Category Archives: Decarbonization

Wisely managing vegetation at the distribution level

March 25, 2020 / Jill Feblowitz / Data and Analytics, Decarbonization, Vegetation Management

Ever since the 2003 blackout, vegetation management has improved, largely due to FERC regulation. Still, improvement has been mostly in transmission. The “last mile” of distribution has not achieved maturity. The good news is that analytics infrastructure – monitoring, data access, analytics and operationalization – could bring more wisdom to managing distribution line vegetation. To […]

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Resource planning just got more complicated

March 25, 2020 / Jill Feblowitz / Data and Analytics, Decarbonization, Distributed Energy Resources, Integrating Renewables

Resource planning has changed a lot over the last five years, with the increase in intermittent renewables and distributed energy sources. In 2018, the piece Are DER Heavy Utilities Being Held Captive by Technology Limitations?, posited that analytical tools for used for planning are no longer adequate.  Flash forward to 2020 and there are more […]

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