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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

Energy Central - Congress is set to possibly adopt the most sweeping environmental and energy law in generations to address issues such as energy efficiency, renewables development and carbon emissions. more...

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CSC Announces Innovative Wireless Business Solutions for Transportation and Energy Industries

CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) - CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced a global strategic alliance with Proximetry, a leading provider of network and performance management solutions for wireless networks. more...

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...

ONSET LISTED AS PERFORMANCE MONITORING PROVIDER FOR CALIFORNIA SOLAR INTIATIVE PROGRAM

Onset Computer Corporation - Onset (http://www.onsetcomp.com), the world’s leading supplier of data loggers, today announced that the company has been listed on the California Energy Commission’s list of Performance Monitoring and Reporting Service (PMRS) providers. more...

Itron to Utilize Panasonic Toughbook 30 Notebooks as Part of its Industry-Leading Mobile Collection Solution

Itron - Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today an agreement with Panasonic Computer Solutions Company (NYSE: PC) to deploy its fully-rugged Toughbook® 30 notebook as a part of Itron’s industry-leading mobile collection solution, offering electricity, gas and water utility customers greater dependability and affordability in collecting their meter reads. more...

Ness Technologies Wins Tender with Israel Electric Corporation

Ness Technologies - Ness Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTC and TASE: NSTC), a global provider of information technology solutions and services, announced today that it has won – together with other companies – a tender to implement and test SAP systems at Israel Electric Corporation (IEC). Ness also won a tender for training and deployment of these systems. This is an expansion of an SAP deployment and implementation project completed by Ness for IEC a few months ago. The project is valued at tens of millions of Israeli Shekels. more...

Big Rivers Electric Selects HP to Enable Future Growth and Stabilize Costs

HP (Hewlett-Packard Company) - HP today announced Big Rivers Electric Corporation, a Kentucky-based electric generation and transmission utility, signed a $27 million, eight-year technology and applications services agreement designed to help stabilize technology costs and enable future growth with a standardized enterprise resource planning (ERP) and workplace computing environment. more...

Five9 Announces Industry-First Cloud Computing Platform for Call Centers

Five9, Inc. - Five9, Inc., announced today an industry-first Cloud Computing Platform for Call Centers that enables building native software integrations between Five9 on-demand call center software and other enterprise software applications. more...

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ENERGY BLOGS

A Breakthrough in National Electricity Policy

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - A lot have been written about national energy policy by using analytic thinking. As suggested by Albert Einstein, “We cannot more...

Smartest smart meter: The gasoline pump?

Blogger Photo By Elisa Wood Lisa Cohn - By Elisa Wood March 18, 2010 Americans do many things well. These things do not include sacrifice of creature comforts. more...

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...
 

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