Microsoft Power and Utilities Blog
The Microsoft in Power & Utilities blog discusses the emerging technological and economic challenges facing the global Utility industry and how Utilities can innovate through a strategy based on devices and services to transform and grow their business
Rolling the clock back a bit, the Microsoft Worldwide Utilities Group released our Smart Energy...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/10/2011
We have written before about our partnership and collaboration with Alstom Power as they are...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/18/2011
Rolling blackouts tend to get people’s attention and spur the call for investigation and innovation....
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/18/2011
In my experience Utilities are just beginning to consider how cloud computing might help them in the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/26/2011
We have written before about the cloud and the transformation impact it will have on Utilities and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/16/2011
"Go West young man" was a popular saying in the United States about Manifest Destiny and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/13/2011
The first part of every year offers a brief opportunity to think about the months ahead. As such we...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/04/2011
Thanks to all who attended our Webcast on “Creating an Adaptive Smart Grid Framework with the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/18/2010
We’ve written previously in this blog about tests confirming that SQL Server is more than able to...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/16/2010
For the past several years we’ve been talking a lot about collaboration and integration as core...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/03/2010
We’ve been working hard over the last few years behind the scenes with our partner Telvent, a global...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/17/2010
There has been some irony in the couple of weeks with the juxtaposed publication of two studies. The...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/10/2010
Join Microsoft, OSIsoft, and Mainstream Renewable Power for a Complimentary Webcast: "Creating an Adaptive Smart Grid Framework"
We are very pleased to announce a complimentary webcast with our partner OSIsoft and customer...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/05/2010
Yoda was one of the most renowned and powerful Jedi Masters in galactic history, who was known for...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/27/2010
A few weeks ago I was very honored to receive an appointment to the National Institute of Standards...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/06/2010
Yesterday’s New York Times carries an international story about a small Italian town, Tocco Da...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/30/2010
A violent storm tears down electric feeders knocking out power to thousands of people. ...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/15/2010
There’s nothing more invigorating in our work at Microsoft than meeting with our partners at our...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/23/2010
BBC Radio personality Peter Day recently aired a segment on the Smart Grid entitled “Power...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/11/2010
New smart phone applications are coming online daily, and while some are fun and others are useful,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/05/2010
An announcement today about the next iteration of Hohm, the online energy management tool announced...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/27/2010
Evaluating our impacts on the environment is taking less imagination these days with the help of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/22/2010
In my view, the 21st Century will be known for the convergence of society and technology, in which...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/01/2010
Jerry Thomas, a relatively new member of the Microsoft Power & Utilities Group, spoke recently...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/27/2010
Next week is a busy one for the Microsoft Power & Utilities group and our Hohm team. Two...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/10/2010
A couple of weeks ago Larry Cochrane and I embarked on a long overdue trip to visit customers and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/02/2010
The other day I sat down with Phil Carson who is the Editor-in-Chief for Energy Central’s...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/28/2010
OSIsoft®, which offers a highly scalable and secure infrastructure for the management of real-time...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/25/2010
Microsoft creates feature news stories on a range of topics from time to time and it’s our turn in...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/25/2010
Around the world, external forces are changing the way utilities do business. The entire industry is...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/13/2010
A Vision for Cloud Computing Presented by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO; Lessons for Power & Utilities Companies
Back in March Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a message to all employees asking us to view the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/03/2010
I had the privilege of speaking on Monday to executives at the EEI/AGA Customer Service Conference,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/16/2010
Many of us in the Microsoft Worldwide Power & Utilities Group were in conversations with...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/08/2010
It’s been a common theme in this blog that discussions about “Smart Grid” may be a little...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/31/2010
Congratulations to Microsoft partner Enspiria Solutions, a strategic planning and systems...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/21/2010
In conjunction with CERA Week in Houston, we today released findings from a Microsoft survey of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/11/2010
As with any program, ease of integration (and migration) is a key concern to utilities considering...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/08/2010
This week I had the privilege of speaking at the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum in DC. The panel I...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/05/2010
Bill Gates recently spoke at the TED2010 conference where he unveiled his vision for the world's...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/28/2010
Last week we received the news that Bentley Systems, a leading infrastructure software company,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/18/2010
EnergyBiz Magazine is always quick to pick up on new trends in the utility industry. In their...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/16/2010