BIG DATA ANALYTICS & DATA SCIENCE TRAINING FOR POWER UTILTIES

24th December, 2018 to 28th December, 2018

Today Power utilities are moving to newer technological platforms to enhance

service experience of the customers as well as manage the utilities operational
efficiency which has been a challenge with mounting financial burden.

Indian Utilities over the last one decade has moved from paper based operation to a paperless environment,
This has been facilitated thru various program from Government of India i.e. SCADA/GIS system adoption in
APDRP, technology adoption in RAPDRP, digital platform adoption thru Smart Grid Pilot with enhanced overall
planning and optimization of utility operation through UDAY. Introduction of GRID management policy has
further improved on the operation of Load dispatch center with more and more reliance of technology for
better monitoring of GRID.

This transformation of utilities has brought them closure to huge pile of data which need to be leveraged for
better operation and planning to support our utilities in their transformation journey to move from debt
ridden to a better managed and self-sustained one.

In the aforesaid context NPTI has carved out new dimension and technology marvel for all utilities. NPTI with
its in depth Research and focus towards harnessing new development for Indian utilities have paved the path
forward for adoption of new technologies like IOT, BIG DATA Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial
Intelligence coupled with open source platform like Hadoop for data storage and creating efficient Disaster
Recovery. NPTI is creating Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Analytics. This will help utilities to strategize and
achieve large scale success on their Analytical journey, Data Storage, Data Recovery etc.

Globally, billions of dollars are lost every year due to electricity theft, wherein electricity is distributed to
customers but is never paid for. With rapid urbanization the need of power has been demanded to be looked
upon every instance for satisfying consumers at all front be it domestic, commercial or industrial. This is
warranted use of technologies which can give better outcome on various fronts i.e.

 Revenue protection , Non-Technical Loss /Forensic /Power theft analysis

 Load forecasting – short term ( intra-day ,day ahead , week ahead), mid-term, long term
 Balancing of Demand and Supply position on dynamics basis -Optimization of power procurement
portfolio and have better insights on better spot market/medium term /long term market strategy
 Cost efficacy and creation of renewable portfolio for utilties
 Transformer modelling – ageing, failure , load predictions etc
 Suppression of false and multiple SCADA alarms at control center
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 Outage monitoring etc.

Today, utilities spend millions of dollars adopting new solution to address BUSINESS ISSUES, like above where
in these long term deployment do not get warranted for their efficacy as one state model does not fit other,
variability of demand and factors necessitate a change in model adoption strategy, impact of variable right
form State, cities, district, town etc bring in modeling parameters which need to be established first, before
can be taken for large scale successful deployment. The entire solution strategy for the above burning and
pressing needs of the utilities lies in the BIG DATA STORAGE STRATEGY and DATA ANALYSIS STRATEGY using
techniques like machine learning (ML) for utilities betterment.

A machine learning model needs much less time to scan spreadsheets than a human; even though its
algorithm does the same thing that humans do. It uses experience, history, and past results and gradually
trains itself to determine suspicious activity.

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE on Analytics at NPTI provides a TEST BED, support

 to pilot these business issues to a successful business outcomes using Machine learning algorithms
over tradition time series models.
 help create economics towards large scale deployment.
 convert pilot into successful model which will help in creating larger RFP for successful
implementation in a consultative approach.
 with large background Enable as project management consulting layer to bring coordination
between the solution and the state requirement.
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FRAME WORK OF NPTI CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ( CoE)

Moreover, as NPTI is a nodal body, the effort and outcome from CoE can be replicated to other utilities which
will safe guard the time , manpower and infrastructure and help transition to newer platform in much more
structured manner. Emphasis of NPTI is to bring in participative action from all the utilities through this one
day workshop, which then will be taken in broader perspective discussing with each utilities in detail.

Big Data 3Vs: Volume, Velocity & Variety

A large amount of structured and unstructured data is being generated every day and considering the
initiatives taken under APDRP & RAPDRP, this amount of data is increasing by day (Volume) and the pace at
which the data growth is happening (Velocity) brings along the opportunity of getting insights from data in
real-time and the different types of data generated by the disparate sources (Variety) requires a mechanism
to store this data at centralized location and process the same to derive actionable insights.
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BIG DATA ANALYTICS & DATA SCIENCE TRAINING

COVERING DESCRIPTIVE, PRESCRIPTIVE & PREDCITIVE ANALYTICS HANDS ON CASE STUDIES
WITH INDUSTRIAL ORIETATION (ENERGY & UTILITY)
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Today’s technologically-driven society, terabytes of data is being generated every day. Businesses have
information about their customers, suppliers, products, subscribers and everyone else they have interaction
with. Traditionally, business intelligence has been helping firms analyse their historical data. However, tables
turned when Data Analytics gave the power to predict events and suggest actions. What to do with that
information, and how to mine it for trends, insights and predictors of future behaviour, has increasingly
become a key driver for a successful business.Due to its potential, the past few years have witnessed a
phenomenal growth in the reach of data analytics. Big Data Analytics is basically looking for two types of
people – those who can channelize large amount of information and those who can translate business
problems to analytical problems, while the ability to communicate remains intrinsic to both roles.

According to a report on Big Data from research firm McKinsey & Company, it is estimated that there will be a
shortfall of approximately 200,000 analysts who have the in-depth skills necessary to interpret Big Data by
2018. Data Analytics professionals are needed across domains like marketing, sales, customer relationship
management, operations and in all sectors research, government organisations, healthcare, services,
manufacturing, airlines, ecommerce, banking and financial services, technology or even sports.As more and
more businesses and government organisations across the world are going to put their faith in data-driven
decisions, a plethora of roles are emerging in this – such as Internet of Things (IoT) architect, marketing
technologist, technology broker and chief data officer apart from the in demand roles like Data Scientists, Data
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Engineers, Big Data Analysts, Data Strategist, Data Architect, Data Visualization Analyst, Data Quality Manager
etc.

The domain of analytics is thus going to be immensely lucrative for young professionals with the right skills,
aptitude and attitude. Recent Industry salary reports indicate that there is 32% increase in demand with
people having Analytics qualifications over and above degrees in IT or business administration or even
doctorates (2016) and data scientists earn more than CA’s & engineers. A well-trained business analyst is
going to be a much sought-after professional in the foreseeable future.

ABOUT THE TRAINERS:

Navin Kumar brings in over 12 years of industry experience spanning overarea of Predictive Modelling, Data
Mining, Machine Learning Big Data and Business Analytics in various domains like Public Sector, Banking, CPG,
Retail, Telecom and IPR.He has been associate with Assetplus Consulting, a start-up, focusing on end to end
offering for Analytics clients i.e. Consulting, Services and Continued management. Navin has been associated
with TCS in the past. He holds B.Tech with Post Graduation in Management (FMS, Delhi).

Sumit Gupta brings in 20 years of rich diverse industry experience focussed on strategic direction to
organizations in role of management Consultant. He has worked in industry verticals of Energy & utilties
bringing value of Business Analytics coupled with Strategic turnaround of business proposition. Sumit has worked
with organization like AT Kearney, PricewaterhouseCoopers, in his earlier role. Currently sumit guide two start
up ie Assetplus consulting and PragyaSolar in their transformational journey as Founder and
CEO. Sumit holds BE from (NIT, Rourkela) MBA from (IMT Ghaziabad), and Advanced
Management in Strategy & Leadership from Harvard University.

Ratna Gupta brings in over 2o years of rich experience in field of Information technology. She has been
associated with Enterprise Resource Planning system for over a decade for different organization in planning
their optimal resource utilization. He has been associated with Assetplus Consulting as Co-Founder, a start-up,
focusing on end to end offering for Analytics clients i.e. Consulting, Services and Continued management. Ratna
has been associated with RAMCO SYSTEM, MICROSOFT, INFOSYS in the past. She holds B.Tech,
MBA and PhD (Financial Derivative) all from BIT Mesra Ranchi
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5 DAYS PROGRAM SCHEDULE

INDICATIVE TIMING TOPICS COVERED

DAY -1 ANALYTICS INTRODUCTION, ROLE OF DATA MANGEMENT

9: 30 AM- 11 :00 AM  INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA ANALYTICS
 ( DESCRIPTIVE, DIAGNOSTICS, DISCOVERY,
PREDICTIVE , PRESCRIPTIVE ) AND HOW THEY
ALIGN TO POWER INDUSTRY
 ROLES INTO ANALYTICS ( DATA SCIENTIST, DATA
ANALYST, BUSINESS ANALYST ETC)
 INTEGRATED ANALYTICAL APPROACH – DATA
MANAGEMENT, ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION

11:00 am -11:30 am TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM  INTRODUCTION TO DATA MANAGEMENT
TECHNIQUES TO CREATE “DATA LAKE”
 INTRODUCTION TO “AAAS” ANALYTICS AS A
SERVICE FOR BIG DATA CHALLENGES
 ROLE OF DATA INTEGRATION, DATA QUALITY
 ROLE OF HADOOP IN SOLVING BIG DATA
CHALLENGES IN POWER SECTOR
1:00 PM -2:00 PM LUNCH & DISCUSSION BREAK
2:00 PM – 3: 30 PM CASE ANALYSIS – ROLE OF DATA INTEGRATION (
METER DATA ANALYSIS- METER DATA, EVENT
DATA, BILLING DATA), WEATHER DATA THRU
SENSORS
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM  TOOL INTRODUCTION
 HADOOP BIG DATA ECO SYSTEM & ARCHITECTURE
SYSTEM
 HADOOP DATA INTEGRATION FLUME, SQOOP,
RESTFUL API FRAMEWORK
 HADOOP – HDFS & MAP REDUCE
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DAY -2 ROLE OF DESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS IN POWER SECTOR

9: 30 AM- 11 :00 AM  DESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS UNDERSTAND ( WHAT IS

THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE UTILITY) THE USAGE
THRU DASHBOARD, KPIS, REPORTS IN POWER
DATA ANAYSIS IE OUTAGE ANALYSIS, ENERGY
ACCOUNTING, NETWORK RELIABILITY, LOAD
RESEARCH, TRANSFORMER ANALYSIS ETC

11:00 am -11:30 am TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM  Exposure to tools OPEN SOURCE ( ZEPPLIN) , COTS
(EXCEL/TABLEAU/QLIK/SAS etc)
1:00 PM -2:00 PM LUNCH & DISCUSSION BREAK
2:00 PM – 3: 30 PM CASE ANALYSIS – ROLE OF REVENUE RECOGNITION
FOR UTILITY FROM BILLING INFORMATION
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM  HANDS ON WORKIGN ON DATA TO APPLY
REVENUE RECOGNITION APPROACH ON THE TOOL
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DAY -3 PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS IN POWER SECTOR

9: 30 AM- 11 :00 AM  DATA SCIENCE & PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
 UNDERSTAND HOW PREDICTIVE MODELLING IS
APPLIED TO ASSESS THE USEFUL CONDITION OF
THE UTILITY ASSETS AND HELP IN EXECUTION OF
JOB IE
o FALSE ALARM SUPPRESSION
o POWER THEFT ANALYTICS
o TRANSFORMER AGEING, FAILURE ANALYSIS
o POWER QUALITY
o ENERGY MANAGEMENT – DEMAND &
SUPPLY etc
11:00 am -11:30 am TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM  ROLE OF STATISTICS IN DATA SCIENCE APPLIED TO
POWER SECTOR, AN APPROACH TO DATA MINING
 APPROACH TO ANALYSE DATA FOR PREDICTIVE
MODELLING
 UNDERSTAND USAGE OF MODELLING TECHNIQUES
IN POWER SCENARIOS LIKE CLUSTERING,
SEGMENTATION, REGRESSION, DECISION TREE,
RANDOM FOREST , SVM, ANN ETC
1:00 PM -2:00 PM LUNCH & DISCUSSION BREAK
2:00 PM – 3: 30 PM CASE ANALYSIS – APPROACH TO TRANSFORMER
AGEING/ FALSE ALARM SUPPRESSION USING
PREDICTIVE MODELLING
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM  HANDS ON WORKING SCENARIOS FOR PREDCITIVE
MODELLING
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DAY -4 (PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS- Advanced with MACHINE

LEARNING)
9: 30 AM- 11 :00 AM  INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING –
PREDICTIVE MODELLING IN POWER SCENARIOS
o TYPES OF BUSINESS PROBLEMS - MAPPING
OF TECHNIQUES - REGRESSION VS.
CLASSIFICATION VS. SEGMENTATION VS.
FORECASTING
o MAJOR CLASSES OF LEARNING
ALGORITHMS -SUPERVISED VS
UNSUPERVISED LEARNING

11:00 am -11:30 am TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM  UNSUPERVISED LEARNING- SEGMENTTION AND
CLUSTERING
 SUPERVISED LEARNING –CART, DECISION TREE,
RANDOM FOREST
 USE OF SVR, ANN IN MACHINE LEARNING
1:00 PM -2:00 PM LUNCH & DISCUSSION BREAK
2:00 PM – 3: 30 PM CASE ANALYSIS – POWER THEFT MODELLING FOR
UTILTIY USNG MACHINE LEARNINIG PRINCIPLE
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM  HANDS ON PRACTICE ON THE BUSINESS CASE ON R
TOOL
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DAY -5 (PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS- FORECASTING WITH TIME

SERIES ANALYSIS)
9: 30 AM- 11 :00 AM  INTRODUCTION TO TIME SERIES FORECASTING
o TIME SERIES COMPONENTS( TREND,
SEASONALITY, CYCLICITY AND LEVEL) AND
DECOMPOSITION
o BASIC TECHNIQUES - AVERAGES,
SMOOTHENING, ETC
o UNDERSTANDING FORECASTING ACCURACY
- MAPE, MAD, MSE, RMSE ETC

11:00 am -11:30 am TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM  CASE ANALYSIS – SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR
STATE LEVEL BASED ON MERIT DATA
1:00 PM -2:00 PM LUNCH & DISCUSSION BREAK
2:00 PM – 3: 30 PM HANDS ON PRACTICE ON THE BUSINESS CASE ON R
TOOL
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM TEA & DISCUSSION BREAK
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM  PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS- TRASNFORMATION
JOURNEY FOR UTILTITES
COURSE COMPLETION CERTIFICATE DISTRIBUTION FROM NPTI
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Target Audience:
Graduates, Engineers, Management consultants, Consulting firms, Entrepreneurs; Public Sector Undertaking
Officials; Senior Energy Department Officials of Govt. of India, Engineers from Power DISCOMS

Program Fees:
Training Fee per participant* Rs. 35,000 plus GST

Batch Strength will be limited to 25. Training kit, Lunch, High Tea will be provided during all 5 days. However
no TA/DA will be provided.
Accommodation at NPTI Guest house is available on payment basis, depending on the availability of the
rooms.
NPTI (Lodging & Boarding Rates):
Rs. 1800/- + 18% GST per day for Single AC room.
Rs. 900/- + 18% GST per day for Twin sharing AC room.
Rs. 250/- + 18% GST per day for Bed tea, Breakfast, evening snacks & Dinner.

Mode of Payment:

We accept Cheque/Demand Draft in favour of ‘NPTI’, payable at Faridabad. Last date of receipt of Nomination
along with payment is 15th December, 2018. Payment should be made before commencement of programme.
Note: NPTI is exempted from deduction of Tax of source under section 10 (23c) (IIIab) of Income Tax Act
1961. Hence no Tax may be deducted at source.
Bank Transfer through ECS:
Beneficiary Account Name: National Power Training Institute
Bank Name: State Bank of India
Branch: Sarai Khwaja
City: Faridabad
Account No.10724879119
Account Type: Current Account
MICR No. 110002198
IFSC Code No.: SBIN0003245
Bank Code: 03245
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Program Frequently Asked Question

1) What is the eligibility criteria for its enrolment (like Qualification, Work experience etc.)?
Work Experience:
This program is ideal for people who have been working in power industry and have exposure to data and have had
challenges in managing the same to give a meaningful insight to the business they are part of, for themselves as well as
for their clients. An excellent opportunity to practically understand how your business data can help in your growth by
working beyond the spread sheets with application of decision science in your business environment

Eligibility:
Background in any would be useful Engineering/ Science/ Economics/ Statistics/ Finance/ Management/ Information
Technology

2) I am a profession with good number of years of Industry Experience. How will this workshop benefit me
in running my business or managing my client?

Benefit:
The program is designed in a manner wherein concepts are explained through practical sessions on tools. You are
encourage to being your data and work around the tool and take some meaningful insight back to your workplace in
form of your learning and understanding the way the learning can be applied in your business environment

.4) Do I need to carry my personal laptop for doing the practical sessions?

Kindly bring in your laptop as you would need to install the software on which you would be working.
Alternatively once you confirm your program participation, we may also send you the link from where you can download
the software in advance which would save time to do more of practical session in the class.
The laptop configuration, can be minimum 2 GB RAM, 1.5 Gega Hz speed, with i 3 or above and any OS

5) Whom to contact for Registration & more information?

You may reach us any time on mail- id/ call i.e.

 Ms. Bhawana Choudhary , Assistant Director NPTI, 9311622338, bhawana.npti@gov.in

 Mr. Sumit Gupta, Founder, Assetplus Consulting, 9560329740, info@assetplusconsulting.com

6) What tool(s) would be used for the workshop and how to get the same?

The tools that would be used are provided in the attached document
You are advised to download the tools from the link provided and install them. This would save time.

7) What certificate is given at the end of the program.

The program certificate from NPTI (Ministry of Power) is towards participation and learning on the REAL time project
which will have unique identifier.