Faced with the challenges of an aging infrastructure, increased electrification, and the rise of distributed energy resources (DERs), utilities are on a mission to modernize their approach to grid investment and grid operations. Modernization carries the promises of higher return on infrastructure investments, improved system safety and reliability, and reduced operating costs—if it’s approached strategically. To reach this goal, utilities must make use of their data, and to do that, they need a data science team and infrastructure that’s up to the challenge. In this session, we will share accelerators and best practices with your people, strategy, and technology, anchored to solutions using AI/ML for vegetation management.

Session Takeaways:

• Focus areas for building organizational analytics strength that drive operational intelligence
• Maturing technologies that are driving the grid intelligence transformation
• Challenges and successes in modernizing vegetation management operations with data science, as experienced by our California Utility partners