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  February 2021 Grid Analytics Follow Up + What’s Next

  Posted by Kevin Praet (Adm) on February 22, 2021 at 7:10 am

  Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

  Thank you to everyone who attended our Grid Analytics meeting last Wednesday! For those unable to attend, we were joined by Community Sponsor Brad Steere, Director Operations Analytics (Consumers Energy) and Srinivas Rajan (Consultant) who presented on “Applying Machine Learning for Outage Predictions.” During the meeting Brad and Srinivas discussed a Consumers Energy project that is developing a wire down predictive model. Their model provided two beneficial outcomes which were discussed in detail with our attendees: 
  

  1. Improve the activation and response to outages (Reduce CAIDI)

  2. Optimize the infrastructure investment to minimize emergent outages (repair/replace before failure)

  For anyone that was unable to attend, you can catch up with a full recording and slide deck HERE. If you haven’t taken our post meeting evaluation survey, please take a minute and complete HERE.
  
  Keep reading for a few quick announcements!

  1.) Next meeting (Wednesday, March 17):

  Next month we’ll be meeting Wednesday, March 17 at 1:00 PM CT where Brad Gall, Senior Data Architect, Connected Analytics and Beth Massey, Director, Connected Analytics from The Energy Authority (TEA) will be presenting on, “Getting More Dollars from your CVR Events.” Please see below for a brief description and, as always, you can find out more information on our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

  “TEA provides analytics solutions to our utility members. A recent success was to provide one of our PJM members with a service known as Voltage Insights that provides financial analysis on savings potential from an existing CVR program.  Our Voltage Insights service allows them to interrogate their CVR events and test ‘what-if’ scenarios on voltage drops by feeder lines to identify areas for distribution cost savings, maintenance needs as well as infrastructure upgrades.  In this session we will discuss how we delivered this service to leverage the utility’s AMI data for increased revenue from their monthly CVR program.”

  2.) Utility Analytics Summit

  Utility Analytics Summit (May 3 – 5)  will be a 100% virtual event this year and is FREE for UAI members! To register, please visit the UA Summit website HERE and use code MEMBER21 when prompted. If you have any issues registering please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com. 

  3.) UAI Excellence Awards 2021 – Submit your nominations today!

  Have you or your team submitted a nomination for the UAI Excellence Awards? Our new award series honors the best in the utility analytics profession, recognizing the individuals, teams, and organizations that have achieved and maintained excellence through innovation. Submit us your nomination in one of six categories and be considered for a chance to win. All finalists receive one complimentary pass to award ceremony taking place at Utility Analytics Week 2021!

  Short Nomination Form: https://uaievents.wufoo.com/forms/rufcg500bi0o6r/
  Deadline: June 30, 2021

  4.) T&D World “Securing The Grid” March Event – Free for UAI Members!

  Our sister brand T&D World’s new event Securing The Grid is FREE for UAI members! For more information and registration, please visit T&D World’s event website HERE and use code UAIMEMBER. If you have any issues registering please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com. 

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  If you have any questions regarding the Grid Analytics Community or any of our announcements please let me know otherwise I look forward to connecting next month.

  Thanks!

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