[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September (2023) Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, September 26 at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Community Leaders Mary Chapa, Fleet & Safety Informatics Manager at CPS Energy and Tony Klutz, Senior Industrial Hygienist at Avista who will be leading and facilitating our discussion around, “Maximizing Safety Analytics: Unveiling Community Benchmarking Survey Results and Annual Benchmarking Preparation.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

Explore the latest findings from the Safety Analytics Community Benchmarking Survey and gain valuable insights to enhance safety practices in your utility. Furthermore, this session will lay the groundwork for the upcoming Annual Safety Analytics Benchmarking initiative (February each year). We will guide participants on how to participate in the benchmarking process effectively, providing them with the necessary resources to collect and analyze their safety data comprehensively. The goal is to empower organizations with the knowledge and skills to benchmark their safety performance, enabling them to set ambitious safety targets for the future.

Join us for this engaging session and be part of a supportive community that collaborates to make utility workplaces safer for everyone. Together, we can forge a path towards a safer and more productive future, fueled by data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.

Speaker: Mary Chapa, Fleet & Safety Informatics Manager (CPS Energy)

Mary Chapa is the Fleet & Safety Informatics Manager at CPS Energy. Mary has extensive experience in a variety of roles over the past 10 years with particularly strong experience in analytics and visualization.  Mary earned both her BBA in Accounting and her MBA in Finance from the University of Houston.  She has begun work on a master’s in data science through the University of Houston-Victoria.  

Speaker: Tony Klutz, Senior Industrial Hygienist (Avista)

Tony Klutz is the Senior Industrial Hygienist at Avista Utilities. He has been with Avista for 9 years. Prior to Avista, Tony worked for Itron and predecessor companies. Tony has worked in a variety of occupations over the years including Research and Development, Manufacturing Engineering and Health Safety and Environment. 

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Boulder CO
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-01-2023 11:08
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming September (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With September just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our September (2023) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, September 26 at 2:00 PM CT we’ll be joined by Mary Chapa, Fleet & Safety Informatics Manager at CPS Energy and Tony Klutz, Senior Industrial Hygienist at Avista who will be leading a discussion around, “Maximizing Safety Analytics: Unveiling Community Benchmarking Survey Results and Annual Benchmarking Preparation.”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

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)]

Hello UAI Members,

Happy Wednesday and I hope everyone is doing well! Rather than share one quote this week for #WisdomWednesday, I actually wanted to share a short video that contain several great quotes. For those looking for inspiration, I couldn’t recommend their YouTube channel anymore, there’s a lot of great material!

As always if there’s a quote you would like to share, I’d love to hear from you! Please comment in the reply section below.

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

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September (2023) Grid Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, September 20 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Yang Weng, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University who will be leading a discussion around, “Utility Data Analytics via Machine Learning.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Deep penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) calls for improved monitoring of power systems against reliability and security issues. For example, the low observability in some distribution grids makes monitoring DERs hard due to limited investment and vast coverage of distribution grids. Past methods proposed machine learning models with limited explainability. However, critical energy infrastructure needs assurance. For such a need, this talk shows how to design assured machine learning for power system monitoring via a twin structure of two learning agents, namely the AI-based and physics-guided models. The twins will collaborate adaptively to minimize the learning error while maximizing physical consistency. The structure ensures good generalization properties of the learned models. We then illustrate how twin models can be used to design cyber-attacks that can bypass the chi-squared test on bad data without the system information and discuss how to monitor and mitigate such attacks. Finally, we will demonstrate how the proposed methods are validated using our utility-connected hardware-in-the-loop microgrid.

Speaker: Yang Weng, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Arizona State University)

Yang Weng received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Upon graduation, he joined Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). He is the consortium chair for Energy Cyber, a joint center established by the US Department of Energy and the Israel Ministry of Energy. Yang’s research interests are power systems, data science, and cybersecurity. Yang received the NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR YIP Finalist Award, Amazon Research Award, Outstanding IEEE Young Professional Award, Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, and Centennial Award for Teaching. Yang also received 9 Best Paper Awards, the Winner Award for International Competition on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and 2nd Place in Accuracy/1st Place in Speed for the RTE International Competition on “Learning to Run a Power Network” in 2019. ABB Fellowship and Stanford Tomcat Fellowship also recognize his work. 

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Boulder CO
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-01-2023 11:06
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming September (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With September just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our September (2023) Grid Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, September 20 at 1:00 PM CT we’ll be joined by Yang Weng, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University who will be leading a discussion around, “Utility Data Analytics via Machine Learning.”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

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)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September (2023) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, September 20 at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Tim Brenan, Business Analyitcs Manager, Generation at Entergy who will be leading a discussion around, “Fueling the Future: Unleashing the Power of Prediction in Entergy’s Natural Gas Generation Fleet.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session below!

Session Description:

Entergy spends $2-3B on natural gas on an annual basis. To optimize this cost, Entergy’s analytics team partnered with the fuel purchasing group to improve the forecast of how much natural gas is required to power its natural gas units in the MISO day ahead market. Using a recurrent neural network, Entergy has thus far been able to improve the current forecast, saving money on fuel. The project is still under development and is in the process of being rolled out for use across its entire gas fleet. Learn more about Entergy’s business problem, approach, and future value at this session.

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Boulder CO
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-01-2023 11:07
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming September (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With September just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our September (2023) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, September 20 at 11:00 AM CT we’ll be joined by Tim Brenan, Business Analytics Manager, Generation at Entergy who will be leading a discussion around, “Fueling the Future: Unleashing the Power of Prediction in Entergy’s Natural Gas Generation Fleet.”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

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)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September (2023) Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, September 19 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Liz Cook, Director Advanced Grid Systems and Grid Modernization at Duquesne Light Company (DLC) and Jonah Keim, Director of Data Science at E Source who will be leading a discussion around, “Grid Modernization Case Study: Duquesne Light Company.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your inight.

Learn more about this session below!

Session Description:

Duquesne Light Company will share their advancement in becoming a data-driven, modernized digital utility focused on continuous innovation for the long term. In this presentation, we’ll explore the importance of leadership in making these advancements, and how DLC has approached their strategy and plans for grid modernization through advanced analytics and data science.

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Original Message:
Sent: 09-01-2023 11:03
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming September (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! With September just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our September (2023) Data Science Community Conversation. On Tuesday, September 19 at 1:00 PM CT we’ll be joined by Liz Cook, Director Advanced Grid Systems and Grid Modernization at Duquesne Light Company (DLC) and Jonah Keim, Director of Data Science at E Source who will be leading a discussion around, “Grid Modernization Case Study: Duquesne Light Company.”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

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)]

Hello Customer Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September (2023) Customer Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, September 12 at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Pancham Banerjee, Data Scientist at Consumers Energy who will be leading a discussion around, “Financial Health Analytics for the Residential Sector.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Join us for this session for a review of the work done on Financial Health Analytics at Consumers Energy (as part of the CIA team) in 2020. The first part will comprise a walkthrough of the financial health customer segmentation part of the project and the second part will go into details of the forecasting work done as part of this project, both on consumption forecasting and load usage.

Speaker: Pancham Banerjee, Data Scientist (Consumers Energy)

Pancham Banerjee has a PhD in Computational Astrophysics from USC. He has been working in the AI space since he graduated from USC in 2019. Recent obsessions include 2D Game Design and Generative AI. 

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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello UAI Members,

For this week’s #WisdomWednesday post, I wanted to share a quote I found from Baris Gencel about the importance of knowledge sharing. One of my favroite parts of the UAI community is the williness for members to share their knowledge with one another and thank each of you for your dedication and contribution throughout UAI communities and forums! Please see below and as always, if you have a quote you would like to share, we’d love to hear from you in the reply section.

“Knowledge is power as long as it is shared”

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-28-2023 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

It’s hump day which means we wanted to start another fun #WisdomWednesday thread! Often times with a long weekend coming up, I find myself getting a little more stressed than usual trying to accomplish and get everything done but have found the following quote useful in keeping me relaxed and grounded. There’s no reason why we can’t be relaxed and still accomplish everything on our lists, in fact staying relaxed will only benefit us in the long-run!

“Let go the idea that gentle, relaxed people can’t be superachievers”

UAI Members – If you have a quote or piece of wisdom you would like to share, let us know in the comments section below!

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

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our August (2023) Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Thursday, August 24 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Rajarajan Arumugam, Data Governance Lead at Entergy who will be leading part 1 of our Data Governance series on, “Significance of Integrated Data Governance Program in Utilities and their Current Challenges.” As this discussion will be interactive we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session below!

Session Description:

This session will cover the significance of an integrated data governance program including the following functional areas, challenges, and necessary skill set for the journey.

• Data Privacy & regulatory Compliance

• Data Quality and Integrity

• Data Governance

• Metadata Management

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Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our August (2023) Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, August 22 at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Elif Erkal, PhD, Senior Associate at Exponent who will be leading a discussion around, “Moving Beyond Injury Rates: Best Practices in Measuring Safety to prevent serious injuries and fatalities (SIF).” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

We cannot manage what we cannot measure. The success of any safety management system heavily depends on the quality of metrics it measures to evaluate safety performance. Traditionally, the industries use incident rates that only capture the counts of incidents as their main method of safety performance measurement. However, recently both industry and academia concur that these rates are too limited in their capacity to facilitate robust safety performance measurements to inform safety decision-making and predictions. In this presentation, Dr. Elif Erkal explores the limitations of injury rates and presents new and improved strategies that could help improve safety performance measurements.

Speaker: Elif Erkal, PhD, Senior Associate (Exponent)

Dr. Elif Erkal is a Senior Associate in the Construction Consulting practice of Exponent. She has a PhD in Construction and Engineering management from University of Colorado Boulder specializing in safety performance measurement and predictive analytics for serious injury and fatality prevention. Her focus is on data and knowledge management systems, predictive analytics, organizational design; providing technical, analytical, operational, and organizational support in various industries including utilities and construction. Previously, she worked in the oil and gas industry as a contracts manager and completed her earlier graduate work in Carnegie Mellon University, which had an emphasis on operational networks, and organizational learning in construction.  

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Original Message:
Sent: 08-01-2023 10:37
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming August (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With August just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our August (2023) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, August 22 at 2:00 PM CT we’ll be joined by Elif Erkal, PhD, Senior Associate at Exponent who will be leading a discussion around, “Moving Beyond Injury Rates: Best Practices in Measuring Safety to prevent serious injuries and fatalities (SIF).”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

 

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)]

Hello UAI Members,

Sharing another great quote for this week’s #WisdomWednesday#WisdomWednesday, this time coming from one of my favorite guitarists of all time Jimi Hendrix!

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”

Jimi Hendrix

Have a quote you would like to share? We would love to hear from you below! 

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-09-2023 15:16
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

I recently started reading James Clear’s “Atomic Habits” and am overwhelmed not only with the great content but also the amazing quotes! Clear’s message is conveyed throghout the book in a clear/concise way that always has me anxious to start a new chapter. For this week’s #WisdomWednesday I wanted to share one of Clear’s quotes that really stuck out to me. If you’ve read the book, was there a quote that stuck out to you? Let us know!

“Every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become” – James Clear (Atomic Habits) 

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2023 16:37
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

Happy start of August! I hope everyone is enjoying the final month of summer and dodging the extreme heat. During today’s #WisdomWednesday thread, I wanted to share a quote around #persistence and the important lessons we can all learn through sticking with something. 

This quote comes from Condoleezza Rice. I hope you enjoy and take something from her message!

“I’m very glad my mother didn’t let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn’t old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I’m really glad she said what she did.” 

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

Original Message:
Sent: 07-26-2023 14:02
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

I hope all is well and that everyone is enjoying the end of July! I know several folks are out of office on a much deserved summer vacation but for those of you still in office I wanted to share a short poem for this week’s #WisdomWednesday. The poem below comes from Catherine Pulsifer who has become a recent favorite for me. If you have a wisdom themed poem I’d love to hear from you below as well! 

 

Catherine Pulsifer, © 2012

Easy is as easy does,
Who hasn’t heard that phrase?
But what really does that mean,
If you don’t do, easy never finds the way?

There are so many different ways,
That messages are tangled in.
Find a quote or poem you like,
Then make sense of what is says.

Sometimes you may not understand,
But then there will be times you do.
And those times are when we truly benefit,
And bring the message into view.

Wisdom finds us in many ways,
It’s up to us to allow it to help.
Many people benefit from these thoughts,
And it’s a way to allow yourself to self-help.

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

Original Message:
Sent: 07-05-2023 14:08
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

I hope everyone had an amazing 4^th of July weekend! To continue our #WisdomWednesday theme, I wanted to share another quote with you all which also doubles down as a reminder to stay positive even when things aren’t going your way. Have a quote or piece of wisdom you would like to share? I’d love to hear from you below!

“A negative mind will never give you a positive life”

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

Original Message:
Sent: 06-28-2023 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

It’s hump day which means we wanted to start another fun #WisdomWednesday thread! Often times with a long weekend coming up, I find myself getting a little more stressed than usual trying to accomplish and get everything done but have found the following quote useful in keeping me relaxed and grounded. There’s no reason why we can’t be relaxed and still accomplish everything on our lists, in fact staying relaxed will only benefit us in the long-run!

“Let go the idea that gentle, relaxed people can’t be superachievers”

UAI Members – If you have a quote or piece of wisdom you would like to share, let us know in the comments section below!

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

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our August (2023) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, August 23 at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Dr. Nanpeng Yu, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Riverside who will be leading a discussion around, “Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance of Distribution Transformers.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

This session covers a method for the predictive maintenance of distribution transformers. That is, a method of predicting which transformers are most likely to fail soon. Once predicted, such transformers may be subject to maintenance or replacement. This practice reduces the costs and increases the reliability of power distribution systems. The practice is common in transmission systems. In that domain, physical methods such as dissolved gas analysis see fantastic results. Data-driven techniques utilizing DGA data are also popular. But such methods are cost prohibitive for distribution systems. Instead, this paper proposes to utilize a data driven framework for the task which only uses readily available data. Such data include the transformers’ specification, loading, location, and weather-related information. Such data inspire the use of two suitable machine learning algorithms. The first is random forests. The second is the Random Undersampling with AdaBoost (RUSBoost) algorithm. These algorithms are tested on over 700,000 distribution transformers in Southern California. This test finds that both algorithms outperform the current state of practice. Further, it finds that the RUSBoost algorithm performs better than the Random Forest.

Speaker: Dr. Nanpeng Yu, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of California, Riverside)

Dr. Nanpeng Yu received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2006. Dr. Yu received his M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics and Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University in 2010. Before joining University of California, Riverside, Dr. Yu was a senior power system planner and project manager at Southern California Edison from Jan 2011 to July 2014.

Currently, he is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, CA. Dr. Yu is the recipient of the Regents Faculty Fellowship and Regents Faculty Development award from the University of California. He received multiple best paper and prize paper awards from the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meetings, IEEE Power and Energy Society Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia and the Second International Conference on Green Communications, Computing and Technologies.

Dr. Yu is the director of the Energy, Economics, and Environment Research Center at UC Riverside. Dr. Yu is also a cooperating faculty member of the department of computer science and engineering and department of Statistics. He currently serves as the chair of distribution system operation and planning subcommittee of IEEE Power and Energy Society and the chair for IEEE Power and Energy Society Working group of data-driven modeling, monitoring, and control for Power Distribution Networks. Dr. Yu currently serves as the associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and IEEE Power Engineering Letters. 

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Original Message:
Sent: 08-01-2023 09:01
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming August (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With August just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our August (2023) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, August 23 at 2:00 PM CT we’ll be joined by Dr. Nanpeng Yu, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Riverside who will be leading a discussion around, “Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance of Distribution Transformers.”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

Thanks!

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

Hello UAI Members,

I recently started reading James Clear’s “Atomic Habits” and am overwhelmed not only with the great content but also the amazing quotes! Clear’s message is conveyed throghout the book in a clear/concise way that always has me anxious to start a new chapter. For this week’s #WisdomWednesday I wanted to share one of Clear’s quotes that really stuck out to me. If you’ve read the book, was there a quote that stuck out to you? Let us know!

“Every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become” – James Clear (Atomic Habits) 

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Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2023 16:37
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

Happy start of August! I hope everyone is enjoying the final month of summer and dodging the extreme heat. During today’s #WisdomWednesday thread, I wanted to share a quote around #persistence and the important lessons we can all learn through sticking with something. 

This quote comes from Condoleezza Rice. I hope you enjoy and take something from her message!

“I’m very glad my mother didn’t let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn’t old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I’m really glad she said what she did.” 

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Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-26-2023 14:02
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

I hope all is well and that everyone is enjoying the end of July! I know several folks are out of office on a much deserved summer vacation but for those of you still in office I wanted to share a short poem for this week’s #WisdomWednesday. The poem below comes from Catherine Pulsifer who has become a recent favorite for me. If you have a wisdom themed poem I’d love to hear from you below as well! 

 

Catherine Pulsifer, © 2012

Easy is as easy does,
Who hasn’t heard that phrase?
But what really does that mean,
If you don’t do, easy never finds the way?

There are so many different ways,
That messages are tangled in.
Find a quote or poem you like,
Then make sense of what is says.

Sometimes you may not understand,
But then there will be times you do.
And those times are when we truly benefit,
And bring the message into view.

Wisdom finds us in many ways,
It’s up to us to allow it to help.
Many people benefit from these thoughts,
And it’s a way to allow yourself to self-help.

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

Original Message:
Sent: 07-05-2023 14:08
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

I hope everyone had an amazing 4^th of July weekend! To continue our #WisdomWednesday theme, I wanted to share another quote with you all which also doubles down as a reminder to stay positive even when things aren’t going your way. Have a quote or piece of wisdom you would like to share? I’d love to hear from you below!

“A negative mind will never give you a positive life”

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

Original Message:
Sent: 06-28-2023 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Wisdom Wednesday – Inspiration to Get You Through the Week

Hello UAI Members,

It’s hump day which means we wanted to start another fun #WisdomWednesday thread! Often times with a long weekend coming up, I find myself getting a little more stressed than usual trying to accomplish and get everything done but have found the following quote useful in keeping me relaxed and grounded. There’s no reason why we can’t be relaxed and still accomplish everything on our lists, in fact staying relaxed will only benefit us in the long-run!

“Let go the idea that gentle, relaxed people can’t be superachievers”

UAI Members – If you have a quote or piece of wisdom you would like to share, let us know in the comments section below!

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

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our August (2023) Grid Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, August 16 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Alex (Hengfang) Deng, Senior Analyst, Load Forecasting & Analytics and Kan Ito, Lead Data Scientist, Load Forecasting & Analytics at National Grid who will be leading a discussion around, “Geospatial DER Growth Modeling and Load Forecasting at National Grid.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

Electric load forecasting and DER modeling play a vital role in maintaining grid stability and resiliency. Currently, the multi-level electric load forecast at National Grid captures the increasingly important interactions and uncertainties of the grid dynamics and incorporates a variety of technological developments, policy goals, macro-economics, as well as other factors. In this presentation, advanced geospatial modeling of emerging DER technologies such as electric vehicles and photovoltaics will be presented to demonstrate how different DER adoptions and load impacts are modeled at the feeder level by the Load Forecasting & Analytics team at National Grid.

Speaker: Alex (Hengfang) Deng, Senior Analyst, Load Forecasting & Analytics (National Grid)

Hengfang Deng, Senior Analyst at the Load Forecasting & Analytics team at National Grid. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University, a master’s degree in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology. He has research and working experience in modeling artificial intelligence for urban science, large-scale location data analytics, and commercial building energy use. He currently works on feeder-level load forecasting and DER modeling. 

Speaker: Kan Ito, Lead Data Scientist, Load Forecasting & Analytics (National Grid)

Kan Ito, Lead Data Scientist at the Load Forecasting & Analytics team at National Grid. Kan holds a master’s degree in Energy Engineering from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Kan worked as a Sr. Data Scientist for PG&E, where he developed wildfire forecasting models. Kan also has experience in assessing and optimizing energy storage system operations. He currently works on feeder-level load forecasting and DER modeling. 

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Original Message:
Sent: 08-01-2023 10:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming August (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With August just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our August (2023) Grid Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, August 16th at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Alex (Hengfang) Deng, Senior Analyst, Load Forecasting & Analytics and Kan Ito, Lead Data Scientist, Load Forecasting & Analytics at National Grid who will be leading a discussion around, “Geospatial DER Growth Modeling and Load Forecasting at National Grid.”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

 

Thanks!

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

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our August (2023) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, August 16 at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by Vincent Iacobellis, Sr. Integrity Assessments Engineer at Enbridge Gas Inc. who will be leading a discussion around, “Consequence Modeling for Natural Gas Pipeline Quantitative Risk Assessments.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Consequence modeling involves the use of analytical methods to assess the outcomes after a failure has occurred by quantifying the impact of these outcomes on such categories as Health & Safety, Financial, Environmental, and Operational. This session will demonstrate the consequence estimation approach that is part of the Enbridge risk assessment for natural gas transmission pipelines. In particular, the session will focus on the detailed site-specific health and safety consequence calculations integrated into the societal and individual risk assessments along with the data integration and management supporting the models.

Speaker: Vincent Iacobellis, Sr. Integrity Assessments Engineer (Enbridge Gas Inc.)

Vincent is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) working on the Integrity Assessments team at Enbridge Gas Distribution since May 2021 where he specializes in the development of quantitative risk models, assessment of risk and structural reliability targets, and risk refinement and root causing. 

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Original Message:
Sent: 08-01-2023 10:33
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming August (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With August just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our August (2023) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, August 16 at 11:00 AM CT we’ll be joined by Vincent Iacobellis, Sr. Integrity Assessments Engineer at Enbridge Gas Inc. who will be leading a discussion around, “Consequence Modeling for Natural Gas Pipeline Quantitative Risk Assessments.”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

 

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)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our August (2023) Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, August 15 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Adam Cornille, Sr. Director, Advanced Analytics and Alex Johnson, Lead Data Scientist at Logic 2020 who will be leading a discussion around, “Lessons Learned in MLOps.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your inight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

In this session, our presenters will be sharing experiences and insights on MLOps, highlighting some of the key lessons learned in the process. Topics will include the importance of proper data management, version control, and automation in developing and deploying machine learning models at scale. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of the challenges and best practices involved in MLOps at the enterprise level, enabling them to optimize their own workflows and deliver more impactful results.

Speaker: Adam Cornille, Sr. Director, Advanced Analytics (Logic 2020)

Adam Cornille is a Director of Advanced Analytics and a data science practitioner with over a decade of field experience. He is trained in development, statistics, and agile analytics management practices. He leads the development of data science programs and strategies for improving business maturity in the application of data. 

Speaker: Alex Johnson, Lead Data Scientist (Logic 2020)

Alex Johnson is a Lead Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer who is committed to solving real-world problems using cutting-edge technology. With a diverse background building analytics solutions in various industries such as tech, telecom, global health, and oil and gas, Alex brings a wealth of experience to the table. In recent years, he has been served in key roles within the utility sector, where he has been designing cloud-native systems to scale machine learning processes. His expertise in maturing analytics processes and improving decision-making around wildfire has been instrumental in mitigating the impact of these natural disasters on communities and the environment. 

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