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Big Data Analytics Strategies For The Smart Grid

By implementing a comprehensive data analytics program, utility companies can meet the continually evolving challenges of modern grids that are operationally efficient, while reconciling the demands of greenhouse gas legislation and establishing a meaningful return on investment from smart grid deployments.Readable and accessible, Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid addresses the needs of applying big data technologies and approaches, including Big Data cybersecurity, to the critical infrastructure that makes up the electrical utility grid. It supplies industry stakeholders with an in-depth understanding of the engineering, business, and customer domains within the power delivery market.The book explores the unique needs of electrical utility grids, including operational technology, IT, storage, processing, and how to transform grid assets for the benefit of both the utility business and energy consumers. It not only provides specific examples that illustrate how analytics work and how they are best applied, but also describes how to avoid potential problems and pitfalls.Discussing security and data privacy, it explores the role of the utility in protecting their customers’ right to privacy while still engaging in forward-looking business practices. The book includes discussions of: SAS for asset management tools The AutoGrid approach to commercial analytics Space-Time Insight’s work at the California ISO (CAISO) This book is an ideal resource for mid- to upper-level utility executives who need to understand the business value of smart grid data analytics. It explains critical concepts in a manner that will better position executives to make the right decisions about building their analytics programs.At the same time, the book provides sufficient technical depth that it is useful for data analytics professionals who need to better understand the nuances of the engineering and business challenges unique to the utilities industry.

Hardcover: 256 pages

Publisher: Auerbach Publications; 1 edition (July 25, 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1482218283

ISBN-13: 978-1482218282

Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #1,431,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #127 in Books > Computers & Technology > Software > Utilities #285 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Energy Production & Extraction > Electric #718 in Books > Computers & Technology > Databases & Big Data > Data Mining

Best book so far on Big Data Analytics for Energy

Carol Stimmel provides an articulate view of the potential of big data analytics to make the electric grid more resilient and secure in her book, Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid. She does an excellent job speaking to both the consumer and the utility executive and defining the smart grid and big data analytics - and how the two are intertwined. While practical, the language and topics are also infused with hope and humor. In short: it's a good read.

Readable and informative; clearly and carefully written so as to allow nearly anybody to understand and apply these concepts (which are of ever-increasing importance) -- thank you Carol for this invaluable resource

Very High Level

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