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 …
Regulatory Spotlight, Part I: Texas Adds New Laws for Natural Gas Distributors
Our “Regulatory Spotlight” series will provide an ongoing look at the changing regulatory landscape for gas and electric utilities. This inaugural entry discusses two bills that passed the Texas legislature in 2019. Upcoming entries will focus on new initiatives around accounting treatment of capital vs. service expenditures; political and legislative “hot topics” in the 2020 elections; renewable portfolio standards and …
An Amazing 5 Weeks: Our Experience in Dubai
Treverity recently completed the first half of the Dubai Future Accelerator (DFA), an accelerator comprised of seven entities ranging from Dubai Electric and Water Authority (DEWA), to Emirates Airline to the Dubai Municipality Government. We arrived on June 15th, alongside more than a dozen companies from around the world. The 9-week program, designed to facilitate international business opportunities for innovative …
Human Integration: Beyond Systems Integration
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). …
Join Us July 9th – 12th at TGA’s O&M Conference.
Heading to TGA’s Operations and Management Conference in July? Schedule some time with us for a demo of our Texas-Tailored Gas Solutions on our contact form here. Amongst the many solutions we offer, we’ll be highlighting our Compliance, Risk-Mitigation and Efficiency-focused products. These include our Exception Management, Leak Management, Gas Dispatch and Leak Clustering Solutions. Looking forward to seeing you …
Faster Disaster Response and Recovery: People Plus Technology
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 Start Line is the Finish Line: The Journey of the 2018 Coppell Solar Car Team
“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 …
Using Machine Learning to Improve Utility Customer Experience
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 …
We’ve Come a Long Way from High School Shop Class
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 …
Treverity Appoints Bill Bell as Advisor
Treverity is proud to announce that we are bringing on William Bell as an Advisor to the Board of Directors. Bill will provide his experience and insight into Utility Operations and Analytics to help Treverity continue to serve and grow our customers in the electric and gas utility industry. Mr. William F. Bell William Bell is the recently retired Technology …
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