Oracle Utilities Smarter Metering Webinar Series

Overview: Episode 1

Title: GRDF: Mastering Multi-Million Meters

Duration: 50 mins

Description:

We kick off the series with a presentation from GRDF, the leading French distribution system operator.

GRDF are currently midway through the world’s largest Smart Gas Meter project - underpinned by Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management - consisting of the replacement of its 11 million meters into Smart Meters with new smart devices. This large-scale industrial project will benefit customers and cities by boosting their energy efficiency.

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Overview: Episode 2

Title: Enterprise Scale Meter Operations

Duration: 30 mins

Description:

In this episode, we look at why utilities are now gravitating to head-end agnostic metering systems to centralise the receive treatment and distribution of smart meter data and events.

• Gain a deeper understanding of the business case that a strategic enterprise approach delivers
• Discover common areas of value including modernizing networks, protecting revenue, increasing reliability, reducing costs and enhancing service.
• Lessons learned and feedback from utilities across the industry.

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Overview: Episode 3

Title: Smart Meters & Prepay

Duration: 30 mins

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In this episode, we explore the world of pre-payment and how it has been transformed by smart meter programs around the world.

Whether you are migrating token pre payment infrastructure to AMI and mobile apps or looking to offer new choices to customers in how they monitor and pay for their electricity, gas or water, this episode is for you.

Combining the power of AMI, mobility and customer platforms we will show you how to leverage the real-time nature of smart meters to engage customers, increase revenue and lower your costs!

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Overview: EPISODE 4

Title: The role of Artificial Intelligence with Smart Meters

Duration: 30 mins

Description:

With the advent of machine learning and AI, new data sources can be leveraged, new patterns found and potentially different conclusions reached about the next best action.

Considering the speed of innovation, no smart meter program should be planned without considering the role and use cases of AI to maximize the value of the investment and accelerate the desired outcomes.

In this episode we will explore smart metering related use cases covering customer engagement, outage management and metering operations, and show how some early examples have been successfully deployed.

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Overview: Episode 5

Title: Improving Grid Operations with AMI

Duration: 30 mins

Description:

Smart meters have a broad spectrum of data points and alerts that are invaluable to grid operators. But it is surprising how few utilities include advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data into their grid models.

In this episode we look at how the women and men who run our electric, water and gas networks can take advantage of the insights AMI provides to support grid operations, network planning and respond to service issues.

• Understand the unique capabilities operators gain by integrating smart meters
• Hear real examples of utilities from around the world who are leading the way
• Ask questions and get advice directly from experts at Oracle Utilities

Overview: Episode 6

Title: How Smart Meters Transform Wholesale Settlements

Duration: 30 mins

Description:

Around the world, markets are shifting to 5-minute settlements for better market price transparency. Smart metering is a key enabler for settling energy markets down to the hourly, half-hourly or even minute by minute level. But this increases the burden of data and drives the need for efficient processes, and reduced risk of errors.

In this webinar, our experts will provide a fascinating and accessible look into the benefits of granular market settlements, including enabling transparent renewable tariffs, new market models (such as peer to peer trading) and, of course, fewer settlement disparities.

Granular market settlements also require capabilities beyond just your AMI infrastructure. So we will also explore what is needed, when it is needed, and how this critical financial role can merge seamlessly into the usage data management systems of your AMI architecture.

Host: Mike Ballard, Vice President Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities
Speaker: Wayne Van Eyk, Sales Consulting Director, Oracle Utilities

Overview: Episode 7

Title: Grant County PUD: Becoming a smarter utility and a smarter county

Duration: 45 mins

Description:

Grant County Public Utility District provides 100 percent hydropower to a service territory of farms, datacenters and about 40,000 customers. But the rural power provider, being smart about its limited resources, saw a golden opportunity to leverage smart meters, SaaS technologies, and digital transformation to modernize operations and do more with less.

In this webinar, Grant County PUD CTO, Derin Bluhm, will discuss their five-year technology transformation and the role AMI is playing in delivering business value outcomes as they become a smart community utility..

Host: Mike Ballard, Vice President Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities
Speaker: Derin Bluhm, CTO, Grant County Public Utility District

Overview: Episode 8

Title: Protecting Revenue with Smart Meters

Duration: 30 mins

Description:

It is a long road from generation/production to revenue, with many bumps along the way. The profitability and viability of energy companies and utilities are increasingly dependent on smoothing out that road.

During this 30-minute live webinar, Oracle experts examine the three primary obstacles for revenue assurance:

• Technical Losses
• Non-technical losses
• Collections

They explore the role smart meters play in all three and give examples of companies that have already completed their journey.

Host: Mike Ballard, Vice President Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities
Speaker: Brenda Craig, EMEA Sales Consulting Director & John Russell, Industry Specialist

Overview: Episode 9

Title: Smart Metering for Gas: The GRDF Story

Duration: 45 mins

Description:

Insights from the world's largest gas smart meter project.

Hélène Lagoutte from the Fench gas distributor, GRDF, joins Mike Ballard from Oracle Utilities to provide an update on their gas smart meter rollout.

She explains how the reality of the implementation compares with the original business case, where planned benefits have been achieved, where some have not, and where new benefits have been discovered.