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Paul Yarka

Accenture Smart Grid Services, Asset Management Practice Global Lead Accenture
	Member Since: 08/21/12 Author Rating: New Article Count: 1 Email this author

Background

Paul Yarka is a senior executive with Accenture and leads the Accenture Smart Grid Service's asset management practice. He has more than 30 years of experience designing and implementing successful asset management initiatives. The Accenture Smart Grid Service's asset management practice provides end-to-end asset management consulting and systems integration service to electric, gas, and water/waste water utilities. Paul's expertise spans asset investment planning, capital portfolio management, asset analytics and performance optimization, maintenance planning, condition-based monitoring and maintenance, EAM and enterprise GIS systems integration, and impacts of smart grid on T&D operations, He is located in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Articles

8.23.12

Next-Generation Asset Management: Meeting the Transmission and Distribution Investment Imperative

Topic: Risk & Operations

Article Viewed 2413 Times; 1 comments

Utilities are under growing pressure to meet the seemingly conflicting goals of minimizing costs and maintaining or improving grid reliability. In developed markets, decades of underinvestment in the transmission and distribution (T&D) infrastructure have created a pent-up need to replace aging components of the electric power system and gas delivery network.

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