Course Director: Dr. Mladen Kezunovic
Past Course Date: October 22 – 24, 2019
Description
The Big Data based prediction is an emerging area of data analytics for utility applications that offers many benefits in outage and asset management areas. Inherent in the prediction
approaches is an ability to gain time to deploy mitigation techniques such as maintenance approaches to prevent failures or operating practices to reduce impact of failures. This course lays out some fundamental concepts related to the uses of Big Data in utility industry, as well as how one may integrate and pre-process data for outage and asset management uses. The course goes over details of the data sources, and related ownership ranging from utility measurements,government websites, and paid data from service providers. The course also outlines the foundation of the unique spatiotemporal data analytics model used to implement the predictions of power system events. The course objective is to provide the attendees with examples of advanced solutions with demonstrations illustrating the prediction benefits. Collectively the three course instructors have decades of experience in doing electric power system and data science studies, including engineering education (Hours: CEU 2.1, PDH 21).
Who Should Attend
The course is designed to provide a comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of the Big data collection, management and processing, which may be used for operation, maintenance, planning and other utility applications. It is ideally suited for utility engineers with electrical or computer engineering background who have minimal experience in the concepts of Big Data analytics,including new graduates. The course if focused on operations and maintenance, but engineers from other areas of the utility industry will benefits from the source insights. The course will also be useful for managers who would like to gain and understanding of the Big data requirements,security of data resources, for those working in the policy and regulatory areas, for academics wishing to gain a practical understanding of the prediction concepts concepts, and for graduate students interested in careers in the power industry
Topics
- Introduction to current outage and asset management practices
- Reasons for outages and related impacts
- Tools for outage management: engineering analysis, trouble calls, and restauration
- Asset management objectives and different approaches to maintenance practice
- Fundamentals of spatiotemporal data analytics
- Large dynamic spatiotemporal networks
- Network embeddings for outage occurrence prediction
- Structure-aware intrinsic representation learning of temporal networks for wind power prediction
- Big data for outage and asset management uses:
- Sources of Big Data: utility, government, paid services
- Big data properties: 8 Vs
- The critical steps in data management: ingestion, cleansing and curation
- Examples of outage prediction:
- Outages of transmission lines due weather impacts
- Outages of distribution feeders due to impact of vegetation
- Possible mitigation strategies
- Typical implementation steps for outage and asset management:
- Data selection and integration
- Customization and configuration of data analytics
- Development of risk maps and optimization aimed at risk reduction
- Typical data analytics platforms for utility applications:
- Data Analytics platform features
- Configuration of data analytics platforms
- Uses of data analytics platforms
- Examples of data pre-processing and data models:
- Combining network data with data from other sources
- Selection of data processing graph’s nodes and links
- Overlaying the data analytics graph over the related electricity network graphs
- Examples of prediction uses for asset management:
- Failure of transmission line insulators
- Failure of distribution transmission transformers
- Possible mitigation strategies and related objective functions and constraints
- Next steps in predictive data analytics:
- Spatiotemporal scaling
- Missing and bad data
- Overfitting and data sensitivity
- Next steps in predictive data analytics for utility applications:
- Framework for risk assessment across the grid stakeholders
- The role of predictions in developing mitigation strategies
- Interaction with customers to share benefits of predictions
Instructors
Mladen Kezunovic, Regent Professor and Eugene E. Webb endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
- Principal Consultant and CEO of XpertPower Associates, a consulting firm specializing in world-wide Smart Grid services
- Before his academic career, employed by Westinghouse Electric and Energoinvest Company in Europe developing digital substations
- Author of a widely used books on protective Relaying and on TimeSynchronized Measurements in Power Systems
- Gave 135 Invited Lectures and 45 short courses, tutorials and seminars worldwide
- Currently serves on the Electricity Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity
- Recipient of the IEEE Educational Activities Board Standards Education Award, IEEE Life Fellow
- Fellow, Honorary and Distinguished Member of CIGRE
Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics, Director, Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics, Professor, Computer and Information Sciences Department, Professor, Statistical Science Department, Fox School of Business (secondary appointment)
- Before starting his academic career, employed by Madison Gas and Electric Company, working in their planning and operations departments
- Original developer of PowerWorld Simulator (a widely used power system planning tool) Co-founder of PowerWorld Corporation
- Author of a widely used Power System Analysis and Design book
- IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, IEEE Fellow
- Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Tom Anderson, Principal Systems Engineer with the SAS US Energy Division.
- 20+ years of analytical experience includes 18 years with SAS Concentrating on advanced analytics and data management in both Utilities Oil and Gas.
- Solutions in Asset Performance Analytics in both upstream and downstream O&G applications as well as Advanced Meter Infrastructure analysis and application development within electric utilities.
- Patents: Distribution Transformer Failure Awarded – June 2017; Monitoring Machine Health Using Multiple Sensors – Pending.