Smart Asset Management for Electric Utilities: Big Data and Future

Application of Big Data Analytics in Power Distribution Network

Smart grid enhances optimization in generation, distribution and consumption of the electricity by integrating information and communication technologies into the grid. Today, utilities are moving towards smart grid applications, most common one being deployment of smart meters in advanced metering infrastructure, and the first technical challenge they face is the huge volume of data generated ...

Green Energy Generation in Buildings: Grid-Tied Distributed Generation Systems (DGS) With Energy Storage Applications to Sustain the Smart Grid Transformation

The challenge of electricity distribution’s upgrade to incorporate new technologies is big, and electric utilities are mandated to work diligently on this agenda, thus making investments to ensure that current networks maintain their electricity supply commitments secure and reliable in face of disruptions and adverse environmental conditions from a variety of sources. The paper presents a new ...

Strategies for Investment in It Systems for Asset Management

The benefits of proper Asset Management have always been well known in the power industry. Lately, with the aging infrastructure and workforce, coupled with economic pressures enforced by re-regulation, Asset Management has risen in priority. Taking the Swedish market as an example, the introduction of the Network Performance Assessment Model creates an artificial competitive force on the elect...

Preparing for the Future: How Asset Management Will Evolve in the Age of Smart Grid By: Jeff Meyers, Smart Grid Solutions Telvent Utilities Group

An Approach to Integrated Design and Asset Data Management Workflows

Utilities are challenged to improve efficiency and operations as they update their aging network assets and implement more complex smart grids. An integrated design and asset management workflow can help utilities improve efficiency, enhance asset selection and accounting, and improve data quality as a foundation for better safety, reliability, and compliance. This paper explores one approach t...