Category: Energy

Vector Limited is the largest distributor of electricity and gas in New Zealand (NZ), managing a rapidly expanding energy distribution network across the Auckland urban area, serving approximately 30 percent of the NZ population, and representing one-third of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). The company entered into a strategic alliance with Amazon Web Services […]

Attending DISTRIBUTECH 2023? You can catch AWS Energy February 7-9 in San Diego participating throughout the event. AWS is sponsoring the C&I & Residential track for DISTRIBUTECH International, the leading annual transmission and distribution event. AWS Energy will be presenting examples of how cloud technologies enable utilities to transform, innovate, and accelerate the energy transition. […]

In the energy industry, some of the most common business drivers for moving IT workloads to the cloud are lowering total cost of ownership (TCO), increasing innovation, maintaining the security of their data, and reducing environmental impact through meeting sustainability goals. Amazon Web Services (AWS) works alongside energy customers to meet these goals so that […]

Electricity provider EDF in the UK (EDF) is preparing its business for growth. The company has one of the largest market shares for providing electricity to businesses in the United Kingdom, and it continues to expand its offerings. In 2019, EDF launched an initiative to modernize the IT supporting its business solutions. Its infrastructure needed […]

Image courtesy of Duke Energy Duke Energy is collaborating with AWS to develop industry-leading smart grid solutions that will benefit its customers and help advance its clean energy transition. The energy landscape is rapidly changing. Individuals and businesses alike are embracing renewable energy and adopting electric vehicles (EVs). Couple these trends with a rise in […]

In response to the mounting impacts of climate-driven extreme weather, and continued global and regional mandates, industries and businesses worldwide are increasingly investing in sustainability, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), as well as Net-Zero strategies. This includes setting goals to reduce businesses’ carbon emissions by 2030 and accelerating investments in the adoption of clean energy […]

OSDUTM (Open Source Data Universe) provides an open source technology-agnostic data platform for the energy industry. It’s driven by technology innovations for industrial data management with the goal to remove data silos that have often been witnessed by several industries over the last several decades. OSDU platforms support most datatypes found in the energy industry. […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch and call for applications for the Clean Energy Accelerator 3.0, a high-pace, non-equity dilutive accelerator designed to facilitate partnerships with mature startups developing breakthrough clean energy technologies. The opening of the Clean Energy Accelerator was announced by Kara Hurst, Vice President of Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon, during […]

Identifying onshore oil pads on satellite images using Amazon Rekognition In this post, we’re exploring an end-to-end solution for creating an object detection model with Amazon Rekognition to identify oil and gas well pads in satellite images. This low-code solution lets users interact with a pre-trained machine learning (ML) model that identifies well pads with Amazon Rekognition, […]

Tips for Managing Your Vendors Securely, While Maintaining Control Today’s episode is a continuation of our conversation with Robert Albach, a leader in product management for secure firewall / industrial security at Cisco Systems. We’ll dive into the complex world of securely managing vendor integration and the importance of doing it while maintaining control within […]