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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

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

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

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