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  FINALLY! A Recap + Action Items: April 3, 2023 Meeting – In-Person at UA Summit in Kansas City

  Posted by Leslie Cook (Adm) on May 9, 2023 at 5:19 am

  Hello UAI EAC Members,

  Thank you for attending the April 3, 2023 Executive Advisory Council (EAC) meeting that took place in-person at UA Summit in Kansas City. It was such a pleasure to connect with you in real life. 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. I will be sending individual reminders for each action item, so you don’t miss the opportunity to continue to drive value for the UAI community and members.

  Please find the slide deck from the April 3 meeting in the EAC Library. 

  UAI Executive Advisory Council: Recap Notes + Action Items 
  April 3, 2023 – Quarterly Virtual Meeting

  • 2023 EAC Meeting Schedule
    • Please make sure you have the remaining 2023 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 Week in Orlando: October 30, 2023 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 Week – Submit a Session Proposal by THIS FRIDAY, May 12, 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: Utility Analytics 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
    • 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 poll: 
        • Natural Gas Analytics Community: https://www.menti.com/altqok4s4c1e
  • 2023 Sub-Committees 
    • ACTION ITEM: A call for 2023-2024 EAC Sub-Committee Members! Let’s continue the great work we started in 2022 for the following sub-committees: Membership, Training, Content. 
      
    • 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?”
    • Sandi is always open to your ideas, so please continue to share your research and content ideas with Sandi at SJoralemon@UtilityAnalytics.com
  • Review of Key Findings of the 2022 Analytics Maturity Assessment – This has since been published to members and can be found in the Research + Resources section of UAI Connect

    UAI Utility Member Service Territories MAP – Per the request of EAC Members, UAI shared a map of the U.S. service territories that included a large majority of the UAI utility membership. This visual was a collaboration between UAI + MAPSearch, UAI’s sister company that offers GIS asset data for the energy industry. This map is a great visual that shows the strength of the UAI membership. We do not currently have data for Canadian utilities or other international utilities, but it is a great start. Please note that this visual is constantly changing as we add members, so we will update this map annually. ACTION ITEM: 1) We want to work with you to capture your service territory data to create a better representation of our utility members. If your territory is NOT included on this map, please reach out to me to help UAI capture your data to update this map of membership. For your help, our sister organization, MAPSearch, is offering 1 month free to their service. Please reach out to me, @Leslie, at lcook@utilityanalytics.com for directions on how to submit your service territory data for the map! Thanks! 

    Latest Utility Analytics Challenges, Industry Trends, Hot Topics – 2023 and Beyond

    • 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?
  • Job Description Sub-Committee Update
    • We provided an extensive update to the excellent work that the Job Description Sub-committee is doing. Review the EAC meeting slide deck for a full rundown of this update, here. 
    • We updated our Job Description Sub-Committee folder in the EAC Library with the latest version of our job briefs and notes. Find the updates here.
    • Job Description Sub-Committee Update
  • Future UAI Training Opportunities – POLL STILL OPEN! We want your feedback on future UAI professional development possibilities. If you want to help shape the future of what UAI offers through training and certification, please take this poll! 

  
  If you have any questions or need anything from UAI, please reach out to me, @Leslie, at lcook@utilityanalytics.com.

  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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