Category: Power & Utilities

This blog was contributed by AWS partner Net2Grid CEO Bert Lutje Berenbroek In 2017, when the German market was still waiting for smart meters to be installed, E.ON wanted to be the first to offer its customers value-added services including real-time energy consumption disaggregation based on digital meters. NET2GRID won E.ON’s tender by meeting German […]

This blog post is authored by AWS partner Advizzo. Since 2015, Advizzo’s behavioral science software and solutions have been empowering electricity, gas, and water customers around the globe to reduce their water and energy consumption and contribute to preserving the world’s natural resources. Today, over 1 million households use Advizzo’s solutions, powered by Amazon Web […]

This is a contributed blog post from Siddahartha Sachdeva, CEO of AWS partner Innowatts. The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming energy consumption and usage patterns. During the pandemic, commercial energy usage slumped 30%, whereas residential demand saw significant increase. These changes surface and illuminate challenges to utilities and regulators. As utilities manage the changing energy landscape, […]

Today, the majority of electric residential, commercial, and industrial (RCI) customers receive their electricity over electric distribution circuits called “feeders.” Electric distribution feeders originate at circuit breakers within a distribution substation, and serve many customers, as shown in the following graphic. To increase grid reliability, feeders are often configured to receive electricity from multiple substations, […]

Portland General Electric (PGE) is a regulated, investor-owned utility that has operated out of Portland, Oregon for over 130 years. It supplies electricity to 51 cities and serves approximately 900,000 customers in a service area populated by 2 million Oregonians. In 2019, PGE realized that its on-premises IT systems alone could no longer support its […]

Utility companies depend on enormous amounts of data to keep the lights on for their customers. But collecting, transcribing, storing, sharing, and analyzing information from a large service area is a challenge, especially when the teams who gather and use that data are dispersed across a wide geographic area. Whether they’re conducting vegetation management, pole […]

As more organizations and energy producers take the climate pledge and aim to be carbon neutral in some form by 2050 or earlier, now is the time when utilities need to innovate to reach their carbon goals. At the same time, utilities need to collect and make sense of the flood of data coming from […]

Introduction to OSIsoft PI System OSIsoft is a select AWS Partner and leader in industrial digital transformation. It has a comprehensive data infrastructure platform with the capability to ingest data from various industrial sensors using a variety of industrial protocols. Using PI System, organizations can run KPIs in real-time to assess the health of equipment […]

Innovyze is a global water industry software leader with over 35 years of experience serving thousands of clients including the largest water utilities, ENR design firms, consultancies, and refining plants around the world. Today Innovyze announced the availability of its cloud-based platform for real-world water lifecycle management, Info360.com, on AWS. The solution brings the water […]

In today’s era of decarbonization, industrial enterprises face unique challenges to transform the core of current asset operations while deploying digital strategies and assets to innovate for the future. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that in the power sector alone, notwithstanding the COVID-19 pandemic, global asset investments in 2020 exceeded $650 billion. The global […]