• Natural Gas Analytics Community

  Recording for May 2023 Community Conversation + Next Month’s Details + Announcements

  Posted by Kevin Praet (Adm) on May 19, 2023 at 5:41 am

  Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

  Thanks for attending the May 17, 2023 Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation! For those unable to attend, we missed you and look forward to seeing you online next month. During this Community Conversation we were joined by Mark Knox, Former Director of Resource Management Forecasting at Southern Company Gas and Devon Grodkiewicz, Sales Support Representative at E Source who led a discussion around, “Analytics for Leak Detection forecasting and workforce optimization in Natural Gas.”

  
  Please find a recording and presentation deck for this community conversation in the library. If you haven’t taken our post-meeting evaluation, please take a minute and complete it at the following link: https://www.menti.com/aluozgqn54r5

  Keep reading for a few quick announcements!

  1.) Next Community Conversation: June 21, 2023 at 11:00 AM CT

  – Presentation with Q&A and open discussion around the following topic: Predicting how much fuel Entergy needs to purchase for their natural gas generation fleet (Official title TBD)

  – Speaker: Tim Brenan, Business Analytics Manager, Generation (Entergy)

  – More information on this session will be provided soon. To stay up-to-date with this session and each of our future community conversations be sure to visit our Events Calendar.

  2.) Utility Analytics Training – Register Today (Virtual and In-Person) for 2023!

  – Website URL: https://training.utilityanalytics.com/

  – UAI offers several training delivery options that help professionals improve skills from traditional public instructor-led classroom, which provides group learning experiences, to fully immersive training at home or in the office via our virtual classroom offering. UAI even provides private group training, so we could train your entire team at one time.

  – Email Leslie Cook at lcook@utilityanalytics.com if you have any questions around UAI Training 

  3.) Submit your Nominations for the 2023 UAI Excellence Awards

  – Link to awards portal: https://utilityanalytics.com/awards/

  – Deadline to Submit: June 30, 2023

  – Validation feels pretty good, and acknowledgement and celebration go a long way toward keeping employees satisfied, teams performing at a high level, and leadership engaged. Get the recognition you deserve with a UAI Excellence Award!

  – UAI honors the best in the utility analytics profession, recognizing the individuals, teams, and organizations that have achieved and maintained excellence through innovation.

  – Don’t wait to submit your nominations! Reach out to Kevin Praet at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com if you have any questions or need assistance.

  4.) Algorithm Alley – Brand New *UTILITY ONLY Resource on UAI Connect!

  – Algorithm Alley Link: https://connect.utilityanalytics.com/collaborate/algorithm-alley
  
  – Algorithm Alley is designed to help members share and collaborate on various forms of code, a resource heavily designed for our growing data science audience.

  – Currently divided into four categories (Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Machine Learning Algorithms, and Programming) members will have the option of perusing through different entries while also being able to upload their own content. Furthermore, members can like/upvote certain entries and interact publicly or privately with each author.

  5.) Join us at UA Week 2023 in Orlando, FL!

  – Website: https://www.utilityanalyticsweek.com/2023
  
  – Dates: October 31 – November 2

  – Location: Orlando, FL at Loews Potrofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando Resort

  – Utility Analytics Week is an annual conference that demonstrates how utilities can leverage analytics to gain new insights and solve business challenges. Attendees network with industry peers, share ideas, and leave empowered to utilize analytics to increase value across their organization.

  6.) Contribute a High Value Use Case for our Upcoming Repository

  
  – Submission Link:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CY8NMV

  – The high value analytics use case form is for collecting information about planned, underway, or complete high value analytics use cases.

  – The Executive Advisory Council (EAC) requests the collection of these use cases each year. The collected information is for UAI member utility company representatives only.

  
  7.) Speak During a Future Community Conversation!

  – Proposal Link: https://uaievents.wufoo.com/forms/x1ei9mtx17zuq9w/

  – All of our members have a different story to tell which is what makes the UAI Community great! Share what projects you’re working on at your utility by being a speaker during a future community conversation.

  – Remember, you don’t have to be at the end of your journey to share …sharing along the way is a valuable part of the process and could ultimately help you make adjustments and improvements. 

  Again please find the recording and presentation deck for this Community Conversation in the library. 

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