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Lawson Software Partners with Advanced Utilities Systems
Lawson - Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced a new partnership with Advanced Utilities Systems (Advanced). more...
RWE relies on EnergyICT for its B2B energy supply activities in Belgium
EnergyICT Inc. - RWE decided to start B2B energy supply activities in Belgium in mid 2009, through its sister company RWE Energy Belgium. more...
NorthStar continues expansion in the State of Washington with Selection by Douglas County PUD
Harris Computer Systems - NorthStar Utilities Solutions, a division of Harris Computer Systems, announced today that Douglas County Public Utility District No. more...
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Survey: Challenges in Payment Area Emerge As Smart Grids Take Shape
WAUSAU Financial Systems, Inc. - Impacts of a difficult economy. Increased regulation. Consumers demanding many more payment options. Aging IT resources. Uncertainty about what smart grids will bring. more...
Milsoft and Exceleron Software Provide Pre Paid Electric Service Options to Central Electric EMC
Milsoft Utility Solutions, Inc. - Milsoft Utility Solutions, an industry leader in engineering analysis, outage management, interactive voice response, geospatial information systems and field engineering solutions, announced today that it has successfully interfaced its PORCHE Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system with Exceleron Software’s Pre-paid Account Management System (PAMS.) Deployed at Central Electric Membership Corporation in Sanford, North Carolina, customers who elect (or are required) to use pre-paid as a payment method can also now utilize the automated PORCHE IVR system to retrieve account balances and make payments using credit cards or e-checks. more...
Central Lincoln People's Utility District selects Harris' Advanced Utility Systems
Advanced Utility Systems Corporation - Harris’ Advanced Utility Systems (Advanced) is pleased to announce that Central Lincoln People’s Utility District (CLPUD) has selected CIS Infinity as its preferred customer information and billing solution. more...
Denver Water Enhances Billing Capabilities and Customer Service with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing
Oracle - Denver Water, a provider of high-quality water and a promoter of its efficient use to 1.3 million people in the City of Denver and many surrounding suburbs, has implemented Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to replace a legacy customer information system (CIS) – helping the utility enhance billing capabilities and customer service and better understand customer needs. more...
Reliant Energy to Accept MasterCard Cards for Small and Mid-size Commercial Customer Bill Payments
MasterCard Worldwide - MasterCard Worldwide today announced that Texas-based electricity and energy services provider Reliant Energy is now accepting MasterCard cards for bill payments from its small and mid-size commercial customers as part of its existing electronic payment card program. more...
Customers Select Oracle Exadata for Extreme Performance of Data Warehouse and OLTP Applications
Oracle - Customers across the globe have chosen Oracle® Exadata to deliver extreme performance for their data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) environments. more...
Fiserv Drives Paperless Bill Adoption with New E-mail and Mobile Presentment Options
Fiserv - Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), the leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that Biller DirectTM HV, a hosted solution that integrates electronic billing and payment (EBP) capabilities into company websites, has been enhanced with new delivery and alerting capabilities. New capabilities include a “push e-bill” option that enables the delivery of secure PDF e-bills via e-mail and mobile alerts that notify consumers via their mobile device when a bill has been received. more...
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By Bart Thielbar
- What comes first – the smart meter or the ability to capture and effectively utilize the information available from the more...
Gems from Silicon Valley and GreenBeat 2009
By Kate Rowland
- Today’s GreenBeat 2009 conference in San Mateo, California, brought together venture capitalists, analysts, electric utility executives and smart grid solutions more...
Has Smart Metering hit the first speed bump in US?
By Warren Causey
- The headline above actually was written by Vijayasekar Rajsekar, senior project engineer at AREVA T&D, Redmond, WA, on Linkedin, another more...
Caves can be decorated nicely, but there probably aren’t enough to go around
By Warren Causey
- There is a fascinating press release out of California (where else) that is headlined: “Arresting new think tank study concludes: more...
Lots of work to do on smart grid; it’s expensive and some things haven’t yet been invented.
By Warren Causey
- The “smart grid” or “Intelligent Utility”, which is receiving a tremendous amount of press and promotion from the federal government more...
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