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
Over the last several years we’ve been talking with our customers about the inevitability of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/07/2010
The water industry never ceases to amaze me. It’s been a sleepy, highly fragmented industry...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/05/2010
Sometimes I wonder “Is anybody reading this blog?” -- I know my management asks the same question at...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/01/2010
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
In response to the overwhelming interest in Microsoft’s October Release of the Smart Energy...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/18/2009
One of the most effective ways that utility and energy companies can do more with less is by...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/07/2009
Last week Steve LeBlanc AP writer authored an article about Massachusetts Homeowners being able to...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/07/2009
Microsoft Hohm, the online home energy management software, received a nice review from CNET’s...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/30/2009
In order to assist the 2010 planning the has begun in earnest at every utility company around the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/23/2009
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
I will be participating in a free Enterprise Informatics webinar on the topic of reducing risk,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/06/2009
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
We at Microsoft invest a significant amount of time thinking about how technology can address really...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/29/2009
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
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
In one of its frequent updates on Smart Grid developments, Monday’s Wall Street Journal story...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/29/2009
We’ve touched on a few occasions in this blog about how software can contribute to utilities’...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/29/2009
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
Microsoft partner ActionBase is receiving a great deal of attention for its very popular new Human...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/20/2009
Power Engineering, the highest circulation utility trade magazine in the United States, carries in...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/15/2009
Utilities concerned about their IT systems’ limited potential for adjusting to the future Smart Grid...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/13/2009
There’s a new story today on Microsoft Hohm and home energy management on Microsoft PressPass, the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/13/2009
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
We’ve blogged previously about the value of Human Process Management – the ability of business...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/08/2009
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
We continue to get the question, what is Microsoft doing about enabling the Smart Grid. The short...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/15/2009
We’ve written before about how utility companies will need increasing integration among their IT and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/03/2009
The energy ecosystem is about to explode. Not literally, of course, but figuratively, especially as...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/21/2009
For those readers interested in learning more about Microsoft's efforts to work with the utility...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/20/2009
Last month Microsoft partner ESS launched Essential Mobile™ for FEMS, an application that “collects...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/19/2009
Areva and Microsoft have extended their collaboration to include the development and deployment of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/18/2009
On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/28/2009
The March 30 issue of EnergyBiz Insider, a weekly email report from EnergyCentral.com, focused its...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/05/2009
Back in January I gave a keynote address at the Northwest Energy Innovation Summit in Boise, Idaho...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/15/2009