Utility Analytics: From Big Data to An Intelligence Revolution

Published By Utility Analytics Institute, a division of Energy Central

• By Mike Smith, Vice President, Utility Analytics Institute
• Published August 2012
• 10 Page(s)

The North American business landscape is being inundated with increasing attention on how businesses are being challenged with the massive growth rates of data streaming into individual businesses and markets. Driven by the proliferation of consumer and business networks that are popping up seemingly overnight and generating new forms of digital data, this new data-heavy era has its challenges, but also its share of successes.

Nowhere is this truer than in the utility industry. With the realization of the smart grid, with its two-way communication networks and deployment of millions of intelligent devices across the grid and at customer premises, utility staffers are at the forefront of how not only to manage this data, but how to leverage it for business improvement across many different functions.

In this white paper, we’ll take a look at some of the highlights and perspectives from the Utility Analytics Institute’s research findings.