Just over a decade ago, I observed my first computer…

Gabe PradoApril 27, 2021

Grid Strategy Technology

Artificial Intelligence: How good is good enough?

Artificial intelligence is a great tool for specific purposes but it’s not a panacea for grid automation. Speak with any data scientist about artificial intelligence (AI) and you’ll soon hear one common gripe: that hype lifts expectations to…

Stuart RavensApril 20, 2021

Strategy Technology

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

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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

Utilities May Be Key in Broadband Expansion to Underserved Areas

Growing Analytics to Meet Current and Future Needs: NYPA’s Approach

Three Things to Know About Power System Flexibility

How effective is your Data Model in supporting Enterprise Analytics?

Bringing Automated Inspection From Concept to Scale by “Closing the Loop”

Artificial Intelligence: How good is good enough?

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

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