Category: Power & Utilities

Lunar Energy (Lunar) has a mission to power homes around the world with endless clean energy. Recognizing the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change, Lunar is focused on building the digital infrastructure needed to build a resilient, distributed energy system. As homes electrify by adding distributed energy resources (DERs)—such as solar […]

When was the last time you thought about how the power stays on? Probably not since you lost power in a storm. We take it for granted that the electricity and natural gas will flow. In today’s world, electricity and gas are a core foundation of the economy and of society, making energy one of […]

Operational technology (OT) data refers to the data generated by sensors and other devices used in industrial settings to monitor and control physical processes. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, data historians, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are examples of technologies that generate OT data. SCADA systems are used to monitor and control industrial […]

Industry Context In the utility industry, there is a wide range of devices and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that operate in an on-premises environment. With the growth of renewables and distributed energy resources (DERs), electric utilities need to change their energy planning models and operations to maintain reliability and stability of the […]

With 4,000 wells to manage and intelligent alerts to build and run, Marathon Oil decided to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve its alert development time from months to hours. With its existing environment, the team at Marathon Oil was developing on average four intelligent alerts per year. “We weren’t getting any traction because […]

Wind energy is a strategic industry central to Europe’s energy security strategy. Wind already meets 17% of Europe’s electricity demand today¹. The European Commission wants wind to be half of Europe’s electricity by 2050. This move to clean and renewable energy is critical to decarbonise Europe’s economy but the backlog in wind permitting across Europe […]

Introduction The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate one method of how effortlessly you can automate the data extraction, transformation, and building of an accurate power-demand forecasting pipeline using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, such as Amazon Forecast, a time-series forecasting service based on machine learning (ML). This blog describes how Power Trading Corporation […]

EDF Energy (EDF) is one of the United Kingdom’s leading energy retailers, supplying over 3.5 million homes and businesses with low-carbon electricity and gas. EDF is on a mission to help Britain achieve net zero while being the United Kingdom’s biggest generator of zero-carbon electricity, with a mix of solar, wind, and nuclear generators. The […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to release a cybersecurity-focused white paper to help support US water utilities that are considering implementing cloud-based IT and operational technology (OT) solutions. Download the white paper here. The white paper discusses the business drivers that are associated with cloud adoption in the US water sector and cybersecurity trends, […]

Digitization is transforming the energy industry. However, at Xcel Energy, a major US electricity and natural gas company, legacy technology infrastructure and a reliance on cloud-service contractors were limiting the benefits of digital development. Jared Keith, DevOps lead, joined Xcel Energy in 2019 to help launch new solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and later […]