[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just uner one week away from our February (2022) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, February 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Pavel Ozhogin, Director, Data Science & Solution Development, and Srikant Vadali, Data Science Manager, at National Grid who will be leading a discussion around, “The Impact of Climate Change to Electric Transmission Assets”. As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

MIT did a study for National Grid where they simulated weather for the years 2025 – 2041 over a broad area that encompasses our service territory in New England and New York. The simulation took one year to complete and provides hourly weather data at a resolution of 3 km. The dataset is 63 terabytes in size and resides in our corporate Azure environment. The data science team at National Grid performed an extreme event analysis of wind speed and icing data to identify electric circuits that are likely to be impacted in the future. Our analysis provides insight on which circuits/assets National Grid should focus on to ensure that our transmission network is resilient to climate change.

Speaker: Pavel Ozhogin, Director, Data Science & Solution Development (National Grid)

Dr. Ozhogin has a passion for discovering actionable data insights that lead to measurable business impact. As the Director of Data Science, he leads and coaches his team of data scientists and energy forecasters to continuously identify and deliver on opportunities to help National Grid improve and maximize the value of using data science as a capability. Pavel enjoys working in the utility industry, which offers wide variety of data sets, vast use-cases in applying analytics, and most importantly – tangible societal impact. 

Speaker: Srikant Vadali, Data Science Manager (National Grid)

Srikant Vadali is a Data Science Manager at National Grid and was a Lead Data Scientist before he transitioned to the present role. He leads and manages the data engineering and machine learning operations for Data Science projects at National Grid. He has over 9 years of experience in the area of Data Science.
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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, February 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back out to me so I can be sure you are forwarded the invite an alternate way.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next week!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-02-2022 14:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With February just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our February (2022) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, February 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Pavel Ozhogin, Director, Data Science & Solution Development, and Srikant Vadali, Data Science Manager, at National Grid who will be leading a discussion around, “The Impact of Climate Change to Electric Transmission Assets”. I’ll be providing more information on this session one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

Our latest IT update allows me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars through my alternate email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com. I sent out invitations for this community, and each of our other communities, last month. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. As this seems to be an issue with some of our members’ firewalls, we recommend whitelisting my new email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com to ensure any invites don’t go to your spam/junk folders.

Again please let me know if you have any questions/concerns or do not have a calendar placeholder on your calendar.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting with you all this month!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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