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Empowering Reliability: Harnessing Data Science for New Zealand's Electricity Network

Advanced Analytics Data Quality

The SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index is a key metric for network reliability performance in the electricity industry. It corresponds to the sum of all customer interruption duration divided by the total number of customers served, offering a comprehensive gauge of service reliability.

Over recent years, Top Energy has experienced higher than expected unplanned SAIDI and reported SAIDI has increased each year. Increasingly challenging weather conditions, which are …

Simplifying the UK's Move to Renewables with Alarm Grouping

Custom Analytics + Software Solutions

Traditionally, electricity distribution networks were designed for one-way power flow, from distributors to consumers. This design aligns with the original concept of electricity transmission. However, as prosumers become more prevalent, and technical solutions like grids and micro-grids emerge, it's only natural for the electricity network to evolve. This transformation involves a shift from Distribution Network Operators (DNO) to Distribution System Operators (DSO).

This transition holds immense potential, especially in optimising the utilisation of renewable electricity resources. It empowers better control and comprehension of supply and demand dynamics, …

Dynamic insights: Overlaying a variety of datasets to tell the story of Aotearoa’s regions

Custom Analytics + Software Solutions

Providing dynamic insight into a region's features through overlaying a wide range of data. A common problem businesses face is bringing varying data sources together to get a holistic view of their surroundings. Harmonic Analytics collaborated with a NZ client who was interested in understanding a region's ‘profile’ to make more informed decisions. This was achieved by bringing together a wide range of publicly available datasets and overlaying them on an easy to use interactive dashboard.

Developing a dashboard that offers a dynamic understanding of a region's ‘profile’ and how different features relate. This involved multiple stages, from data gathering and …

Helping New Zealand’s birds find the safest path through wind turbines

Advanced Analytics

Using advanced data analysis techniques to develop an avifauna collision risk model to assist Boffa Miskell with the assessment of ecological impacts of wind farms on birds, and, specifically, to enable robust testing of layout and design scenarios that will minimise collision risk to birds.

Boffa Miskell engaged Harmonic Analytics to replace a simple collision risk model that had been in use since 2004, with a new model that responds …

Identifying successful incentives to optimise staff retention

Data Visualisation + Reporting Solutions

Helping a multinational firm predict the likelihood of staff leaving and determine what may encourage them to stay.

Experiencing increasing demand for services in a tightening labour market, a multinational firm asked Harmonic Analytics to develop a quantifiably robust method to predict the …

Casting a light on Aotearoa’s darkest assets

Custom Analytics + Software Solutions Data Quality Data Visualisation + Reporting Solutions

Improving the transparency of Three Waters asset data quality across New Zealand.

Data is essential for assessing the condition of Three Waters (wastewater, drinking water and stormwater) pipe networks, planning renewals and scheduling maintenance. Traditionally, pipe asset …

Illuminating Fibre Prospects

Advanced Analytics Custom Analytics + Software Solutions

Providing Northpower Fibre (Northpower) with data driven insights to identify potential customers using predictive probabilities generated by a propensity model.

Northpower engaged Harmonic Analytics to provide analytical insights to help determine whether a residential entity may be a potential customer. These insights would help Northpower …

Cleaning millions of meter reading data points to improve reporting capability.

Custom Analytics + Software Solutions Data Quality

Helping Tauranga City Council automate a manual data cleansing process to free up six weeks per year of manual effort and improve both the quality and accessibility of critical business data.

Every year, Tauranga City Council is required to report its water consumption and other metrics to Water NZ. These metrics must be accurate, and therefore …

Automated data gathering and visualisation enhances productivity

Custom Analytics + Software Solutions Data Quality Data Visualisation + Reporting Solutions

Helping Trustpower improve visibility of ISP capacity and performance through automated data collection and interactive data visualisations.

Key ISP KQI and KPI data was manually collated from multiple data sources daily into a spreadsheet. From the spreadsheet, reports were generated with simplistic …

Statistical modelling to inform strategies for managing aging pipe networks

Advanced Analytics Custom Analytics + Software Solutions Data Visualisation + Reporting Solutions

Helping water utilities understand the factors that contribute to deterioration of asbestos cement pipes and make informed decisions around proactive maintenance and replacement.

It is estimated that there are approximately 40,000 km of Asbestos Cement (AC) pipes still in service across water supply networks in Australia. Many of …