Tag: utilities

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 […]

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 […]

AWS Config now offers a new conformance pack that helps utilities using AWS for BES Cyber System Information (BCSI) to manage configuration compliance of their AWS resources at scale – from policy definition to auditing and aggregated reporting – using a common framework and packaging model. The Operational Best Practices for NERC CIP BCSI conformance […]

Introduction Power distribution utilities implement information and operational technology (IT/OT) applications to manage power distribution commercial activities and grid operations. These IT/OT applications include billing, customer care, smart metering, advanced distribution management systems (ADMS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and outage management systems (OMS). In order to successfully run business processes – such as […]

The high cost of grid failure When electricity goes out, our life activities stop. When this happens, utilities have the responsibility to quickly triage the situation, then formulate and carry out a response while customers are inconvenienced. Danger rises and costs pile up. Keeping the power on is not a simple task without multiple core […]

According to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination […]

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 […]