Utilities need to know the “ground truth” One of the utility’s primary missions is to minimize outage frequency and duration. Outage prevention is even more important during the COVID-19. Until recently, storm-related outage prediction has been limited by lack of data and the use of spreadsheet-based models. The good news: Up-to-date granular data (geo-referenced weather […]
With an uptick in literacy in Python and R, utilities are hearing the term “open source” more often. But, open source has already become ubiquitous in many industries. The 2019 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report found that 100% of the software operating at in the energy and cleantech has open-source code. It stands to reason, […]
Duke Energy has a reputation for deploying analytics to solve business problems. The Data Science role at Duke was defined in 2014, with the first Data Scientist hired in 2015. Duke Energy now has over 80 data scientists across the enterprise. One senior data scientist, Miguel Sanda, has been exploring how the self-organizing maps (SOMs), unsupervised […]