AWS for Industries
Author: Arun Sehgal
Arun Sehgal is the Global Ecosystems Leader for the AWS Power & Utilities industry vertical. He joined AWS in 2018, and he works with global independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) who are building solutions on AWS for Power & Utilities around the world. Before joining AWS, Arun spent over 25 years in the utility smart metering, IoT, and smart grid industry.
Innowatts Advances Energy Transition with SaaS Solutions Built on AWS
On September 1, AWS Partner Innowatts announced a solution to allow energy providers to fully leverage the transformative power of cloud-based, fully scalable data analytics. Leveraging the power and agility of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to process 4.3 billion data points per hour, Innowatts’ SaaS energy analytics platform has been deployed across nine countries and […]
How AWS and 5G enable tomorrow’s digital electric grid
Evolution and lessons from smart grid 1.0 In 2017, Gartner reported that advanced metering infrastructure was passing through the “Trough of Disillusionment” in its hype cycle for smart grid technology. The utility field area networks were beginning to climb the “Slope of Enlightenment” and perhaps have plateaued in productivity. A few important lessons were learned […]
Computational needs of the electric grid of the future
A July 2019 Navigant report on growth of distributed energy resources (DER) annual capacity predicts that we will reach 600 GW of total DER capacity in eight years, out of which nearly 250 GW will come from distributed solar assets. Managing grid stability with such a massive influx of these highly variable energy resources is […]
Four trends driving global utility digitization
The Power & Utilities industry has reached an inflection point in digitization as early adopters give way to early majority growth. Our utility customers have shared four trends that have accelerated their digitization plans enabled by cloud technology and services. Sustainability is imperative Utility stakeholders including regulators, customers, and investors are pressuring utilities to declare […]