Insights from our Editorial Team
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Mar 06, 2013 |
Washington may have shut down, but utilities along the Eastern seaboard are just ramping up. The massive snowstorm that hit the Chicago area yesterday is now moving through Virginia and D.C. While this storm will not bring the level of emergency seen with Hurricane Sandy, utilities are thinking ahead all the same.
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Mar 05, 2013 |
This week will see thought leaders from across the utility analytics landscape traveling to Napa, CA to attend the 2013 Utility Analytics Summit, presented by the Utility Analytics Institute. With support from host utilities PG&E and SMUD, the Summit promises to be a great opportunity for utility analytics professionals.
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Mar 04, 2013 |
Oncor is a regulated electric transmission and distribution service provider that serves 10 million customers across Texas. For the March/April issue of Intelligent Utility magazine, we spoke with Brenda Jackson, senior vice president and chief customer officer about the utility’s consumer focus.
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Mar 03, 2013 |
In the first part of this series, which can be read here, London writer Tim Probert examined privacy concerns, consumer psychology and policy choices. In part 2, he lays out what’s at stake for utilities.
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Feb 28, 2013 |
In March, the Utility Analytics Institute will host the Utility Analytics Summit in Napa, California that will feature insider insights into analytics and utility planning. As we countdown to that event, next week we’re chatting with some of the experts set to attend that Summit, picking their brains for details on how analytics will change the very essence of the power industry. Today, we talk with various executives at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), one of the founding members of the Utility Analytics Institute.
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Feb 27, 2013 |
Reid Nuttall, chief information officer for OGE Energy Corp., OG&E Electric Services wrote a great piece on data, analytics and the inner workings of Oklahoma Gas & Electric's (OG&E's) "information factory" for an issue of Intelligent Utility. Today, we revist the article and Nuttall's four notes for utilities to keep in mind when tackling data on a large scale.
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Feb 26, 2013 |
Everyone’s on Twitter these days, including power utilities. In January, we ran a very popular feature on the best utility tweets of 2012. It was so popular, we’ve decided to do what any media outlet would do when faced with popularity: We’re making sequels. This month’s most fabulous utility tweets include details on community work, holiday references and the final words of a retiring industry leader.
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Feb 25, 2013 |
Smart meters were set to usher in a lot of dynamic customer functions, such as time-of-use (TOU) rates. But, while popular outside of the U.S., not many utilities mess with TOU inside America. Why didn’t TOU take off with the AMI boom of the last few years, and is there still hope for TOU?
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Feb 24, 2013 |
In March, Energy Central’s Utility Analytics Institute will host the Utility Analytics Summit in Napa, California that will feature insider insights into analytics and utility planning. As we countdown to that event, we'll chat with some of the experts set to attend that Summit, picking their brains for details on how analytics will change the very essence of the power industry. In this episode, Mike Smith talks to host utility SMUD about their leadership positions in building the smart grid and in using the analytics derived from that intelligence.
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Feb 21, 2013 |
The European Union’s (EU) ambitious plan to rollout smart meters to 80 percent of its 500 million population by 2020 is not going well as hoped. London-based writer Tim Probert examines the issues, the money and the consumer reactions.
