Energy and utilities

Recent reports and whitepapers

Explore energy and utilities industry trends and issues:

• Best practices for cyber security in the electric power sector (334KB)
• Smarter Energy: optimizing and integrating renewable energy resources (760KB)
• Knowledge is Power: Driving smarter energy usage through consumer education (685KB)
• The value of smarter energy: Making the case for orchestrating the network (1.48MB)
• Combating smart grid vulnerabilities
• Transforming the energy value chain: A smarter approach to producing, distributing, and consuming energy (799KB)
• All reports from the IBM Institute for Business Value

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Energy and utilities solution areas

• Power Generation
• Asset and Workforce Management
• Intelligent Utility Network
• Customer Operations
• IBM software framework for the energy and utilities industry

Case studies

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  Hydro One

  IBM helped Hydro One implement a multi-year project resulting in automated management of grid operations, operational efficiency through real-time monitoring, and optimized outage restoration.

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Related information

• IBM energy and utilities news and press releases

Smarter systems that are instrumented, interconnected and intelligent

Smart Grid

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