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
With Concerns about Water Scarcity Growing, IT Solutions Are Proving Themselves in this Industry as Well
When I blogged about Severn Trent Water winning the Utility Company of the Year at the Utility Week...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/09/2010
Austin Taking Significant Steps Toward Microsoft Vision of Future Energy Ecosystem
Over the last several years we’ve been talking with our customers about the inevitability of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/07/2010
Severn Trent Wins Utility of the Year Award; A Tribute to the Worldwide Water Industry
The water industry never ceases to amaze me. It’s been a sleepy, highly fragmented industry...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/05/2010
GreenTech Media Offers Nice Affirmation of Blog Work
Sometimes I wonder “Is anybody reading this blog?” -- I know my management asks the same question at...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/01/2010
Bill Gates Offers Thoughts on Energy Recalibration
Lately I‘ve been finding myself taking a more philosophical view about many things in life. I’m not...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/24/2010
OSIsoft and Microsoft Webcast on Smart Energy Reference Architecture
In response to the overwhelming interest in Microsoft’s October Release of the Smart Energy...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/18/2009
Do More with Less: Asset Investment Planning Meets Windows 7
One of the most effective ways that utility and energy companies can do more with less is by...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/07/2009
Excess Power Generation Creates New Challenges for Utilities and Regulatory Bodies
Last week Steve LeBlanc AP writer authored an article about Massachusetts Homeowners being able to...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/07/2009
Hohm Usage Gets Boost from CBS News Story, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Microsoft Hohm, the online home energy management software, received a nice review from CNET’s...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/30/2009
Microsoft and OSIsoft Present a Free Webcast on Smart Energy Reference Architecture
In order to assist the 2010 planning the has begun in earnest at every utility company around the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/23/2009
Xcel Energy Customers Now Able to Manage Home Energy Consumption with Microsoft Hohm
The Microsoft Hohm team continues rolling out our online energy management software at utilities in...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/14/2009
Microsoft’s Mundie is Focused on the World’s Energy Future and Encouraging Young People to Get Aboard
A blog posting in the Seattle Times last week provides a good opportunity to introduce a video demo...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/11/2009
Upcoming Webinar Discusses Risk, Efficiency and Compliance for EPC Projects, 11 November
I will be participating in a free Enterprise Informatics webinar on the topic of reducing risk,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/06/2009
ESS-Enabled IHS Ready to Accept the Climate Challenge
Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the ESS EXPO 09 Conference in San...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/03/2009
Addressing Societal Challenges
We at Microsoft invest a significant amount of time thinking about how technology can address really...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/29/2009
Riding the Momentum Wave: Microsoft Delivers Hohm, SERA, Windows 7
It’s my hope that our power and utilities customers are feeling the momentum from a wave of new...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/22/2009
Microsoft Worldwide Utilities Group Releases Architecture Vision for Smart Energy Ecosystem
Our phones have been ringing ringing off the hook with utilities interested in learning more about...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/15/2009
Seattle City Light Ushers in New Era of Home Energy Management, Offers Microsoft Hohm to its Customers
It’s a proud day for us here at Microsoft as Seattle City Light announced today that it will offer...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/07/2009
Microsoft Hohm Included in Wall Street Journal Story on Smart Grid
In one of its frequent updates on Smart Grid developments, Monday’s Wall Street Journal story...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/29/2009
More on Microsoft Products' Contribution to Sustainability
We’ve touched on a few occasions in this blog about how software can contribute to utilities’...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/29/2009
Key Technology for Connecting the Integrated Utility of the Future Gets Even Better!
We have written before how important collaboration and knowledge management is becoming in the Power...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/23/2009
Way Cool! StreamInsight Public Beta Now Available for Smart Grid Developers Interested in Managing and Gaining Insights into Data
Last week marked an important milestone: The Community Technology Preview release of StreamInsight...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/26/2009
New Human Process Management Information Available on Our Web Site
Microsoft partner ActionBase is receiving a great deal of attention for its very popular new Human...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/20/2009
Power Engineering Magazine Publishes Microsoft View on the Future Energy Ecosystem
Power Engineering, the highest circulation utility trade magazine in the United States, carries in...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/15/2009
New IDC Paper Focuses on Ability of Utilities to Handle New Torrents of Smart Grid Data
Utilities concerned about their IT systems’ limited potential for adjusting to the future Smart Grid...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/13/2009
Which Way to More Energy-Efficient Future?
There’s a new story today on Microsoft Hohm and home energy management on Microsoft PressPass, the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/13/2009
Microsoft Report on the 2009 National Town Meeting on Demand Response and the Smart Grid
I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the 2009 National Town Meeting on Demand Response...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/04/2009
Cyber Attacks Demonstrate Why Smart Grid Will Require Best in Class Security; Microsoft Offers Security Development Lifecycle Paper
The recent news of major, relentless cyber attacks on the State Department, White House, and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/10/2009
Bridging the Gap Between People and Processes
We’ve blogged previously about the value of Human Process Management – the ability of business...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/08/2009
Hohm Rolls Out to Glowing Media Coverage
Yesterday was wonderful day and the afterglow continues today. We introduced the utility industry to...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/25/2009
Craig Mundie Unveils Microsoft Hohm, Our Home Energy Management Solution, at Major Utility Industry Event
Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie took the occasion of his keynote...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/24/2009
EMC Consulting Focuses on Smart Metering Interfaces with Microsoft Technology
We continue to get the question, what is Microsoft doing about enabling the Smart Grid. The short...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/15/2009
Dashboards Will Govern the Smart Energy Ecosystem of the Future
We’ve written before about how utility companies will need increasing integration among their IT and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/03/2009
Smart Grid Information – System Overload, Overcome with OSIsoft
The energy ecosystem is about to explode. Not literally, of course, but figuratively, especially as...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/21/2009
Microsoft's Anoop Gupta Meets at White House on Smart Grid
For those readers interested in learning more about Microsoft's efforts to work with the utility...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/20/2009
Microsoft Partner ESS Makes Data Collection for EH&S More Efficient
Last month Microsoft partner ESS launched Essential Mobile™ for FEMS, an application that “collects...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/19/2009
Areva and Microsoft Team to Tackle Smart Grid Integration Efforts
Areva and Microsoft have extended their collaboration to include the development and deployment of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/18/2009
Microsoft’s Mundie Appointed to U.S. Technology Council
On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/28/2009
Energy Central Centers Story on Microsoft Smart Grid Approach
The March 30 issue of EnergyBiz Insider, a weekly email report from EnergyCentral.com, focused its...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/05/2009
Hydrogen Energy: The Lost Option?
Back in January I gave a keynote address at the Northwest Energy Innovation Summit in Boise, Idaho...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/15/2009