Every industry has had to adapt to Covid-19 in its own way. For many, it’s been devastating – resulting in record job losses and numerous closed businesses. Others, like the tech industry, are adapting to the “new normal” and changing their policies to let everyone work from home – forever. But some industries don’t have the luxury to close down, …
Treverity participated in cohort 6 to work on Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s utility challenge. In this video interview, Michael Breen fields questions from the Cohort team on the unique Treverity approach.
My father was a hurricane forecaster for the National Hurricane Center. He’s retired now, but as a kid I always thought his job was strange – what did he do when there weren’t any storms? Hurricane season was only half the year and, even then, there were often many months with no tropical storms. Turns out he did a lot …
The world of a utility operator is complex. Over the last two decades, utilities have invested heavily in Information and Operations Technology systems intended to make their operations run more efficiently. It’s a veritable acronym salad of software systems: OMS, AMI, CIS, GIS, ADMS, ERP, WMS, DERMS, etc (bonus points if you know what each of those acronyms stands for). …
It seems like we can’t go a month without a new natural disaster. Hurricane Harvey in Texas, the wildfires in California, now the Polar Vortex in the Midwest. These disasters hit everyone and everything hard, and your electric utility is no exception. Much of our nation’s critical power infrastructure is above ground – power lines, poles, transformers, and substations are …
“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” – John Bingham Several months ago, we wrote about the Coppell High School Solar Car team, which Treverity sponsored this year in their quest to complete the Solar Car Challenge – a seven day grueling road race from Texas to California, covering over 1300 …
To most customers, their electric utility has only one job – to keep the lights on. A power outage is one of the few times, other than paying their bill, that a customer engages with their utility – so, the utility interaction with the customer is a high leverage point. Perhaps just as important as getting the lights back on …
I am walking through a series of connected rooms at Coppell High School, just outside of Dallas, TX. The first room is a large lounge area – kids huddled in groups on couches and in corners, scribbling in notebooks and on whiteboards, talking – some of it looks like school work, some of it not. I move through the room …
