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Estimating Electricity-Elasticity of GRP for Long-Term Demand Forecasting–Executive Summary

February Data Science Community Meeting Estimating Electricity-Elasticity of GRP for Long-Term Demand Forecasting Purpose February’s Data Science Community Meeting featured Alex Elder, PhD, Data Scientist for The Energy Authority (TEA) speaking about estimating electricity-elasticity of GRP for long-term…

Utility Analytics InstituteFebruary 25, 2021

Strategy Technology

Valuating Digital Liabilities

Most power utilities create more or less the same data types as their peers, but what differentiates them is how some are better at extracting value from their data. If data is a company’s most valuable asset, why…

Stuart RavensFebruary 16, 2021

Grid Strategy Technology

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Why Utilities Need the Right Data to Empower Action While data can be an invaluable tool for utility companies, what happens when there’s too much of a good thing? Many utilities have vast amounts of asset data. This…

Kristen EllerbeFebruary 15, 2021

Strategy Technology

UAI and IBM Virtual Roundtable: State of Cloud Adoption in Utilities–Executive Summary

An executive summary on a virtual roundtable with eight investor-owned utilities discussing the state of cloud adoption. Purpose UAI and IBM hosted a virtual roundtable with eight Investor-owned utilities including, AEP, Avista, Duke Energy, Oncor Electric Delivery, Xcel…

Utility Analytics Institute, IBMFebruary 2, 2021

Customer Strategy Technology

Utilities and Data Science: Unlocking Portfolio Potential with an ‘Audience of One’

It has never been more urgent for utilities to understand their customers in vivid detail to unlock the full potential of programs and portfolios. Electric utilities have seen a large increase in low-to-moderate income (LMI) and small-and-medium-sized business…

Tom MartinFebruary 1, 2021

Asset & Workforce Technology Uncategorized

Building the Foundation for Utility Asset Analytics Part 2

Asset analytics can help make the shift from run-to-failure to predictive and condition-based maintenance. This is the second part of a two-part series. Read part one here. Process and tool challenges The ability to collect and organize data…

Eric Henderson, Kevin Hade, Kojo SefaJanuary 5, 2021

Asset & Workforce Technology Uncategorized

Building the Foundation for Utility Asset Analytics Part 1

Predictive analytics can help utilities realize value through improved reliability, decreased O&M costs, improved safety, and developing a coherent, systematic approach to asset base replenishment. Using analytics for asset management within utility operations is far from a new…

Eric Henderson, Kevin Hade, Kojo SefaDecember 28, 2020

Customer Technology

Using data science to break down program silos and better serve your customers

What if you could double the performance of your utility’s program portfolio without increasing marketing spend? The development of new technologies and new ways of applying data science can make this a reality for utilities and help enable…

Tom Martin - Managing Director of Product, E Source Data ScienceNovember 30, 2020

Customer Sponsored Technology

The Year of Utility Transformation: Becoming Energy Resilient, Dynamic Energy Providers Through AI

Throughout a year of unprecedented change in 2020, utilities have been committed to developing energy resilience through innovation. While resilience is often thought of only in a grid capacity, this year has seen a fundamental shift in which…

Abhay Gupta - CEO, BidgelyNovember 9, 2020

Utility leader Southern Company uses SAS to better manage COVID-driven fluctuations and keep operations steady

Southern Company is recognized as a bellwether utility in the United States and around the world. This leadership position is owed not just to its size – it’s operating companies serve over nine million electric and gas customers,…

Mike F. Smith & Laura Brumley, SASNovember 3, 2020

Asset & Workforce Grid Sponsored Technology

Improving Asset Risk Mitigation by Making Data a Top Priority

Risk mitigation is the key reason to know the probability of failure of utility assets. Unfortunately, the utilities that know that best, are the ones that have had one or more catastrophic asset failures that jeopardized the safety…

Caitlin Frank, Adrian Larreal (Manager), and Debra Henderson (Principal Consultant)October 21, 2020

Asset & Workforce Technology

The Trouble with Tons – Tons of Image Data That is

PG&E recently received a CIO 100 Award for Excellence for its creative approach to wildfire risk. The utility applied machine learning to aerial images of transmission towers – PG&E has 2 million - to shorten the time it…

Jill FeblowitzSeptember 29, 2020