Friday – ATCO’s Take Towards Grid Modernization for the New Energy World

Saeed Nusri

SPEAKER:

Saeed Nusri, Data Analytics Lead, Innovation Team, ATCO Electricity Global Business Unit

ABSTRACT:

ATCO is looking at major disruptions in the near future by the new energy world relating to the proliferation of DERs, electrification of transports and their impact of these on the grid. The presentation will give an overview on some of ATCO’s major initiatives happening on the Grid Modernization side addressing not only incremental innovation into AMI, distribution automation, telecoms system and optimizing control center operations, but also transformational initiatives like EV infrastructure, intelligent streetlights, digital orchestration platforms and leveraging artificial intelligence in grid reliability.

SPEAKER’s BIO:

Saeed Nusri has double major in science and engineering and has completed his Master’s from University of Alberta. He has worked with several startups in the area of e-commerce, engineering operations, and asset management and has deployed commercial Artificial Intelligence technologies that have positively impacted multi-million dollar investments. As Data Scientist and Advanced Analytics Lead with ATCO, he is currently leading analytics in the Global Electricity Business Unit Innovation Team. Some of his current work involves leveraging machine learning algorithms and big data analytics in the space of predictive maintenance, smart homes, distributed energy management, outage managements systems and energy trading.