This webcast features perspectives from operational technology (OT), information technology (IT) as well as the general industry outlook, to provide attendees insight into the challenges utilities are facing today as well as a holistic view into smart grid strategies to enhance efficiency, responsiveness and profitability across the energy value chain. more...

Demand response, meter data analytics and smart meters are just a few of the hot technologies that utilities are choosing to invest in. These investments are pushing utilities to address data and analytics across their companies, including the areas of customer operations, grid optimization, asset optimization and customer engagement. more...

Demand response, meter data analytics and smart meters are just a few of the hot technologies that utilities are choosing to invest in. These investments are pushing utilities to address data and analytics across their companies, including the areas of customer operations, grid optimization, asset optimization and customer engagement. more...

Big Data holds the potential to reveal game-changing insights that improve countless aspects of the energy business-from wholesale market savings, better renewables integration, and greater grid efficiency to information-driven energy savings and time-based pricing. more...

Utilities are entering the age of the empowered customer. Customers expect to engage when and how they want and through physical, digital and mobile means. This is changing the entire way products and services are sourced and distributed and making business more complex than ever. more...

While the industry is focused on the technology of the smart grid, the human element may be left behind. But, the field worker is still vitally important to the reliability and sustainability of the smart grid. more...

Smart grid and smart meter technologies are delivering mountains of new data on operations, customer energy-use patters, and more - leaving utilities with the new challenge of coordinating and orchestrating this information to deliver value. Add in the component of communicating with field workers - during a complex, demanding situation like a power outage - and the depth and dimensions of this challenge become even clearer. more...

Utilities have invested billions of dollars in smart grid. Now, they must transform their businesses to create new products and services that deliver returns on those investments. Fast-moving utilities that develop internal expertise to act, and capitalize, on smart grid-provided intelligence will realize profound growth. more...

The presentation will highlight case studies that the GE team has worked with various utilities with special attention to the lessons learned and best practices gained through the collaborative rapid prototype processes. more...

LADWP identified a huge opportunity when it studied its engineering data management practice. With more than 100 years of records stored in numerous different systems across the enterprise, finding accurate information to start new project designs was extremely time consuming, challenging, and often unsuccessful. more...

With unprecedented challenges facing the industry, many want to know what positions well-respected leaders are taking on investments in gas, nuclear, renewables and efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, grid security and more. Thomas Farrell, the head of Dominion Resources and the chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, is such a leader. He will clearly analyze current and future trends of importance to all who labor in the power sector. more...