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	We have an app for that! 06/12/2012 at 03:45 PM \| Kate Rowland - Intelligent Utility Perspectives Blog Last Wednesday afternoon, an iPhone mobile app that would have allowed me to quickly report an outage would have been very handy as I stood in the ...

	A roadmap for consumer-centric focus to the smart grid 09/10/2011 at 07:53 AM \| Kate Rowland - Intelligent Utility Perspectives Blog Not long ago, I read an intriguing e-book about utilities and consumers and their new relationship within the intelligent utility. The Smart Grid C...

	Engaging the Customer 03/30/2010 at 05:22 PM \| Bill Opalka - Renewable EnergyBiz Daily Blog As the smart grid gets deployed, utility-customer relationships that have been relatively unchanged for decades are about to revolutionized. Providing...

	Some answers will emerge, probably soon: New Year’s predictions 12/26/2009 at 10:38 AM \| Warren Causey - Reinventing the U.S. Utility Blog If you happened to have read my column in the Intelligent Utility Daily last week (actually, I just realized it won't be published until Monday, 12/28...

	Still not very stimulating, but that likely will come in bureaucratic time 12/04/2009 at 01:21 PM \| Warren Causey - Reinventing the U.S. Utility Blog As most people are well aware, it’s very hard to get any reliable, up-to-date information out of Washington these days about spending stimulus m...

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	Today's Energy Market Analysis - 15-05-2013 Dan Birkett \| 05/15/2013 at 08:27 AM Today's energy price report has been published looking at the latest gas, power and oil prices and the different factors which have ...

	Need to Lower Energy Bills? Shop for Suppliers and Save Jessica Kennedy \| 03/01/2013 at 11:52 AM Many facility managers take energy costs for granted, assuming there is nothing that can be done about the fluctuating supply costs they are being ...

	Do not calibrate your electronic meters every two years and you may have to Scrap MDM etc Alok Misra \| 02/12/2013 at 02:54 AM Electronic meters are as much venerable to errors as their earlier avtar electromachanial ones.They require calibration off and on.Unless you devis...

	Electronic meters will have a life of only ten years at best Alok Misra \| 02/08/2013 at 07:58 AM All those who deal with electronic equipmemt that are used in measurement functions know this already.It is sure that the investment being made in ...

	Hidden Energy Sales Taxes and Fees in New Jersey rodney richards \| 01/31/2013 at 01:12 PM Okay, so the blog on "Remember costly EDECA?" was boring -- but true. 3% of your monthly utility bill (if a NJ utilities user) goes to th...

	New Jersey's Energy Competition Law rodney richards \| 01/31/2013 at 01:06 PM EDECA is 1999's NJ law called Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act. Let’s examine some significant EDECA Provisions. ...

	Electric Rate Hikes Begin to Emerge for Con Edison and Other Utilities Sarah Battaglia \| 01/29/2013 at 11:25 AM An increase in the price of milk is not the only thing U.S. residents should prepare for. Gas and electric rates in several areas of the country ar...

	New Fee May be Added to Pennsylvania Utility Bills Sarah Battaglia \| 01/23/2013 at 11:12 AM Customers of Pennsylvania utilities could see new rates beginning this spring. Last year, the state approved a new funding procedure that will allo...

	Was Hurricane Sandy the Last Straw for LIPA’s Status Quo? Kris Settle \| 01/15/2013 at 11:43 AM The Moreland Commission, appointed and funded by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, reported this week that the sustained ineptitude of the Long Island Port...

	Customer Experience Improvements by Optimizing the Utility Back Office Chirag Shah \| 01/14/2013 at 08:14 AM Back office customer service operations at utilities rarely get the same attention and focus as inbound contact centers, despite the fact that trem...

	Take a Second Opinion on Suitability of GSM for smart metering Alok Misra \| 01/10/2013 at 05:59 AM Enginers not linked to telcos say it is simple to temper the meter with GSM communicaqtion Hang a coat over the Antenna! Now I am not talki...

	What consumers want with electric vehicle charging Aaron Snyder \| 01/08/2013 at 10:02 PM Most would agree that the electric power industry, while trying to plant its foot in the 21st century, often remains in the20th century – som...

	Have we verified that Smart meter based on GSM commuincation are Hack Proof? Alok Misra \| 01/07/2013 at 04:49 AM Experts say that any time you put data, which is sensitive in The air, you are prone to hacking By that logic GSM is not a secure medium to h...

	Consumerization technologies can improve Green Button Data benefits Chandan Agarwala \| 12/25/2012 at 11:18 PM To improve the realization of benefits of Green Button Data, Utilities need to motivate the consumers. They should try to emulate the best practice...

	IT modernization required for Smart Grid Chandan Agarwala \| 12/18/2012 at 02:56 AM Though, most of the attention of Smart Grid is focused on improving infrastructure for power generation, distribution, transmission and r...

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