Category Archives: Machine learning

Getting Better at Storm Related Outage Prediction

April 20, 2020 / Jill Feblowitz / Artificial Intelligence, Asset management, Data and Analytics, Deep Learning, Distribution Grid, Machine learning, Transmission Grid, Vegetation Management, Weather Forecasting

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 […]

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Open source – What’s in it for utilities?

March 25, 2020 / Jill Feblowitz / Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Open Source, Power Generation, Training, Transmission Grid

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, […]

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