Updates & Events
Info for members about events, updates, and results
Task: Underground Transmission Asset Management Analytics: Utility Needs Assessment
Task Description: Develop a questionnaire to seek feedback from utilities to understand underground system asset management issues, readily available data, which issues may be addressed/benefit from an analytical approach?
Update:
- Questionnaire developed.
- Initiating outreach to schedule 1-on-1 sessions to seek utility feedback.
Task: Value & Use of Readily Available Data
Task Description:
- Work with utilities to collect readily available data – failures, in-service records, time series data (e.g., alarms, historical test records), defect data (maintenance records) etc.
- Apply analytics to determine if the data can be transformed into a format that is useful for analysis & if so, what can we learn from the analysis results?
- Use results of this task to scope out future year efforts to better understand component & sub-system performance, underground transmission risk assessment etc.
Update: - Obtained demographic, SCADA alarm & work order data from a utility. Work underway to analyze data & develop metrics.
Engagement Opportunities
| Meeting | Scheduled Date |
Location |
Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPRI R&D Kick off Webcast: Substations Asset Analytics Research Topic | February 11, 11:00am - 12:00pm ET | Webcast | Meeting Material |
| EPRI R&D Kick Off Webcast: Overhead & Underground Transmission Asset Analytics Research Topic | February 13, 11:00am - 12:00pm ET | Webcast | Meeting Material |
| Transmission Asset Management Analytics Task Force - March 2025 | March 10-13 (In-person) / March17-20 (Virtual) | Charlotte, NC | Register Here |
| EPRI Transmission Asset Management Analytics (Program 34) New Supplemental Launch Webcast | April 2 2:00pm - 3:00pm ET | Webcast | Meeting Materials |
| EPRI R&D Project Update Webcast: Substations Asset Analytics Research Topic (P34.002) | May 20 11:00am - 12:00pm ET | Webcast | Webcast Information |
| EPRI R&D Project Update Webcast: Overhead & Underground Transmission Asset Analytics Research Topic (P34.003 & P34.004) | May 22 11:00am - 12:00pm ET | Webcast | Webcast Information |
| EPRI R&D Project Update Webcast: Substations Asset Analytics Research Topic (P34.002) | June 12 11:00am - 12:00pm ET | Webcast | Webcast Information |
Anticipated Deliverables
| Deliverable | Date |
|---|---|
| Tech Update & Technical Webinar: Underground Transmission Asset Management: Utility Needs Assessment | December 2025 |
| Tech Update: Guidelines for Underground Transmission Asset Performance Data | December 2025 |
| Tech Update & Insights Shared Via Transmission Resource Center: Insights from the Collection and Analysis of Industrywide Failure and Performance Data | December 2025 |
| Tech Brief & Webinar: Applying Advanced Data Science and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Defect Classification from Work Order Analysis to Support Underground Transmission Asset Management | December 2025 |
| Tech Brief: Underground Transmission Line Risk Assessment Methodology Development | December 2025 |
| Tech Brief: UGT Condition Assessment Rule Based Expert System | December 2025 |
| Transmission Resource Center (Project 34.004) - Website content will be updated to include latest results from on-going research tasks, key takeaways, and how they are applied in informing overhead transmission asset management decisions. | December 2025 |
2024 Deliverables
| Product ID# | Name |
Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3002029488 | Underground Transmission Asset Management Analytics: 2024 Investigation Results |
Technical Update |
For more information, contact: Bhavin Desai, Sr. Program Manager, (704) 804-1188,