Deck:
Accenture
Author Bio:
Steve Mitnick is President of Lines Up, Inc., Editor-in-Chief of Public Utilities Fortnightly, and author of “Lines Down: How We Pay, Use, Value Grid Electricity Amid the Storm.”
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PUF: What are we looking at here?
Paul Hofmann: This demo is about improving capacity utilization and generation for utilities. We use a wind farm to show how to improve the installed capacity. We start with a dashboard. Using it we can do a deep dive to see the maximum capacity that we could achieve.
We have a natural loss of capacity because the wind doesn't blow all the time. Then we have a technical loss because the windmill is not up all the time — it has to be repaired or updated.
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