AI-Enabled Outage Planning with AI-ReadyOps
ScottMadden’s AI-ReadyOps quickly launched a utility’s AI program, delivering outage insights, risk detection, and a scalable foundation for data-driven decisions.
At a Glance
Data Utilization
Launched the utility’s AI program with a prototype built on years of outage data in weeks
AI Prototype
Delivered a prototype AI agent that provided immediate, actionable insights to improve outage planning and reduce schedule and budget risks
Rapid Deployment
Advanced the prototype to a production-ready state, enabling rapid deployment into the operational environment
Challenge
A large vertically integrated utility with multiple business units sought to improve outage planning within its Generation organization. The existing process relied heavily on manual review of past outage data, spreadsheets, and siloed reports—making it difficult to identify performance trends, assess root causes of delays, and proactively plan upcoming outages. Inconsistent data access and the absence of advanced analytics created bottlenecks, limiting the ability to optimize schedules, resources, and budgets. Leadership partnered with ScottMadden to explore AI-enabled tools that could analyze historical outage performance, surface lessons learned, and deliver actionable insights — all without committing to long, costly development cycles.
Process
- Engaged with Generation leaders and planners to assess current processes, data sources, and challenges
- Facilitated a workshop to identify and prioritize AI opportunities, selecting outage performance analytics
- Collaborated with key stakeholders to identify critical features and identified specific data elements required to drive the development of the desired features, and scoped a plan to source the data
- Built a prototype solution with the critical features
- Held review sessions with planners and engineers to refine analytics, visualizations, and reports
- Walked the security and infrastructure teams through the process to prepare for deployment to the production environment
Result
- Delivered a working AI prototype within weeks, enabling analysis of multiple years of outage data in minutes rather than days
- Identified recurring drivers of outage delays and quantified their impact on schedule and budget
- Provided AI-generated visual analytics that supported data-driven decision-making in upcoming outage planning cycles
- Enhanced cross-functional collaboration by providing a single, interactive view of historical outage performance accessible to planners, engineers, and leadership
- Advanced the prototype to a production-ready state, prepared for deployment into the operational environment
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