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DistribuTECH: Gautam Aggarwal, Maria Kretzing

Bidgely

“Our core is smart meter data. Bidgely is an energy intelligence company that applies AI and machine learning on top of data to decipher that data, demystify the data, and create value for utilities to serve their customers on the grid side.”
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Gautam Aggarwal, Maria Kretzing

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DistribuTECH: Joe Travis, Brad Johnson

Bentley Systems

“We’re ideating ways to use our digital twin technology with the physical world to help them project forward. As they do work in their system, they’re not just addressing today’s needs, but take seemingly unrelated data and find correlation to build the grid once for the next 20 to 30 years, rather than go back out again.”
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Joe Travis, Brad Johnson

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DistribuTECH: Ann Moore

AVEVA

“With applications, now we have predictive analytics and AI. It’s popular because the grid used to be one-directional power flow. Now, it’s a multidirectional, dynamic, and complex with increasing renewable and distributed energy resources.”
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Ann Moore

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DistribuTECH: Abhishek Singh

AiDash

“Our AI model can make predictions in terms of number of outages of an upcoming storm at over 85% accuracy at a subregional level. We know each tree’s nucleus network. We map the height, health of the tree, propensity of the tree to fail against wind speed and windstorm path: we are able to precisely identify points of failures.”
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Abhishek Singh

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DistribuTECH: Patrick Aluise

Accenture

“We have data around companies that lean into a metaverse/sustainable strategy. It’s more profitable. That has to do with retaining better employees and cost savings because, from onboarding and ongoing training points of view, you don’t have to send people all over the world.”
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Patrick Aluise

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DistribuTECH: John Hayter, Nedra Hurley

ABB

“Imagine a line person who would go out during a storm facing hurricanes, tornadoes, and operate with hook sticks. Those days are coming to an end. With virtual protection, virtual substations of the future, a lot of those concerns around safety go away.”
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John Hayter, Nedra Hurley

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Santa Fe Grill

Thirty-four of the nation’s two hundred and three state utility Commissioners. All part of the Commissioners’ Grill, the extraordinary two-and-a-half-hour session that concludes the conference. Current Issues 2023 that is, New Mexico State University’s Center for Public Utilities annual meeting next month in Santa Fe.

Anyone who has ever attended this NMSU event over the years knows there’s nothing like it. Over serious and light-hearted conversations too about utility regulation, you really get to know your colleagues in the service of the public interest.