Analytics Insights NL - Feb 7th, 2023
 
 
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Editor's Note

Good Afternoon Readers,

I hope everyone is enjoying the start of February! Today I'm very excited to share some articles around predictive maintenance, grid energy storage, capital planning, vegetation management, EVs, and more!

Enjoy and happy reading!

- Kevin Praet (Membership Coordinator)

In early 2022, with the help of SAS and its partner Exacter, Randolph EMC, an electric membership cooperative headquartered in Asheboro, North Carolina, began a journey to solve this cost challenge and make predictive maintenance for distribution assets at scale economically viable.
In the Greater Boston area, electric school buses are doing more than taking students to and from school. Energy stored in the buses’ batteries is transferred back to the grid during times of demand stress on the regional electric generation and distribution systems.
With rising interest rates, tightening budgets, regulatory constraints and ever-changing priorities, utilities are facing tough decisions and mounting pressure to trim expenditures and migrate towards renewable resources, all while upholding service and security demands.
Electric utilities have been under intense scrutiny in recent years, plagued with questions about reliability because of expansive power outages and facing potential culpability for sparking damaging fires.
Fleet owners and utility professionals are both thinking about what greater adoption of electric vehicles could mean for them.

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