Hagen Haentsch serves as Director of Oncor’s Distribution Operations Center – West (West DOC). His organization is responsible for monitoring and operating the Western half of Oncor’s distribution system, which serves approximately 3.5 million customers. In this capacity…
Lauren CallawayFebruary 26, 2018
With wind power now exceeding hydro power as the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., variations in intermittency of different sources of renewable energy are driving ever-more complex analytics requirements which need to be addressed now…
Peter ManosFebruary 22, 2018
Shweta Mathur is the Head of Group, Business Relations & Analytics, of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL). TPDDL is a Public Private Partnership (Joint Venture) of Tata Power and Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi. The …
Lauren CallawayFebruary 20, 2018
Hurricane Harvey was a record-breaking storm inundating southeast Texas with 51.88 inches of rainfall, breaking the single-storm record of 48 inches set in 1978. The hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph at landfall. There were more…
Lauren CallawayJanuary 22, 2018
This webinar will discuss the emergence of the Data Science Platform as an integrated and collaborative environment for empowering advanced analytics across the utility enterprise. A successful Data Science Platform enables the proliferation of data, opening up new…
Lauren CallawayJanuary 17, 2018
Raiford Smith, VP of Energy Technologies at Entergy, shares advice to new utility players in the analytics game, and how to turn expectations into value. If you have read the classic novel Great Expectations, you will realize that plot…
Raiford SmithJanuary 2, 2018
Tom Martin, manager, Grid of Things, at Pacific Gas & Electric provides an interesting perspective on the value he and his team have been gaining from their collaborations with fellow Utility Analytics Institute members. A key focus for…
Peter ManosJanuary 2, 2018
As the Internet of Things becomes a reality, billions of connected devices are generating massive amounts of data. In fact, by 2020, the number of internet-connected things is estimated to reach 50 billion. All this data has a…
Jeff McCrackenDecember 19, 2017
A regulated utility recovers the cost of system losses through rate mechanisms partially supported by the utility’s system loss analysis (SLA). Traditionally, SLA requires a long and arduous engineering study that can take more than a year. It…
Keith P. HockOctober 10, 2017
I had the following interesting discussion regarding analytics trends with Raiford Smith, VP of Energy Technology and Analytics at Entergy. Raiford brings more than 26 years of industry experience with strategies and innovations related to supply- and demand-side…
Peter ManosSeptember 13, 2017
Machine learning is igniting a data analytics revolution across industries. Join UAI members, actively applying it to different operational domains to solve business challenges. Discussed use cases include: Demand Response, Outage Management, Real Time Grid Operations, and DER…
Lauren CallawayMay 9, 2017