by TST | Dec 15, 2016 | News
We are pleased to see that the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) is encouraging state regulators to see cloud computing solutions for utilities as a way to improve service and customer experience, as well as modernizing the utility grid...
by TST | Dec 13, 2016 | News
Return on investment is an important consideration when making a major purchase. In most organizations, financial directors and board members will reject out-of-hand proposals that are presented without a potential return clearly stated in dollars and sense. Sometimes...
by TST | Dec 8, 2016 | News
Surprisingly often, E&O personnel tell us that they have no need to do plant construction estimates. That may sound shocking to people who work at IOUs, but a lot of co-ops and municipal utilities see no perceived need for a before-the-fact estimate of work to be...
by TST | Dec 1, 2016 | News
A lot of plant construction work is customer-requested, and customers get to share in some or all of the cost. While a few rare utilities have a flat rate policy, in most cases customer contribution is based upon job cost. Property developers and homeowners alike are...
by TST | Nov 8, 2016 | News
For over twenty years, we have been providing electric utilities with both completed connectivity models, and the tools to create and maintain such models. The extent to which those tools are applied has been all across the board – sometimes mostly complete and...