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IF A TRANSFORMER BLOWS OR AN AUTO ACCIDENT BRINGS down a pole, a callout is what gets crews to the scene of the outage. But my colleagues at Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) haven't picked up their phones to launch a callout in five years. That hasn't damaged our relationship with our customer-members. And it hasn't hurt SMECO's power restoration work, either. That's because we make -
THE GREATEST CHALLENGE I FORESEE FOR 2012 IS THE continued focus on the utility around the customer and the engagements, whether that is the smart grid and how will it demonstrate the value and the benefits of the grid for consumer engagement, or whether that be customers' expectations and how they are increasing based on how they interact with other providers of services.I see that as the
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Hardly a week has passed since Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, TREIA, hosted the Electric Generation Adequacy & Reliability Forum at the Texas State Capitol on Tuesday, May 8 where Texas PUC Commissioner Pablos and industry leaders spoke to a standing room only audience about issues facing energy industries in Texas.






