Creating input for a rate use case

Using IBM® Insights Foundation for Energy, regional planning engineers determine where investment is required to maintain or improve reliability.

About this task

$33.5 billion is spent annually maintaining distribution grids across the United States. North America has an estimated $4 trillion backlog in electrical infrastructure. Customer minutes without power have increased 15% since 2002 while in the last decade the cost to maintain distribution equipment has gone up 42%.

The delivery of consistent and reliable energy is an important business. By having a better understanding of asset risks, preventative maintenance, and planning, the energy business can be better and more efficient.

Regional planning engineers need to easily manage and optimize regional budgets. They want to be able to generate budget plans quickly and efficiently without having to analyze masses of data. They want the information they need in an accessible, single location so their utilities can provide reliable, affordable energy for their customers.

Procedure

The regional planning engineer signs on IBM Insights Foundation for Energy as a user.
He clicks Map. The map is displayed.
He zooms in to determine an area he is interested in analyzing.
Clicking an area of interest, a preview card is displayed giving information on the health and risks of the assets in the area.
Wanting to look at the assets in the area, the regional planning engineer clicks Zoom-in to see more details on the area assets. The map is redisplayed with the individual assets displayed.
The regional planning engineer wants to look at high risk assets so he changes his Score type filter to Risk score and the Score Range to the high risk range and clicks Apply. The map is redisplayed with the assets at the highest risk.
Wanting to see the high risk assets as a list, he clicks List. The high risk assets are displayed as a list.
The regional planning engineer now wants to export the list so he can provide the information to the maintenance plan. To do so he clicks Export and selects the format for the data export, for example, CSV.