2. For over a century, GE has provided Utilities with the critical technology products
and services to help build, maintain and redefine the way electricity is distributed
and managed. Providing the core infrastructure for many of the world’s largest
Utilities, GEcontinuestodeliverourcustomerswithproventechnology,unmatched
innovation and unparalled subject matter expertise.
Continuing its legacy in providing breakthrough solutions to assist Utilities in
meeting their enterprise objectives, GE has developed, in conjunction with some
of the world’s largest Utilities, a solution that helps them quickly identify and solve
some of their most pressing data analytics challenges – Grid IQ Insight.
Grid IQ Insight provides customers a pre-build framework where GE Subject Matter
Experts help customers solve their data analytics challenges to help them realize
and support their operational objectives. GE takes it a step further by offering a
way to operationalize the changes by providing state-of-the-art visualization and
grid data management technology systems.
With GE’s Grid IQ Insight, Utilities have the opportunity to leapfrog to the next level
of advanced grid analytics with a trusted advisor. Grid IQ Insight will help Utilities
tap into the wealth of information collected by Utility systems and deliver it to key
decision makers throughout the organization to:
• Visualize data to create a greater sense of situational awareness
• Quantitatively analyze additional revenue growth and savings opportunities
• Develop deep decision support capabilities based on GE’s domain expertise
• Drill down into operational systems and offer closed loop control capabilities
• Advanced insight into grid data to uncover opportunities to reduce
outages and emissions and to provide new revenue-generating
services
• Integrated visualization control that provides a visual image of
current, past and potential future grid challenges allowing for
enhanced reliability and predictive diagnostics
• Maximized operational choices providing information to improve
safety and security and to build a business case for future
investments.
• Enhanced reliability at lower costs leading to higher customer
satisfaction and smarter maintenance decisions
Key Benefits
Overview
3. • Rapid prototyping providing concrete and actionable results within
90 days
• Initial prototyping analysis builds a business case for future
investments or rate cases
• Prototyping results that reduce future project risks by identifying
critical information and system requirements before substantial
investment are made
• Over 100 years of knowledge working with Utilities from power
generation through to customer power delivery
• Deep Utility operational expertise from direct observation and
hands-on experience with over 1000+ Utilities around the world that
utilize GE’s software products
• A broad knowledge base on how to maximize individual applications
to benefit your entire system
• Interoperability based on standards that drive easier data acquisition
and analysis
• An easy-to-use and intuitive user interface that drives faster
implementations and reduced training time
• Flexible ways to interact with the system including drag and drop,
mouse click, gesture or wand to meet individual user preferences
Accelerated Data Analytics Framework
Operational Domain Expertise
Innovative Technology
Analytics Scope
Grid IQ Insight analytics looks across the software systems used by
the Utilities to manage their electric grids. This includes analytics
from generation through to power delivery as well as data from
the Utility end-user customers.
By interfacing with the Grid Data Management layer at a Utility,
Grid IQ Insight is able to interact with a variety of Utility software
programs and provide value to the many groups that rely on
software data including Planning, Customer Service, Fleet
Operations, Metering Operations, and many more.
By bringing together Utility systems along with publicly available
software, such as social networks and weather data, Grid IQ Insight
is able to bring a new way of analyzing data to find common points
of interaction or influence not previously understood.
4. An Overwhelming Amount of Grid Data
Due to the recent investments made to upgrade the
Electrical Grid, coupled with several disparate systems,
the amount of “Big Data” now available is overwhelming
and becoming increasingly difficult to manage for many
Utilities. The ability to intelligently store and archive data is
rapidly being outstripped by our ability to process it.
Utilities have a solid information technology backbone. The
core operational systems have always been connected
to the SCADA and historian infrastructure. However, there
are still many challenges, including managing revenue
protection versus customer satisfaction, repair versus
replace, an ageing infrastructure and managing crew
productivity and service restoration.
Utilizing Untapped Operational Data and
Turning it into Actionable Results
The need to develop next level grid analytics is fueled by a
renewed urgency associated with rapid data proliferation
from Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and the steady
convergenceofOperationalITandEnterpriseITtechnologies.
The Utility industry is a complex electrical, communications,
IT and human network. It takes deep domain expertise to
understand these intricacies and to create value from the
large amounts of data the network generates.
Transforming raw data into contextual information,
actionable knowledge and informed decisions, based on
solid evidence and experience is the goal. In many rapidly
commoditizing industries struggling for differentiation,
Business Intelligence (BI) alone has created a powerful,
winning and sustainable business advantage.
Grid IQ Insight allows customers to visualize, analyze, and optimize their data to provide a unified, real-time view of their operations.
GE’s solution offers Utilities the ability to drill down into root causes, seamlessly optimize operations with powerful algorithms, and work
in concert with their underlying infrastructure. This enables Utilities to improve operational reliability and efficiency and to move from
reactive responses to proactive planning.
GE believes that analytical initiatives like Grid IQ Insight are a strategic imperative for Utilities. Utilities must start building the necessary
analytical discipline today in order to support the next generation of operational upgrades and automation requirements. Whether you
want to start with areas such as transmission optimization, distribution automation, distributed energy resource analytics or consumer
analytics, or all of the above, GE can help.
Meter Insight Example
The Challenge The Opportunity
The Solution - Visualize, Analyze, Optimize with Grid IQ Insight
5. Using various data sources to better understand power disturbances and energy losses
Grid IQ Insight Portfolio Overview
Software System Components
The core of a full Grid IQ Insight installation is the software
system. GE’s software embeds the algorithms and insight
of over 100 years in the Utility industry. This software is the
foundation for visualization and is capable of handling large
numbers of users and devices including handhelds, PCs,
tablets, touch screens and other devices available in the
market today. The system includes:
• GE Grid IQ Insight analytics platform
• Access to the Grid IQ Insight Application Library
• Spatial I/O software for processing multiple streams of data
• SQL+ Cassandra big data platform with built in analytics
and reporting capabilities
• Optional collaboration and telepresence tools
• Theft analytics combine
alert correlation and load
analytics
• Meter installation issues
and meter malfunctions
are identified
• Technical losses are
estimated by reconciling
aggregated meter loads
with upstream load
measurements
• Meter-based load
forecasting for short,
medium and long-term
forecasting horizons
• Customer segmentation
based on load profiles
• Load profiling:
normalization of
consumption
• Distribution transformer
sizing: aggregate
meter data to improve
transformer replacement/
repurposing decisions
• Voltage profile analytics
determine business case
for Volt/Var Control (VVC)
• Key word search and hash
tag tracking capabilities
• Overlaying customer posts
and tweets about power
disruptions
• Creating opportunities
for proactive customer
engagement
• Mapping social media to
Utility customer accounts
Revenue Protection
Load Research &
Forecasting
Power Quality &
Reliability
Social Media
Grid IQ Insight Consulting
Data Analytics Consulting
Rapid Prototyping Initiatives (RPI) are a short duration (90 days or less), low risk method to validate the feasibility and value for a
specific use case. The goal of the RPI is to iterate tests to fail fast and fail cheaply in order to close the gap on successful outcomes.
GE Utility experts work with you to understand your operations and the type of data you are collecting. GE experts will collect a
snapshot of applicable data and conduct an analysis utilizing the Grid IQ Insight algorithms. Rapid prototyping analysis include:
• Executive summary
• Data review and analysis
• Supplemental data source guidance
• Methodology/logic applied
• Use case demonstration with Grid IQ Insight
• Findings and recommendations
Grid IQ Insight System
Hardware Components
Hardware tools are an integral part of a full Grid IQ Insight
deployment. Utilities will install the necessary computational
and data storage capabilities, such as a SAN (Storage Area
Network) as well as server components to best fit their
operational needs. GE will provide additional installed
hardware enabling visualization of the data as well as a
variety of ways to interact with the data from drag and
drop, gesture and wand functionality. Our system provides
customers with:
• A visualization technology appliance
• Optional monitors and corkboards, if required
GE’s Grid IQ Insight portfolio provides both data analytical consulting expertise coupled with a production system, of both hardware and
software, that allows Utilities to rapidly operationalize the recommendations that drive and support the organizations desired outcomes.
6. GE’s Grid IQ Insight Solution Overview
Data Analytics Rapid Prototyping Consulting
Grid IQ Insight is focused on analyzing and visualizing large amounts
of data from disparate sources to garner business insights and value.
Our rapid prototyping service allows our Utilities to quickly determine
whether a large investment is warranted in a low-risk, low-cost manner.
Once a specific use case has been identified, the GE rapid prototyping
consultants will work with Utility customers to understand the data
streams available. This includes Utility information, such as operational
and non-operational data as well as public data streams that might be
applicable to the use case under consideration, including social media
outlets or climate-related websites.
Within90days,GEprovidestheUtilityanexecutivesummarythatincludes
key business insights. This information can be used to determine better
data management strategies, address organizational silos and surface
opportunities for process improvement. This summary also includes
financial analysis to help present a business case for further investments.
Visualization and Data Management System
Once the rapid prototyping is completed and the customer
determines a permanent installation is needed, GE works with the
customer to set up a private cloud environment within the Utility
infrastructure.
The complete hardware and software system is installed on site.
The application created during rapid prototyping is designed and
put into the production library at the Utility.
As additional applications are created for other GE Grid IQ Insight
customers, these will be made available for all users of Grid IQ
Insight and can be configured to meet individual Utility needs.
The full production system is a scalable, high performance big
data visualization and data management system. It is designed
to handle the growth in data over time and new applications and
analytical models from the Grid IQ Insight applications library can
be customized to fit the Utility need and added to the system at
any time.
7. GE’s Grid IQ Insight Data Flow
Situational Awareness
Operations
Generation Transmissions Distribution Consumers
Retail Market
Data Generation
Structured Data Unstructured Data Business LogicProvisioning
Grid IQ Insight’s Grid Data Management Layer leverages the Utilities existing systems to gather and organize operational data into
appropriate databases. Through a growing library of applications, Grid IQ Insight provides unparalleled situational awareness by making
connections and analyzing data across the Utilities multiple systems.
Meter
Insight
Outage
Insight
Renewables
Insight
Growing Library of
Applications
Grid Data Management Layer
8. Grid IQ Insight Applications: Example 1
Improving feeder reliability through targeted vegetation management
Situation
A major Investor Owned Utility, covering a widely dispersed geographic area and responsible for providing
electricity service to approximately one-million residents and corporations, has a challenge with under-utilized
outage data. The Utility is spending approximately $70MM a year on vegetation management. Given the
geographic variation of the service area, it is difficult to proactively predict where vegetation needs to be trimmed
to protect the electrical infrastructure. Safety is one of the most important priorities for this Utility and it is difficult
for them to quantify the impact vegetation growth has had on the safety metrics. Further, the Utility knows that
their return on investment varies substantially by feeder and they believe the increased costs in some areas are
caused by vegetation overgrowth related outages.
Solution
The customer worked with GE utilizing the Grid IQ Insight rapid prototyping solution. By analyzing Outage
Management System data and Geographic Information System data, including wind predictions in areas with
feeders with the worst reliability, the Grid IQ Insight consultants developed outage classification analytics and
vegetation management schedules thereby allowing the Utility to explore and optimize spend on vegetation
control and target the areas where vegetation growth was likely to be an issue.
Result
Because GE is able to use analytics to identify the feeders with weak reliability returns, the Utility was able to
improve vegetation management scheduling. The Utility and GE are collaborating on more dynamic feeder
segment classification including outage cause prediction and improving the temporal and spatial accuracy
of the Grid IQ Insight algorithm. The Utility expects to see productivity gains and to be able to optimize their
vegetation management spend by focusing more accurately on specific areas that need attention rather than
broadly treating large areas.
Grid IQ Insight compiles data from applicable publicly available systems such as weather information and Utility systems including OMS,
Vegetation Management Systems, GIS, SCADA, and ERP. The information is analyzed resulting in a heat map predicting areas of greatest
vegetation growth and proposing new vegetation management schemes.
GIS Vegetation MS OMS SCADA ERP
Weather
and other data
sources
Grid Data Management Layer
Vegetation Heat Map Vegetation Management Schemes
Grid IQ Insight
9. Grid IQ Insight Applications: Example 2
Grid IQ Insight
Reducing non-technical losses through meter data analytics
Situation
An Investor Owned Utility located in an urban environment in the Southern part of the United States is losing
approximately twelve-million dollars a year due to energy theft and 2% of their overall revenues due to non-
technical losses including those from meters presumed to be disconnected or meters being disconnected later
than requested by the customer.
Solution
ThecustomeriscollaboratingwithGE’ssubjectmatterexpertstohelpidentifyinstancesofdetectable,preventable
energy loss. The Grid IQ Insight consultants utilize the meter insight algorithms to analyze the smart meter data
in order to detect and prioritize the top recoverable instances of non-technical losses.
Result
GE is collaborating with the Utility and has so far identified 15 patterns of revenue theft or loss. GE consultants
have helped the Utility identify processes to eliminate or reduce loss to improve their revenues. GE has been able
to identify areas for revenue recovery of between $5 and 10 million per year for the average size Utility.
Compiling data from applicable publicly available sites such as Twitter, Google, and weather information, coupled with data from Utility
systems such as GIS, AMI, OMS, CIS, ERP, FFA and DMS, Grid IQ Insight will analyze the information holistically. This results in an expected
revenue recovery table that the Utility can immediately use.
GIS
FFA
Vegetation MS OMS
DMS
SCADA ERP
Grid Data Management Layer
...and other data sources
Weather Twitter Google
Expected Revenue Recovery Table
10. GE’s portfolio of software operation systems designed for Utilities around the globe provide a suite of software, ranging from asset management
and control to advance analytics and hosted and consulting services, to improve operator situational awareness, reduce operating costs and
enhance electric reliability.
Software Solutions Portfolio Overview
Generation Transmission Distribution Power Consumers
Smallworld™ Office Suite
MapFrame™ /Field Force, Automation™ - Mobile
SMOS - Meter Headend
PowerOn™ Restore - OMS
PowerOn Fusion - DMS
PowerOn Control - DMS
PowerOn Precision - DRMS
PowerOn Reliance - EMS
Grid IQ Insight Analytics
Grid IQ Solutions as a Service
Asset Management
Asset Control
Asset Management Benefits:
• Reduced design and construction times
• Improved work crew efficiency
Asset Control Benefits:
• Improved grid performance
• Increased reliability and efficiency
Grid IQ Solutions as a Service Benefits:
• Accelerated visibility and control
• Risk Mitigation
• Low upfront costs
• Reliable security
11. Software Solutions Portfolio
Providing design and planning services, field automation and workforce
management
GE’s Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) solutions are designed for companies with complex network asset
management challenges that need to efficiently design and model complex network infrastructures. Our map-centric
solutions integrate operational data and automate field-based processes for electric, telecommunication, gas, water
and public authorities to help them reduce design and construction times and improve resource efficiencies. A full
suite of GIS, Mobile Solutions and Smart Metering Operations Systems provides customers the following capabilities:
• The ability to view and manage all linear assets in their enterprise
• Access to real-time or near-real time to network model management information
• The opportunity to improve how work-crew and resources are utilized
Providing hosted packages of hardware and solutions
GE’s Grid IQ Solutions as a Service (SaaS) is a subscription-based, hosted suite of grid modernization solution
service packages designed to leverage GE’s breadth, experience and technology to shift integration, financial and
deployment risks away from the Utility and to provide a cost-effective and secure grid modernization solution. A
full suite of managed services, turn-key implementation, solution pilot, delivery and testing capabilities, as well as
consulting services, provides customers with:
• A validated end-to-end grid modernization system that leverages GE’s resources and
expertise to manage data securely and to mitigate resource and technology risks
• An optimized, off-balance sheet system architecture to manage the grid more effectively
and to reduce operating expense, increase cash flow and improve the bottom line
Providing real-time control for the management of Transmission
and Distribution networks
GE’s Asset Control portfolio provides monitoring, diagnostic and control systems to manage all aspects of the electric
grid from the transmission system to the customer premise resulting in improved grid performance and increased
reliability and efficiency. A full suite of Energy Management Systems, Distribution Management Systems, Outage
Management Systems and Demand Response Management Systems provides customers the following capabilities:
• The ability to optimize portfolio assets along the electrical system
• Proactively manage their grid assets
• Increase the stability and reliability of the grid
• Enhance response times for all system infrastructure with field data
Asset Management
Grid IQ Solutions as a Service
Asset Control
