It gets harder by the day to prioritise the waves of data coming at us to determine what’s relevant, what’s noise and — most importantly — what to do with what the data we consider relevant.

At the New York Power Authority, the largest state-owned utility in the US, we had the opportunity to harness the potential of Big Data and the deep trove of analytics it provided to take on the challenge of how it could cut energy use in New York state.

Suffice