Microsoft Power and Utilities Blog

The remarkable feature of American democracy is the proximity of citizens to the highest elected officials in the land both during and after their public service. At CERAWeek a couple of weeks ago I had the chance to pose with two previous presidents...

I blogged yesterday that members of our Power & Utilities Team will be supporting our partners OSIsoft and Telvent at their User Group meetings but I forgot to mention that our customer, John Shaw of Mainstream Renewable Power  will be speaking...

First, an update for our loyal readers: I will be taking a short break as I will be in India on vacation for a couple of weeks, visiting my daughter who is a rotary exchange student in India. She has been away since July and as you can imagine, I can...

Like many of you, I have the great fortune to hear the views of lot of people in my travels around the world. But truly I must say that hearing my own CEO – Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer –speak, on energy, is particularly special. As you might imagine I have...

Last week our Environmental Sustainability Group published a new whitepaper , entitled The Central Role of Cloud Computing in Making Cities Energy . This whitepaper builds on our recent announcement with our partner Alstom Power by presenting Microsoft...

Rolling the clock back a bit, the Microsoft Worldwide Utilities Group released our Smart Energy Reference Architecture in October 2009, in the expectation that utilities needed all the help they could get with the detailed planning necessary to implement...

I always tell people that the favorite part of my job is meeting with customers and partners in their home countries. February was a great month for me: I and several other worldwide managing directors in the Microsoft Industries Group spent a week in...