February 15 Natural Gas Community - Using Machine Learning to Reduce Compliance Risk

Newly paved roads in Massachusetts are under “guarantee” for 5 years, which prohibits digging, meaning National Grid may not be able to address Cathodic Pipe Protection (CPP) compliance issues on some streets until the guarantee period is over. Working together, the Massachusetts Corrosion Control and Advanced Data Analytics teams leveraged Machine Learning techniques to predict the probabilities of compliance issues throughout the network so monitoring efforts and work orders can be prioritized.

During this presentation, National Grid will discuss the path from noisy data to a working output that helps teams in the field keep our gas pipelines safe and reliable.