Beyond the Data

When SoCalGas noticed some unusual payment activity on their website, Sempra’s Performance Mgmt & Org Strategy team decided to take a closer look at what was going on. They discovered fraudulent activity and decided to address the problem with Machine Learning. David Baron, Director of the team shares their approach to creating an algorithm to help stop the offenders.

This year UAI took its signature UA Summit event virtual and featured 68 utility analytics thought leaders and experts. Each of the sessions was packed full of insights, trends, and challenges shaping the world utility analytics today. What were some of the key takeaways from those sessions? UAI Managing Director, Gina Weber, and EBM Vice President Energy, Mark Johnson, share their top three key takeaways from the event.

In February, nearly four million Texans lost power during a severe winter storm. The outages can’t be attributed to a single point of failure, instead many things went wrong. From lost generation capacity to sky rocketing demand, the Texas electric grid did not prove reliable in record breaking winter temperatures. On the episode of Beyond the Data, Erin Hardick, Sr. Research Analyst at UAI, talks with Texas utilities and grid experts about what actually happened in Texas during that infamous week in February.

For utility providers, Keeping The Lights On is not just a business idiom, it’s an operational mandate. Customers rely on utility services to live, work, and play – when there’s an outage, the customer’s world is put on pause. The episode of Beyond the Data explores how utilities are incorporating analytics to improve both their system reliability and outage insights. It discusses investments in grid/digital hardening, using analytics to drive reliability and outage preparation, and expanding customer outage communications.

Artificial Intelligence is turning out to be a game changer, with numerous applications in nearly every domain including the utility industry. By harnessing the power of deep learning, visual inspection can be used for assessment of various assets.

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When a massive tech giant like Google decides to run its data centers and offices on carbon free energy 24x7, it impacts the utilities that serve them. On this episode, Raiford Smith and Matt Croucher who are responsible for leading data center planning and energy analytics, talk about their past experience working at utilities and what their current work at Google means for utility professionals.

Join Gina Weber, Managing Director at UAI, during this podcast to talk with industry thought leaders about the sources of these types of data, use cases where it is successfully being used and what the future holds as these images increase in detail and quality.

On this podcast, Gina Weber, Managing Director at UAI, will talk with industry thought leaders about advanced analytics use-cases that are changing the way utilities are serving their customers and exploring what is next on the customer-side of the business, especially as more consumers explore the use of distributed energy resources and other energy alternatives.

Join Gina Weber, Managing Director at UAI, during this podcast to talk with industry thought leaders about how the use of historical disaster data and the ever-expanding advanced analytics capabilities at utilities has created an avalanche of change in disaster response.

On this podcast, Gina Weber, Managing Director at UAI, will talk with industry thought leaders on the areas impacted the most at utilities, what they learned through the pandemic of 2020, and how they plan to keep their workforce safe while continuing to address customer’s increasing reliability expectations.