Announcements
May 2008
Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E) has selected Davies Consulting Incorporated (DCI) to work with OG&E to develop and prioritize a list of projects to harden their electric system against storms and other factors that threaten service reliability. For more information, please read the following press release.
April 2008
DCI announced that it has implemented its innovative Distribution Asset Life Cycle Analysis (ALCA™) model at Western Power in Perth, Australia. DCI is working with Western Power to evaluate the utility’s aging distribution facilities and estimate both the reliability impacts of asset failures and future replacement costs for a variety of distribution assets.For more information, please read the following press release.
March 2008
DCI announced the availability of a comprehensive new program designed to help electric utilities implement, evaluate and improve their emergency planning, preparedness and response strategies. DCI’s comprehensive emergency management framework includes risk analysis, emergency planning and preparedness, response and restoration analysis, system hardening, benchmarking, and regulatory support. For more information, please read the following press release.
February 2008
DCI announced that it has completed its innovative Distribution Asset Life Cycle Analysis (ALCA™) consortium study and are now making the results of that project available to the electric utility industry. This project addresses a critical industry need to evaluate aging distribution facilities by establishing a credible and defensible process for estimating both the reliability impacts of asset failure and future replacement costs for a variety of distribution assets.For more information, please read the following press release.
January 2008
DCI announced that it has completed a comprehensive assessment for Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited (THESL) that identified opportunities for the company to harden its distribution system and improve its resilience to severe weather events. DCI identified specific system hardening improvements for the utility and determined the added benefits and priority of additional storm hardening options. Design standards, maintenance procedures, and construction practices were all considered as candidates for improvement. For more information, please read the following press release.
January 2008
DCI announced that it has launched a Transmission Asset Life Cycle Analysis Study with an international consortium of electric utilities. The project will address a critical industry need to evaluate aging transmission facilities. Working with a steering group of transmission owners, DCI will conduct a comprehensive life cycle study for a select number of transmission assets and develop a series of failure frequency curves for each those assets. The end result of this project, which is scheduled for completion in mid-2008, will enable study participants to use a web-based decision support model to evaluate the financial and reliability impacts of different transmission asset management strategies and determine which strategy best fits their company’s near and long-term goals. For more information, please read the following press release.
January 2008
DCI announced that it has completed a major project implementing its Asset Investment Strategy (AIS™) Model at Western Power in Perth, Australia. AIS™ utilizes a flexible, web-based methodology to optimize capital and O&M budget portfolios. Western Power selected DCI because of its extensive asset management expertise as well as its successful implementation of AIS™ at 13 other utilities in the United States and Canada. For more information, please read the following press release.
December 2007
DCI announced that it has implemented its proprietary Tree-Trimming Model (TTM)® at Tampa Electric Company. TTM® will help Tampa Electric to determine what levels of tree trimming and related costs will provide the most appropriate benefit to minimize tree-related outages for normal weather conditions and during and after hurricanes and other tropical weather-related events. For more information, please read the following press release.
December 2007
DCI announced that it has completed Phase I and II of a major project with Seattle City Light (SCL), Seattle’s municipal electric utility, to evaluate the utility’s storm restoration efforts and develop restoration plans and processes in the aftermath of a major wind storm that caused extensive damage to the utility’s distribution infrastructure. For more information, please read the following press release.
November 2007
Brooke Davies, COO of DCI, is featured in Bethesda Magazine for her ability to balance work as an executive at a consulting company with work as a volunteer firefighter in the D.C. metropolitan area.
October 2007
Ellen P. Vancko has joined the company as Senior Vice President, where she will lead the expansion of DCI's Energy Practice and focus on further enhancing the range of regulatory and reliability strategy, asset management, and change management services that DCI offers to its energy industry clients.
August 2007
Dr. Karen Gilberg, the Senior Vice President of DCI's Healthcare Practice, has completed an editorial for Financier Worldwide on the need for adaptibility in the biotech sector. To read the editorial, please click here.
July 2007
DCI's evaluation of and report on Seattle City Light's response to a December 2006 storm is reviewed in an article appearing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. To read the article, please click here.
June 2007
Dr. Karen Gilberg, Senior Vice President of DCI's Healthcare Practice, contributes to an article on strategic collaborations between biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the June issue of Financier Worldwide. To read the article, please click here.
May 2007
In their May 2007 filing to the Florida Commission, Progress Energy Florida (PEF) calls DCI an industry expert and details the process used by DCI to develop a comprehensive prioritization model that will help PEF identify potential hardening projects, procedures, and strategies. To view the PEF filing, please click here.
May 2007
DCI appears with Seattle City Light (SCL) at a City Council hearing on SCL’s response to a December 2006 winter storm. During his appearance, SCL’s Superintendent, Mr. Jorge Carrasco, praised DCI as having “highly specialized experience in emergency response” with “extensive background in the area of electric utility operations.”
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June 2008
DCI is a sponsor of the Southeastern Electric Exchange Annual Conference and Trade Show, which will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 25-27, 2008. For information, please click here.
DCI will hold its 13th Annual Executive Asset Management Forum on June 19-20, 2008. The meeting will be hosted by Pepco Holdings, Inc. at the Edison Conference Center in downtown Washington, D.C., and is co-sponsored by Northeast Utilities and Progress Energy. For information, please contact us at energy@daviescon.com.
May 2008
DCI Vice President, Analytic Solutions, Patrick Delaney, will present DCI’s Asset Investment Strategy (AIS™) model at the UTC Telecom conference in Orlando, Florida, on May 7, 2008. Mr. Delaney will discuss best practices for prioritizing telecom Capital Expenditure projects and calculating the capital budget needed to complete projects. He will also discuss strategies on how to present telecom CAPEX needs best to upper management and board members who may not understand the importance of telecom in the overall operation of the utility. For information, please contact us at energy@daviescon.com.
April 2008
DCI President Miki Deric and Lee Elder of Westar Energy co-presented on portfolio optimization strategies and DCI’s Asset Investment Strategy (AIS™) model at EEI’s Spring Transmission, Distribution and Metering Conference in Savannah, Georgia on April 8, 2008.To download a copy of the presentation, click here.
DCI Vice President, Analytic Solutions, Patrick Delaney presented an overview of DCI’s Distribution Asset Life Cycle Analysis (ALCA™) model at APPA’s Engineering and Operations Technical Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on Apr 21, 2008. To download a copy of his presentation, click here.
December 2007
DCI's 12th annual Executive Asset Management Forum was held in Washington, D.C. on December 10th and 11th, 2007. The meeting was hosted by Pepco Holdings, Inc. at their Edison Conference Center in downtown Washington and sponsored by AEP, NU, and THESL. For information on the 12th Forum, please contact us at energy@daviescon.com.
November 2007
Georgia Power, in collaboration with DCI, hosted the 3rd annual AIS™ Users Conference on November 8-9, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. The event was open to DCI's AIS™ users and focused on strategies to improve the effectiveness of the Asset Investment Strategy™ process and model throughout an organization. Participants shared insights and challenges on topics such as integration in the budget process across business lines, developing metrics to evaluate projects, and the future of AIS™. For information on the AIS Users Conference and model, contact Justin Wagaman at jwagaman@daviescon.com.
October 2007
Patrick Delaney, DCI Vice President, Analytic Solutions, reviewed DCI's Asset Life Cycle Analysis (ALCA™) Simulation Model at the EEI Transmission, Distribution and Metering Fall Meeting on October 9, 2007. To download a copy of his presentation, click here.
June 2007 DCI's held its 11th annual Executive Asset Management Forum on June 11-12, 2007. The meeting was hosted by Pepco Holdings, Inc. at their Edison Conference Center in downtown Washington, D.C., and was sponsored by AEP, Northeast Utilities, and THESL. Forum participants engaged in thought-provoking discussions about the strategic direction of utility asset management practices. DCI's also provided attendees with the first glimpse of our Asset Life Cycle Analysis (ALCA™) model - a probabilistic simulation model that evaluates user-defined replacement strategies to determine impacts on capital spending decisions.
DCI sponsored the Southeastern Electric Exchange Annual Conference and Trade Show on June 27-29, 2007 in Doral, Florida.
