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C3 Energy CTO Ed Abbo Addresses Big Data Analytics for Modern UtilitiesREDWOOD CITY, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- C3 Energy President and Chief Technology Officer Ed Abbo addressed the CITRIS group at the University of California, Berkeley, yesterday on the impact of data analytics on the modern energy system as part of the CITRIS Research Exchange seminar series. The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) was formed in 2001, when researchers within the UC system realized that the real opportunities lay not just in developing new and innovative technologies, but in applying them. "C3 (News - Alert) Energy exemplifies CITRIS' mission as we apply advanced technology to enable utilities to realize the full promise of their smart grid investments," said Abbo. "As an active participant in the CITRIS Research Exchange, C3 Energy hopes to accelerate the application and transformation of information technology to the modern energy ecosystem." Abbo discussed how the application of recent developments in information tehnology, including the sciences of machine learning, cloud computing, and big data, are transforming the energy industry. He provided an overview of the current state of energy data analytics and described how C3 Energy is leveraging next-generation technologies to enable utilities worldwide to extract meaning from smart grid data. Prior to C3 Energy, Abbo was senior vice president at Oracle Corporation, responsible for Oracle's application and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) products including customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, and supply chain products. Abbo was also senior vice president of engineering at Siebel Systems (News - Alert). The CITRIS Research Exchange is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues, including energy. Each seminar offers the opportunity for an industry expert to share insights with faculty, students, staff, and stakeholders both in person and through live webcasting at several CITRIS campuses. For more information, visit the CITRIS Research Exchange website. About C3 Energy C3 Energy is an enterprise application software company that harnesses the power of big data, smart grid analytics, social networking, machine learning, and cloud computing to improve the safety, reliability, and efficiency of power delivery. C3 Energy's family of utility-tested and proven smart grid analytics products deliver end-to-end solutions across the entire smart grid, from energy grid capital asset allocation, transmission, distribution, and advanced metering, to the customer experience and energy efficiency programs. C3 Energy products enable utility operators to realize the full benefit of their smart grid and energy system investments. Learn more at C3Energy.com.
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