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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...
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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...
E SOURCE Announces Top Utility Web Sites
E Source Companies, LLC - According to the latest E SOURCE benchmark results for the performance of North American utility web sites, the top-rated U.S. more...
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Lots of work to do on smart grid; it’s expensive and some things haven’t yet been invented.

Blogger Photo By Warren Causey - The “smart grid” or “Intelligent Utility”, which is receiving a tremendous amount of press and promotion from the federal government more...

SMARTENING UP THE DUMB

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - If I see the words “dumb grid” used one more time in the popular media, I’m going to scream!   more...

Planning the Work and Working the Plan

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - The journey of a million miles that I blogged about last week is off to a solid start.  At the more...

Utility speed dating

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - I spent Monday afternoon utility speed dating at the Edison Electric Institute’s CFO conference in Hollywood, Florida, and I thoroughly more...

Dodging a bullet the hard way

Blogger Photo By Warren Causey - It has been a busy week or so, with the DOE releasing ARRA “smart grid” awards on last Tuesday and more...
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