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House Voice on Energy Independence and Global Warming to Make Case for 2010 Action on Energy and Climate Change
Energy Central - Energy Central, the leading resource in the global power industry for news, events, databases, insight and analysis, announced today that legislative heavyweight on energy issues, Representative Ed Markey, D-Mass., will meet with industry leaders at the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum in Washington D.C., February 28 - March 2, 2010. more...
Logica wins Pounds 10.9 million contract extension with Morrison Utility Services
Logica - Logica, a leading IT and business services company, today announced that Morrison Utility Services has extended an outsourced IT service agreement that will provide further efficiency and flexibility throughout its IT infrastructure while ensuring a competitive cost base. more...
Power Industry Speaks Out On Impending Energy Legislation
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CSC Announces Innovative Wireless Business Solutions for Transportation and Energy Industries
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SAIC Awarded Contract to Continue Providing Information Technology Services to Entergy Corporation
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) today announced it has been awarded a follow-on contract by Entergy Corporation to continue providing comprehensive information technology (IT) services through 2015. more...
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Is the Smart Grid that is Being Pushed a Costly Mistake?

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - The main argument is that, by inaction, each State Government should be responsible to their constituencies for a very costly more...

Unleashing Design Thinking in the Power Industry by Reframing

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Design Thinking demand side radical disruptive innovations to the power industry at the "fuzzy front end" are facilitated with a more...

Another Institutional Memory Warning: Do today's power grids have little centralized control?

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Smart Grid Command & Control: The Death of the Giant Brain in the Sky, an article written by Jesse Berst more...

YOU HAVE TO ASK ! ! !

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - Just in case you are not packing your bags for the second EnergyBiz Leadership Forum in Washington Monday and Tuesday more...

Economic and Environmental Impact of Abu Dhabi US$1billion CO2 capture and storage Project

Blogger Photo By Shehu Khaleel - UAE has one of the highest per capita carbon emission rates in the world given its massive use of fossil more...
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How Optimization Addresses Your Most Critical Issues in Energy & Power

 Mar 19, 2010 - 1:30PM Eastern - Your City

One IBM client is saving over $65 thousand per day on unit commitment while reducing its carbon footprint by 100 thousand tons annually. Unit commitment applications based on IBM optimization technologies are running at major system operators; one of them more...

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Join industry experts from Ventyx, Panasonic and Sybase on Tuesday March 30th at 2:00pm EDT for a one hour webcast on how you can take the next step in mobile workforce management. The webcast will provide a comprehensive mobile strategy more...
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Role Of Information And Communication Technology In Mitigating The Effect Of Climate Change

By Shehu Khaleel
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be an important tool of combating climate change, and should be engaged because ICT sector is a sector that is used to rapid changes and development. more...
Filed Under Information Technology

CIOs Have Reached the Boardroom...Oops!

By Warren Causey
Only a few years ago, it wasn't uncommon to see articles about the climb from basement data processing centers toward the executive suite by utilities' top information technology (IT) staffers, or chief information officers (CIOs). more...
Filed Under Information Technology

Corporate CIO Staffs Are Confused About Interoperability, And They Are Not Alone!

By Rik Drummond
The software purchasing community requires interoperable products in their networks, value and supply chains that install easily to begin intercommunicating with other like products in a straight forward manner. This frequently is not the case more...
Filed Under Information Technology

Does Software as a Service Work for the Meter to Cash Business?

By Frank Hoogendoorn
The analogy was excellent. I was at a conference listening to Gary Hoover, of Hoover Online fame, draw a parallel between tsunamis and business trends. Tsunamis may seem like sudden events that appear without warning; more...
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A Three Case Study Comparison: Creating a Marketplace for Implementation Ready Interoperable Products

By Rik Drummond
The article shows the different outcomes of interoperability certification programs instituted for three well known industry standards; why some became heavily used and others did not even though all three standards were well designed to more...
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