• Executive Advisory Council

  Recap & Action Items: March 29, 2023 Meeting

  Posted by Leslie Cook (Adm) on March 30, 2023 at 9:55 am

  Hello UAI EAC Members,

  Thank you for attending the March 29, 2023 Executive Advisory Council (EAC) meeting. It was a pleasure to connect with you. We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to join us for this meeting and for the thoughtful input you provided during our discussions. 
  

  
  Please find below a recap of our discussions and action items highlighted in yellow. You will also find the slide deck and recording of the meeting in the EAC Library.
  

  
  UAI Executive Advisory Council: Recap Notes + Action Items 
  March 29, 2023 – Quarterly Virtual Meeting

  • 2023 EAC Meeting Schedule
    • The Executive Advisory Council (EAC) will meet in-person during both UAI events – UA Summit and UA Week. 
    • The EAC will meet for three hours during each event (which you requested). Past meetings were 2 hours in length
    • The EAC also requested that you not miss the opportunity to attend other events taking place on Day 1 of the events (roundtables, Community Conversations, etc.), so we moved the meeting to one day prior to the event. For example, the EAC meeting at UA Summit 2023 is being held on April 3, 2023. The event starts on April 4, 2023.  
    • Please make sure you have the following meetings on your calendar. They have already been sent to you and should be saved on your schedule. Let us know if we need to resend to you.
      • Quarterly 
        • June 28, 2023
        • September 27, 2023
        • December 13, 2023
      • In-Person
        • UA Summit in Kansas City: April 3 from 1:00 – 4:00 PM, followed by dinner at 5:30 PM CT
          • ACTION ITEM: If you are joining us for this meeting and you have NOT submitted your RSVP, please do so now at https://uaievents.wufoo.com/forms/zkvegfh0p40o5o/
        • UA Week in Orlando: October 30 from 1:00 4:00 PM, followed by dinner at 5:30 PM CT 
  • UAI Updates/Calls to Action
    • Welcome to our new UAI Members:
      • Utility Member: Owatonna Public Utilities
      • Solution Provider Members:
        • 4Liberty
        • Cognite
        • SAS
    • UA Summit is NEXT WEEK! There is still time to register at http://www.UtilityAnalyticsSummit.com
    • UA Week – Submit a Session Proposal by June 16, 2023 at http://www.UtilityAnalyticsWeek.com/2023/Speak
    • UAI Excellence Awards – Call for Nominations NOW Open! Deadline to Submit is June 30, 2023. Learn more and nominate today at http://www.UtilityAnalytics.com/Awards
    • June virtual training classes are filling up fast! Register today to save your seat! https://training.utilityanalytics.com/training2023
      • June 6-8, 2023: 202 – Introduction to Forecasting in the Utilities
      • June 7, 2023: Modernizing Data Governance for Utility Companies
      • June 14, 2023: Finding Meaning in Utilities Data – Visualization and Storytelling
      • June 20-22, 2023: Utility Analytics 101
    • Check out Algorithm Alley and share with your data scientists! 
    • ACTION ITEM: Safety Analytics Community Benchmarking Project
      • Please participate in this valuable project being led by the UAI Safety Analytics Community leadership team!
      • What is the problem we are trying to solve? Recordable Incident Rate (RIR) is easy to track, but it has flaws. We are looking for a better alternative to help track SIF and/or PSIF. We want to find a better way to measure safety performance that is a better indicator of SIF and PSIF. We think the alternative is the EEI SCL definition, but we want to explore options with the member of the Safety Analytics Community.
      • Take the poll today! Go to http://www.menti.com and use code: 3956 2121
    • ACTION ITEM: Driving Value for Community Conversations
      • We need your help and input to drive value for UAI Communities! It is time to refill the topic bucket for the following Communities and help prioritize topics of discussion for future Community Conversations! Our Communities Conversations are better when we get your input, and you help identify valuable, timely, and relevant use cases and topics of discussions for our meetings! PLEASE HELP US DRIVE VALUE! We only do this exercise about every 2 years and the surveys should not take you more than 10 minutes to complete.
      • Please take the following polls: 
        • Asset Health Analytics Community: https://www.menti.com/als6q1d8tm8a
        • Grid Analytics Community: https://www.menti.com/al6punsthjjf
        • Natural Gas Analytics Community: https://www.menti.com/altqok4s4c1e
  • 2023 Sub-Committees 
    • ACTION ITEM: A call for 2023 Sub-Committee Members!
    • Submit here: https://uaievents.wufoo.com/forms/call-for-2023-subcommittee-members/
  • Introduction to New UAI Sr. Research Analyst, @Sandi 
    • Sandi introduced herself, plus asked “How can I bring value to UAI content and research?”
    • Things shared by the EAC members:
      • Researching ML analytics platforms and comparing AWS to other tools in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Summarize the comparisons to socialize within the company. Need a sustainable tool
      • We Are looking into enterprise data science/advanced analytics platforms and would be interested in learning where others are in the process and what are the learnings
      • Possibly bring back the Brand Survey
  • EAC Discussion: 2023 and Beyond – Latest Utility Analytics Challenges, Industry Trends, Hot Topics
    • ACTION ITEM: Continue to submit your latest utility analytics challenges, industry trends, and hot topics to add to the below list! You can reply to this discussion thread or send to @Leslie at lcook@utilityanalytics.com
    • Generative AI (example: ChatGPT)
      • Here’s an article about why Amazon isn’t allowing employees to use ChatGPT: Don’t Chat With ChatGPT: Amazon’s Warning To Employees | by Liquid Ocelot | InkWater Atlas | Jan, 2023 | Medium
      • Research around security of using ChatGPT
      • ChatGPT, potential project proposal… what if we created a utility based ChatGPT environment that we share across utilities. This would allow us to leverage the tool in a specific domain that we can control, may address security/proprietary issues, and allow us to leverage our common industry knowledge. Wants to use for code reviews, automation. Wants to maximize it, but utility has shut it down.
    • Resource (Generation Fleet) Evolution 
      • Movement towards renewables
      • What does this mean for future reliability, resource demand
    • FERC 881
      • Requires utilities to report transmission line ratings
      • Working with transmission line providers.
      • How do we govern this and the quality?
      • Do you migrate this data into the cloud?
      • There was a question about tags around this topic
    • Impact of EPA policies and carbon emissions (also at state level environmental policies, not just federal)
      • Federal and state are different policies
      • How do you calculate the emission rate? Heat of generation unit or is it different? Common understanding
      • How do you manage the risks?
      • Seems big enough for us all to have conversations – may need a separate panel to dig deeper on this BIG topic
    • Cloud Computing Speeds
      • Rate Studies, other studies where we transfer data through the cloud.
      • What are other utilities doing to transfer data?
  • Sneak Peak at April 3 EAC Meeting Agenda
    • AMA Review
    • UAI Members via MapSearch
    • Job Description Sub-Committee Update
    • Live Action Polling: Future Training Opportunities 

  Thanks!

       Leslie

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  Leslie Cook
  Membership, Engagement, & Training Manager
  Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
  719-203-8650, lcook@utilityanalytics.com
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