20 Mar 2012
LIBERTY LAKE, Wash - Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today that it has released its first set of specialized analytic software applications built on the Active Smart Grid Analytics™ (ASA) platform. Each application is bundled with Itron's Analytic Accelerators and Extension Toolkits, which help utilities take full advantage of their smart...
Built to leverage Itron's industry-leading metering, communication network and meter data management (MDM) solutions, these analytic applications provide actionable business intelligence to enable specific smart grid solutions for distribution operations, revenue cycle services and customer engagement. Each analytic application is operational "out-of-the-box" and comes with an Accelerator and Extension Toolkit. Each Accelerator offers immediate value by providing a fully...
12 Apr 2012
Solvers take the slog out of data analysis … while GIS report offers spatial awareness data … and US FERC’s vague Order 1000 may cause compliance complications!
Smart Grid News: Smart grid analytics: Why you should fire your coders (and hire solvers instead)
J. D. Hammerley of Areva Grid wrote an article on data analysis for Smart Grid News. Hammerley says that the electrical industry relies on “a myriad of applications for data analysis.” These are heavily coded “one-offs,” and approach is no longer the most effective way to analyze data, as it is not “cost and time to market” efficient.
Hammerley suggests the use...
04 Apr 2012
Smart meters produce data – it takes work to make the data ‘smart.’
What happened
Adam Lesser of Gigaom wrote about the difficulties faced by utilities when dealing with “big data” and the opportunities that this offers to IT companies.
According to Lesser, utilities face petabytes of data that needs to be stored for up to seven years to comply with regulation. Not only that, these utilities also need to “mine” this data and be able to pull out useful information, in a usable format, to allow them to save the time and money promised...
25 Mar 2012
The focus on analytics is not the "Big Data" as a result of what the industry is terming the "smart grid."
I asked the attendees if the smart grid was causing the data to grow on the trading side of the house. The answer was "no." Instead, smart grid data was going to the utility that would then use it for building a better forecast, and the forecast was being sent to the trading and trading tech centric organizations.
The first panelist to present was Patrick Reames, Analyst and Managing Director for the Americas at CommodityPoint. Mr. Reames presented recent research on data aggregation...
09 Feb 2012
DistribuTECH – home of the energy press release … and time to probe energy trends for the year ahead … a great show makes for excellent media …
Smart Grid News: DistribuTECH Buzz
The Smart Grid News Team wrote a comprehensive, three-part article highlighting the major announcements made at the DistribuTECH conference. This series proved to be a very valuable index of the big news that came out of the event.
Part one covered the following press releases:
Itron apps help utilities maximize value of smart grid data
Glen Canyon wins 1.5 million virtual AMI deployment in China
New Opower Marketplace...
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