The document discusses the accelerating transformation of the energy industry towards a more decentralized and intelligent "Energy Cloud" system. It notes several tipping points indicating this transformation is happening more quickly, such as increasing corporate renewable energy investments and distributed energy resource growth outpacing central generation. The document outlines three potential scenarios for the industry in 2030 and how value may shift across different parts of the energy sector. It then examines two strategic pathways utilities could take to create value in the new "Energy Cloud" - providing energy as a service and developing energy cloud platforms.
Jan Vrins, leader of Navigant's global energy practice, examines the state and future of the power industry, including megatrends, tipping points, future state, and the path forward.
Power Market Outlook- Grid Transformation and the Impact of Distributed Energ...ScottMadden, Inc.
As DERs continue to proliferate, utilities are piloting the integration of many different resources and partnering with new entities. These activities have important implications for the manner in which the supply chain procures products and services and the types of contracting relationships that will be needed. Learn more about the changes, impacts to utilities, the continuum of regulatory responses, and what it means for the supply chain in this presentation.
ScottMadden has developed the following document, which provides an overview of DERs, a description of why they are causing so much upheaval in the industry, a summary of the NARUC reports, and an outline of the key questions utilities must address in relation to DERs.
Jan Vrins, leader of Navigant's global energy practice, examines the state and future of the power industry, including megatrends, tipping points, future state, and the path forward.
Power Market Outlook- Grid Transformation and the Impact of Distributed Energ...ScottMadden, Inc.
As DERs continue to proliferate, utilities are piloting the integration of many different resources and partnering with new entities. These activities have important implications for the manner in which the supply chain procures products and services and the types of contracting relationships that will be needed. Learn more about the changes, impacts to utilities, the continuum of regulatory responses, and what it means for the supply chain in this presentation.
ScottMadden has developed the following document, which provides an overview of DERs, a description of why they are causing so much upheaval in the industry, a summary of the NARUC reports, and an outline of the key questions utilities must address in relation to DERs.
Verdantix Report: Urjanet Supports Growth of Energy Management EcosystemUrjanet
Read this report to learn more about why and how leading energy services and software firms are choosing Urjanet for their source of utility bill and interval data.
Transformation Tools for Utilities | Indigo Advisory GroupDavid Groarke
This pivotal moment of transformation in the utility industry is providing large scale and unprecedented opportunity for traditional power providers and those operating at the edge of the grid. In this capability primer, we highlight some of the broader industry technology trends and the resulting tools, approaches and insights that Indigo Advisory Group employs to help utilities navigate uncertainty and create the right strategies.
In many ways, the electricity industry makes an unlikely candidate for disruption. Not much changed between the 1880s, when Thomas Edison began building power stations, and the start of the 21st century. Top business leaders rarely had to think about electricity. They got their electricity from the power plant, or the local utility, or the government, and had little say in how it was produced, delivered, or managed. Utility executives, for their part, could make and execute long-term plans with a great deal of security. Demand tended to rise along with the economy; natural monopolies were the norm.
No longer. Several coincident, significant transformations are causing a revolution in the way electricity — the vital fuel of global commerce and human comfort — is produced, distributed, stored, and marketed. A top-down, centralized system is devolving into one that is much more distributed and interactive. The mix of generation is shifting from high carbon to lower carbon, and, often, to no carbon. In many regions, the electricity business is transforming from a monopoly to a highly competitive arena.
Energy, Sustainability, Energy transition, Leadership
Independent (Siemens sponsored) National Survey of the Energy Professionals in the USA Utility sector on State of the Utility.
How the Energy Efficiency sector can embrace Exponential Leadership principles to spark meaningful change for the environment. Oct 2019 Keynote presentation at The Power of Collaboration conference hosted by ESG / Direct Technology.
Govt to revisit, revise power distribution guidelines in National Electricit...Tata Power
“To succeed and survive, Indian Discoms need to quickly embrace digital technology tapping the sophisticated technologies like IoT, analytics, automation and cloud to generate higher efficiency."
- Praveer Sinha. CEO & MD, Tata Power.
New base february 03 2022 energy news issue - 1484 by khaled al awadi (auto...Khaled Al Awadi
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Lessons from India on how companies, utilities and government can work together to power industry with affordable clean energy. Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2017/03/webinar-how-companies-are-buying-clean-energy-india
CambiumLLP - Fast growing market for clean tech and ITCambium LLP
The UK has a growing market for Clean Tech and IT Solutions. Energy costs, security and recent legislation combined with many other factors is creating compelling events and driving rapid growth. Presentation sets out the key drivers and the sellers that will benefit most.
Presentation from the EPRI-Sandia Symposium on Secure and Resilient Microgrids: From Resiliency to Solvency: Building a Business Case for Public Purpose Microgirds, presented by Kenneth Horne, Navigant, Baltimore, MD, August 29-31, 2016.
Presented by Hans Nilsson, FourFact, Sweden, former Chairman of the IEA DSM Programme, at present Advisor to the IEA DSM Programme at the IEA DSM workshop in Espoo, Finland on 14 November 2012.
Verdantix Report: Urjanet Supports Growth of Energy Management EcosystemUrjanet
Read this report to learn more about why and how leading energy services and software firms are choosing Urjanet for their source of utility bill and interval data.
Transformation Tools for Utilities | Indigo Advisory GroupDavid Groarke
This pivotal moment of transformation in the utility industry is providing large scale and unprecedented opportunity for traditional power providers and those operating at the edge of the grid. In this capability primer, we highlight some of the broader industry technology trends and the resulting tools, approaches and insights that Indigo Advisory Group employs to help utilities navigate uncertainty and create the right strategies.
In many ways, the electricity industry makes an unlikely candidate for disruption. Not much changed between the 1880s, when Thomas Edison began building power stations, and the start of the 21st century. Top business leaders rarely had to think about electricity. They got their electricity from the power plant, or the local utility, or the government, and had little say in how it was produced, delivered, or managed. Utility executives, for their part, could make and execute long-term plans with a great deal of security. Demand tended to rise along with the economy; natural monopolies were the norm.
No longer. Several coincident, significant transformations are causing a revolution in the way electricity — the vital fuel of global commerce and human comfort — is produced, distributed, stored, and marketed. A top-down, centralized system is devolving into one that is much more distributed and interactive. The mix of generation is shifting from high carbon to lower carbon, and, often, to no carbon. In many regions, the electricity business is transforming from a monopoly to a highly competitive arena.
Energy, Sustainability, Energy transition, Leadership
Independent (Siemens sponsored) National Survey of the Energy Professionals in the USA Utility sector on State of the Utility.
How the Energy Efficiency sector can embrace Exponential Leadership principles to spark meaningful change for the environment. Oct 2019 Keynote presentation at The Power of Collaboration conference hosted by ESG / Direct Technology.
Govt to revisit, revise power distribution guidelines in National Electricit...Tata Power
“To succeed and survive, Indian Discoms need to quickly embrace digital technology tapping the sophisticated technologies like IoT, analytics, automation and cloud to generate higher efficiency."
- Praveer Sinha. CEO & MD, Tata Power.
New base february 03 2022 energy news issue - 1484 by khaled al awadi (auto...Khaled Al Awadi
NewBase February 03-2022 Energy News issue - 1484 by Khaled Al Awadi (AutoRecovered)NewBase February 03-2022 Energy News issue - 1484 by Khaled Al Awadi (AutoRecovered)NewBase February 03-2022 Energy News issue - 1484 by Khaled Al Awadi (AutoRecovered)NewBase February 03-2022 Energy News issue - 1484 by Khaled Al Awadi (AutoRecovered)NewBase February 03-2022 Energy News issue - 1484 by Khaled Al Awadi (AutoRecovered)NewBase February 03-2022 Energy News issue - 1484 by Khaled Al Awadi (AutoRecovered)
Lessons from India on how companies, utilities and government can work together to power industry with affordable clean energy. Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2017/03/webinar-how-companies-are-buying-clean-energy-india
CambiumLLP - Fast growing market for clean tech and ITCambium LLP
The UK has a growing market for Clean Tech and IT Solutions. Energy costs, security and recent legislation combined with many other factors is creating compelling events and driving rapid growth. Presentation sets out the key drivers and the sellers that will benefit most.
Presentation from the EPRI-Sandia Symposium on Secure and Resilient Microgrids: From Resiliency to Solvency: Building a Business Case for Public Purpose Microgirds, presented by Kenneth Horne, Navigant, Baltimore, MD, August 29-31, 2016.
Presented by Hans Nilsson, FourFact, Sweden, former Chairman of the IEA DSM Programme, at present Advisor to the IEA DSM Programme at the IEA DSM workshop in Espoo, Finland on 14 November 2012.
ENGIE Impact accelerates the sustainability transformation for corporations, cities and governments. We help
organizations embed sustainability into their operational strategies, allowing them to bridge the gap between
sustainability commitments and realized results that capture economic value and make organizations more
competitive over the long term.
Andrew Singleton of Baringa has studied and analysed the disruptions and what they mean for utilities and energy trading companies in an insightful presentation delivered last November during ETOT ~ It’s all about adapting to the changes.
"What do you do with your old systems? How do you develop new ones in line with the rising needs? How do you do things differently?"
For more information about the ETOT series, simply visit www.etotsummit.com
Conceptual framework for evaluating multiple benefits from energy efficiencyLeonardo ENERGY
The International Energy Agency (IEA) launched their recent publication, “Capturing the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency,” at IEPPEC in Berlin (September 2014). Following the launch of the publication, the IEA and IEPPEC have collaborated to explore and address the evaluation process relating to these multiple impacts/ benefits. This webinar will cover one focus area of that collaboration – i.e., the development of a conceptual framework aimed to provide some guidance regarding the evaluation process of these multiple benefits/impacts within the scope of an energy efficiency programme or policy. This webinar will provide an overview of the draft framework as well as an early opportunity for researchers and evaluators to offer feedback prior to more in-depth discussion with a panel at this year’s IEPPEC June 7-9 in Amsterdam.
This pivotal moment of transformation in the utility industry is providing large scale and unprecedented opportunity for traditional power providers and those operating at the edge of the grid. In this capability primer, we highlight some of the broader industry technology trends and the resulting tools, approaches and insights that Indigo Advisory Group employs to help utilities navigate uncertainty and create the right strategies.
Investors can use this guide to: Decide whether energy productivity is a material issue for any portfolio companies; Prioritise and shortlist sectors or companies for engagement on energy issues; Access supporting information (including industry
examples) for engagement or discussions with companies; Support improved financial returns for portfolio companies through pursuing opportunities for their energy productivity improvement
More than 60% of providers struggle to derive optimal value from their EHRs and 85% believe consumer self-pay will continue to impact their organizations, according to an annual HFMA/Navigant survey of 108 provider CFOs and revenue cycle executives.
Healthcare providers are ready and planning to assume increased levels of risk through commercial payer and Medicare contracting models and Medicare Advantage, according to a new Navigant analysis based on a survey conducted by HFMA.
Preparing for today's challenges. Presentation includes key components and industry trends, organizational success factors, key performance indicators, and a client case study.
The Fall, and Likely Rise, of Unpaid Medical Bills
Hospitals have experienced improvements in uncompensated care revenue, primarily due to the ACA. But reform and economic uncertainty are creating a perfect storm that could erase this momentum.
Reining in Corporate Overhead
“No margin, no mission” emphasizes the need for strong fiscal management for providers to fulfill their missions. With a Navigant analysis showing provider operating margins dropping, 2018 may be the year of reining in corporate overhead.
Managing Up Physician Acquisitions
Integrating acquired physician practices has been an ongoing struggle for health systems. To overcome this challenge, providers need to manage up return on these acquisitions, rather than manage down the losses.
Medicare Advantage’s Rising Star
Ongoing reform uncertainty has payers saturating an already crowded Medicare Advantage (MA) market. A Navigant analysis shows how MA star ratings improvements can grow plan enrollment and revenue.
Re-evaluating Value-based Investments
While the future of Medicare value-based contracting is murky, providers should stay the course on their value-based care journey.
The fourth quarter of 2017 was marked by Department of Justice (DOJ) policy change announcements, robust international cooperation, and a challenge to the conventional wisdom that Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement will be diminished under the current administration.
Frequency of lawsuits has increased dramatically in recent periods, with over 50% more in the last two quarters than in the three previous review periods combined, accounting for 12% of all actions in the last year. This trend of financial institutions refusing to settle and forcing regulators to sue is evident in several high-visibility suits.
During the recently completed third quarter of 2017, the Department of Justice resolved one matter and the Securities and Exchange Commission resolved two matters. While this was a slow quarter in terms of the number of enforcement actions, the financial impact was significant as the Telia global settlement involved financial penalties and disgorgement of approximately $965 million to be allocated between U.S., Dutch, and Swedish authorities.
The second quarter of 2017 was relatively quiet from an enforcement perspective. Two Magyar Telekom executives settled cases that the Securities and Exchange Commission had filed against them, and two entities received declination letters from the Department of Justice.
During the first quarter of 2017, the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission resolved a combined six matters with penalties and disgorgements exceeding $257 million. The cases spanned over five industries, highlighting that no industry is immune to regulatory scrutiny.
Hospitals and health systems are struggling to maximize the benefits of innovative technology to better manage uncompensated care and revenue integrity, suggests a HFMA/Navigant survey of 125 provider CFOs and revenue cycle management executives.
Reduce Supply Chain Expenses While Maintaining Care QualityGuidehouse
A Navigant analysis magnifies the opportunity that U.S. hospitals have to save billions of dollars by further streamlining supply chain processes and associated product use — without affecting quality. According to the study, hospitals nationwide could reduce their supply chain budgets by 17.8 percent on average.
Hospitals and health systems are struggling to maximize the benefits of innovative technology to better manage uncompensated care and revenue integrity, suggests a HFMA/Navigant survey of 125 provider CFOs and revenue cycle management executives.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.