On-Demand – Outage Management Helps Gainesville Regional Utilities Prepare for Hurricane Season [an Energy Central PowerSession™]

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Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) is a multi-service utility owned by the City of Gainesville, Florida. As the state’s fifth largest municipal electric utility, GRU provides electric, water, wastewater and telecommunications services to  approximately 93,000 retail and wholesale customers in Gainesville and surrounding areas.

The GRU team wanted to improve outage management operations to better prepare for hurricane season and provide safe, reliable, competitively priced utility services in an environmentally responsible manner. By partnering with UDC and AspenTech, GRU was able to achieve this goal.

Join experts from GRU, UDC and AspenTech as they discuss:

• Even and reliable distribution of electricity across the network to avoid overloading any part of the system, outages or blackouts
• Responsiveness plan to address equipment failures, vegetation or animal issues, crew dispatch and safe, prompt service restoration           
• Distribution infrastructure maintenance for improved efficiency and reliability, including integrating new technologies such as smart meters and distributed energy resources

Gain insights on hurricane preparedness and more from GRU’s story. 
 

Panel:

Tony Holstein, Utility Project Team Leader, Gainesville Regional Utilities

With 22 years at Gainesville Regional Utilities, I bring extensive experience in utility operations, emergency management, and leadership. As Distribution Operations Manager at Systems Control, I have served in roles such as Emergency Management Coordinator, Planning Section Chief, and Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead. My expertise includes storm restoration and leading cross-departmental teams to enhance operational efficiency, safety, and customer satisfaction.

Richard Gunton, Technical Systems Analyst, Gainesville Regional Utilities 

Ron Yoshimura, Principal Consultant, UDC

Ron has 35+ years of experience developing and implementing enterprise software solutions for electric, gas, and water utilities using geospatial products from ESRI, General Electric, Intergraph, and IBM.  His background in GIS consulting includes OSI (Open Systems International) project implementations and supporting OSI mobile product development. Ron also developed network models to support OSI ADMS applications. As Principal Consultant for UDC, his main objective is ensuring UDC clients are provided with pragmatic business solutions to their unique and complex challenges. 

Derek Paquette, Sr. Director, Partner Programs, AspenTech Digital Grid Management

Derek Paquette is Senior Director for Partner Programs (Digital Grid Management) with over 28 years of consulting and system delivery experience in the utilities industry.  In the last three years with AspenTech, Derek has focused on building a Delivery Service Provider (DSP) ecosystem for the Digital Grid Management software suite.  

Sally Jacquemin, Vice President and General Manager, Power and Utilities, AspenTech

Sally Jacquemin is an industry professional with extensive experience in digital solutions for electric and gas utilities.  She oversees the overall business strategy, including customer engagement, organic and inorganic portfolio expansion, as well as global growth opportunities for AspenTech’s Digital Grid Management product suite including the AspenTech OSI monarch SCADA, Distribution Management, Transmission Management, Generation Management, Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS), and Network Model Management applications.  She establishes and executes corporate strategies for the company’s Power and Utility business segment to ensure continued innovation and market leadership.