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Asset & Workforce Strategy

California Wildfires: Snapshot of Utilities’ Mitigation Plans (Via T&D World)

Utilities shared their plans for wildfire mitigation at recent workshops organized by the California Public Utilities Commission. With the risk of wildfires increasing in California, utilities are taking a proactive and preventative approach. The California Public Utilities…

Amy FischbachFebruary 25, 2020

An Interview with SAS Founder & CEO, Dr. Goodnight

SAS' Founder and CEO Dr. Goodnight weighs in on analytics in the energy and utilities industry. SAS has its roots in the energy and utilities industry. Can you provide an overview of how analytics has evolved since…

Mike Smith - Principal Industry Consultant (SAS)February 10, 2020

Strategy

Embedding Analytics from the Ground Up: Training and Projects

In 2018, UAI, published Ensuring Success in Analytics: A Playbook for Utility Executives, which provided advice to utility leaders on how to de-risk analytics deployments. The findings, based on interviews with analytics stakeholders at leading utilities, delivered insights…

Jill FeblowitzDecember 20, 2019

Customer Strategy

Reducing Bad Debt & Collection Costs with Predictive Analytics: Part 2

Scrying, the act of staring into reflective surfaces like crystal balls to see the future, can be traced back to the Medieval Period in central Europe (between 500 – 1500 AD). Thanks to predictive analytics, it is being…

Vanessa EdmondsDecember 11, 2019

Technology Customer Grid Strategy

Top Analytics Trends and Use Cases Showcased at Utility Analytics Week 2019

Overall utility industry analytics maturity has increased substantially when compared to the first Utility Analytics Week nine years ago. This year’s presentations covered the use of machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), deep learning…

Kim GaddyNovember 1, 2019

Asset & Workforce Strategy

PPL and AI: The Journey to ‘Data-Driven’

PPL Electric Utilities recognized early on that data – and the compelling ways it could be put to use – would play a major role in its becoming a “utility of the future” and delivering on its mandate…

Dan MeesOctober 10, 2019

Strategy Customer

A Team Approach to Utility Customer Journey Orchestration

Journey orchestration at its best includes planning and coordination of elements of an activity to produce the desired outcome. Here’s an example: A man by the name of Robert Cass is raising money for athletes with special needs…

Vanessa EdmondsOctober 3, 2019

Strategy Technology

Don’t let Smart Contracts Outsmart You: A Legal Perspective

Leonard Tillman is a partner in Balch & Bingham LLP’s energy practice In the future, Smart Contracts utilizing blockchain are expected to autonomously enable billions of transactions among power producers and transporters, consumers, vendors, service providers and even…

Leonard TillmanSeptember 11, 2019

Strategy

The shifting role of the CEO in an era of digital transformation – interview with Tom Siebel part 2

When most people think about a democracy versus a dictatorship, they distill it down to collaboration among people, or lack thereof. CEOs who use a dictatorial style of leadership believe that they are the only person who possesses…

Vanessa EdmondsAugust 22, 2019

Strategy Grid Technology

CapX2020 utilities to study transmission grid’s ability to support ambitious carbon reduction goals

Upper Midwest regional utilities are embarking on a cross-state effort to establish a transmission investment approach. Midwest consortium CapX2020 utilities announced yesterday that they will study the Upper Midwest transmission network to identify system improvements and infrastructure upgrades…

Lauren CallawayAugust 20, 2019

Strategy Technology

Tom Siebel’s data-driven approach to digital transformation: part 1

Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai, weighs in on a data-driven, strategy-first approach. “Putting the cart before the horse”, a cliché’ we inherited from the Greeks, means that the action that should come second is prioritized first. This approach…

Vanessa EdmondsAugust 8, 2019

Grid Strategy

Grid Analytics: Good or Great?

To thrive in the grid of the future, we must leverage analytics to move from good to great. As a kid growing up in Wyoming, I played every sport and, being from a small town, was considered good…

Mark JohnsonJune 26, 2019