Damn, really? Has it been kind of a waste then? Seemed like a good way to handle smart grid data, for an old school utility that can't feasibly roll its own large time series storage solution.

Not 100% sure, but my limited understanding is that they have everything, but don't do anything with it at the moment. However, when they need it, it'll just be there which is much better than needing to build something and get all that data.