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Use weather data to make the grid resilient
We are facing an increased number of extreme weather events impacting public safety first and foremost and resulting in billion-dollar disasters. Tornadoes, hurricanes, freezes, and fires impact the ability of any utility to provide safe and reliable electricity to...
Can your data model support your Next Generation Data Analytics? Part 1: Modern Data Platform
As I started writing this piece, it became a bit longer because this question really involves two pieces, neither of which can be adequately addressed in a short form narrative. As a result, two related blog posts were created. One blog post, which you are reading...
On Ontology: Poetic Assertions
Parmenides of Elea was a Greek philosopher who lived 2,500 years ago. His primary surviving work is a poem often referred to as “On Nature,” the objective of which is to separate truth from opinion. “What is” and “What is not.” Parmenides is considered one of the...
Is the CIM glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Most large electric utilities have had at least one project to ‘try out’ the industry standard Common Information Model (CIM). Several utilities have even moved on to basing their large-scale enterprise application integration efforts on it. While these small and...