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.…
Category: 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…
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…
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…
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…
Don’t let Smart Contracts Outsmart You: A Legal Perspective
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…