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Fathoming Advanced Analytics: Job Trends (part I of II)

Sometimes we need to pay attention to the man behind the curtain. U.S. utilities have a significantly higher portion of personnel involved in advanced analytics jobs than U.S. companies generally, and the top decile for these jobs’ salaries…

Peter ManosMarch 1, 2018

Asset & Workforce Strategy Technology

Oncor’s Journey to An Advanced Distribution Grid

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

Grid Strategy

Advanced Analytics Meets Challenges of Wind Power Head-on

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

Asset & Workforce Grid Strategy Technology

Tata Delhi’s Journey into the 21st Century

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

Asset & Workforce Customer Grid Strategy Technology Webinars

Centerpoint Energy’s Response to Hurricane Harvey

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

Strategy Technology Webinars

Empowering Collaborative Advanced Analytics Across Utility Operations

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

Asset & Workforce Grid Strategy Technology

Great Expectations: A Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Analytics

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

Asset & Workforce Customer Strategy Technology

PG&E’s Elaboration on Collaboration at Utility Analytics Week

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

Strategy Technology

Unlocking the Power of Analytics

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

Asset & Workforce Strategy Technology

Ameren Loss Analysis

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

Asset & Workforce Grid Strategy

Utilities and Analytics Excellence: An Interview with Raiford Smith

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

Asset & Workforce Customer Grid Strategy Technology Webinars

How Utilities are Leveraging the Benefits of Machine Learning

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