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Asset & Workforce Strategy Technology Webinars

Data: The Renewable Resource for Digital Reinvention

It’s undeniable - analytics provide utilities with opportunities to realize significant cost savings in work and asset functions. Additionally, improvements in network reliability, regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction and safety can be achieved. Obtaining these benefits requires a focused…

Lauren CallawayJune 27, 2018

Customer Technology

Using Analytics to Enable Successful IT/OT Convergence

There is a new mindset coming to the forefront for utility leadership, a mindset that says: “Data must be considered a vital asset to the enterprise.” Without this statement, grid modernization efforts will only go so far. Distribution…

Chris CarrieroJune 8, 2018

Grid Strategy Technology

Assuring Reliability in an Evolving Utility Landscape

The electric grid as we know it is changing. The generating resource mix is shifting with the retirement of natural gas, coal and nuclear plants combined with the introduction of renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar…

Ryan D. QuintJune 4, 2018

Technology

Road-mapping for Artificial Intelligence: Are Utilities Already There?

Earlier this month, Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar participated in a cross-industry White House Summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI). There were no identifiable outcomes of the meeting, but AI for utilities and power generators…

Lauren CallawayMay 31, 2018

Strategy Technology Webinars

Analytics as Strategy: Integrating Analytics to Drive Customer Value and Operational Excellence

Integrating Analytics to Drive Customer Value and Operational Excellence While many utilities understand that the analytics discipline offers many benefits, crafting an actionable analytics strategy has proven more difficult. In this session, Joe Tellez and Andrew Braeger of…

Lauren CallawayMay 22, 2018

Strategy Technology

Bridging the Gap Between Analytics and Business: Southern California Edison’s Story

Last month at the Utility Analytics Summit, four data scientists provided examples and realistic perspective on how they’ve optimized model-building for their internal customers at Southern California Edison (SCE). Two key aspects of model-building emphasized by the SCE…

Peter ManosMay 16, 2018

Grid Strategy Technology

Show me the Money—High-Profile for Advanced Analytics in Utility Project Finance

Advanced analytics will likely play a front-and-center role in the majority of goals associated with a drive toward operational excellence which American Electric Power highlighted in a recent publicly-available presentation to a major investment bank. Well-prioritized advanced analytics…

Peter ManosMay 9, 2018

Grid Technology

Taking a Cleaner Grid from Imagined to Dispatched in Practice

What will be required for Distributed Energy Resource Management System solutions to model and control increasingly complex grids and asset portfolios? Recent work by Sameer Kalra and his colleagues at Pacific Gas & Electric provides a sense of…

Peter ManosApril 4, 2018

Customer Technology

7 Reasons Not To Miss UA Summit 2018

The Utility Analytics Summit offers the same type of inspiring setting to exchange ideas as years past, but this year the Summit will be held in a growing technology hub: Irvine, California, from April 16th through the 18th,…

Jennifer EspelienApril 4, 2018

Grid Technology

Making Effective Headway with Machine Learning: What are We Missing?

As the members of UAI climb up the maturity curve and share their success around using analytics in their business, there are still road bumps ahead. I recently read an article related to machine learning, “The machine learning…

Peter ManosApril 3, 2018

Technology Webinars

The Future is Now

Over the last decade, utilities have pushed the envelope on analytics. Moving from an era where industry publications ran cover stories on the “data deluge,” we see utility analytics leaders today re-shaping business operations across the utility enterprise…

Lauren CallawayApril 3, 2018

Strategy Technology

Next Steps Toward a Next-Gen Advanced Analytics Infrastructure

What advanced analytics infrastructure will be required to enable reliable, full-scale deployments of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in the future? One can get some indications regarding key improvement areas for a future advanced analytics infrastructure by reviewing findings…

Peter ManosMarch 30, 2018