
Smart Grid Analytics for Utilities
- Global, integrated, and/or deregulated utilities
- U.S. utilities: investor-owned, municipal, and cooperative
- Generation, trading, market operations, transmission, distribution, retail
- Improve grid reliability
- Reduce operational expense of grid management and customer experience
- Ingest and process data at petabyte scale with in-database analytics

Increase Grid Reliability

Reduce Operational Grid Management Expense

Ingest and Process Petabyte-Scale Data
Solution Description
Challenge
Utility companies are facing a staggering 3,000-time increase in data as a result of smart metering and smart grid initiatives. Once utilities get a handle on how to manage big data for its primary meter-to-cash purpose, they’ll need to determine what other value or actionable intelligence they can derive.
To truly fulfill the promise of the smart grid, bringing the grid into the 21st century with modern technology, utilities will need the ability to perform more complex analysis on all of the data available, for which they’ll need a new architecture. They’ll need to be able to ingest and process petabyte-scale data from multiple sources simultaneously. They’ll also need to be able to conduct ad-hoc and “what if?” analysis and work with partners who understand their businesses and can translate that into actionable analytics.
Technology Solution
Together with application and visualization partners like Silver Spring Networks and Space-Time Insight, EMC Smart Grid Analytics solutions for utilities deliver a platform purpose-built for utility analytics. Built on the EMC Greenplum unified analytics platform (UAP) and leveraging EMC’s world-class data scientist team, EMC helps utility clients to derive true business value from our volumes of new smart grid data.
Related Offerings
Products
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Greenplum Database
Manage, store, and analyze data with 10 to 100 times better performance over traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) products.
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Greenplum HD
Take advantage of big data analytics without the overhead and complexity of a project built from scratch.
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Greenplum Modular Data Computing Appliance (DCA)
Use an advanced, all-in-one appliance to deliver a fast-loading, highly scalabe, data coprocessing platform for big data analytics.
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Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP)
Leverage a single, unified platform for powerful, agile analytics that can transform how your organization uses data.
Services
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Greenplum Analytics Lab
Shorten the timeline to reach actionable analytical results with the latest tools, methods, and technologies to bear on big data analytics challenges.
Partners
Implement the EMC Smart Grid Analytics solutions for utilities with help from the following EMC partners:
Silver Spring Networks
With technology to empower the modernization of the power grid, Silver Spring Networks delivers the networking platform, software, and services that create smarter energy networks that perform brilliantly at scale, reliably, securely and efficiently.
Space-Time Insight
To enable fast, informed decisions, Space-Time Insight situational intelligence software helps you to clearly visualize your operations, analyze problem causes and determine how to prevent other occurrences, and act instantly to address any situation.
Resources
White Papers
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Smart Grid Analytics
EMC Infrastructure for Smart Grid Analytics in Partnership with Silver Spring Networks -
Smart Grid Analytics
Smart Grid Analytics on EMC Greenplum in Partnership with Silver Spring Networks