Business Intelligence in Utilities
February 25, 2010
A few weeks ago I posted some thougths on the future of Smart Grid and what it meant to the consumer. In essence, my observation was that it may be BI for BI’s sake. My musings were based upon a post from Bart Thielbar of Sierra Energy which were posted in Intelligent Utility. He and I started trading some email, which led to a discussion on how Business Intelligence initiatives were being led at utility companies. I’ve had some experience at FirstEnergy, Duke Energy (formerly Cinergy), AEP, and Southern Company. Bart had just finished a survey of utility execs on BI. Here’s what he found:
We compared notes and were both pleasantly surprised to find similar results. Click here to read more about his findings. Click here to see his post that started all of this.
(Note: if you aren’t engaging in dialogue around the Net, you should. You’ll meet some fabulous people along the way and gain more insight!)
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- Jodie
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The concept of SmartGrid can be very powerful. However for this to really impact the end user as well as the Utility the vast amount of data needs to be captured in a well thought out plan to provide actionable data back to the consumers of this data. A report of chart from a device isn’t actionable data, only one part of the SmartGrid Data Puzzle.
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