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Upcoming May 3rd Community Conversation – Using Smart Grid Data to Drive Business Value
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Upcoming May 3rd Community Conversation – Using Smart Grid Data to Drive Business Value
Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,
Happy Monday and I hope you all had a nice weekend! It’s hard to believe but UA Summit is just one week away and we’re very excited to meet with you all Monday, May 3rd at 12:00 PM CT (1:00 PM ET, 11:00 AM MT, 10:00 AM PT) for our May Grid Analytics Community Conversation, Using Smart Grid Data to Drive Business Value. During this discussion we’ll hear from Amelia Badders (Director of Enterprise Advanced Analytics at CPS Energy) and Rolando Vega, PhD., PE (Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics and Intelligence at CPS Energy) who will share how CPS Energy is leveraging AMI data for SmartGrid applications in the area of outage intelligence. As this discussion will be part of UA Summit, we recommend you get registered if you have not done so already. Members of UAI can register for FREE using discount code MEMBER21.
Learn more about this session and our speakers below and come prepared to share your insight!
Session Description:
The opportunities for smart grid analytics are expanding, both in volume and usability for description and predictive analytics. Utilities are not new to data analysis in general, but smart grid data has broadened the value generating opportunity’s and applications of analytics.Join Amelia and Rolando for this session as they share how CPS Energy is leveraging AMI data for SmartGrid applications in the area of outage intelligence. They will provide practical examples of how data from multiple operations systems (AMI, OMS, GIS) are being initiated to drive value for the enterprise today as well as additional initiatives planned for the near future.
Speaker: Amelia Badders (Director of Enterprise Advanced Analytics at CPS Energy)
Amelia Badders was named Director of Enterprise Advanced Analytics Department at CPS Energy in July 2018. CPS Energy is $2 billion organization which serves over 800,000 retail electric customers and nearly 350,000 retail gas customers. In this role, she is responsible for establishing the advance analytics discipline as well as ensuring value creation through analytics. During Mrs. Badders nearly 25-year career at CPS Energy she has served in a variety of roles including Director of Commercial Analytics and Pricing in the Energy Supply and Market Operations area of CPS Energy, Director of Strategic Services for the Transmission and Distribution system, Chief of Staff to the CEO (2003) and manager in the Rates and Regulatory Department. She received her Bachelor’s degree in physics from East Carolina University in 1992 and her Master’s of Science Degree in Management of Technology from UTSA in 2003.Speaker: Rolando Vega, PhD., PE (Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics and Intelligence at CPS Energy)
Dr. Vega has been in the energy and analytics space for + 12-years. Dr. Vega has led development of workforce in analytics and contributed to the recent creation of a brand new department called Enterprise Advanced Analytics at CPS Energy. He currently leads a staff of engineers, analysts, and data scientists to perform predictive analytics and provide business insights. He is responsible for the analytical skills of the team, as well as the data and associated systems required to effectively provide solid analytics. He worked for 2-years in energy market operations where his team created insights worth millions of dollars. Before his current position he led the R&D and technical performance in the subjects of renewable energy forecasting, GIS LiDAR analytics, building load forecasting and grid integration at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Dr. Vega has led the development of 3 patent pending in the area of distributed energy forecasting and has been leading the development of technologies for distributed IoT traffic monitoring, cyber abnormality detection and prediction for the electric utility industry. He started the Renewable Energy consulting business in US, Mexico, Brazil, and China for a global 1700+ employee consulting company. Dr. Vega helped develop the company’s consulting renewable energy annual revenues to about $6M in 3-years. He drives teamwork, effectively draws from the strengths of his team and focuses in innovative ideas and great communication to provide solutions.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________A Microsoft Teams link will be updated on our calendar placeholder and sent to members one day prior to our meeting. If you have any questions on this session, or how to get registered for UA Summit, please let me know.
Thanks and we look forward to connecting!
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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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