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 Webcast Information
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

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,