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Boulder CO
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2021 14:27
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming March 17th Grid Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We have a very exciting Community Conversation planned for this month and hope you all can join us. On Wednesday, March 17th at 1:00 PM CST, we’ll be joined by Brad Gall, Senior Data Architect, Connected Analytics at The Energy Authority (TEA) who will be leading a discussion on “Getting More Dollars from your CVR Events.” During this discussion we’ll hear directly from The Energy Authority (TEA) on the successes of a “Voltage Insights” service they recently worked on with a PJM member. See below to learn more about this session and our presenter Brad.

Brad Gall – Senior Data Architect, Connected Analytics at The Energy Authority

Brad Gall is a Cloud Data Architect with over 20 years’ experience in Information Technology and Data Analytics. Working primarily with Microsoft data platforms, Brad has successfully delivered data driven projects across multiple industries in both corporate and consulting roles. In his current role as Senior Data Architect with The Energy Authority, Brad works on the Connected Analytics team to help utilities leverage value from the increasing amount of data pouring in from big data sources such as Smart Meters.

Session Description:

The Energy Authority (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.

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We’ll be providing a Microsoft Teams Link prior to our meeting but if you have any questions in the meantime please let us 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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Kevin Praet (Adm)

Member

March 16, 2021 at 4:24 am in reply to: Upcoming March 17th Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! This is another reminder to join us tomorrow, Wednesday, March 17 at 11:00 AM CT, for our March “Solve My Problem” exercise. We’re very excited to connect with you all and discuss the key problems/challenges presented by this community. I’ve provided our Microsoft Teams link below and on our calendar placeholder. If you have any questions or issues joining please let me know.

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2021 13:54
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming March 17th Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We have a very exciting Community Conversation planned for this month and hope you all can join us. On Wednesday, March 17th at 11:00 AM CST, we’ll be joined by Community Leader Catherine McCowan (Manager, Integrity and Asset Management Governance at Enbridge) who will be facilitating our “Solve My Problem” exercise. This meeting will further examine two challenges brought about during our February “Getting to Know You” polling exercise. Please see below to learn more about this session and our facilitator Catherine!

Catherine McCowan – Manager, Integrity and Asset Management Governance at Enbridge

Catherine McCowan has worked in the natural gas industry in the UK and Canada for more than 30 years. Over her career she has worked in R&D, Operations, Engineering, and Asset Management. Catherine is currently the Manager of Integrity & Asset Management Governance within the Integrity & Asset Management function at Enbridge Gas Inc. Catherine has degrees from Queen’s University (BSc Engineering), Strathclyde University (MBA) and Robert Gordon’s University (M. Eng).Catherine and her husband live in Stouffville, Ontario. She has 3 children and a house full of pets – 5 cats, 2 dogs, and a bearded dragon.

Session Description:

The “Solve My Problem” session will be delivered in a way that will encourage partnered collaboration between members to come up with solutions and/or action plans to help members solve real-time “problems”. During conversations about the “problems”, we encourage members to showcase their successes, share experiences and lessons learned, and gain valuable insights from the supportive and knowledgeable group of peers meeting during this Community Conversation. We encourage open, interactive dialogue throughout the exercise to create a vibrant and collaborative environment, and to ensure everyone in attendance receives an opportunity to voice their opinions and ideas.

Come prepared to discuss the following “problems” during the Natural Gas Analytics Community “Solve My Problem” exercise!

Facilitated by: Catherine McCowan, Manager, Integrity and Asset Management Governance at Enbridge

Problem #1: How are you dealing with antiquated systems that don’t talk to one another at your utility?
Problem #2: What are your practices for identifying market data drivers? For example:

What do we see as factors that drive things like long range demand for natural gas?
Home energy use reports and behaviors that drive down usage?
How to use analytics to predict growth areas for customers?, i.e. can market data and analytics tell us where growth and trends are going?

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We’ll be providing a Microsoft Teams Link prior to our meeting but if you have any questions in the meantime please let us 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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Kevin Praet (Adm)

Member

March 15, 2021 at 1:53 am in reply to: Upcoming March 16 Data Science Community Conversation

Hello Data Science Community Members,

Happy Monday and I hope everyone had a nice weekend! I just wanted to send a quick reminder for our community meeting tomorrow at 1:00 PM CT, “How I Use and Lessons Learned with TensorFlow for Neural Network Models,” and hope you all can join us. I’ve provided our Microsoft Teams link below and on our calendar placeholder. If you have any questions or issues joining please let me know.

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-09-2021 16:57
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming March 16 Data Science Community Conversation

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We have a very exciting Community Conversation planned for this month and hope you all can join us. On Tuesday, March 16th at 1:00 PM CST, we’ll be joined by Matt Spencer, Manager of Agile Analytics at Consumers Energy, and his presentation, “How I Use and Lessons Learned with TensorFlow for Neural Network Models.” During his presentation, Matt will share how he built a Neural Network Model in TensorFlow, how he was able to tweak it in TensorFlow and lessons learned along the way. Matt will take a shallow dive into advance architecture techniques, but will also discuss practical application of TensorFlow.

Please see below to learn more about our speaker Matt!

Matt Spencer – Manager of Agile Analytics at Consumers Energy

Matt Spencer is the Manager of Agile Analytics at Consumers Energy. He is a leader of all thing’s analytics and data. Matt loves engaging and interacting with people through it as much as the analytics that go with it. This has literally been a lifelong pursuit since he started building computers when he was 10. Analytics extends into his racing hobby where he used it to reprogram engine management computers for increased power and performance.

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I’ll be providing our Microsoft Teams link one day prior to the meeting. If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out and let us know.

Thanks!

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

Member

March 8, 2021 at 2:38 am in reply to: Upcoming March 9 Customer Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

Happy Monday and I hope all is well! I just wanted to send a quick reminder for our community meeting tomorrow at 11:00 AM CT, “Why are you charging me for 8 scoops of ice cream when I just wanted 1!?!? Alerting customers before it becomes a high bill,” and hope you all can join us. I’ve provided our Microsoft Teams link below and on our calendar placeholder. If you have any questions or issues joining please let me know.

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Phone Conference ID: 592 847 201#

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Thanks and I 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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Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2021 13:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming March 9 Customer Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We have a very exciting Community Conversation planned for this month and hope you all can join us. On Tuesday, March 9th at 11:00 AM CST we will be joined by Community Leader Daniel McCrobie, Sr. Analyst at SRP, and Gary Rector, Data Scientist at SRP who will be presenting on, “Why are you charging me for 8 scoops of ice cream when I just wanted 1!?!? Alerting customers before it becomes a high bill.” During this meeting community members will learn about a new program at SRP that helps customers detect high bills. Learn more about this session and our presenters below!

Session Description:

“At Salt River Project, we know that high bills are one of the worst experiences for customers. We recently launched a program that will alert customers that their bill may be higher than normal on the day after we detect the high usage. We provide tips and self-service options for customers so they can identify what may be wrong and fix it sooner rather than waiting to get a bill for an entire month of high usage.

Using analytics, a Hadoop system, and a data lake of meter readings, we calculate an expected value for each account. The usage from yesterday is compared to this expected value for yesterday’s temperature and day of the week. We will then send an alert if usage is statistically different than what was expected.

Join us to go over the specifics of this alert and how this was perceived by a pilot group of SRP customers. No one wants to pay for more ice cream than they ordered!”

Daniel McCrobie – Sr. Analyst at SRP

Daniel McCrobie is a senior analyst for Salt River Project, where he does Market, Customer and Employee Research. Daniel enjoys a unique challenge in research and focuses his clients on measuring behaviors in addition to attitudes where possible. Outside of work, Daniel enjoys snowboarding in winter months, motorcycles for most of the year and lives in Scottsdale Arizona.

Gary Rector – Data Scientist at SRP

Gary Rector has worked as a programmer and applied mathematician for a span of five decades, so he has seen many “next generations” of tools. He is currently a data scientist at Salt River Project-so far, the best twelve years in his career.

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I’ll be providing our Microsoft Teams link one day prior to the meeting. If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out and let us know.

Thanks!

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

Member

February 24, 2021 at 5:54 am in reply to: Upcoming February 25th Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! This is just a quick reminder to join us tomorrow, Thursday, February 25 at 1:00 PM CT, for our February “Solve My Problem” exercise. To join our meeting please use the Teams credentials below (also provided on our calendar placeholder) and let us know if you have any questions or issues joining.

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Phone Conference ID: 317 286 339#

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Thanks and I 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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Original Message:
Sent: 02-17-2021 17:52
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February 25th Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We have a very exciting Community Conversation planned this month and hope you all can join us. On Thursday, February 25 at 1:00 PM CST, we will be having a special “Solve My Problem” session where community members will collaborate on solutions and/or action plans to solve 2 key “problems” brought about during our kickoff meeting and “Getting to Know You” survey. Special thanks to our Community Leadership Team for facilitating and our members for providing their input. Learn more about this session and our facilitators below and see how you can best prepare!

Session Description:

Come prepared to discuss the following “problems” during the Enterprise Analytics Community “Solve My Problem” exercise!

Problem #1 – Facilitated by Eddy Halter, Evergy and Feltrin Davis, BGE/Exelon: What are your utilities practices for improving data quality, data validation, and data accessibility?
Problem #2 – Facilitated by Angela White-Parker, SoCalGas and David Jost, Alliant Energy: How is your utility monetizing data internally? What does your internal data monetization strategy look like? Can you share examples of internal data monetization? A simplified example for internal data monetization: You complete a project and save your company $1 million. In essence, you are monetizing data internally.

Facilitators:

Eddy Halter: Sr. Director, Enterprise Analytics – Evergy

Feltrin Davis: Sr. Manager, Advanced Analytics – Exelon Utilities

Angela White-Parker: Enterprise Information Architect – SoCalGas & SDG&E

Dave Jost: Director, Enterprise Analytics – Alliant Energy

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We’ll be providing a Microsoft Teams Link prior to our meeting but if you have any questions in the meantime please let us 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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Kevin Praet (Adm)

Member

February 23, 2021 at 12:00 pm in reply to: Upcoming February 24 Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! This is just a quick reminder to join us tomorrow, Wednesday, February 24 at 2:00 PM CT, for our February “Solve My Problem” exercise. To join our meeting, please call/click in using the Microsoft Teams link below (also included on our calendar placeholder).

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