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
Survey Says: Smart Grid is More than a Fad Despite the Difficulties
Rolling the clock back a bit, the Microsoft Worldwide Utilities Group released our Smart Energy...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/10/2011
Alstom Power and Microsoft Step Up to Meet New Challenges
We have written before about our partnership and collaboration with Alstom Power as they are...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/18/2011
Texas Sees Rolling Blackouts: Maybe Time for a Lesson in Danish
Rolling blackouts tend to get people’s attention and spur the call for investigation and innovation....
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/18/2011
Azure Helps Invensys Create Near Real-Time Energy Pricing Platform for Companies
In my experience Utilities are just beginning to consider how cloud computing might help them in the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/26/2011
Microsoft Survey Highlights Cloud Movement Across the US
We have written before about the cloud and the transformation impact it will have on Utilities and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/16/2011
“Go East Utility Software Company!”
"Go West young man" was a popular saying in the United States about Manifest Destiny and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/13/2011
New Year, New Predictions
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
Microsoft, OSIsoft, and Mainstream Renewable Power Webcast Recap
Thanks to all who attended our Webcast on “Creating an Adaptive Smart Grid Framework with the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/18/2010
Central Maine Power Chooses Microsoft Partner Itron (with SQL Server) for Smart Grid Initiative
We’ve written previously in this blog about tests confirming that SQL Server is more than able to...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/16/2010
Microsoft Launches Lync; Utility Knowledge Workers Benefit
For the past several years we’ve been talking a lot about collaboration and integration as core...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/03/2010
Telvent and Microsoft Announce Smart Grid Focus
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
New Study Confirms Energy Savings Possible with the Cloud
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 Speaks
Yoda was one of the most renowned and powerful Jedi Masters in galactic history, who was known for...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/27/2010
NIST Collects New Group of Smart Grid Advisors
A few weeks ago I was very honored to receive an appointment to the National Institute of Standards...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/06/2010
Italian Town Succeeds in Using Wind Energy
Yesterday’s New York Times carries an international story about a small Italian town, Tocco Da...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/30/2010
Enabling Efficient Crew Dispatch
A violent storm tears down electric feeders knocking out power to thousands of people. ...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/15/2010
Global Partner Conference Sparks New Year for Microsoft in Utilities
There’s nothing more invigorating in our work at Microsoft than meeting with our partners at our...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/23/2010
Peter Day’s World of Business BBC Radio Broadcast: Power Play
BBC Radio personality Peter Day recently aired a segment on the Smart Grid entitled “Power...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/11/2010
Increasing Customer Intimacy Will Be Key Success Factor For Smart Grid
New smart phone applications are coming online daily, and while some are fun and others are useful,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/05/2010
Hohm in the House, Next Iteration
An announcement today about the next iteration of Hohm, the online energy management tool announced...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/27/2010
All in a Day’s Work: Day Trips to London, Our Global Footprints, and Cool Software
Evaluating our impacts on the environment is taking less imagination these days with the help of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/22/2010
Intersections, Convergence, Connections: The Future of 21st Century Energy Usage
In my view, the 21st Century will be known for the convergence of society and technology, in which...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/01/2010
Power & Utilities Group's Jerry Thomas Identifies Value of Windows 7 and Office 2010 for Utilities
Jerry Thomas, a relatively new member of the Microsoft Power & Utilities Group, spoke recently...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/27/2010
Microsoft Representatives Spread Out Across the World for Major Utility Conferences
Next week is a busy one for the Microsoft Power & Utilities group and our Hohm team. Two...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/10/2010
Utility Markets Down Under May Soon Offer Lessons for Utilities Worldwide
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
Intelligent Utility Daily Publishes 2-Part Interview on Microsoft in Power & Utilities
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
Microsoft’s Craig Hodges Keynotes OSIsoft User’s Conference
OSIsoft®, which offers a highly scalable and secure infrastructure for the management of real-time...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/25/2010
News Story for The Microsoft Vision for Tomorrow’s Energy is Featured On Our Website
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
Information Management Will Be Key to the 21st Century Utility Transformation
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
A Glimpse into the Future Of the Smart Energy Ecosystem
I had the privilege of speaking on Monday to executives at the EEI/AGA Customer Service Conference,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/16/2010
Microsoft Power & Utilities Group in the Worldwide News
Many of us in the Microsoft Worldwide Power & Utilities Group were in conversations with...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/08/2010
Smart Energy Ecosystem One Mile Closer After Ford and Microsoft Announce Collaborative Effort
It’s been a common theme in this blog that discussions about “Smart Grid” may be a little...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/31/2010
Enspiria, as New Part of Black & Veatch, Expands Smart Grid Options for Utilities
Congratulations to Microsoft partner Enspiria Solutions, a strategic planning and systems...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/21/2010
Let’s Call the Smart Grid What it Is: Disruptive!
In conjunction with CERA Week in Houston, we today released findings from a Microsoft survey of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/11/2010
Principal Hohm Architect Offers Integration Interface Guidance
As with any program, ease of integration (and migration) is a key concern to utilities considering...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/08/2010
Data, Data Everywhere: Is There a Way to Make Better Decisions?
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 Talks Energy Miracles at TED2010
Bill Gates recently spoke at the TED2010 conference where he unveiled his vision for the world's...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/28/2010
More Microsoft Partners Grow Synergies: Bentley Systems Acquires Enterprise Informatics
Last week we received the news that Bentley Systems, a leading infrastructure software company,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/18/2010
EnergyBiz Magazine Carries Letter about Knowledge Transfers for CIOs
EnergyBiz Magazine is always quick to pick up on new trends in the utility industry. In their...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/16/2010