Utility Crews Deploy Rapidly Across the Southeast Following Easter Storms (Via T&D World)
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, utilities are doing everything in their power to protect workers, ensure safe working conditions. A series of storms…
Category: Asset & Workforce
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…
From Ubiquitous Acronym to Real Business Solution: Why Asset Performance Management Matters Today
I’m not here to sell you on asset performance management (APM)—plenty of blog posts and thought pieces already exist for that purpose. I’m here to…
Artificial Intelligence: Smart(er) Front and Back Office Energy Operations
The use of AI in energy operations has picked up the pace in recent years and is now moving beyond back office automation It’s no…
Data Hubs Surpass Data Lake Functionality for Asset IoT
Could data hubs provide a life preserver for analytics teams thrown into the deep end with IoT data? “Data hub” may be one of the…
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…
Market Snapshot: Utility Asset Performance Management
The world of asset performance management (APM) technology is expanding rapidly. But what does that mean in terms of how utilities are investing solutions that…
Outage data is everywhere
Social media and nontraditional data sets create transparency of when, why and where major grid events occur. In the fall of 2018, with a new…
Utilities discuss working safely with augmented reality at IEEE ESMO 2019
The same technology that superimposes bunny ears on Snapchat is also changing the fabric of utility workforce operations. Last month at the IEEE ESMO Convention,…
Increasing grid reliability through AI and the power of prediction
Tom Martin, formerly of PG&E and now Trove, discusses an AI data-driven path to outage prevention Reliability – the ability to deliver uninterrupted power to…