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This talk will be focused on the current state environment of a typical electric utility in terms of their data and analytics, using FirstEnergy as a specific backdrop. I’ll give a brief history of FirstEnergy as an entity up to present day, how that’s informed the current state of our data, and what we are doing to transform that going forward. From there exemplary use cases will be described in the fields of Vegetation, Customer Service, and Distribution systems that FirstEnergy has targeted currently or in the recent past. This will illustrate current efforts and challenges utilities are engaged in responding to changing expectations and technology. You’ll come away from this talk with a better understanding of the internal data and analytics realities of electric utilities to better inform research considerations.

Nate Turner is the Manager of Data science at FirstEnergy. He’s been with the company for 5 years where he started as a Data Scientist working on analytics projects related to Safety and Distribution systems. As a manager he supports the AI, ML, Analytics, and ETL of data of 10 individuals working on Vegetation, Transmission and Distribution systems, Customer Experience analytics, finance and more. Prior to his time as a Data Scientist, Nate was a physics researcher, receiving his PhD from Washington State University. He currently resides in Akron, Ohio.