[Harshal Upadhye]

Hi Ben, EPRI has led the Utility Blockchain Interest Group (UBIG) for the past 16 months. UBIG is an interest group focused on blockchain applications in the utility sector. This group brings together utilities from across the world to discuss potential applications, challenges, benefits, as well as identify opportunities for future research or demonstrations. If you’d like to discuss UBIG in more detail, please let me know and the lead, Hannah Davis, can connect with you.

Harshal Upadhye
Program Manager – AI
EPRI

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Harshal Upadhye
Program Manager
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-31-2019 10:27
From: Ben Ettinger
Subject: Block Chains

Are there any Utility Block Chain Consortium’s that you are aware of? I’ve heard of one  http://energy-blockchain.org/

Is anyone aware of others?

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Ben Ettlinger
Emerging Technologies
New York Power Authority
White Plains, NY
914 681 6496
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[Ben Ettlinger]

Harshal, thank you for the information. I will be discussing this with our manager of the EPRI program we participate in.

 

Ben

 

Ben Ettlinger

Emerging Technology

New York Power Authority

123 Main St.

White Plains NY 10601

 

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Hi Ben, EPRI has led the Utility Blockchain Interest Group (UBIG) for the past 16 months. UBIG is an interest group focused on blockchain applications in the utility sector. This group brings together utilities from across the world to discuss potential applications, challenges, benefits, as well as identify opportunities for future research or demonstrations. If you’d like to discuss UBIG in more detail, please let me know and the lead, Hannah Davis, can connect with you.

Harshal Upadhye
Program Manager – AI
EPRI

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Harshal Upadhye
Program Manager
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
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[Ben Ettlinger]

Thanks for the reply. Our evaluation team may want to follow up with you in a few weeks. ​

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Ben Ettlinger
Emerging Technologies
New York Power Authority
White Plains, NY
914 681 6496
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-03-2020 09:50
From: JC Zannis
Subject: Yes Energy Platform

Ben,

We’ve used Yes Energy for about six years, though we have tended to use it more for modeling transmission outages and congestion.  My personal experience is from 4+ years ago, but if you want to reach out I can put you in touch with people who have used it recently.  My recollections:

• Very easy to use for our traders and analysts
• Vendor service was second to none; very responsive and helpful; always looking for ways to improve their product.  They have a user conference annually in Boulder where users suggest and vote on the enhancements they want to see in the upcoming year.
• They have (had?) two add-on data options.  One was API based and the other was SQL Server based.  They likely have something better now.

As I said, feel free to reach out if you want to talk to someone with more recent experience.

J.C. Zannis

Structuring & Analysis

Southern Company Generation

(205) 992-0465 (w)

(205) 329-0749 (c)

jczannis@southernco.com

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JC Zannis
Manager, Structuring & Analysis
Southern Company
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-02-2020 11:02
From: Ben Ettinger
Subject: Yes Energy Platform

​Is anyone familiar wit the Yes Energy Trading Platform? We are particularly interested in the module that covers generation outages. What has been the experience with this product;

• from a user perspective
• technology perspective
•  vendor service
• commitment to the product
• Availability of data for analytics

What other vendors reside in this market space?

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Ben Ettlinger
Emerging Technologies
New York Power Authority
White Plains, NY
914 681 6496
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