Case Studies
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Apr 30, 2008
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Itron Inc.
Incorporated in 1898, Nelson Hydro is unique from most municipally- owned utilities in that it is fully vertically integrated – that is, the utility operates generation, transmission, substation and distribution facilities. By contrast, the other four municipal utilities in the interior of...
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Apr 21, 2008
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Geospatial Solutions
As utilities have adopted automated geospatial and information technology to assist in the daily management of operations, these organizations have also begun to place these advanced systems at the center of their emergency planning and response initiatives. These systems — which include GIS,...
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Apr 16, 2008
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MeterSmart
Kansas City Power & Light wanted to provide customers who had the ability to reduce or shift load to low price times, a web-accessible real- time pricing (RTP) program that offered access to an online monitoring system to track load and real-time prices. KCP&L wanted their customers to...
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Apr 02, 2008
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Itron Inc.
Chicago-based Exelon, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, uses automated meter reading (AMR) technology to monitor electric power usage of its 1.7 million customers in Philadelphia. Looking for additional ways to derive value from the AMR data, the company deployed a...
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Vattenfall's new automated metering infrastructure helps meet new legislation and improve customer serviceMar 19, 2008 | LogicaSwedish legislation demands that by 1 July 2009, all electricity meters must be read once every month. Seeking to meet this challenging deadline and also to find a solution that would bring additional benefits for its customers, Vattenfall looked for a partner with the expertise and capability...
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Mar 18, 2008
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CheckFree Corporation
Consolidated Edison Company of New York (Con Edison) is a regulated utility serving 3.2 million electric customers in New York City and Westchester County. The company recognized that it could realize significant cost savings if more customers would adopt electronic billing, where bills are...
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Mar 10, 2008
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Itron Inc.
Owned by the more than 26,000 customers it serves, Hendricks Power Cooperative (HPC) provides energy and electricity services to four west central Indiana counties. Continually striving to better serve its member owners, the co-op began an initiative in the late 90s to better integrate...
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Mar 10, 2008
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Logica
Logica has a wealth of experience in helping energy companies meet the challenges of highly competitive deregulated markets. It is helping Centrica to take the first steps towards transforming its services to the crucial electricity prepaid market, based on new smart metering technology which...
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Mar 03, 2008
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Itron Inc.
Over the last six years, of its 400,000 mass market meters, Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has deployed over 80,000 new and replacement ERT-enabled CENTRON® meters. However, during deployment, a new business requirement emerged. TEP and other investor-owned utilities in the state with existing...
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Feb 25, 2008
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Kinectrics
The objective of this project was to conduct a thorough condition assessment of aging overhead conductors and shield wires employed on the transmission network in order to establish the health and remaining life of existing lines.
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